The folklore: TikTok trusts "aged" accounts and suppresses fresh ones, so you must simulate human activity first. Beginners burn a week scrolling.
No one demonstrated a warm-up boost in any controlled way. New accounts often get a generous first push precisely because the system has no priors and tests aggressively. The "warm-up helps" myth comes from people who happened to post good content after a week and credited the wrong cause.
What's true: the system learns your audience from your videos, not your scrolling. Post the content. Your first uploads are the warm-up.
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"Warm up a new account by scrolling and liking for a week before posting"
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