#found this on my computer and tiktok suggested me the meme

[ma-chi1993]

Germany: the most important part of a potential partner it's the personality

The personality

[sleep3deprived]

hey i saw your requests are open and here i am! could you maybe write something about tsukishima with a s/o who’s always distracted ruing online classes and always texts him and sends him memes and tiktoks or sth and at first tsukki scolds her for not paying attention but at some point he just gives up and ends up sending her things too (they’re in the same class so he can see her on her phone through her camera too). it’s ok if you don’t wanna do it, it’s just a suggestion! thank you it you do! don’t forget to drink some water!💕

OMG HI!! I just want to say you’re my first ever request I've gotten (seems sad ik) but can I just say how happy you have made me since I've gotten your request? Thank you so so so much!! It means a lot to me omg <333

I really hope you like it, I can always re-do it if you don't! And thank you for the water reminder, be sure to take care of yourself too love!!

Tsukishima With an Easily Distracted S/O

Pairings: Tsukishima Kei x GN!Reader

Warnings: Some language

Genre: Fluff/Humour

He finds it annoying

Not annoying per se, but frustrating because he understands how easy you can get distracted and he can’t really help

But it won’t stop him from lecturing you into focusing a little more

That’s why he loves study dates. Gets to spend time with you AND study

Two birds, one stone

The first time you guys got onto your online class, Tsukishima was already annoyed.

One, he had to wake up at the ass crack of dawn to go to class from his computer

And two, he had to turn his camera on when he literally just rolled out of bed

Nothing is stopping me from thinking tsukki woke up 2 mins before class

The only reason he loves it though is because he pinned you to his screen and gets to see you.

May or may not tease you on how dead you look because you also woke up 2 mins before class.

But he also gets to see when you look down on your phone and send him texts and memes.

The first few times you did it, he scolded you after class ended

This beanpole literally called you the minute the call was over

“Y/n, you do realize if you’re only on your phone for class, you have no hope of passing”

“I’m not going to help you if you fail”

“Stop texting me in the middle of the class, I’m going to fail along side you”

"You have to start being more aware. If the teacher catches you one more time, I'm not helping"

saltyshima you were never helping tough love

After 3 and half months of being online though, he eventually gave up on convincing you to be on your phone less.

You also got distracted by little things in your room so he knew he can’t really do anything

However one day you two had a test in your class and tsukki dearest finished early and went scrolling on his phone when he found something he thought you’d like

So he sent it to you

And since he has you pinned, he’d rather drop dead than ever let you know that though he saw you picking up your phone to check

The absolute willpower it took you to not laugh

After that, Tsukishima kept sending you things in the middle of class

Whether it be funny to make you laugh, or flirty to get you to blush

It gave him a sense of pride to know that is how he makes you feel

Although, there have been multiple callouts by your teachers to start paying attention

clearly, you two didn't listen.

It ends up becoming a thing between you two to see who can make the other break first.

Tsukishima is winning.

Makes it a mission to tease you on it relentlessly :D

[synstoria]

My tikok experimentation

TW: marketing, bad jokes 😅

So, I am doing a lot of marketing research even if I don’t really like it; I think it’s important to do. I read many articles talking about how tiktok algorithm was favorable to game dev because it shows more easily content they are not following to people.

I tried my hand at it once:

And it took me waaaaaay too much time to do, because I am not used to video editing, not used to tiktok app AND perfectionist. Like, I wanted to make a video that matches the beats of the music, but it’s not a thing at all in tiktok videos. Unless the music is meant to have a shift at a particular point, people usually just slap a music on a video and that’s all. I also wanted to make clean screenshot, but the trend is to just film your computer screen with your phone. My perfectionnist side CAN’T do that.

Finally, Tiktok is all about trends, so you actually have to consume a lot of tiktok vids to know which music and which kind of « memes » are trendy, which seems really time consuming, and I am already sooo busy…

At this point, I decided it was not for me and gave up.

Later, I found yet another video about how tiktok was an incredible marketing tool, naming an account « DarkDeityGame » with a SRPG kind of game with practically no animation but a lot of sprites, so I gave it some more thinking. (Fun fact, I couldn’t find back the account, until I understand they renamed it and now the dev practically only do face cam videos.)

So a month ago, I gave it another shot; I wanted to conduct a brief experiment, so I decided to NOT publish the video on my other social media account so I would really gauge the magical algorithm. I found someone very nice specialising on videos creation (especially tiktok ones) and she was very professional. She took the time to listen to all my thought about the game and community private joke to get ideas of funny vids.

Anyway, confident in this person I commissioned her to create 8 videos for me and do some hashtag research. She created silly vids with trendy music. A friend of mine spending a lot of time on tiktok told me the vibe was here even if it was a little too static because it’s just sprite.

For example:

Or more contemplative ones:

I posted the video, with the hashtags and stuff, and I got… 3 view. Basically, only the people who were following me from the first video liked it, and same goes for every video I posted afterward except one.

The only vid who got more than a couple of views, reach around 100 view, it was a "art process" one; I did following one Arimia’s article.

Being not an artist myself, and having an incredible artist but who doesn’t share many WIP it’s not something I can do often.

Overall this experiment was a complete failure and waste of money. 😅

I hope at least it can help some people not doing the same mistakes, so here I some insight about the whole thing.

Why this experiment might have performed so poorly:

As I said, I didn’t share the videos anywhere else for the purpose of the experiment, so they didn’t get any initial view boost.

It’s possible my account performed worse than excepted because I posted a video and then went afk for a few months before posting again. Some people suggest I might have been shadowban while other says tiktok gives another chance when an account rise from the dead. Some other people also said if you delete an account and recreate one just after you might get shadowban aswell.

Like any social media, there is time it’s better to post your content, problem is you can’t schedule the moment they will be posted* and I don’t want to become a slave of tiktok by putting alarms on my phone to post a video (+I am not in the USA time zone, so sometimes it’s at crazy hour for me.)

*You actually can schedule videos on tiktok :

- By having a « business account » but then you have to use the computer app who is very poor AND you can’t use most of the musics on tiktok. Since the videos were already created with trendy music when I noticed, I couldn’t use it.

- By using other apps to do it for you, but a lot of users say you might get shadowban because your videos are posted by a bot.

To avoid being « shadowban » or considered like a bot, it’s apparently better you take the time to interact with others content before and after you post the video, but I had no time to do that, and there was actually not much videos on things that do interest me.

My two cent about the whole thing, and what you can do if you still want to try it out.

I was still impressed that out of nowhere, I could get 100 views on one of the vid without sharing the videos in anyway. If the algorithm is not as magical I thought, there is definitely something to exploit.

Visual novel just lack of movement to be used for tiktok, I think the best and easiest way is to go toward art creation process.

Humor seems to work a lot in tiktok but for reason A, if you want to make jokes, you probably have to use your voice and show your face like the amazing community manager of Among us for example.

Trend are really powerful. I was a bit salty to see on the visual novel tag a lot of vid performing extremely well... while just being someone filming their screen scrolling to show the VN they did in google slide. 😓

Forget everything I say, tiktok is impredictable, just film your screen doing stuff, and you might go viral after all :p

[karatficrecs]

~ August Favorites ~

SMAUS

vintage by @yongtxt - [completed]

summary ~ on your roaring success to stardom, your entertainment company has found an opportunity for you to collaborate on a track with mark lee — a much more established rapper in the music industry and unfortunately, your ex-boyfriend.

notes : i could reread this an infinite amount of times and stil enjoy it 😊 i really like the plot of the story!!

love again by @markleebee - [completed]

summary ~ jeno and y/n are best friends…but they’ve never met, only communicating to each other through their anne with an e fan accounts. In real life, jeno is the boy that every girl wants and y/n is just a girl struggling to hold her family together. When jeno needs to get a girl off of his back, y/n is the first person he thinks of.

notes : another one i could read over and over 😓 the character development and just the way the author writes is just 👌

russian roulette by @honeyboyjeno ~ [completed]

summary ~ in which you and renjun are neighbors and you both hate each other, or at least you think you do

notes : one of my fav smaus with my ult bias 💗

FULL FICS

three by @starlightkun - [20.7k words]

genre ~ ceo jungwoo, single dad jungwoo, nanny reader, enemies to lovers au, fluff, fluff, and more fluff

notes : i would have never thought of this prompt for a fic, it’s written so well and every time i read it it seems new 💚

10 things i know about you by @asthmark - [7.9k words]

summary ~ there are ten important things you learn about lee jeno during your time in quarantine

notes : this just makes me smile and i read it when i’m feeling sad about quarantine...(i wish i could have jeno as my roommate >:P )

jisung and the fbi by @greennct - [3.3k words]

summary ~ “okay do u guys remember that whole “fbi-agent-watching-me-through-my-computer” meme??? bc thats what the au is based on. why?? i have literally no idea. i am a complete crackhead. i am literally down to a single brain cell at the moment. i apologise for this. 💞💖💘(hopefully some semblance of comedy, and of course, 100% fluff, the only warnings that I could think of is jisung swearing?? if you don’t want to read that then scroll past this is guess lol)”

notes : this is pure fluff and the description of jisung’s character fits him perfectly 🤠

HEADCANONS

badboy!jisung by @solarhyucks - [4.4k words]

warnings ~ underage drinking, mentions of (illegal) street racing,,, and it’s disgustingly cute and fluffy

notes : jisung’s character is so him 😩 also makes me smile and i could reread it again and again

SERIES

not clickbait by @luvdsc - [incomplete]

summary ~ do it for the views. do it for your fans. but most importantly, do it for the gigantic, secret crush you’ve been harboring on your best friend. which boy will you complete tiktok’s “today I tried to kiss my best friend” challenge with? oh, and make sure to like, comment, and subscribe, honey bees! ↳ a best friend & social influencer series featuring nct dream x reader oneshots..

notes : these are all quality pieces of work *chefs kiss* the haechan/eboy one is my fav 💕 💗

7 deadly sins by @neostruck - [incomplete]

summary ~ mafia au! ; also called seven capital sins or seven cardinal sins, the seven vices that spur other sins and further immoral behaviour

notes : the wording and writing is so powerful in these it makes my heart hurt and honestly i could cry reading them 😔🤟🏻

i highly suggest checking out all of these author’s writings because all of them are masterpieces! :DD