#1641 - Social Studies Teacher Gains 1.5 Million TikTok Followers
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
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🗓️ 29 June 2021
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When a teacher looks for a way to connect with her students during lockdown, she starts her own TikTok account and goes to the head of the class with her viral videos.
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| 0:00.0 | Tiktok has nearly 100 million monthly active users in the United States alone. |
| 0:11.0 | It is a crazy phenomenon. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm actually not one of those monthly active users myself, although I do enjoy watching |
| 0:17.3 | some TikTok videos. |
| 0:18.3 | I just don't really post there. |
| 0:20.2 | That's partly because unlike a lot of other social media platforms, Tiktok skews to a much |
| 0:25.1 | younger crowd with the vast majority of its user base under 25 years old. |
| 0:30.7 | Sometimes it seems even much younger than that. |
| 0:32.7 | But as I said, it's definitely a phenomenon, for sure. |
| 0:35.1 | So when a teacher, this is our story today, by the way, when a teacher looks for a way |
| 0:39.4 | to connect with her students during lockdown, she starts her own Tiktok account and goes |
| 0:44.1 | to the head of the class with viral videos. |
| 0:47.1 | Now, she now has more than a million followers, actually 1.5 million and counting, and she |
| 0:52.8 | is Tiktok famous, which is a real thing. |
| 0:55.3 | By the way, I'm not actually being sarcastic. |
| 0:56.9 | Tiktok famous is a real thing. |
| 0:59.4 | Some Tiktok celebrities become actual celebrities. |
| 1:02.0 | But how does this attention translate to money? |
| 1:04.3 | Now, that is one of the fascinating parts of Tiktok for this generation X or here, because |
| 1:09.1 | it is a little bit different from so many other social networks in terms of, oh, if I get |
| 1:13.5 | a million followers, how do I then monetize that? |
| 1:17.6 | That's what we'll look at in this story. |
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