It was. And entirely because of other people's videos. Two people in particular made their own videos which each got over 10M views. I didn't pay them or ask them to, they did it because they found the book funny. Pretty much all my sales came from them. That was about a year and a half ago, and sales are now dead.

I didn't pretend anything. If anything, I'm just an idiot, or I forgot. Don't assume malice where incompetence is sufficient to explain it. That said, the most basic, uninteresting tiktok videos get 300 views, and if you try even just a little, it's not hard to get 3k (the 1% you mentioned) and extremely common. Which sets the bar pretty low. And that's the same amount I was able to reach in my lives.