In May 2025, I decided I wanted to reach 10,000+ followers on TikTok. I wanted to both monetize my account for extra income and build an audience that appreciated my style of comedy and storytelling to make myself more appealing to future talent agents and managers.
I set a schedule to post once a day, with my post times informed by my audience analytics. I tried a mix of content, some days following trends and some days subverting them, that leaned into my point of view and interests. After a week, I had a two posts hit over 50K views, increasing my followers by 1000.
Then fourteen days after beginning my journey to 10K, I had a post go viral, reaching 2 million views in two days. I reached 10,000 followers by the end of the following week.