Creator under 16: videos not shown on For You
TikTok may leave the video out of recommendations, so fewer people see it.
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What triggers it
The account holder is under 16. Their videos are not recommended in the For You feed (Creator Academy: not recommended to people they don't know).
What TikTok says
“needing to be 16+ for your videos to appear in the FYF”
We last checked this against TikTok's page on .
How to fix it
Nothing to change in the video. Under-16 creators should expect reach mainly from followers and search.
Good to know
Account-level; cannot be seen in the video.
Can FYProof spot it?
A check doesn't look for this one. What a check finds is an estimate, not a guarantee.
- Video: not for this rule
- Speech: not for this rule
- On-screen text: not for this rule
- Caption: not for this rule
- Hashtags: not for this rule
Part of this rule depends on your account or on what happens after you post, which a check before posting can't see.
Related TikTok rules
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