“The Person Who Tagged You in This Post Wants You to Know That They Admire You and Your Work”

I have an idea about how you can make someone’s day while connecting us all with writers and artists we will love!

Hi friends!

Over on love & liberation daily’s TikTok, I created a video where I encouraged people to give a shoutout and a public thank you to a creator in their network who is doing great work but isn’t receiving enough public appreciation, reach, or gratitude for their creations.

It was a really sweet exercise and allowed me to connect with some new content creators who are doing awesome work but don’t have the same reach as LLD does. I was able to repost them to my 43,700+ followers and boost them, even just a little bit, in TikTok’s competitive algorithm.

It also gave me the chance to engage with the work of people who aren’t flooding my FYP, like the quiet, slow tenacity of a BIPOC soccer coach teaching resilience and team-building through her favorite sport, and the sweet, enduring compassion of a retired teacher who runs an Etsy shop that donates all its proceeds to humanitarian aid organizations.

I thought it would be fun to do the same exercise here on Medium, either in the comments or in…