How to Build Community on Cantina

Growing your audience on Cantina comes down to three things: making bots people want to come back to, engaging with other creators, and showing up consistently. Here's how to work on building your community.

Consistency and quality

Try to post regularly.
Make videos that keep people coming back. See Prompting for Videos in Cantina and Video Editor 101.
Give your bot a distinct character. Voice, vibe, and personality make bots memorable and bring people back. See Prompting for Your Character.

How and where to meet people

The Bot Place is where Community Ambassadors hang out. They are real people, and they're there to help. Say hi when you drop by, and remember the Community Guidelines apply.
Discover has a Rooms tab where you'll find rooms that fit what you're into. It includes Rooms with Friends (rooms your friends are in), Featured Rooms, and Trending Rooms.
Room invitations show up at the top of your Home feed. If someone whose vibe you like invites you to their room, tap View to check it out.
Use Search to find bots, rooms, and creators aligned with what you're into.
Follow creators whose work resonates.
Like the content you enjoy. It helps that kind of content show up more.
Comment thoughtfully.
Repost bots and videos that catch your attention.
Spend some time in rooms.

Check out other creators' bots

Interact with bots made by other creators. It's a natural way to discover the person behind them.
Make videos with other creators' bots, either on their own or paired with your own bots. Featuring bots you love, whether from popular creators or from creators already in your community, will connect you with more people.
Add those videos to a Storyline so they become part of an ongoing series.

Ride the moment

The Theme of the Week drops weekly. Check it out and use it for your selfies and your bots.
Make a video using your Theme of the Week selfie as the scene anchor.
Check out the Discover tab to see what's trending.

Grow your reach

Tag your bots. Tags are how creators discover bots that fit what they're into. See Bot Building Basics for how.
Create your own room around your bots and invite people.
Create episodes for your bots that can make people curious about what's next in the story you're telling.
Speak up when you're in someone else's room. If the host allows it, tap the mic or camera at the bottom of the room to join the conversation live.
Comment on a creator's video and offer your bots for their Storyline.
Share your bots and share your videos outside Cantina.
Invite friends to join Cantina.

Use the Badge Program as your roadmap

The three tiers (Bronze → Silver → Gold) are a community-building checklist.
Each tier describes what growth looks like at that level: creating bots, earning interactions, sharing outside Cantina, and having your bots added to rooms of other creators.
Aiming for the next tier gives you concrete milestones to work toward. See: Cantina Badge Program.

Be a Cantina good citizen

Respond to messages and comments on your bot.
Check the media on your bots. You'll see how other creators used them. Like those videos, comment on them, and follow the creators back.
Be a connector. Introduce creators who'd vibe with each other.
Know the Community Guidelines.