I think one of the biggest things TikTok does is that it shows completely random videos from time to time. I often get videos with 0 views that were just random

I think one of the biggest things TikTok does is that it shows completely random videos from time to time. I often get videos with 0 views that were just randomly shown to me. So the platform actually has some randomness that can spontaneously find something interesting instead of having people build up a base first.