Liz Tenuto's Instagram Reels, broken down
The 5 best-performing Reels on Liz Tenuto's Instagram, with the opening line, view count and hook pattern behind each one. From a real Scrptly analysis.
What this is
Liz Tenuto has 1,967,050 followers on Instagram, read from the profile on 19 October 2026. Scrptly analysed the 5 best-performing Reels on the account. Every number below is the figure recorded at that moment, not an estimate, and every Reel links out so it can be checked.
5 Reels. 39,155,674 views between them. Posted between 20 Jul 2026 and 07 Jun 2024, running 7 to 28 seconds where the length is recorded.
The line on each card is the transcribed opening, verbatim, except where it is marked as an opening shot.
“when you realize trauma can be released from your hips”
20.9MviewsWatch
“sleep behaviors you should never ignore”
12.9MviewsWatch
“if you respond to stress by...”
4.9MviewsWatch
“hyper-independent women who overpack for every trip by 40%”
388KviewsWatch
“what your sleep says about your stress levels”
115KviewsWatch
Twenty times the follower count, from text on a screen
Liz Tenuto has the highest views-to-followers ratio in this batch by a long way: 39.2 million views across five Reels on an account of 1.97 million. The top one alone did 20.9 million, more than ten times the following.
The hooks are all lowercase, all unpunctuated, and all written rather than spoken. when you realize trauma can be released from your hips. sleep behaviors you should never ignore. if you respond to stress by. These are captions, not scripts, and Scrptly's read is that the format is built for sound off: text-heavy, with visuals that agree with the text rather than explaining it.
The mechanism underneath is naming. Each one takes a behaviour millions of people have, gives it a clinical frame, and then offers a physical solution rather than a mental one. Hyper-independent women who overpack. Responding to stress by freezing. The viewer recognises themselves in the hook before they have decided to watch anything.
They are also extremely short. Four of these five run between 7 and 28 seconds, and the 7-second one still did 388,000 views. That is the trade the format makes: there is no room for an argument, so the hook has to be the whole proposition, and the video is really just the evidence that the proposition was worth reading.
The hooks on this account
| Hook pattern | What it does | From which Reel |
|---|---|---|
| Relatable realisation | Open with when you realize, naming a feeling the viewer has had and never had explained. | trauma can be released from your hips, 20.9M views. |
| Warning list | Promise a list of things the viewer might be getting wrong without knowing. | sleep behaviors you should never ignore, 12.9M views. |
| Niche identity callout | Name a specific kind of person and a specific behaviour in the same line. | hyper-independent women who overpack, 388K views. |
What you can copy
- Write the hook as text on screen rather than as a spoken line, and check it still works with the sound off. Every hook on this account does.
- Name the thing your audience feels but cannot articulate, then give it a frame. Recognition is what makes someone stop, not information.
- Try seven seconds. The shortest Reel here still cleared 388,000 views because the hook was the whole argument.
Questions people ask
How many followers does Liz Tenuto have on Instagram?
1,967,050, read from the profile on 19 October 2026.
What is the most viewed Reel here?
The hips Reel, at 20,883,568 views, posted 7 June 2024. That is more than ten times the account's follower count.
How long are these Reels?
Very short. Four of the five run between 7 and 28 seconds. The duration of the fifth is not recorded in the data.
Does she speak in them?
The hooks are written rather than spoken. Scrptly's read is that the format is designed to work with the sound off, with visuals that agree with the on-screen text.
How were these numbers measured?
Scrptly pulled the account's recent posts and analysed the 5 best-performing Reels. The follower count and every view count is the figure recorded on 19 October 2026. Figures are read once per reel, deduplicated so a reel analysed more than once is counted once, and each Reel links out.
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