10 Easy and Proven Tricks to Get Popular on TikTok!

Whether you cringe at it or love making videos on it, we surely know that TikTok is a popular platform for entertainment nowadays. Developed by the Chinese software company called ByteDance, this application just like any other entertainment platform does not hold account for the things that people do on the app as long as it meets the community guidelines set up by the company. So, due to this very reason, we can neither blame the application nor credit it regardless of how bad or good the content is. 

While this is being said, just like any other entertainment platform, the content creators and users want to become trending on TikTok. Well, let us tell you the secret, anyone can become famous on TikTok.

You just have to follow these 10 tricks.

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1. Find your own specialty

Now, one thing that every person has is their own specialty and uniqueness. As the saying goes every person in this world is unique. So, find your inner oneness and use it to create something, anything. It may be in the form of your facial expression or your art and dance skills, whatever, just give it a go. 

It can even be in the form of humor, a skit, or a horrific act. The point is to be as unique as you can and separate yourself from the rest of the masses.

2. Post frequently or better, have a posting schedule

This is one of the psychological tricks that those who are famous on any media platform use. The trick is to post as much as you can or schedule a fixed time for your post. Now, which option you choose depends on the time you need to prepare for your content so if you don’t need much preparation you should post frequently, but we understand that some of you have ideas that require a lot of preparation be it in choreographing or preparing the materials or editing. In this case, have a fixed schedule when you upload your videos. 

The main idea to make people get used to your videos. Try to make them eager so when they open the app they expect to see your content. This will eventually make you trending on TikTok.

3. HD videos

No one likes a crappy low-quality video. This is not just a case for a certain age group but besides the older generation who grew up with no video formats, everyone wants a good video quality. Heck, even our grandmom expects to watch something that clearly shows the nose on your face or whatever content is being shown. Now imagine what would happen if you post crappy quality videos on a platform where your videos are short and already painful to watch. 

Yes, that is right. Your video will be ignored after a few times and once this happens a few times the algorithms used to make a video trending will no longer recognize your video as worthy of being trending on TikTok. So make sure that you shoot your video with a good quality camera. 

4. Show your skills

This is the main idea behind TikTok. With the music as a background, the point of this whole app is to show your skill in the short timeframe that it provides. Now while this is the case, for the most part, you can upload longer videos as well if it needs editing. The better your skills are the quicker you can be trending on TikTok. 

Now you have to remember that every skill is valid as long as it doesn’t violate the terms and conditions of this application. So, you can show off as much as you want. Remember that, regardless of what the skill is, be it sketching or dancing, or even editing, they must be entertaining to watch and enjoy.  They must be enough to grab your audience’s attention.

5. Use appropriate hashtags (#)

People use hashtags but don’t really know what it is used for. The main reason to use the hashtag (#) in any social or media platform is to make them easier to be grouped so that it can be suggested to the relevant target audience. So the thing goes like this, if you make content about introversion you use the tags like #introvert_things, #solitude, and #introversion and if you make some other content, let’s say a dance on the song “Paraana” of the movie ae mero hajur 3, you use hashtags like #paraana, #ae_mero_hajur_3 and #dance. 

The main point is to use the hashtags relevant to the topics. Now you can create them yourselves or use the already existing ones. All it needs to be is relevant to the content you are making to be trending on TikTok which brings us to our next point.

6. Make content based on a topic which are trending currently

While it may seem a bit off at the first to make content on a trending topic to be trending on TikTok, we have to remember that TikTok is not a main form of media and it cannot be the main source of media for a numerous reason with the main reason being it has a time limit on how long a video can be. So due to this reason long news, debates, movie reviews, and song reviews are not possible on TikTok. What is possible however is making your own content based on them. 

Making a short skit on a controversy that is trending on other media like  YouTube or Facebook or finding relevant songs to those controversies and dancing off to the music or just creating art to the music of a recent hit movie or a song. Doing these things and using appropriate hashtags will make the algorithm recognize your video as something that is focused on the things that people want on other platforms and boost your chance to be trending on TikTok. 

7. TikTok Challenges

There are very few media platforms that actually give a lot of focus to the challenge videos and TikTok is among them. In a lot of places including Nepal, the reason TikTok or musically at that time gained popularity was because of these challenges or to be more precise Ice Bucket challenge where one had to pour a bucket full of ice-cold water on themselves. Now, this was a challenge that was done for the charity where the money made by advertisements played on each video with the #ice_bucket_challenge was donated for a noble cause. 

So if you see any good challenges around, you can either ride the bandwagon or create a unique way to do that challenge. On the other side, you can even create your own challenge given that it is entertaining and not hurtful to anybody or causes any harm. While this is being said, be sure to remember that some challenges are dumb and downright dangerous and the prime example of these are the Kiki Challenge where you had to dance while getting off a moving car and the Cinnamon challenge where you had to eat a spoonful of powdered cinnamon which could easily harm you. 

8. Make duet chains

While some of us frown upon using duet chains as a means of being in the trending on TikTok, it is no doubt a useful tool. Now, the main purpose of a duet chain is to spread a message worldwide and since these messages are for the good cause, for the most part, it is inevitable that more and more people will join in on the chain. 

The more people involved in the duet chain, the more frequently the hashtags will be used, and easier it will be for the algorithm to recognize your video as something that is trending on TikTok. Keeping that in our mind while it is all fun to make a parody duet with someone, or make a love duet with your loved one, let’s not forget the fact that a duet chain is a powerful tool to spread a message and start a campaign of change.

9. Make your better version of a video trending on TikTok

So this is a little hard to do and you cannot do this on every one of them but like we said that everyone has their uniqueness, this is doable. The main reason behind us saying this is because the term “better” is rather a loose term. We have to remember that even those people trending on TikTok are humans and they have a limited set of skills. If you can outdo them then do it. You will replace them rather quickly if you do this but if you cannot outdo them, you can either make an entertaining, non-offensive parody of their video or modify what they did into something completely different.

For example, if a dance video is trending on TikTok, you can sketch them if you are artsy or make a flipbook of them, or even make a humorous duet. The next option is being so bad at trying to imitate their video that itself becomes a new “trend” which is good and a prime example of this is “Sajin Maharjan”. Although not on TikTok, we all know how trending he was and to some extent still is because he is so bad that it is good.

10. Be authentic

This, while being our final point is one of the most important ones. Regardless of what you do on TikTok, it is important to be yourself. People are quick to judge nowadays and if they see you trying to be someone else, they are quick to call it out as well. Regardless of how you are or what you make videos on, you have to be true to yourself. 

Because TikTok focuses mostly on you. TikTok is filled with a lot of wannabes but if you are true to your art and to yourself, people tend to notice the few oddballs and appreciate you for the things you do. People always love a video where the creator shows their own personality and hidden side on them and sooner or later if you keep on doing your own thing while being authentic, you will be trending on TikTok. 

If you are someone who is not just into the videos and people who are trending on TikTok but YouTube as well why don’t you check out our list of “Top 10 Famous Nepali Youtubers in Nepal” and yes you can use their video and content as a base to be trending on TikTok as well just like “Top 10 Famous TikTokers of Nepal“.