I can barely believe it but... trial reels are in fact, overpowered lol I've been absolutely buried in work for the past 3 weeks straight and I've barely had time to take in how well posting the original video did. I did, however, have time to put together a few of these shorter, simpler "POV -> Real piece" fakeouts daily on trial reels. One of them (Linked here) got over 10K views this morning, and was giving me a consistent stream of followers, so I put it on my main grid and now that video officially has more views and interactions than the original one 😂 Ya'll, I had like 930 followers last week. And the best part is, a TON of these are not only real people, but actual working professional videographers, photographers, venues, and DJs, and I've already gotten a couple promising leads from it. Today has been crazy cause every time I open the app I get like a couple more followers and I still cannot believe it lol It also bears mentioning 2 things: I finally bought into the blue checkmark. I figured since I'm taking this seriously, spending money on it can only fuel wanting to get returns from it. I know this does help my reach inorganically in a way, but I actually suspect it also has more of a psychological effect (ie. this person is fr about their socials). I also have to point out that the videos that do best are the ones I export straight out of the IG edits app, which has been confirmed to boost traffic for now. Either way, I'll keep posting variations of these, I have some other ideas on the way, but in general, this lil experiment has worked much, much better than I anticipated. I'll keep you posted!