Editorial policy
Every guide and calculator on this site is published by Monadly, the company that makes the Go Viral app (more on the about page). That is a conflict of interest, and this page explains the rules we follow because of it.
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Who writes the pages
Pages are written and reviewed by the Go Viral team and carry the byline “By the Go Viral team at Monadly”. No page is signed with a person's name, because no one reviews them under their own name today. We do not invent authors, credentials or testimonials.
Where facts come from
Claims about how TikTok, Instagram and YouTube work come from the platforms' own help centres, announcements and creator blogs, and each page lists the ones it relies on under Sources. Where a number comes from a third party, such as an industry benchmark report, the sentence names the publisher, the year and what was measured. Claims about the app come from its App Store listing.
We do not publish accuracy percentages, user counts, success stories or reach promises. A score or forecast from the app is an estimate read from the clip, and every tool page has a section on what it cannot know.
How a claim is checked
Each claim about a platform is checked against the page it cites on the day a guide is written or changed, and the guide prints that date where the claim depends on it. Exact wording stays in quotation marks, and a paraphrase never adds a number the source does not give.
When two official pages disagree, the guide shows both. On 21 October 2026 one YouTube help page said a Short over one minute with an active copyright claim is blocked, while the Create Shorts page said such Shorts are no longer automatically blocked. The Shorts algorithm guide and the Shorts monetization guide print both.
Labels on the pages
- This site's rule marks a threshold or target we chose, such as the hook score bands or three to five TikTok hashtags. No platform publishes it.
- Not stated or not published marks something the platform does not say, such as how much a hashtag moves a Short in search.
- A report of what a platform said names the outlet and the date, such as Social Media Today on 18 December 2025 for Instagram's five-hashtag cap.
How numbers are checked
Worked examples use numbers a reader can recompute from the formula on the same page. The calculators run the same functions the examples quote, so the example and the tool cannot disagree. Rules of thumb that are ours, such as the watch-time floors by video length, are labelled as ours.
The free tools on the hook, hashtag, script and forecast pages work the same way: each applies a rule printed on its own page, in your browser, and says next to the tool what it does not do. None of them is AI, and none sends what you type anywhere. Example inputs that are not real figures, such as placeholder hashtag counts, are labelled as placeholders.
Where AI is used
AI tools help with research and first drafts. A draft is published only after it has been checked line by line against the sources it cites, run through a style check that rejects filler phrases and unsupported superlatives, and read by the person who publishes it, who is responsible for what it says.
Dates and updates
Each page shows when it was first published and when its content last changed. A date moves only when the page changes in substance. Platform features change without notice, so we recheck the sources on every page at least once a quarter.
Corrections
If something on a page is wrong or out of date, email hi@monadly.com with the page address. Confirmed errors are fixed and the page's updated date changes with the fix.
Corrections log
Recent corrections, newest first.
- 21 October 2026, tool pages, home, FAQ and support. Statements about the app that its App Store listing does not support were removed or labelled as this site's rule: six named hook types (the listing names four styles), an example comparing two single-number forecasts (the forecast is a range for each metric) and published support hours.
- 21 October 2026, low-views guide and home FAQ. Unsourced statements about why a new video shows zero views were removed, and a YouTube help link on the Shorts views guide was corrected.
- 21 October 2026, YouTube Shorts guides. Definitions of engaged views and viewed vs swiped away were rewritten from YouTube's own help pages, and the two YouTube pages that disagree on claimed Shorts over one minute are now both shown.
What the app link on each page means
Pages link to the app where it does the task the page describes, usually once in the text and once at the end. The guides are written to be useful without it. Questions about the app itself are answered on the FAQ.