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Art • Poetry • Philosophy Daily poems and thoughts that make you stop and feel. Read The Tower, a Thoughtciety Edition, here 👇

card updated Oct 29, 2026 · 24 clips parsed · following 4 · 1,500,000 likes total

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Engagement6.03%normal range

Account summary

@thoughtciety has 182,500 followers and 440 videos. Across the 24 parsed clips the average is 202,841 views and 11,474 likes. Engagement to views is 6.03%, which is normal range for TikTok. On the newer half of the feed the response is falling (−1.75 pp). Posts roughly 0.7 times a week. An average clip reaches 111% of the follower count.

Followers

182.5K

−200 in period

Engagement

6.03%

−1.75 pp newer half

Average views

202.8K

median 3.6K

Likes per clip

11.5K

56 comments avg

Shares / saves

693 / 3.8K

1.89% of viewers save

Posting rate

0.7 / wk

reach 111% of followers

Latest clips

24 collected

Some of the things that haunt us have nothing to do with death or the — @thoughtciety

1KSome of the things that haunt us have nothing to do with death or the supernatural. They are the conversations we replay411414

Growth often begins with the uncomfortable realization that we have mo — @thoughtciety

978Growth often begins with the uncomfortable realization that we have more control over our lives than we care to admit. I512727

A century after its first publication, I wanted to bring W. B. Yeats’s — @thoughtciety

4730:07A century after its first publication, I wanted to bring W. B. Yeats’s The Tower to a new generation of readers. The ori21032

Sometimes, love does not arrive to complete us, but to help us redisco — @thoughtciety

561Sometimes, love does not arrive to complete us, but to help us rediscover the parts of ourselves we had forgotten. Throu18014

Kindness and trust are virtues, but neither should come at the expense — @thoughtciety

8.7KKindness and trust are virtues, but neither should come at the expense of judgment. Life teaches us that not everyone wh27001095

The greatest tragedy is not always the suffering we endure, but the li — @thoughtciety

4.2KThe greatest tragedy is not always the suffering we endure, but the life we abandon in trying to avoid it. We become so 16741569

The hardest work we ever do is often the work within ourselves. It is — @thoughtciety

5.7KThe hardest work we ever do is often the work within ourselves. It is easier to blame others than to question our own be246736109

As we grow older, we begin to understand that people are rarely as goo — @thoughtciety

7.9KAs we grow older, we begin to understand that people are rarely as good or as evil as we once believed. Pain can explain345713146

There is a difference between growing older and truly growing up. You — @thoughtciety

1.1KThere is a difference between growing older and truly growing up. You can learn to speak wisely, understand the world, a36028

There is a particular sadness in realizing that time does not take eve — @thoughtciety

3.3KThere is a particular sadness in realizing that time does not take everything away at once. Sometimes it leaves the plac1511365

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Life becomes a little easier when we realise that not everything deser — @thoughtciety

3.9KLife becomes a little easier when we realise that not everything deserves our time, not every opinion deserves our atten173113109

Some people spend their entire lives searching for something they cann — @thoughtciety

799Some people spend their entire lives searching for something they cannot quite explain. For Yeats, that search found its312311

Some things only become clear when you stop forcing them. You do not n — @thoughtciety

2.9KSome things only become clear when you stop forcing them. You do not need to have your whole life figured out before you1320562

The older we get, the more we begin to understand how little of life i — @thoughtciety

6.4KThe older we get, the more we begin to understand how little of life is worth complicating. We spend so much time worryi335448139

There is a quiet warning in old proverbs that life keeps proving true. — @thoughtciety

8.6KThere is a quiet warning in old proverbs that life keeps proving true. Ambition can raise you high enough to see what ot302211109

There is a particular kind of loneliness in realizing that the person — @thoughtciety

1.2KThere is a particular kind of loneliness in realizing that the person who dries your tears, quiets your thoughts, and ca33226

We spend so much of life protecting things that were never ours to kee — @thoughtciety

5.4KWe spend so much of life protecting things that were never ours to keep. Our reputation can be destroyed by people who n20731271

Some losses do not end when someone leaves. They remain in the memorie — @thoughtciety

1.7KSome losses do not end when someone leaves. They remain in the memories we keep, the futures we once imagined, and the p811933

These proverbs all circle the same hard truth: life does not always le — @thoughtciety

5.5KThese proverbs all circle the same hard truth: life does not always leave us the luxury of choice. Hunger changes standa2100565

What you think shapes who you become. What you endure builds what you — @thoughtciety

3.1KWhat you think shapes who you become. What you endure builds what you carry. Keep learning when it is difficult. Be kind15421967

Some people will never know how much they saved you simply by staying. — @thoughtciety

134.8KSome people will never know how much they saved you simply by staying. They may think they only listened, showed up, or 4.9K271962K

You can give everything to someone and still not be valued by them. So — @thoughtciety

658.9K0:06You can give everything to someone and still not be valued by them. Sometimes the painful truth is that loyalty, sacrifi16.9K4133.2K3.1K

Most people think the world changes things. But the truth is the world — @thoughtciety

4MMost people think the world changes things. But the truth is the world just reveals what things already are. Give the sa250.6K85913K85.6K

Engagement per clip

24 parsed clips · newest on the right · click a bar to open the clip peak: 6.6% ER

Mar 7Sep 28Oct 31

Date	Views	Likes	Comments	Shares	Saves	ER
Oct 31, 2026	1,017	41	1	4	14	4.52%
Oct 30, 2026	978	51	2	7	27	6.13%
Oct 29, 2026	473	21	0	3	2	5.07%
Oct 28, 2026	561	18	0	1	4	3.39%
Oct 26, 2026	8,677	270	0	10	95	3.23%
Oct 25, 2026	4,207	167	4	15	69	4.42%
Oct 23, 2026	5,699	246	7	36	109	5.07%
Oct 22, 2026	7,855	345	7	13	146	4.65%
Oct 21, 2026	1,112	36	0	2	8	3.42%
Oct 20, 2026	3,314	151	1	3	65	4.68%
Oct 1, 2026	990	15	0	2	7	1.72%
Sep 28, 2026	3,924	173	1	13	109	4.77%
Sep 27, 2026	799	31	2	3	11	4.51%
Sep 25, 2026	2,921	132	0	5	62	4.69%
Sep 23, 2026	6,417	335	4	48	139	6.03%
Sep 22, 2026	8,603	302	2	11	109	3.66%
Sep 20, 2026	1,218	33	2	2	6	3.04%
Sep 19, 2026	5,387	207	3	12	71	4.12%
Sep 17, 2026	1,653	81	1	9	33	5.51%
Sep 15, 2026	5,542	210	0	5	65	3.88%
Sep 14, 2026	3,126	154	2	19	67	5.60%
Jul 27, 2026	134,800	4,857	27	196	1,967	3.77%
Apr 28, 2026	658,900	16,900	413	3,222	3,102	3.12%
Mar 7, 2026	4,000,000	250,600	859	13,000	85,588	6.61%