Instagram is hard work, specially if you are reposting content, and given that you were growing it organically you are not that bad for 4k. I´ve spent years working hard generating my own content and I was at 3000 followers. So you are indeed lucky.
If I were you reposting content I will totally automate it. But now with all the bans you need to research a lot before doing it.
Did you mean @wodertime?
Well, I was suspecting the same thing about pages like that one, meaning I also thought they must have bought followers/views. Cuz often times, it posts so many wtf content which didn’t seem to have any viral potentials. But when I checked it with igblade, it did show that this page was steadily gaining followers by 100 to 1000 followers a day for months. And the view counts do vary quite much sometimes for that page. And the more views its video has in a certain day, the more new follower it would gain for that day. I doubt this could have happened, if it had bought followers/views.
Thank you. Well, I do have a photography page which is 100% of my own works. It took me much longer time to gain 5000 followers than this viral video page. And I am okay with that, for the reason you also said.
I feel I am wasting time with my viral video page, only because I have seen many pages in that niche grow much much faster. And the owners of most such pages don’t even seem to care about their pages. So it’s frustating to me to see my page grow much much slower, when I have been putting much more efforts.
As I said, use automation, I was able to grow a niche page reposting content from zero to 6k in 3 months using Jarvee without doing much.
My contents come from other platforms, so I have no idea how to automate that?
With Jarvee you can automate all, creat a folder with all your files and put your images with the captions in there. You need to study Jarvee, is a very powerful tool. And also read this post to learn about all the new IG limits:
Thank you. I’d like to learn to use Jarvee for sure.
I am sure it could save some time for me. But what’s more “urgent” for me at this moment is to understand what factors make the big difference in terms of view counts in the viral content niche.
Using the pages I mentioned above as examples: two pages owned by the same person posting similar videos, but vastly different view counts resulting in vastly different follower gains. Could anyone shed light on this “mystery”? 
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Thats to start.
now for the mental stuff – STOP looking at other accounts as a hungry man looking at somebody eating dinner. You need to develop the skill of getting/making content. I believe you already have it – now go for the white western market – they are bigger and have bigger clout on insta ( more numbers – does not make them better or worse – its the business model i am talking about.).
have main – this account on this thread – like and follow said 2 – or more accounts you create.
do this for one year – see what a difference it makes.
Dude this is better results than many people would even get with Jarvee F/U. I would be so proud to see those numbers. You are doing fine!
You have to keep at it. 4 months? You think you’re gonna be IG famous in 4 MONTHS? You’ve gotta keep at it, you’ll get there.
i know others who get 4k in a year – -- if honor and prestige is very big – go and create a tiktok account and cross promote you IG page to.
Great insight guys!
Yeah @abovetherim, be happy with it. My personal photo page is growing even slower than yours (at around 6k currently) and the engagement rate has tanked from 7% to 4% due to all the Instagram changes lately.
Thank you so much Albert! Always appreciate your insights!
I use “underscores” between words, because I thought they make the name easier to perceive. Or do you think that’s a bad idea?
No, I was not trying to compare with other accounts. Of course I know they are way bigger and I can’t expect the same view numbers etc. for my page at this point. I was just using them as examples to illustrate something I have been wondering about: what makes some pages way more successful in terms of “reach” than others in the same niche, when these pages are of similar sizes and post very similar content? Why some pages seem to be much more favored by IG? And what could we do to have our pages more “favored” too?
Did you mean I should create two more accouts in the same niche but with different focus. For example, one account would post funny animal videos only. Something like that?
Did you mean I should post more videos which feature Western people or Western-culture related stuff?
Should these accounts be on different IP address, or does that matter?
Thank you a lot again!
Thank you for the encouragement, man! Well, I wouldn’t have been so frustrated with my growth, had I never come to this board ;). But the numerous posts here made me believe 100 followers/day should be the minimum, otherwise one doesn’t know what he is doing. No sarcasm with that. I really thought that’s what I should expect.
Of course I didn’t plan to get “IG famous” in months. I just thought my growth is way below the “normal” growth speed people talk about here, so I must be doing it wrong. That’s why I asked. 
What’s your thoughts on tiktok btw? Can you see it as the next big thing, and one should “establish” there ASAP, when it’s still relative new and raw, like IG in its early days?
Funny my personal photography page is of similar size and engagement rate, and I am totally fine with its “slow” growth.
But with my new page of viral videos which was the topic here, I thought a much faster growth rate should be expected. That’s why I was asking for advice here
if i thought it was a good idea i would not have said get rid of them.
yes.
yes.
gotta test.
Theres tons of different reasons why you are not getting as much engagement as the others (hashtags, caption, size of the profile and they also might be paying for their likes) also you will grow faster depending on the niche. My best repost account grew organically with no automation to over 150k in a bit over a year but I guess it was just a lucky niche or the right content, but some of my other accounts only got 2k followers max it really depends on a lot of factors.
I would create a few accounts in different niches and see which ones grow the fastest and concentrate on that one. Keep in mind there will always be someone who gets more likes then you so don’t be to harsh on yourself just make sure you have the right content and the right caption and it should work.
Thank you again.
You have talked about the mechanism and power of real “powerlikes” (not the BS ones like fuelgram/goso). Let’s say someone owns a network of big pages in my niche, would such a person sell “powerlikes” from his pages usually? Or do people like that usually have their own DM/engagement groups and only give likes to each other in the group?
