Does Anyone Else Hate It When Your Best Video Is the One That Flops?

    Isnt it frustrating when you put more effort into a video and think this one is going to go far and when you release it... it just flops. I made probably the best TikTok I have ever made yesterday for my small business and its just sank. The video was funny, had a great hook and stands out in quality against the rest a bit. I expected it to do as well as the rest at least but somehow hasnt. I posted a short video before it too sharing a product which wasnt anything special yet this one has outperformed the better done video. The tags were spot of and would expect to draw more viewers. It is so frustrating and strange when you can knock a video out in 10 seconds and see it do the same as something with thought put into it and finesse. Just a little rant on my frustration at this. Anyone else get this? I have had this a lot on YouTube over the years but not so much on TikTok. I hope it picks up as it deserves to be seen more. The video did well on YT too as I reupload them there as well.

    This is why I'm happy to be pivoting to live content, when I was doing youtube, some of my videos would take almost a week to make, like the bee song, and those videos could wind up getting far less views than others I put almost no effort into. It can be really disheartening, so I love the idea of just every video being spontaneous, same level of effort, easily can be done any day any time, cause then if one does better or worse than another who cares we're doing it again tomorrow. It's that whole "I poured myself into that for a whole week and no one is watching" Feeling that just suuuuuckssss....

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    I feel that completely. I used to spend a week editing a video and release it for it to do worse than one I spent 10 mins on with barely any editing. It is hard to know how much effort to give. I could edit the F out of my videos now and spend a week on editing easily but I just dont, I spend maybe 30 mins max and that includes watching through it as I edit. The planning side too eats a lot of time with these videos to find them not doing great its like... really.

    Yeah that's why I'm also interested in doing reaction content. It really seems like such a great life plan if you can just get the patreon support, play video games a few hours, react to videos and give your opinions, just do it every day, I mean once there's a built in audience then the creativity can really flow and the high production stuff can come back but I just think the whole "be online all the time" strategy seems more um.... doable, less risk to reward gap if you get what I mean.

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