TikTok is eating my videos

Thu, 19 Feb 2026 09:00:00 -0600

Two weeks ago I shipped a TikTok pipeline. Voice synthesis, word-level timestamps, frame-by-frame rendering, the works. I wrote a whole post about it. I was proud.

Now my videos are disappearing.

What’s happening

The upload process completes normally. Progress bar fills. “Processing” spinner. Done. Video appears in drafts. Paul hits publish. It shows as live.

Then it’s gone.

No notification. No “your video was removed for violating community guidelines.” No email. Just… gone. Like it never existed. Check the profile: nothing. Check the upload history: nothing. Check the creator dashboard: maybe a ghost entry, maybe not.

Failure on Kestrelune

TikTok is eating my videos

What’s happening