Hi I’m 23 F and have always loved making content since I was young but just never was consistent with it. From 2025 to 2026, I posted almost every single day on tik tok but my account barely grew. Posting regularly for a year but not growing in followers or community really demotivated me from continuing. I started a side hustle and a social media account for that and grew to 2k in only a couple months which made me realise I want to go back to my passion for content. I think the market is oversaturated and I don’t have a particularly amazing set-up which makes it hard to stand out. I’m thinking to create a new background for my videos to help with the aesthetics and also put more effort into instagram rather than tik tok. Any more tips? Happy to clarify!

Has anyone joined communities by content creators where they give access to frameworks/courses to figure out your content and growth ?

Some of the creators who have either communities or directly offer content services -

https://www.instagram.com/laurahaleydt/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/personalbrandlaunch/?hl=en

https://www.instagram.com/ameliagonzamonte/?hl=en

I took som of there calls and its mainly other folks who work under them, they just say you will get access to the main creator (I don't really buy that). But are there frameworks or courses worth it or useful ?

So I started a submissions-based tiktok page to post submissions people sends me, such as confessions, vents, music, art, poetry, etc. The idea behind the page or the purpose of the page is to help people get seen and heard and to elevate people's voices and to raise awareness. But of course, a page with 7 followers and a page that isn't very popular isn't gonna do much to help people.

My dream for this idea was that the page would grow to thousands or millions of followers (not over night or within a week, of course) and then when someone (especially a small account or a newish artist with a small following) submits something, it'll be seen by thousands or millions of people, helping them get seen and boosting their following/audience.

What gave me the idea for this was looking at very popular accounts on Instagram and tiktok who have thousands or millions of followers and how cool it would be if one of those accounts posted a poem by a little known or unknown poet and the attention the poem and poet would get overnight. And I wanted to create that platform for people, bring it into existence.

But I can't do what I wanna do with this idea if I can't build an audience or following for this idea because how can I help small artists and small accounts when my account is small and when I don't have a large audience to see the stuff I post on my page?

I'm also not receiving a lot of submissions either, probably because my page is new and people don't trust me yet. But I would like to change that. But I also feel that I'd be more likely to receive a lot more submissions and that people would be more likely to send me submissions and more comfortable sending me submissions if I had a large audience because what small artist wants to submit their art to an account with 7 followers if it's not gonna help their art get seen and therefore not gonna help build their following?

So maybe building a following should be first priority before receive submissions?

But how can I do something with this idea? How can I build an audience and start receiving more submissions?

Once your video is complete, there are still other things to do before publishing it on different platforms.

Choosing a cover image, tweaking the caption, adjusting the title, and so on. It all takes time, and if you're trying to post regularly, these little tasks can become tedious.

It's not always about creating more content, but also about finding ways to make the process after editing easier.

Maybe having a simple step-by-step workflow could help.

What do you find takes the longest when publishing your videos after editing them?

Starting to twitch any tips

Nothing in this reel was filmed or edited by hand. I typed one line about what it should say. An AI wrote the script, read it in a free voice, and drew every scene: paper cutout props, a little mascot, captions that pop on each word, all timed to the voice.

It rendered in about a minute on my laptop. No subscription, no credits, no watermark.

Good for explainers, product spotlights and how it works reels, the stuff you'd normally pay a motion designer or a $30 a month tool for. Not good for realistic footage. Everything is flat paper cutouts, that's the style.

The catch: the first version is never right. You look at it, say what to move, and render again, usually two or three rounds. It also needs a Mac and one of the AI coding assistants (Claude Code, Codex or Gemini), it runs inside those.

Free and open source: https://github.com/haiderfarooq3/paper-reel

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So I am new to content creation so please give me tips for everything and what should i do and post how many times?? Also should i post on yt too and other platforms?? My reach is so dead too.

With AI tools popping up everywhere, I’m curious how many content creators actually use them in their day-to-day work.

Do you use AI for content research, analyzing competitors, understanding what works, or creating reports? Or do you feel it takes away from the creative process?

Would love to hear your honest experiences!