Dieting, sadness or broad mental-health advice clusters
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What triggers it
Eligible content about extreme fitness or dieting, sexual suggestiveness, sadness, or overgeneralized mental-health advice. TikTok avoids recommending such content repeatedly to the same viewer.
What TikTok says
“We aim to prevent our systems from repeatedly recommending content that could lead to a negative experience, such as extreme fitness or dieting, sexual suggestiveness, sadness, or overgeneralized mental health advice.”
We last checked this against TikTok's page on .
How to fix it
Make mental-health content specific, sourced and hopeful; don't rely on sad or extreme-diet content alone.
Good to know
Watch for sweeping claims like 'if you do X you have ADHD/trauma' as overgeneralized mental-health advice.
Can FYProof spot it?
A full check of your video looks for it in what's shown, what's said, the caption and the hashtags. What a check finds is an estimate, not a guarantee.
- Video: looked at for this rule
- Speech: looked at for this rule
- On-screen text: not for this rule
- Caption: looked at for this rule
- Hashtags: looked at for this rule
Related TikTok rules
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