Account warm-up and shadowban: a 7-day plan and what to do
Your first clip from a new account often starts from zero distribution, and not because it is weak: the platform does not yet know who to show it to. A week of warm-up gives it that data. Here is the plan day by day, the signs and causes of a shadowban, what to do when views drop, and where all of it runs into the task threshold that the money sits behind.
What warm-up is and why a clipper needs it
To a platform a new account is an unknown: no viewing history, no reactions, no sign of a live person. Warm-up is the first few days when you behave like an ordinary viewer: watching clips on your topic to the end, following, liking, replying in comments, and only then posting. The goal is not to fool the algorithm but to feed it data: the topic, the audience, the person behind the account.
A clipper needs this for a prosaic reason: a task pays for counted views, and a clip from an account with no history tends to start from zero distribution and never reach the threshold. The second rule matters more than the first: one topic per account. An account that mixes streamer clips, recipes and crypto is one the platform cannot read, so it shows it to nobody.
The 7-day warm-up plan
The plan describes actions, not reach: nobody promises how much distribution a platform will give. The first posts are not from a task, so you do not spend task material on an account that has shown nothing yet.
| Day | What you do | What you post | What you do not do |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sign up with a real number, add an avatar and an on-topic bio, half an hour of the feed on your topic | Nothing | Links in the bio, mass follows |
| 2 | Watch topic clips to the end, like and follow the creators, a couple of useful comments | Nothing | Unfollowing in bulk, spam comments |
| 3 | The same plus saves and shares, prepare the first clip | One clip in the evening: the account's topic, your own edit | Reposting someone else's watermarked clip |
| 4 | Reply to comments, check the traffic source in analytics | One clip | Deleting the first clip because it did not take off |
| 5 | Feed and reactions on the topic, a second editing batch | One or two clips | Changing topic, five clips in a day |
| 6 | Check the profile is public, take a task on the account's topic | A task clip, with the link sent to the task the same day | Off-topic hashtags, bought views |
| 7 | See which clips travelled beyond your followers, plan the week | One clip | Logging in from new devices and countries in a row |
If the account is old and active, a warm-up from scratch is unnecessary: a week of posting on one topic before the first task is enough.
Shadowban: signs and causes
Officially the platforms do not use the term: they talk about limited recommendations and content that is not eligible for the feed. It looks the same either way: only followers see the clips, the share of traffic from recommendations in analytics falls to nothing, the clip cannot be found by hashtag, and the counter slides from the usual thousands to dozens.
- Duplicates and reposts. The same clip on several accounts, a re-upload after deletion, someone else's watermarked clip: the platform sees the match and does not recommend the copy.
- Fake engagement. Bought views arrive in a burst from bots; the platform strips them out and marks the account. YouTube says it outright: content with fake engagement is removed, and three strikes within 90 days can end in the channel being terminated .
- Mass actions. Hundreds of follows and unfollows a day, identical comments, a dozen uploads in a row: that is how bots behave, and the account gets a bot's restrictions.
- Rule violations. Someone else's music, prohibited topics, misleading captions: some of those clips the platform simply does not show, and the warnings accumulate.
- Technical signals. A dozen accounts on one phone, links to dubious sites on day one, hopping between countries over a VPN.
What to do when views drop
- Pause. A few days without posting and without mass deletions; keep watching the feed on your topic so the account stays alive.
- Check for duplicates. The same clip on another account, a re-upload, a copy of someone else's: remove the extra copies and keep one, and not the one already submitted to a task.
- Change the material. A different moment, a different format, subtitles, a new first second, your own footage instead of a repost. A clip that did not take off is not remade; the next one is made instead.
- Audit violations. Take down clips with platform warnings or someone else's music and leave the rest alone: a task clip must stay public until the payout.
- A new account. The last resort, if reach has not returned a couple of weeks after the pause and the clean-up: a new number, one topic from day one, a warm-up from scratch, and the old account stays alive until its task clips have been paid.
How this ties into pay-per-view tasks
A task pays for a clip that clears the threshold, usually 2,000 views, and then counts the whole counter. Open tasks pay from $1 to $2 per 1,000 views, typically $1. The cap per submission is usually $100. A hypothetical clip with 20,000 views at $1.00 makes 20,000 / 1,000 × $1.00 = $20.00, while a clip under a restriction never reaches the threshold and earns nothing. Put your own numbers into the clipping earnings calculator.
- Fake views are rejected twice. A jump in views inside a single sync tick sends the submission on hold, and moderation removes it with the reason "Fake views". Bought views do not lift a shadowban, but they do cost you the payout: more in why clips get rejected.
- Several accounts and sites are legitimate. Different clips on different accounts, each on its own topic, and on different sites: TikTok, Reels, Shorts. The same clip on two accounts is a duplicate both for the platform and for the task.
- Ready-made videos are already uniqueized. In tasks with ready-made videos the platform gives every clipper their own copy with built-in uniqueization: layout, subtitles, crop, sound. A hundred clippers with one setup do not turn into a hundred reposts.
- Followers are not required. A task pays for the clip's reach, not the size of the account; how that differs from a platform's creator programme is in what TikTok pays for views. Claiming what has accrued is covered in DareBay withdrawals.
What never to do
- Buy views, likes or followers: the platform strips them, the task rejects the clip, the money is gone.
- Upload one clip to several accounts, or twice into one task.
- Delete and re-upload "failed" clips in bulk hoping for a second start.
- Run a dozen accounts from one phone on one script.
- Put links to casinos, betting and the rest of the prohibited content list in the first days.
- Change the account's topic every week.
- Delete or hide a task clip before the payout: there will be no counter left to read.
Frequently asked questions
How many days should a new account warm up before the first task?
A week, as in the plan above: two days without posting, then one on-topic clip a day, and a task on day six. If the account is old and has been posting regularly on the same topic, a few posts before the start are enough.
How do I tell a shadowban from a clip that simply flopped?
A weak clip flops alone while its neighbours perform as usual. Under a restriction every clip in a row drops, traffic from recommendations disappears from analytics, and a hashtag search no longer finds the clip. Three or four clips in a row with dozens of views where thousands were normal is already a reason to pause.
Does deleting every clip and starting over on the same account help?
No: mass deletion itself looks like suspicious behaviour, and the account's history does not go anywhere. Remove only clips with warnings and duplicates, leave the rest, and do not touch a task clip until the payout.
Do I need a separate account for every task?
No, you need an account for every topic. Several tasks about one streamer or one game live comfortably on one account, while a crypto task next to streamer clips is better run from another.