stop posting to your stories wrong. This setting is hurting your views.

@taye.gains

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+26.2K views over 19.1d · ~1.4K/day · 5 observations

Why it worked

The video addresses a common pain point for TikTok creators (low story views) and offers a simple, actionable solution that is easily demonstrated within the app. The creator's direct and clear explanation, combined with a visual guide, makes the tip highly practical and shareable.

Summary

This video explains a common mistake creators make when posting to TikTok stories, which is limiting their audience. The creator demonstrates how to access the story settings and change the audience from 'friends' or 'only you' to 'everyone' to increase reach and profile visits.

Structure

1Problem: low story views
2Contrast: other creators getting high views
3Solution: check story settings
4Demonstration: locate gear icon and audience settings
5Instruction: select 'everyone'
6Benefit: increased reach and profile visits

Product placement

TikTok: it ACTS as the platform where the creator is posting stories and demonstrating a setting within the app. Removing it would change the entire context of the video. The setting itself is a feature of TikTok. The creator is demonstrating how to use a feature of TikTok to improve reach.

Call to action

make sure you hit that follow button and I'll see you on the for you page.

Original caption

Gear icon setting in TikTok. Tutorial included #smallcreator

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On-screen text

stop posting to your stories wrong. This setting is hurting your views.

Transcript

Are you posting to your stories and getting, like, zero views? Meanwhile, homegirl is posting over here and getting thousands of views. Okay, I'm gonna tell you why. Because there's one thing that you're not doing. Actually, there's one thing that you are doing that's messing up your whole reach. I'm gonna show you how to fix it. So before you post your next story, you're gonna go over to the top, go over to the corner, and you're gonna see a little gear icon. You gonna tap on that gear icon and it's gonna pop up. It's gonna say something like, who do you wanna show your story to? You gonna see something that says, some people, everybody, just me. Something like that. Make sure. Okay. Make sure you select everyone. If you have it selected to only you or just your friends, guess who's gonna be the one that sees your story. Exactly. So you want everybody to see this story. When people see your story, that's gonna prompt them to actually go to your page, go to your profile and check out your content. And that's all you have to do. If you wanna see more TikTok tips that actually work, make sure you hit that follow button and I'll see you on the for you page.