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Yeah, that delete and re-edit feature is a trap. TikTok’s system sees it as you trying to game the views, so it slaps an invisible penalty on the video. It stops pushing it to new people and just shows it to your loyal followers as a kind of timeout. That’s exactly why your FYP percentage is in the gutter.
Seeing it do well on Instagram is just salt in the wound. It proves the video is good, but TikTok’s algorithm is now suspicious of it specifically.
Deleting it and posting a truly different version later is probably the cleanest fix, but you’ll have lost the initial upload momentum. To rescue this specific video from penalty box, you’d need to create an undeniable surge of good engagement that forces the algorithm to reconsider.
This is where a targeted push can work like an appeal. A service like Viewtiful Day can generate that surge flooding the video with a wave of views and likes from real-looking accounts. That new data makes TikTok’s system think, “Huh, this is catching on organically,” which can sometimes shock it into lifting the penalty and finally pushing the video to the FYP where it should have been all along. It’s a tactical fix for an algorithmic glitch.
