Pearl - TikTok Is No Longer Paying Women...BASED!？

00:00:00.000 It's just like, you know, the men will have Elon Musk and he'll like build a rocket, try to go

00:00:04.700 to Mars. And we're like, yeah, I'm a business owner because I have a social media account.

00:00:08.420 It's like, just me, just suck Elon Musk. What up guys? Welcome to my reaction series. Today, 0.99

00:00:14.320 we are going to react to TikTok, I guess is not paying influencers anymore. And as you guys know,

00:00:20.200 even though it's very hypocritical, I think that influencers are kind of the worst people in 0.83

00:00:25.240 society, YouTubers. It's a lot of times it's just people that are kind of lazy, don't want to work 0.59

00:00:29.220 and attention seeking. Um, and apparently they're not getting paid. So that's awesome. So let's see.

00:00:34.360 Talks not paying anymore, guys. I don't know what to tell you. Um, you know, less than a year ago,

00:00:38.540 I was making about a dollar 29 per thousand views. Now I'm making anywhere from 28 cents to

00:00:45.080 40 cents per thousand views. Here's the thing. Um, I bounced from TikTok a while ago, but

00:00:51.100 social media is not a stable career because you have to rotate apps really often. Like there are

00:00:58.300 people that are making tons of money on one app and then it goes south and now they're making

00:01:02.880 nothing the next year. And my content structure rollout, none of it's really changed. There was

00:01:08.000 a guy who just came out and said that he's making only one cents per thousand views and he's got

00:01:12.940 over 15 million followers and he does millions of views per video. Just back in August, I made

00:01:18.480 $5,000 in August, just on TikTok, $5,000. Now I'm barely averaging anywhere from $300 to $400

00:01:27.840 a month. And I think I know what the problem is. I genuinely think that it's the AI content

00:01:34.920 creators, the AI accounts on here that are clip farming and mining other-

00:01:40.320 I also wondered too, if it's the increase, because again, TikTok kind of made the barrier

00:01:44.620 to entry to be a content creator like nothing and so a lot of women um like i can't remember what 1.00

00:01:50.060 percent of gen z women actively make content but it's kind of crazy high it's when i looked at i 0.65

00:01:55.580 think it was like a quarter and i'm like that is actually absurdly high creators actual content

00:02:01.740 and work and then repurposing it across dozens of channels and they are mining money off of the rpm

00:02:09.180 and rewards program from tick tock and the algorithm's finally just gone okay well then

00:02:14.860 no one is going to get paid i think that's what's happened because i've seen the apparently

00:02:20.140 instagram stop paying on a creator fund in like 2023 but they're not even inviting people into

00:02:26.380 the the pay program anymore because they had a paper they would at least invite you into

00:02:30.540 and facebook just changed its whole structure on pay too now no one's making money on facebook

00:02:36.220 youtube i never thought i'd say this in 2026 going having to go to youtube probably here

00:02:41.340 just to actually start re-monetize youtube's where the real are at you're a real you're a

00:02:46.700 real content creator if you make it on youtube you know and even then tick tock's too easy

00:02:52.140 like they're flagging people left and right on youtube yeah and youtube's gotten way more

00:02:55.580 competitive yeah like nobody's really making what they were a few years ago dude it's a sinking

00:03:00.460 ship and i don't know if we should stay on it or just keep using tick tock at least to build our

00:03:05.100 individual platform i know i'm not the only one this is happening okay let's see what's next

00:03:10.340 tiktok is not paying anymore it's not paying creators how they used to and i'm done not

00:03:15.740 surprised we already knew once china sold out we was not going to get paid because america hates

00:03:20.040 seeing us live easy we were making livable wages off of tiktok alone and i'm honestly happy that

00:03:25.760 i found my niche yeah because the thing is i don't know if i like the dynamic even though i love

00:03:31.580 youtube and there's a lot of pros into being a content crew you can work at home but the challenge

00:03:36.940 is there's a lot of torture that's going to come from women using their families for content it's 1.00

00:03:41.300 already happened it kind of happened with instagram and social media um but that's going to be a

00:03:46.120 problem other things besides tiktok to make money through tiktok because if i was just relying on

00:03:51.880 my views and regular videos to make me money i was not going to make any money through here

00:03:55.860 and the only reason why i still post on this app is because i still get brand deals and i still get

00:04:01.340 wig deals and wig promos to post on this app. I went from making $5,000, $6,000 a month on this

00:04:07.180 app to making $800, $900. Posting the same videos, same content, same everything. And I don't post

00:04:14.260 as much because TikTok has been limiting a lot of things that you can say. I had so many videos

00:04:18.780 taken down for this stupid shit. So to be told, now I just be posting on TikTok for fun. I post 1.00

00:04:23.460 everything on Instagram. I still make my money through TikTok commissions on TikTok shop. But

00:04:27.540 my goal for my TikToks from last year was to get paid to travel and to promote Airbnbs and just do

00:04:33.060 promo videos for where I stay and for hotels and stuff like that. Like I wanted to get paid to

00:04:36.860 travel and I wanted to get paid through hosting events and I did both of that last year. I got

00:04:41.020 paid from Lyft and DoorDash to host my very first barbecue and I was flown out to DR and I was able

00:04:45.420 to take 12 supporters with me. Now it's January first month of 2026 and I'm being flown out to

00:04:50.280 Tulum literally on Wednesday just to do a promo for an Airbnb flight and stay covered. So I do not

00:04:56.500 advise you to stop posting on here because you never know who's watching but if you're expecting

00:05:00.560 to get paid from them views trust me it's not like that anymore coming from someone who has 800k on

00:05:05.460 this page and 32k on another page tick tock i don't know i never made a lot off of tick tock

00:05:10.680 but i think there was an era where people started to like make good money off of views after i got

00:05:16.800 kicked off but if i'm being honest i just gave up i was so sick of getting i got kicked off like

00:05:22.720 nine times and i'm like well i think i'm too dumb to like not violate these guidelines i'm like i

00:05:29.480 can't even talk pay well anymore and it's the reason why you no longer love your favorite

00:05:33.480 creators when i first started trying to grow my tiktok at the beginning of 2025 they paid so well

00:05:40.200 like i got paid more from doing tiktok than i did at my job um and so i was like amazing let me

00:05:49.860 pursue this further but over time tiktok started paying me less and less and less and less and less

00:05:54.640 to the point now where i just basically don't i i don't rely on it for a stream of income

00:06:00.740 essentially i am not complaining by the way but um it's interesting because now because i decided

00:06:07.380 to do social media full-time it forces you into like figuring out another income stream

00:06:12.940 and for me i started making guides i started selling them i'm working on courses right now

00:06:18.400 like there's what can you teach me about anything other avenues that i'm working on and i've done

00:06:23.280 one-on-one coaching as well and it's forced me into a different type of headspace that i just

00:06:28.560 and that's more stable to be honest selling courses clients like that's a way more stable

00:06:32.920 business thankfully which is why my content has changed recently but it forced me into

00:06:39.300 this like business mindset where like i'm like desperate for money because women um always think 1.00

00:06:45.900 they have businesses because they have social media accounts it's just kind of sad it's just

00:06:50.700 like you know the men will have elon musk and he'll like build a rocket try to go to mars and

00:06:55.660 we're like yeah i'm a business owner because i have a social media account it's like just me

00:06:59.380 just suck elon musk do you know what i mean instead of pretending to be him no go find 0.98

00:07:05.440 zuckerberg or whatever ceo go suck and live vicariously that way instead of pretending 0.99

00:07:11.080 because this is now my income stream like my it was my main income stream for a little while and 0.99

00:07:16.560 it's what i'm pursuing for my life and that's when you lose the love that you had for your favorite

00:07:22.360 creators because like for me you can't be as real and authentic anymore when you need people's money

00:07:29.180 and i'm just being honest so it's been a real struggle for me i basically just decided to

00:07:34.520 deny all that and just be like no i'm still gonna create whatever the heck i want and 0.83

00:07:39.200 fuck around and find out like what happened all right let's see what can you even teach me 0.96

00:07:45.720 making food a non-issue okay so she does low inflammatory high protein okay actually i kind 0.99

00:07:54.660 of respect this i respect this let's throw together a little anti okay she's got she's 0.98

00:07:59.540 got a real little account i don't give women credit often but i'm gonna give her credit today 0.98

00:08:03.660 all right let's see to believe tiktok is no longer the best place to monetize them because they don't

00:08:08.880 was there a making money era i missed i never made good money i had a million followers on tiktok

00:08:14.360 never made good money don't want to pay their creators i'm about to cry of how frustrated i am

00:08:18.700 but i am a staff home mom of two my name is melly and i have over 140 000 people on tiktok which in

00:08:24.100 itself is a big followers doesn't mean anything though like i mean my view count to followers is

00:08:29.180 terrible uh because sometimes what will happen people always accuse me of buying followers but

00:08:34.140 that's not it um there's two things one i had to delete a lot of evergreen content when i got

00:08:39.660 demonetized to getting demonetized puts a whole wrench in your plans and three um sometimes if

00:08:46.380 you get a lot of followers off of one video but those people aren't there for the long haul like

00:08:50.780 they'll hit subscribe after the video but it it makes your audience like less engaged if that

00:08:56.300 makes sense okay number i'm gonna beg you to please go on my schlink and my bio if you know

00:09:01.820 what i mean so that you can follow my other socials because it's getting to the point where

00:09:05.100 i'm having to move from tiktok and monetize and other platforms it's not because i want to get 0.94

00:09:09.580 luxury stuff okay i want to pay off my car loan i want to support my family i'm just a basic ass 0.60

00:09:14.220 stay-at-home mom like being real with you i just want to support my family get ice cream for my

00:09:18.700 kids and not have to swipe my husband's card okay this is my platform this is my people this is my

00:09:23.500 translation i want to disobey my husband more so i want to make more money so i don't have to listen

00:09:28.300 to him as much family i will post on tiktok even if i don't get no money from it for my heart of

00:09:33.020 my translation i will sell personal moments on tiktok for free i don't even need money

00:09:38.220 stole on here and to think that i'm having to go and start over in other platforms just because

00:09:43.420 they're literally not paying anybody translation i'm not talented enough to go to another platform

00:09:48.300 the way they should be can't go into detail because you know guidelines and all but i've

00:09:51.900 gotten over almost 200 000 qualified views and i have made less than 10 in the month of february

00:09:59.500 like it's crazy one minute videos is what i post the most of and those are the ones that take the

00:10:04.220 longest to make or edit or think thoroughly creative you know yes i do tick tock shop but

00:10:09.660 it's so hard to monetize from your videos and the only time i made a lot i feel like half of the

00:10:14.220 things on tick tock are just trying to sell me something from tick tock shop the money from it

00:10:18.460 i have to go live for almost six hours a day and i just haven't had that kind of time translation

00:10:23.980 um the time we would have spent with our families is now going to be used on tick tock lately you

00:10:28.700 know we're posting on other platforms i've been posting on the book of faces for like over two

00:10:33.260 months now i'm just waiting to get accepted i only have like 700 people so yeah if y'all can support

00:10:39.100 me doing that please because your girl is just you know and if y'all got any advice on how to get

00:10:43.900 brand deals because i reach out to these brands and nobody loves me i'll see you guys on the next

00:10:48.220 all right guys um i mean that's not i actually think that's a good thing because i i would kind

00:10:53.360 of fear what would happen if tiktok continued to pay a lot because what'll happen is young men have

00:10:58.800 no status women are automatically entered into the high status class by being young and beautiful 1.00

00:11:03.680 and if it pays well well you're just going to have a bunch of chronically online uh gen z tiktokers

00:11:09.380 and you know what will that create in the future women aren't really meant to handle this amount 1.00

00:11:13.240 amount of attention anyways guys oh and and and social media is a pipeline to sex work so 1.00

00:11:19.500 anyways guys and let me know what you think in the comments if you could like the video

00:11:23.660 and subscribe to the channel i love you guys thanks for watching and i'll see you next time

Pearl - April 01, 2026

TikTok Is No Longer Paying Women...BASED!？

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