Been genuinely obsessed with short form for the past few months. Like checking my phone every hour obsessed. Because short form is literally everything now. How people discover things. How businesses grow. How anyone builds anything online. I had to get good at creating content because if you cant capture attention in 30 seconds you just dont exist. Been posting consistently for like 8 months. Videos stuck between 500 and 2000 views every single time. And honestly I thought my content was pretty good. Thought maybe the algorithm just didnt favor my account type or my content was too different or something. My videos looked decent to me. Solid production. Clean editing. I tried everything. Hopped on every trend. Used viral audio. Literally recreated formats that got millions of views. Nothing moved the needle. Still stuck at 500-2k views. Then while scrolling TikTok I found this creator who jumped from 1-2k views to hitting 120k+ consistently in the span of like a week. Obviously had to see what changed. Checked their bio and they had this tool linked that analyzes videos. Said they used it to improve their content. Figured I had nothing to lose so I gave it a shot. Spent the next 2 weeks actually fixing my videos based on what I learned. Here are the biggest mistakes keeping your videos stuck under 1000 views: **Generic openers are invisible** "Wait for it" gets skipped every time. But "100 squats daily made my knees click weird" stops the scroll. Specificity beats mystery. Your brain just registers vague hooks as noise now because everyones using them. **Second 5 decides if they stay** Most people bail between 4-7 seconds if you havent proven its worth watching. I was building suspense like an idiot. Now I hit them with my best visual or stat right at second 5. Thats your real hook. Not the first 3 seconds. **Any pause over 1 second kills you** Seriously tracked this. Anything longer than 1.2 seconds and people think the video froze. What feels like good pacing to you reads as boring to someone scrolling. Cut way tighter than feels natural. It should feel uncomfortably fast when youre editing. **Pattern interrupts are everything** If your video looks the same for more than 3 seconds people zone out. I started switching camera angles, adding b roll, changing text placement, anything to create visual variety. Went from losing 50% at the midpoint to keeping 70%. Your video needs to feel like its constantly moving. **Rewatch rate matters more than you think** Videos people watch twice get pushed way harder. Started adding quick text thats easy to miss, faster cuts, little details you catch on second viewing. Rewatch rate went from 8% to 31% and views exploded. The algorithm loves when people rewatch. The tool Im using is called TikAlyzer. It tells you whats wrong with your videos and how to improve them to get more views. Analyzes your video like a content coach would and gives you specific actionable feedback to fix your mistakes. Shows you the exact second people leave and why. Not just retention dropped here but your pacing collapsed because of this, your lighting is doing this, your moment placement is wrong here. Its really hard breaking 1000 views because you genuinely dont know whats holding you back. You watch your own videos 100 times and everything looks fine. But once you actually have the data and can see it objectively its so clear whats missing. Honestly wish native platform analytics were this detailed. They show you people left. This shows you why they left and what to fix.