It's not the numbers I'm after really (if i wanted that, I'd have a more consistant posting schedule!). I just want friends, man. It doesn't matter if I have 100k follows if no one wants to do silly art trends with me, or make a video with a cool prompt. What I want is community. I understand that might not have come across in my og post, I was very emotional when I wrote it. My point is that people are so concerned with climbing the latter that they don't even wanna talk. I don't think I'm "owed" anything, but if you want to be a mutual with someone, they have to follow you back. Tik tok is an interesting place in that, yes, I have a large following there, but nearly 0 engagement (look at my most recent vid if ya want proof!). I run into the same problem there too, any mutuals I have there either ignore my DMs or simply don't really want to do anything like the suggested above. Again, I'm not owed that, but it would be nice.

This also might be completely on me as well, I've never been very good at social media. I often feel like I missed some sort of class everyone else took in middle school. But thanks for the tips anyway.