r/TikTokMonetizing

On TikTok studio it shows this.

I started a TikTok account less than a month ago mostly for fun and as an experiment.

I was testing an automation workflow I built with OpenClaw. Basically, I send it a story script and it handles most of the production process automatically, then sends me back the final edited video ready to post.

The content is short horror/folklore stories.

I didn't expect much from it, but the account has grown much faster than I expected: Around 2M views, 103K likes, 8.4K followers, Brand new account and Less than one month old

Now I'm starting to think there might actually be a business opportunity here.

The problem is that I'm in Cambodia, and TikTok's main video monetization programs aren't available here. From what I can see, the monetization options available to me are mainly subscriptions and gifts.

I don't think subscriptions or gifts will work particularly well with my audience. Most viewers are local Khmer users, and I don't expect many of them to pay monthly subscriptions or regularly send gifts.

So I'm curious what people here would do in this situation.

For creators in non-eligible countries, what monetization methods have actually worked for you?

I'm considering things like sponsorships, local brand deals, cross positings... something around the audience outside TikTok.

I'm especially interested in approaches that work when your audience is mostly from a lower-ARPU country rather than the US/Europe.

I know 8.4K followers isn't huge, but the growth and engagement made me think I should probably figure this out early. TIA for your advices

We were kicked out in April for a lot of the same bogus reasons I’ve seen other people were. I have reapplied and appealed at least fifty times. AI responses, my eligibility date moved back. I messaged them on other channels. All of it without any success. Unfortunately, I have no secret to share with you, but just wanted to be a hopeful story that here almost 6 months later I saw I could reapply and I did, not expecting for it to work, but woke up this morning and we are back in.

www.adthreshold.com and they did send nothing after that

Its pretty hilarious to think about…

At this point, I genuinely believe almost anyone can build a part-time income from posting on TikTok.

And with enough time, consistency, and a little bit of scaling, I think it’s completely possible to turn it into a full-time job where you work for yourself.

I know that sounds like the typical “make money online” bullshit, but I’m saying it because I’ve actually lived it.

Last year around this exact time, I was pulling maybe 10 views a day.

I had no idea what I was doing.

I didn’t know what to post, I didn’t understand how TikTok worked, and honestly, I had no clue if any of this was ever going to amount to anything.

I just knew I wanted to figure out a way to make money online.

In October 2025, I decided to actually commit to it.
I started grinding faceless TikTok and eventually found a loophole that allowed me to monetize podcast content that I didn’t create myself.

At first, I was just trying to get one video a day out.

Then I figured out how to make 3.

Then 6+.

The biggest breakthrough for me honestly wasn’t finding some secret video or magic niche.

It was figuring out how to make the process repeatable.
Once I understood what type of content to look for, how to find clips, how to edit them, what to change, and how to consistently put videos out, everything started becoming much easier to scale.

And for the first few months, I had absolutely no idea if it was going to work.

I remember putting in hours every day while still wondering if I was wasting my time.

There were plenty of videos that completely flopped.
There were accounts that went nowhere.

There were days where I questioned whether I should just move on and do something else.

But I kept going.

Fast forward to now, I’ve made just under $18,000 from this.

I’m currently pulling anywhere from 2.5–5.5M views a month, and I’m working on account #2 and #3 to see how far I can actually take this.

And probably the coolest part is that I’ve realized the thing I struggled with the most at the beginning — not knowing what the hell I was doing — is something I can now help other people with.

Over the last few weeks, I’ve been putting together a community where I basically dumped everything I’ve learned about faceless TikTok clipping.
Not some generic “post consistently and work hard” course.

I mean the actual stuff I use.

The loophole I’ve used to monetize podcast content.
More podcasts where I’ve found the strategy can work.
How I find content.

The websites and apps I use.

My editing process.

My personal workflow and how I’m able to consistently get 6+ videos out a day.

What I would do if I had to start completely from zero again.

And I’ve also been doing free 1-on-1 calls with members who are actually trying to get their pages monetized.

I wanted to make it cheap enough that someone who is genuinely interested could get access without having to drop hundreds of dollars on another “guru” course.

So for less than the price of a gallon of gas, you can get access to everything I’ve figured out so far + a community of people doing the same thing + me to ask questions when you get stuck.

https://www.skool.com/faceless-tiktok-clipping-6956/about

But honestly, even if you have zero interest in joining the community, feel free to ask me questions here.

I genuinely enjoy helping people with this stuff.

There aren’t many places where I can talk to people who are actually interested in faceless TikTok monetization, and I remember how frustrating it was when I was starting out and had absolutely nobody to ask.

So if you’re currently trying to figure this out, drop a comment.

Tell me what you’re working on.

Tell me what’s not working.

Tell me what you’re confused about.

I’ll help where I can.

And if you’re looking to take it a little more seriously and want everything I’ve learned in one place, you can check out the community.

Either way, I hope this helps someone who is currently sitting at 10 views a day wondering if this is ever actually going to work.

Because I was that guy a year ago.

And I’m really glad I kept going.

Im stuck in 300 view jail and every of my vids get warning that they wont get pushed to fyp bcs not original content. Can i get some tips?

Been messing around with faceless Reddit story videos on tiktok and YouTube Shorts for a bit and I'm trying to figure out what actually caused one of them to take off.

Most of mine land somewhere around 10k–30k views, but one randomly hit 283k.

Does anyone else use Taleo.media? If so, how are you approaching the actual story part?

Do you guys generate/write your own stories and put them in, use the auto-generated stories, or mix both?

I've mostly been using the generated ones because it's way faster, but I'm starting to think I should actually track the genres/topics instead of just picking whatever sounds interesting.

A few things I've noticed so far that might help anyone else making these:

• The first sentence matters way more than I thought. The ones that start with context usually do worse for me. Starting directly with the weird/problematic part of the story seems to hold people better.
• Also, don't make the captions too slow. I used to leave every sentence on screen forever and it made the videos feel way slower than they actually were. Also, there's like a function on the website where you can change the speed of the captions and audio to like 1.4x or 1.5x with the chipmunk thing if any of you guys watch reddit video stories on tiktok.
• Another thing I noticed is that background footage matters, but I don't think it has to perfectly match the story. Movement/change seems more important. If the background looks basically identical for 15 seconds I usually see a bigger drop. I think people do too much of, like, the Subway Surfers or the Minecraft background ones now, and they all end up getting copyrighted or just shadowbanned. The one that I used for the viral video was the worker one and it's all really sped up and just helps people pay attention longer
• One more thing. Shorter setup usually leads to longer payoff. I used to spend like half the video explaining who everyone was before anything happened lol. I feel like if I try to write my own stories or have my own AI generate my stories, they all lowk come out really bad, so I just use the AI stories thing that is already on the website. I think that's the one that I used to hit the 283k one because that was part of the autoposting and autogenerating function.

I've mostly been experimenting with the auto-generated ones because it's way faster, but now I'm wondering if I should actually be tracking what genres/topics are doing well instead of just generating whatever sounds interesting.

The 283k one is what made me start thinking about this more seriously because clearly SOMETHING about it worked, but I can't tell if it was the story itself, the genre, hook, pacing, or TikTok just deciding to push it harder.

I'm considering making a spreadsheet and doing something like 10 videos per genre, then tracking views + retention + completion rate and seeing if there's actually a pattern.

Has anyone done this with Taleo already? And are there certain story genres you've noticed consistently outperforming the others?

Feel like I'm still throwing stuff at the wall rn but at least now I'm trying to keep track of what sticks lol.