I've Seen Too Many Young People Wanting to Do TikTok Die at the First Step

You spend an entire night editing a video, but after posting, the views are stuck at 0 or an embarrassing few hundred.

You start refreshing the backend frantically, over and over again. Then you start to doubt yourself. Is my content not good enough? Did I choose the wrong BGM? Are the hashtags wrong? Or was the timing of the post off?

So you go online to find "secret strategies" from various "masters," study the platform's recommendation logic, learn the latest editing techniques, and imitate the most viral videos. Like a devout apprentice, you note down every impressive yet vague term: account nurturing, weight, hashtags, niches.

You feel like you've grasped the secrets of heaven and are ready to do something big. The result? The next video is still that familiar 0.

Worse yet, you wake up one day to find your account shadowbanned or even directly banned. All your efforts, wiped out overnight.
At this point, you might think it's just bad luck or that TikTok's algorithm is too mysterious.

To be perfectly honest, you might have been thinking in the wrong direction from the very beginning.

I've seen too many young people with dreams of becoming influencers—they are talented, full of ideas, and willing to work hard—but they eventually disappear without a sound. They didn't die from a lack of content, nor from fierce competition; they died at that most inconspicuous yet fatal first step.

Everything you learn online, whether it's content strategy, operational skills, or monetization models, can be compared to "building a house." You are learning how to design beautiful windows, how to pick gorgeous chandeliers, and how to plan a comfortable room layout.

But few people tell you that before you pick up the blueprints, you must first check if the ground beneath your feet is solid earth or a man-eating swamp.

The foundation of your house is what determines everything.

In the world of TikTok, your network environment is your foundation.

An unstable, impure, or incorrect network environment is a swamp. No matter how much heart you pour into this swamp, or how much money you spend learning how to build a house, all you'll build is a dangerous building ready to collapse at any moment. Your 0 views and your banned account are the sounds of the building collapsing.

This is the root of the problem.

Why does the platform care so much about your "foundation"?

Let's think from the platform's perspective. TikTok is a massive commercial empire, and its foundation is a massive number of real users and a healthy community ecosystem. It needs to ensure that the content on the platform is created by real people around the world and accurately pushed to real people in the corresponding regions. Only then will advertisers be willing to pay for precise user profiles, allowing the platform's business model to function.

Therefore, TikTok's risk control system is like a border guard who never sleeps. Its core mission is to distinguish between "who is a real local user" and "who is a suspicious abnormal user."

And the first, most important piece of evidence it uses to judge is your IP address.

An IP address can be understood as your ID card and home address in the digital world. It clearly indicates which country and city you are from and which network provider you are using.

When a user in Mainland China frequently posts content that could only be created locally in the US, and hopes it will be recommended to US users, what does that look like to the platform's risk control system?

It's a massive logical paradox. A "ghost" in the digital world.

The risk control system won't look deeply into your underlying efforts and creativity; it will only give you a "high-risk" label based on the rules. From there, traffic restriction, weight reduction, 0 views, and even account bans are logical punishments.

You might say, "Can't I just use a VPN?"

This is exactly the first pit most beginners fall into. You think you've bought a ticket to the world, but you've actually boarded a public bus that has long been blacklisted.

Most ordinary VPNs on the market, or those cheap shared proxies, use "Data Center IPs." The characteristic of such an IP is that hundreds or thousands of users are crowded onto one IP address at the same time—they might be playing games, watching videos, or doing various grey-area businesses you can't even imagine.

In the eyes of the risk control system, such an IP is like an office building with a sign that says "I am a robot studio." Any content coming from this address is naturally met with a massive question mark.

Using such a network environment to operate a TikTok account you want to polish carefully is no different from a top chef who wants to participate in a culinary competition but insists on using ingredients that others have used countless times, or that might even be spoiled. No matter how exquisite your knife skills or how masterfully you control the heat, the final dish can only be a failure.

So, what should a solid, reliable "foundation" that allows you to create with peace of mind look like?

The answer is simple: make your "digital identity" completely consistent with the target audience you want to reach.

If you want your content to be seen by US users, then in the digital world, you should be a genuine US user. Your IP address should be a clean, real address provided by a local US network carrier.

This sounds complicated, like an insurmountable technical barrier. But in reality, professional creators have already turned this into a standardized operation as basic as buying camera equipment or subscribing to editing software.

The tools they use are professional proxy services.

This isn't some "black technology"; its essence is building a pure and private network channel to the target country for you. Through this channel, all your actions appear to the platform as no different from those of a real local user.

There are two mainstream and reliable solutions for building this "foundation."

The first, and closest to "seamless," is called a Mobile Proxy.

Think of it as truly owning a "mobile SIM card" in the digital world issued by a major carrier like T-Mobile or AT&T in the US. All your network activities go through local 4G/5G base stations.

This means your IP address is exactly the same as the thousands of ordinary young people scrolling TikTok on the streets of New York. This is the most native "digital identity" with the highest level of trust. To the risk control system, you are the most welcome "real local user."

Novada's Mobile Proxies help you achieve exactly this. They cooperate directly with global mobile carriers to provide you with these native, pure mobile IPs. You don't need to actually get a foreign SIM card to transform into a "local" at the digital level, allowing you to safely register accounts, nurture them, post content, and more.

The second is a professional-grade solution that combines speed and authenticity, called a Dynamic ISP Proxy.

If a mobile proxy makes you "become" a local resident, then an ISP proxy is like laying a "private highway" from the data center directly to the target user's doorstep.

Its IP address comes directly from local home broadband providers (ISPs) like Comcast or Verizon, so it has almost the same credibility as a real residential IP—like a real home address house number. At the same time, it relies on the powerful hardware of a data center, offering incredible network speed and stability.

For those creators who need to operate multiple accounts simultaneously or have higher requirements for video upload speed, Novada's Dynamic ISP Proxies are an extremely efficient and safe choice. They ensure the authenticity of the "foundation" while providing professional-grade performance.

I know that hearing words like "proxy" and "IP" makes many beginners panic, thinking this is something only programmers understand.
This is actually the biggest misunderstanding.

Using a professional service like Novada, you don't need to understand the complex technical principles behind it at all. The entire process is as simple as setting up a new Wi-Fi connection on your phone or computer, taking only a few minutes. All you need to do is choose "which country's user" you want to be and then fill in a few simple parameters.

The truly complex and professional work has already been completed by Novada's backend system.

Now, let's go back to the original question.

When your video has only 0 views, the first thing you should do is not sign up for another editing course or stay up late researching new trending topics.

You should stop and ask yourself: Is my foundation solid?

Spending a small budget—perhaps just the cost of a takeout meal—to build a solid, pure network foundation is not an "expense." It is an "insurance policy" for all the time, energy, and creativity you will invest in the future.

This insurance ensures that your talent won't be stifled by a stupid technical detail.

This insurance ensures that your hard work won't vanish one morning because of an account ban.

This insurance ensures that your work can truly be placed in a fair arena to be scrutinized and judged by your target audience.
Once the foundation is laid, you will be surprised to find that the world becomes quiet.

You no longer have to worry about the safety of your account, and you don't have to suffer internal mental friction over contradictory "metaphysical secrets." You can put 100% of your energy back into what you truly love and are good at: polishing your content, showing your creativity, and connecting with your audience.

By then, reaching thousands or tens of thousands of views, or even becoming viral, will only be a matter of time.

Because you are finally standing on the correct starting line.