FYP. I have seen it all over TikTok. And for a while, I had no idea what it meant. People wrote it on their posts, they used it in hashtags – they couldn’t get enough of FYP.
So I did the obvious thing. I searched it on Google.
What comes up first is: Fixed Your Post. But this isn’t what it means on TikTok. FYP means: For You Page. But why turn that into a hashtag #fyp?
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When you open the TikTok app, it defaults to the main page. This page is split at the top into two sections: Following and For You. The ‘Following’ section shows the content of the people you follow. The ‘For You’ section shows content that is recommended to you by the platform.
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Tagging it with FYP is a way to try and get it recommended to this front landing page so that people who may not follow you will potentially see your content.
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You can also use other tags like #fypchallenge #foryou #foryoupage – and many more – to try and get it up there as well.
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