Likes measure a two-second reaction from someone’s thumb. They don’t measure you.

A like is a thumb moving while somebody waits for a bus. It records half a second of mild approval from a person who has already scrolled past and forgotten. Turning that into a measure of your work, your face or your worth gives enormous weight to the least considered thing anyone does all day.

Pick something you made and get one real response to it: show a friend, ask what landed, watch their face. That single reaction will teach you more than four hundred taps. Save the numbers for curiosity, not for scoring yourself.