A TEEN mother who is pregnant with her second child has shared her hopes for strangers to help fund her next holiday.
Loula Wood, who is from the UK and , is now on a mission to get support from people online so that she can take her family away on a trip.
The 18-year-old mum, who has a one-year-old daughter and is currently 20 weeks with a baby boy, acknowledged that while , she also earns through .
According to TikTok’s official website, the Creator Fund “gives TikTok’s best and brightest the opportunity to earn money with their creative talent.”;
While it is not a grant or ad revenue program, the Creator Fund provides payment to qualified TikTokers based on a “variety of factors”; across their content.
“We want all creators to have the opportunity to earn money doing what they love and turn their passion into a livelihood,”; the website continues.
With no limit on the number of qualified TikTokers who can join the fund, payments may increase or decrease at different times throughout one’s run on the platform.
Some factors affecting the funds a qualified TikToker may earn include number of authentic views per video, the amount of engagement and whether or not the work falls within the Community Guidelines.
But this young mother stressed that generating an income through the platform can at times be “really deflating.”;
Eager to and to stay in a caravan, Loula uploaded a clip of her her , as she said: “I really need every single one of you to stay for five seconds – I’m not asking for money, I am literally asking for five seconds of your time.”;
She then explained: “I am trying extremely hard to make some sort of income off so that I can take my – nowhere expensive, not asking to go to or anything like that, we literally just want a simple caravan holiday.”;
Eager to inform viewers about the , Loula added: “Anyone who doesn’t do TikTok – it can be extremely hard to make even £1 off a video and if you think about it, we are putting hours and hours of our time [into] planning videos and making sure that everything’s edited nicely.
“To some it might sound easy, but it is really, really difficult sometimes, especially when you have to be consistent with this content as well.
“And after all of our effort has been put into a video, more often than not, it only ends up getting a few thousand views and to some this might sound amazing, but for us creators who have just spent so many hours and so much of our time and energy, we have just earned around about 20p.”;
As a result, Loula her clip, to give her video “a boost.”;
Social media users react
And luckily for Loula, her TikTok clip, which was posted under the username @loulawood, has clearly left many open-mouthed, as it has quickly amassed over 2,200 likes and 282 comments.
Social media users eagerly raced to the comments, desperate to share their support and boost Loula’s clip.
One person said: “Here to support!”;
Commenting so she gets paid
TikTok user
Another added: “Fill this jar with love.”;
A third commented: “Hope you make the target and get on holiday.”;
Meanwhile, someone else beamed: “Commenting so she gets paid.”;
At the same time, another user gushed: “Good luck to your family. I hope you get your holiday.”;
