Niche
How to find merge garden games Instagram creators
I still start with the same avatar. Instagram is a different room than TikTok. Reels, the grid, and the bio email are different. The person is not.
The person: US English, 28-48, already bounced off a merge that energy-gated every merge and a garden that was a wait timer, watches ‘I am waiting two hours to merge’ and evening-couch-garden videos after dishes. They watch energy-gate, two-hour-wait, evening-couch, ‘the garden is a timer’. They already tried a merge that energy-gated, a garden that was a wait timer, and a web merge they outgrew. Skip the 800k merge-game recapper whose videos are launch trailers.
Instagram is garden stills; TikTok after dishes is the energy timer. Email the timer.
What I actually do on Instagram
Fresh account. Real phones. I try to put myself in the shoes of the person who would actually play the first session. Linger, save, like, comment as if I were them. Once the algorithm is trained I take whoever keeps showing up in Reels and in the feed.
Ideally over 50k average. Below that they quote $700 a post for 1k views. That’s a money sink.
Example I want to see: someone staring at an energy timer after dinner. Signal: the same energy-timer face two evenings.
I prefer email. The contact is usually in a small couch-game bio. Just send a short note. Name a real Reel. Ask for the phone number. Don’t start the deal over email. If they won’t, move on.
Reels vs FYP
TikTok’s For You is a night session for energy-gate, two-hour-wait, evening-couch, ‘the garden is a timer’. Instagram still has a grid, a bio, and a Shop sticker. Instagram is garden stills; TikTok after dishes is the energy timer. Email the timer.
Do not copy the TikTok outreach into a DM that looks like a bot. The call is still the job. Minimum View Guarantee. Example: $2000 / 4 posts / 1M views. Talent extra.
Like a kids’ merge and you will leave the after-dishes adult. Doing it by hand is kind of soul-crushing. Scout is $1,500/month.
The TikTok-side essay is How we find creators by scrolling a real TikTok avatar. First person: How I find influencers. Money: jumptrend.co/for/merge-garden-games.
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