Trisha believes that platforms like TikTok intentionally suppress the reach of creators to humble them.

“Tik Tok likes to humble you. I feel like maybe it's psychological warfare. Like kind of fear so like don't you know think that you're girl. Yeah. You're not the it girl because guess what? We can take it away”

Oscar posits that algorithm performance often drops following a period of high viral success.

“my theory is, and it's just from operating and making content for a brand account, whenever we have like a a like a really sle week, we kind of get punished for it. Like whenever we have a slay like big weekend for like an award show or something, the following week is so low”