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card updated Nov 14, 2026 · 10 clips parsed · following 0 · 4,300,000 likes total

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Engagement3.67%normal range

Account summary

@paintingexplained has 178,800 followers and 53 videos. Across the 10 parsed clips the average is 216,236 views and 7,631 likes. Engagement to views is 3.67%, which is normal range for TikTok. On the newer half of the feed the response is rising (+2.29 pp). Posts roughly 5.3 times a week. An average clip reaches 121% of the follower count.

Followers

178.8K

+15.5K in period

Engagement

3.67%

+2.29 pp newer half

Average views

216.2K

median 42K

Likes per clip

7.6K

114 comments avg

Shares / saves

184 / 705

0.33% of viewers save

Posting rate

5.3 / wk

reach 121% of followers

Latest clips

10 collected

Nigel Thomson’s On the Way Home from School is disturbing precisely be — @paintingexplained

635.7KNigel Thomson’s On the Way Home from School is disturbing precisely because it refuses to tell us what happens next. Pai33.6K5784893K

Ludwik Stasiak’s Allegory of Satan (Lord of the World) is unsettling b — @paintingexplained

13.8K1:49Ludwik Stasiak’s Allegory of Satan (Lord of the World) is unsettling because evil is not shown as wild or terrifying. It55651843

The Death of Messalina, 1916 Georges Antoine Rochegrosse 📍 Private col — @paintingexplained

17.8KThe Death of Messalina, 1916 Georges Antoine Rochegrosse 📍 Private collection Georges Antoine Rochegrosse’s The Death of5584550

Slide 21.. That is why the original title was Man at the Crossroads.. — @paintingexplained

64.3KSlide 21.. That is why the original title was Man at the Crossroads.. the central worker is surrounded by two very diffe1.7K28103304

The Lady of Shalott, 1888 John William Waterhouse 📍 Tate Britain, Lond — @paintingexplained

19.6KThe Lady of Shalott, 1888 John William Waterhouse 📍 Tate Britain, London John William Waterhouse’s The Lady of Shalott i1.1K1835133

Caravaggio’s The Sacrifice of Isaac captures one of the most terrifyin — @paintingexplained

9.8KCaravaggio’s The Sacrifice of Isaac captures one of the most terrifying moments in the Bible, but the painting is really350121029

William Holbrook Beard’s For What Was I Created? looks humorous at fir — @paintingexplained

212.8KWilliam Holbrook Beard’s For What Was I Created? looks humorous at first, but the longer you study it, the stranger its 5.4K111147611

Frederick Sandys’s Medea turns a famous Greek myth of betrayal into a — @paintingexplained

17.3KFrederick Sandys’s Medea turns a famous Greek myth of betrayal into a quiet, almost hypnotic moment before revenge. Pain637131657

Antoine Wiertz’s Hunger, Madness and Crime becomes more disturbing the — @paintingexplained

397.7KAntoine Wiertz’s Hunger, Madness and Crime becomes more disturbing the longer you look at it. Her strange smile pulls yo11K1763911.3K

Timoclea’s story is one of the most brutal revenge stories from ancien — @paintingexplained

773.6KTimoclea’s story is one of the most brutal revenge stories from ancient history, but Elisabetta Sirani chooses to paint 21.5K1916211.5K

Engagement per clip

10 parsed clips · newest on the right · click a bar to open the clip peak: 5.8% ER

Aug 24Aug 29Sep 6

Date	Views	Likes	Comments	Shares	Saves	ER
Sep 6, 2026	635,700	33,600	578	489	2,997	5.45%
Sep 3, 2026	13,800	556	5	18	43	4.20%
Aug 31, 2026	17,800	558	4	5	50	3.19%
Aug 31, 2026	64,300	1,666	28	103	304	2.79%
Aug 29, 2026	19,600	1,080	18	35	133	5.78%
Aug 28, 2026	9,762	350	12	10	29	3.81%
Aug 28, 2026	212,800	5,362	111	147	611	2.64%
Aug 26, 2026	17,300	637	13	16	57	3.85%
Aug 25, 2026	397,700	11,000	176	391	1,292	2.91%
Aug 24, 2026	773,600	21,500	191	621	1,534	2.88%