Am I “Shadow Banned” Or Is My Content Just That Boring?

I recently decided to start making stickers and videos in direct response to trending hashtags on the discover page of my TikTok feed. Over the weekend, I saw the #SugarCrash (often misspelled as #SugarCrush) hashtag and thought it might be fun to make my own version. While it would have been more canon to open with a shot of how many likes @thenickluciano got on his video, then cut to a CU of me making the, “why not?” face. But this music video is much more my style:

@madsquidproductions

#sugarcrashtrend I know, #SugarCrash has a diff format. #fyp #musicvideo #sugarcrush #trend #trending #madsquid #madsquidproductions #space #sharethis

♬ SugarCrash! – ElyOtto

But my version has yet to even break 100 views. It certainly hasn’t raked in the hundreds of thousands of views and likes that I was hoping for. So…

Am I shadow banned, or am I really just that boring?

Anyway, while I sit here pondering that question, why don’t you go grab yourself a copy of the song and try your hand at this trend?

Stand by to stand by. –Mad Squid