Steal a viral video

Guides

What we have learned about why some short videos hold people and most do not. No sign-up, nothing gated.

Writing

TikTok hooks: what the first two seconds are actually doing
A hook is not a summary and it is not a headline. It is a gap somebody needs closed.
The scripting problem with a faceless channel
Everything else got cheap. The writing got harder, and almost nobody says so up front.
Content repurposing: three levels, and only one of them travels
Most people are doing the cheapest version and concluding that repurposing does not work.
How to go viral on TikTok, minus the parts nobody controls
Three things decide it. You control one of them, and it is the one most advice skips.
Content ideas for TikTok, when the list has stopped working
You have not run out of things to say. You have run out of shapes to say them in.
Viral hooks: stop collecting lines, start collecting shapes
Every list you can find, your competitors found too. The method is the part worth owning.
Hooks for Reels: why the spoken hook is only half of it
On Instagram the first frame often does more work than the first sentence.
How to make a viral video: the part that is about people, not algorithms
Holding attention gets you distribution. Being worth forwarding is what turns distribution into reach.
Four short-form script templates, with the timings
Copy these into whatever you already write in. Nothing to download and nothing to sign up for.
A TikTok content strategy that survives a busy week
Most strategies collapse because they need more upkeep than the content does.

Tools and comparisons