Gerardo Montero is Blowing Up TikTok and Blowing Minds!

[Myk_Myk]

Gerardo Montero has been posting so much amazing content lately! He's posting on TikTok. I don't have TikTok, but I see them as shorts on YouTube.

Do yourself (and him) a favor and subscribe to mondomagic1 on YT https://www.youtube.com/@mondomagic1/featured, or find him on TikTok. He deserves it, and you'll love it!

[ta0]

Yeah, this one blew my mind, so creative!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wc2RevCaaVo

[the Earl of Whirl]

Fantastico

[ortwin]

Great tricks great videos!
Some of those are not spintop related but that came as a good surprise when I was browsing the channel. Maybe I will link one in the NSTR section because I love the trick that much ( dice stacking).
Now that is what I call kickstarter!


https://www.youtube.com/shorts/43vsdcB1 ... ture=share

[Ketzaltlipoka]

very nice trick!

[ortwin]

This morning I got a message from Gerardo Montero:

"Hi friend Ortwin, you are a celebrity on my tiktok, your video has more than 3 million views in just 2 days."

He took a video at Marines of me showing the Levitron. I guess sometimes there just is no good explanation why certain videos get so many views.



Here that same video at Youtube, there it has less then 3000 views.

[ta0]

TikTok seems to rack views much faster than Youtube (perhaps because the swipe method exposes many more videos to the users?). But still, 3 million views in 2 days is genuinely viral. Congratulations!

PS: Perhaps on the TikTok thumbnail you look like a wizard with a fortune telling ball and the Ukrainian flag behind you . . .

[ortwin]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BctvkbgNShc

Looking around some more on Gerardo's channel, I found the above video of a snapstart directly to corkscrew.
He politely references Texture (Marcus Heineck) in the name of the trick. That is actually the only video where I have seen the trick before: the online world open contest 2022 contribution of Marcus Heineck.

I mention it here again because I still see potential for a combo of that trick after a staircase to heaven (from a left handed throw), followed by some regeneration and a gyroflop performed with an OWB.