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card updated Oct 19, 2026 · 13 clips parsed · following 36 · 271,700 likes total

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Engagement4.16%normal range

Account summary

@jay.swanson has 21,500 followers and 681 videos. Across the 13 parsed clips the average is 26,242 views and 1,012 likes. Engagement to views is 4.16%, which is normal range for TikTok. On the newer half of the feed the response is falling (−0.55 pp). Posts roughly 0.2 times a week. An average clip reaches 122% of the follower count.

Followers

21.5K

+200 in period

Engagement

4.16%

−0.55 pp newer half

Average views

26.2K

median 2.1K

Likes per clip

20 comments avg

Shares / saves

60 / 204

0.78% of viewers save

Posting rate

0.2 / wk

reach 122% of followers

Latest clips

13 collected

Almost done with a coffee video I’ve spent the last month filming and, — @jay.swanson

7511:23Almost done with a coffee video I’ve spent the last month filming and, with all of this recent coffee talk, I've been re24101

Yes Paris is safe. Last weekend was intense and left me feeling a bit — @jay.swanson

1.8K2:45Yes Paris is safe. Last weekend was intense and left me feeling a bit off kilter, I made a longer video over on YouTube 83313

I really do think the emotion around this particular discussion is tap — @jay.swanson

1.2K2:37I really do think the emotion around this particular discussion is tapping into something real, I just think we might be33210

Protests are a huge and important part of political life in France, an — @jay.swanson

5.2K1:52Protests are a huge and important part of political life in France, and a part of life in general when one wanders down 126486

I saw a headline earlier but it didn't really stick in my brain until — @jay.swanson

4K1:12I saw a headline earlier but it didn't really stick in my brain until I saw it in person. I don't think I've ever seen t1547233

If you've been following along with Paul Taylor's progress, you know h — @jay.swanson

8921:00If you've been following along with Paul Taylor's progress, you know he's about to run his first marathon on his 40th bi35100

The words we use matter more than we tend to realize, and this phrase — @jay.swanson

9663:01The words we use matter more than we tend to realize, and this phrase has come up a lot in my lifetime. So it feels at l56300

**Correction: I realized after that it was the CGT with the red flags, — @jay.swanson

64.6K1:10**Correction: I realized after that it was the CGT with the red flags, I'd seen a communist party poster up just beforeh2.4K64245112

Surprise surprise, I went to see if I was registered to vote and I'd b — @jay.swanson

1.8K1:17Surprise surprise, I went to see if I was registered to vote and I'd been deactivated. That's a first in my decade in Pa93411

My life keeps getting more wonderfully random, and the latest addition — @jay.swanson

2.1K2:21My life keeps getting more wonderfully random, and the latest addition to the list of "Wait what?" would be an invitatio1011004

This is not a story I ever planned to share. I would hope it goes with — @jay.swanson

2.8K2:51This is not a story I ever planned to share. I would hope it goes without saying that we're trying to build a safe space145936

There were a lot of random and sometimes mean comments on the series I — @jay.swanson

3.6K2:49There were a lot of random and sometimes mean comments on the series I just did ranking Paris' arrondissements by their 1572077

Ranking every Paris arrondissement: 1er. Let’s get started with the ce — @jay.swanson

251.3K2:26Ranking every Paris arrondissement: 1er. Let’s get started with the center of the Snail, the Former Royal, the first arr9.7K1284912.5K

Engagement per clip

13 parsed clips · newest on the right · click a bar to open the clip peak: 6.1% ER

Oct 15Oct 9Oct 24

Date	Views	Likes	Comments	Shares	Saves	ER
Oct 24, 2026	751	24	1	0	1	3.33%
Oct 22, 2026	1,798	83	3	1	3	4.84%
Oct 17, 2026	1,225	33	2	1	0	2.94%
Oct 15, 2026	5,249	126	4	8	6	2.63%
Oct 13, 2026	4,038	154	7	23	3	4.56%
Oct 10, 2026	892	35	1	0	0	4.04%
Oct 9, 2026	966	56	3	0	0	6.11%
Oct 7, 2026	64,600	2,426	64	245	112	4.23%
Oct 6, 2026	1,846	93	4	1	1	5.31%
Oct 2, 2026	2,066	101	10	0	4	5.37%
Oct 1, 2026	2,830	145	9	3	6	5.55%
Sep 30, 2026	3,583	157	20	7	7	5.14%
Oct 15, 2025	251,300	9,724	128	491	2,509	4.12%