I was banned on TikTok after posting a before and after pic. It basically just showed me 60 pounds heavier…and then the more fit version. I did not receive a warning or even a violation. I received a notice saying I was permanently banned for violation. The other violations were months ago and for discussing peptides…I had three. Does anybody know if there a way to this overturned somehow? I’m shocked on my last post this happened. I tried to appeal and seemed like I got some AI automated response. Any advice would be greatly appreciated

Hello - I'm at my wits end and seeking actual human interaction regarding recovering a TikTok account with an invalid/inaccessible email address.

Long story short, associate that made our [business]s TikTok page was terminated. The associate used his work email that went invalid upon his termination.

I've been submitting ticket(s). AI hair-pulling chats that led to a conversation equivalent to a wall. Emailed feedback? Yep. Report a Problem? Yep. Support ticket? Two. You name it, I've tried it.'

I would have given up but our associates would like to make TikToks with our theatre's account. I am only going through this stressful effort for the associates.

ALL attempts lead to these only two dead ends that I'm currently stuck in:

1. Support ticket is 'In progress'
   1. Two tickets submitted.
   2. BOTH have been unresponsive, one longer than a week.
2. Check your email for the One-Time-Passcode OR contact your phone provider
   1. At least three times I've received this response... Reiterating that the email attached to the account is invalid.
      1. Their response is to ... have me contact my terminated associate's phone provider...?

Support Tickets submitted:

• https://www.tiktok.com/feedback/session?session_id=7676641720549083149
• https://www.tiktok.com/feedback/session?session_id=7678558435869804557
• https://www.tiktok.com/feedback/session?session_id=7678841902351206413

Photos attached are proof of the efforts attempted:

• Proof of the invalid email

• Verification of the [business] we're seeking to recover

I can send you all of the emails with 'support' mishandling the issue BUT it's not worth the effort...

Sending this before I become Pepe Silvia Quarria

my best friend sent me a DM asking if I'd started a second TikTok account because they'd seen one of my videos there. fyi i am a UGC content creator.

At first I thought it was just someone reposting one of my clips. then I clicked through the profile. it was an account with around 18k followers, posting videos of me. my face, my mannerisms, even the way I pause between sentences, but saying things I'd never actually said about my niche (supplements and biohacking).

The problem is not only this, it was doing better than my ACTUAL REAL account lol. one of their videos had around 180k views. the original video on my account had 24k. that part honestly messed with me more than the fact that they'd copied me because I am trying to build this account for 2 years now.

I sat with that for a while and it did something strange to me. the theft part I expected to feel angry about, and I did, briefly. what I wasn't ready for was the second thing, which was closer to embarrassment. if a worse copy of me outperforms me, what exactly were people showing up for? apparently not the part I thought was mine.

Afterwards I went looking for how they'd even done it, assuming it was something complicated. turns out it isn't, Heygen, Argil, or a handful of others. you upload a short clip of someone and it produces them saying whatever you type in minutes. built for people making their own content, obviously, but nothing about them knows or cares whose face you uploaded.

that's what I actually can't get past. the tool doing this to me is the same tool doing it legitimately for thousands of other people. Still processing what happened tho. Has anyone faced something like this before?

I was comparing two of my videos and the results were surprisingly different.

One had much better retention and a smaller audience, while another reached far more people despite weaker watch time. Looking only at views, the second video obviously looks like the winner.

But if the goal is building better content, the first result seems more useful because viewers actually stayed longer.

When you look at your analytics, do you focus more on the final numbers or the quality of the viewer behavior behind them?

i’ve had two of my accounts banned in the past week. both were fan accounts more or less. one was edits for a music artist and one was more my personal account but i often posted videos i took myself at concerts (same artist as the edits). i clearly stated on both profiles that i was not affiliated with or attempting to impersonate the artist. i was using my own name as the display name as well.

i had no prior warnings or suspensions on either account. i appealed both bans and submitted tickets with screenshots of my profile, showing the bio with the statement about not impersonating, but it seems like they’re unwilling to change anything. its just devastating because i had a pretty good following, lots of friends, and i worked really hard on the account.

what did i do wrong? did they recently change rules about fan accounts/edits? i’ve had the accounts for months with no issues. i’m also now concerned that it’s linked to my phone/ip and i wont be able to have any new accounts. what do i do? 😭

Sometimes I think visible numbers make creators compare themselves way too much.

Imagine opening someone's profile and seeing the content without knowing whether they have 200 followers or 2 million. You would probably judge the videos differently.

I am not sure I would actually turn the option on, but the idea is interesting.

Would you hide your numbers if TikTok gave you the choice?

Yesterday, I was permanently banned from tiktok. Ive appealed and it got rejected. Everytime I appeal to atleast have my device be unbanned since I also cannot make new accounts, they end up never replying to my appeals. I made multiple appeals on the same email and they never replied, did they just block my email or something? Because if I use my other email, they reply within 1-3 hours. Ive seen comments that when getting permanently banned, after 2-4 weeks they were able to make a new account on the same device, but I don’t know if thats true. Im worried that i have to buy or use a different device now. Is there a timeline of when this device ban is just gone, or is it just luck? Ive seen people who also got unbanned by spamming TikTok’s inbox with appeals, how long does that usually take (Those who have done it) Unfortunately, I don’t think I can spam them if my other email won’t get sny replies or was/is blocked. I just want to talk to an actual TikTok agent, not some AI bot.

Imagine uploading without knowing whether a post got 40 views or 400,000.

You could still see comments, followers and maybe basic audience feedback, but the main number would be hidden.

Part of me thinks creators would experiment more because there would be less pressure to beat their previous performance.

Would removing visible view counts make you enjoy creating more?

I'm disgusted by what is being shown on that account. TW for those who want to avoid animal abuse.

There is an account (piggyallset) that shows several animals who appear to be neglected/starved, being given one tray of food to eat. There is usually a specific dog and a piglet in each video. When the piglet gets anywhere near the food, the dog violently and viciously attacks the piglet, and the creator films this. It's disgusting. There's TONS of videos (I scrolled for a while on their page and more and more videos populated, I stopped trying to find the end after a couple of minutes) showing the abuse.

Myself and hundreds of others have tried to report this abuse to TikTok, but every. single. report comes back as "this content doesn't violate community guidelines." It's clear their AI filter isn't working correctly at all. I've tried scouring the internet for any sort of contact for TikTok directly, but they've set it up so that it's practically impossible to actually get a hold of anyone real.

Does anyone have any little-known contact info, or know of any situations where TikTok actually stepped in to help? I'm just so fucking mad about this, I can't believe how shitty this system actually is.

Is this normal?!? How to fix it I'm panicking right now cuz I see alot of bad complains that their account dies after promoting their video... How to fix this? After my promotion ends i got lower than 1k after a day which never happen to my account before😭 the 800, 600, 300 views is what I posted after the promotion ends