In case you haven’t seen, I’m absolutely head-over-heels in love with TikTok. Truly, like cannot get enough of it.
And as wild as it was to have a ‘viral’ video – and a little stressful people who wanted to argue with me or be kinda mean or whatever – the high was more than the stress!
And now I’m chasing that high, because I love all the little notifications, and talking to people, and feeling in that TikTok community and everything.
It’s so funny because my only two things that have ever ‘popped off’ are things that I absolutely expected like 10 people to see.
My first one was a silly little take on a trend. People were doing like the top 5 or top 10 things they wouldn’t do after working in a certain profession.
And I just listed that the top 10 things I wouldn’t do after working in reality were I just wouldn’t do it. That’s all the things.
I thought like 10 people would see it. Maybe one would chuckle. I’d get a comment that they chuckled. We’d all feel good and move on.
But then it just started doing NUMBERS.
And then this second one, I learned that Jax – the songwriter becoming more and more famous for “Victoria’s Secret,” came in third on American Idol!!!
She’s had a whole entire life before this TikTok and everything gained traction.
I know she’s been on TikTok for a while, because I’ve been following her for a while. But I thought she was some songwriter in her basement… not a former American Idol finalist.
And I actually think it’s incredibly cool that she’s been able to market herself so super well! I am impressed, not upset [though we’ll get into that tomorrow].
But I just thought it was crazy that she was a full-on finalist on American Idol and I just had absolutely no idea.
So, I made a dumb TikTok about it. I had just woken up. Hadn’t showered. Didn’t look cute. Just thought I’d do this quick kind of little like “oh, did you know Jax was on American Idol? Isn’t that wild?”
And I thought like 2 followers or whatever would be “oh, how weird and random!”
But no. Like a gazillion people started commenting.
It’s just wild how you never know what’s gonna hit and what isn’t gonna hit.
And I’ll talk about this more tomorrow!