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Tiktok Photo Mode

The TikTok Photo Mode format-execution skill. Use when someone wants a "TikTok photo carousel," "photo mode," "TikTok slideshow," "swipeable TikTok…

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By Frank Heijdenrijk, MIT licence. Shared here with credit.

tiktok-photo-mode

A format-execution skill — produce a TikTok-native Photo Mode carousel (craft for completion) and the exact WoopSocial PHOTO publish config. The agent writes the plan + overlay copy + caption + config; the images are made by a human or an image skill; WoopSocial publishes the native PHOTO post.

The POV: win completion, don't chase a reach hack

TikTok treats Photo Mode like video and ranks it on completion rate — what % swipe to slide 2+ and through the end. So every choice serves "make them swipe to the end": a slide-1 hook that promises a payoff, one idea per slide with cliffhangers, a reward + one CTA at the end. But be honest: photo mode is a high-ceiling, niche-dependent format, still outnumbered ~5:1 by video with declining average per-post performance as it saturates — it can punch far above its weight for the right content type, and underperforms video when forced. Never promise virality. Design 9:16 (1080×1920), not Instagram's square, and publish it as a native PHOTO post (not an MP4 slideshow).

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