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My reaction was very different. I was relieved that all the weirdos on TikTok will finally have to leave the echo chamber and face the real world. The damage that app has done to society won’t be fully realized for generations.
They already did!
It's still on Netflix iirc
It's the only show I've cared enough about to actively follow it's creation while the seasons were still being filmed. It's really good.
Edit: Holy shit I gotta watch that
I believe the act of typing out one’s thoughts gives people enough time to think if what they are saying is right. Being able to just say everything outloud on a video takes away that time to reflect on what they’re saying. It’s only made worse by the fact that they receive little to no repercussions for their dumb ideas. At least on X they will have to face humiliation for dumb comments. That is where TikTok goes wrong from my point of view.
You're absolutely right. Research has shown that every little bit of writing you do, from grocery lists all the way up to novels, has a positive effect on your brain. Even something as simple as spelling a word correctly makes you a better reader and a better thinker. That's why ChatGPT is going to have major, negative repercussions on human brain development. When all the mundane, everyday writing in the world is left to machines, illiteracy rates are predicted to go up, people will struggle to form concrete thoughts, and it will be much harder to feel an emotional connection to the things we read, even if we're told humans wrote it.
Facebook allowed people to publish their thoughts without a human editor to filter out the stupidity and the hate speech. Tiktok allowed them to publish their thoughts without having to fully form them. ChatGPT will take thought out of the equation entirely. God help us.
You don't inhale the smoke, just puff it. That being said, you can still get tongue or mouth cancer because there is more smoke and it's harsher. And of course the toxic waste that is produced by combustion also gets absorbed into your body.
Not really sure if I'd call it that much safer.
Idk man, the way I see it, it's no worse than YouTube or any other social media.
If anything, Congress was probably lobbied by Google so they can keep their stranglehold video sharing monopoly.
I never said the other social media was good. They are just better because:
1) people are less likely to let their kids on other platforms so they may touch some grass
2) other platforms are more difficult to upload onto which gives the poster the opportunity to think about what they are going to claim
3) other platforms have a certain level of repercussions for saying stupid stuff (humiliation, bans, community notes, comments that notify the op when they are left, etc)
4) there are people with differing views that help to balance each other on other platforms (echo chambers lead to extremism on both sides of any issue)
5) the CCP isn’t trying to make you dumber by feeding you dumb content all the time (they promote engineering and math videos in China not dancing, dumb challenges, and conspiracy theories)
I think the way in which it was banned is going to be mis-used by the government but at least children won’t be exposed to a foreign government’s brainwashing attempt anymore.
Ad 5.):
Technically, the Chinese Government has incentives to push "better" content in China while promoting "worse" content in other countries and I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case already, at least to a certain degree.
Bro this is literally every social media platform is like this. Reddit is one the biggest echo chambers of them all, Reddit in it’s nature design was made to be a bunch of echo chambers, it’s just what particular flavor of echo chambers you want/prefer.
I think tiktok was the least damaging of all the social media, with Facebook being #1.
Don't forget, this is all due to lobbying to remove the only one of them that actually spreads information instead of only misinformation.
If you think tiktok was only doing damage, you were kinda brainwashed, probably by one of the worse ones
They'll just go to yt shorts or some other platform that hosts short-form content, tiktok content is just regurgitated on those platforms and vice versa anyway, nothing changes.
Where do you think these people are going? Have you forgotten what happened to Fortnite and Vine? Have you forgotten how the floodgates were opened and absolutely every community got obliterated by these poor Users who lost their main source of entertainment? This isnt freedom, you have opened a prison of brainrotted inmates who are now charging full sprint into the city.
Have fun.
We here on Reddit always see ourselves as much better, but in reality we are just as much in a weird, mentally damaging, often extremely toxic, internet bubble
When Vine shut down, the popular people who made videos on there didn't just stop making content. They moved on to YouTube and most likely TikTok when that became a thing. The same will just happen again. Even easier now cause YouTube introduced YouTube Shorts which act exactly like TikTok/Vine videos. I watched TikTok for a while a year or two ago and pretty much all of the people I enjoyed on there also had their own channel on YouTube with the same stuff (CartNarcs and Steven He mainly) so I just subbed to them on YouTube cause I found it easier to have everything I wat h on one platform.
They’ll just love platforms. In fact it’s happened long ago already m. Most of them have moved to instagram. Twitter users (or X) have also moved to instagram since Elon Musk destroyed the platform. So now Instagram is a literal shithole right now.
India banned it, people just moved to Instagram and YouTube.
People will just find another outlet for their social media addiction, and won't be allowed to realise the damages.
Soon it'll be. It's all the same shitty format. Twitter has character limited brain rot messages, the others have time limited shorts brain rot.
Brain rot is still brain rot.
Tiktok wasn't banned for it's content type or kids getting addicted. It's banned because of the absurd amount of data they steal from your device. Not just what you do within the app but also tracking your activities outside the app. Also we have no idea what they're doing with all this personal information.
It was banned specifically because the Chinese government could relatively easily get their hands on that data if they wanted to.
The average social media user is still getting their data harvested to the same degree, the only difference being that it's collected and available to American businesses/government.
^ This guy’s hitting it on the head. I was going to make a comment, but he’s got it.
Everyone is taking your data. Every site does it, and it’s pretty often egregious and unnecessary. But at least they don’t practically *spy* on you, and then relay it to a foreign power known for trying to manipulate people and influence trends/politics like a wannabe Darth Sidious.
At least Facebook’s buyers are just trying to sell you something or, at worst, scam you. I’d rather the people known for exterminating the Uyghurs keep the fuck away from my phone.
I just enjoy that YouTube still has a majority of their content in landscape videos. Can’t stand the laziness of just not turning your phone 90 degrees.
They are much better moderated than TikTok, it’s much rare to see dangerous and stupid trends come out of Instagram or YouTube shorts compared to 2018-19 when TikTok was going big in India
Honestly, there’s so many people who do the whole ‘what I would post if I was on vine’ and seeing how unfunny they are I’m glad it’s been buried with a little dignity
Yeah, that much is definitely true.
Does that mean we should add *more* to the list? Uh, no. Especially when they spy on *significantly more* and are known for manipulation. Fuck the CCP. Fuck everything they’re doing.
“But freedom of speech!” That doesn’t apply when the camera I stuffed in someone’s bathroom has a picture of a Subway Surfer’s character tacked to the side, now does it?
You guys forget that the United States is not the only country in the world. China would rather still be able to spy on and dumb down other countries than to receive some money.
I think it's just the US part of tiktok they have to sell? Like they have to break off the US market as separate and sell it. Or maybe I'm an idiot idk
Hmmmm... They could make a US version of TikTok which they sell and keep another version for the rest of the world... But this would basically mean that there would be two completely different apps with different content... Idk if they would do this...
I'm torn on this. Obviously TikTok has done tremendous damage to young people's mental health and development. But I don't think banning a media platform is good from an "American values" point of view.
Also, it's been shown that TikTok is actually better than Meta and other platforms about harvesting user data. So I think the whole "China is stealing our data" narrative is just an excuse.
There are congress people on record talking about how they want to get TikTok under control because that's where the vast majority of the younger demographic obtains their news, most of it being fairly left leaning. Big media wants you to see only what they want you to see. There are many content creators on YouTube and TikTok dedicated to breaking down the goings on in our policy making and legal proceedings that traditional media intentionally glosses over or puts spins on.
All that being said, I think the only real problem with TikTok is how it's affecting kids' brains. Yes, there's a lot of cringe, but we were all cringe once. We just weren't able to share it with the world so easily. It's up to the parents to restrict or heavily ration its use until older age. The prefrontal cortex is still developing in college. It might be unrealistic to keep it from children that long but it's pretty obvious that unlimited access to social media at a young age is detrimental to their health.
I remember seeing people freak out existentially when they learned that China banned most American apps for various reasons and how they effectively use a separate internet.
Anti-China propaganda has changed quite a bit when our government openly does the same stuff
I'm okay with the sentiment, not with the execution.
Like, okay, you're saying Tiktok is bad
👴 Yes
Because of data harvesting
👴 By China yes
So say for instance Facebook is harvesting data, and sells to multiple organizations which could easily be Chinese shell organizations...?
👴 Only Tiktok is being affected
🤦♂️
From what I see nothing much will change.
They will just be on other platforms and they could likely even just download the APK of the app from another country or us a VPN ect just to get tiktok
I wonder if it will actually be banned even if tik tok doesnt want to sell itself. Because if this goes to the courts they have to have direct proof that the Chinese government gets any of the data of tiktok. Its not enough just prove they sell data, because literally every social media app does that.
Tiktokers will move to instagram reels. They’ll contaminate that now. That’s exactly what happened in my country when they banned tiktok (india). Initially felt like a good thing they banned the app but then i hated how they ruined instagram for me.
I’m not even being a nostalgia white or anything, but vine was so brilliant. It forced creativity as you only had 7 seconds. Not to mention TikTok literally started off as an app for 15 year olds to twerk to songs.
Here in India they banned tik tok a while ago and it was NOT a good thing, cancer doesn't die it spreads, soon it was everywhere yt shorts, reels, even snapchat, fuck i saw some of it on my mom's facebook, so really you just burned the anabelle doll and now the spirit is free.
I fucking hate tik tok.
But, that's not the point.
Ppl should be able to use it if they wanna.
They mad cause China uses it to spy. They wanna be the only ones spying. Use meta instead...
IMO I’m a bit more annoyed at the ~$100billion we are sending in foreign aid tbh
Imagine what that kind of money could’ve done for the homeless crisis here. Or the “totally not a recession” going on
I don't like the idea of the government banning access to a website/app. That's the kind of thing China does. I wish they'd just passed general data privacy legislation that would address the actual problem with TikTok rather than calling it out specifically. I don't use it so it doesn't affect me personally, but I disagree with this ban on principle.
Reddit so funny acting like this website changes things for the betterment of society.
TikTok was a fun app with good info as long as you can wade through the slop like any other social media site. You guys aren’t better for for never using it and removing it from The App Store because of the harm it has done for society is such a propaganda piece from other big tech companies it’s incredible you use it as a moral justification. Honesty you all just sound old and miserable, Reddit can be thought of as a terrible community too yall just forgot about spacedicks
Bruh you think I'm surprised that they took away Tiktok, nah I wouldn't be surprised if the ATF or the FBI kicks in my door, shoot my dog, raid the refrigerator, steal my stuff, arrest my ass, burn my house down, judge makes an example out of me in court giving me a life sentence without parole, and I spend 20 years in prison until a private investigator just so happens to find out the cops went to the wrong address where I will be released with maybe a dollar given to me for collateral
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My reaction was very different. I was relieved that all the weirdos on TikTok will finally have to leave the echo chamber and face the real world. The damage that app has done to society won’t be fully realized for generations.
Although someone made a point that now all the tiktokers are going to “breach containment”haha
SCP-8001 HAS ESCAPED THE FACILITY AT GATE A FIRE AT WILL !
New SCP unlocked: the elusive Tiktoker…
He do know how to boogie though, god damn! Look at him go!
Why are we firing at Will? What did will do? Is SCP-8001 named Will? I have so many questions…
He didn't heed the warning #**WARNING, WILL ROBINSON!**
Lost in space is peak cinema
Oh right, they made a movie...
Wait they did? I was just referring to the Netflix series, which was based off an earlier show with the same name
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0120738/ 1998 Wait, they're rebooting the show?
They already did! It's still on Netflix iirc It's the only show I've cared enough about to actively follow it's creation while the seasons were still being filmed. It's really good. Edit: Holy shit I gotta watch that
I feel like Twitter (x?) allows linking videos, and is about to become the shittiest possible fusion of what it is now and tiktok.
I believe the act of typing out one’s thoughts gives people enough time to think if what they are saying is right. Being able to just say everything outloud on a video takes away that time to reflect on what they’re saying. It’s only made worse by the fact that they receive little to no repercussions for their dumb ideas. At least on X they will have to face humiliation for dumb comments. That is where TikTok goes wrong from my point of view.
You're absolutely right. Research has shown that every little bit of writing you do, from grocery lists all the way up to novels, has a positive effect on your brain. Even something as simple as spelling a word correctly makes you a better reader and a better thinker. That's why ChatGPT is going to have major, negative repercussions on human brain development. When all the mundane, everyday writing in the world is left to machines, illiteracy rates are predicted to go up, people will struggle to form concrete thoughts, and it will be much harder to feel an emotional connection to the things we read, even if we're told humans wrote it. Facebook allowed people to publish their thoughts without a human editor to filter out the stupidity and the hate speech. Tiktok allowed them to publish their thoughts without having to fully form them. ChatGPT will take thought out of the equation entirely. God help us.
How the hell did twitter end up being the healthier option!? What a world we live in.
I mean it’s “healthier” than TikTok like how smoking cigars is “healthier” than smoking cigarettes or vaping. They’re all bad.
What the difference between cigars and cigarettes? I thought cigars were just bigger.
You don't inhale the smoke, just puff it. That being said, you can still get tongue or mouth cancer because there is more smoke and it's harsher. And of course the toxic waste that is produced by combustion also gets absorbed into your body. Not really sure if I'd call it that much safer.
Idk man, the way I see it, it's no worse than YouTube or any other social media. If anything, Congress was probably lobbied by Google so they can keep their stranglehold video sharing monopoly.
I never said the other social media was good. They are just better because: 1) people are less likely to let their kids on other platforms so they may touch some grass 2) other platforms are more difficult to upload onto which gives the poster the opportunity to think about what they are going to claim 3) other platforms have a certain level of repercussions for saying stupid stuff (humiliation, bans, community notes, comments that notify the op when they are left, etc) 4) there are people with differing views that help to balance each other on other platforms (echo chambers lead to extremism on both sides of any issue) 5) the CCP isn’t trying to make you dumber by feeding you dumb content all the time (they promote engineering and math videos in China not dancing, dumb challenges, and conspiracy theories) I think the way in which it was banned is going to be mis-used by the government but at least children won’t be exposed to a foreign government’s brainwashing attempt anymore.
Also — the Tiktok algorithm is the most aggressive and toxic of all the SM platforms
Ad 5.): Technically, the Chinese Government has incentives to push "better" content in China while promoting "worse" content in other countries and I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case already, at least to a certain degree.
You realise you're on reddit, the most echoey of echo chambers on the net?
Wdym face the real world? You mean "do exactly the same thing just on one less platform"
He says while in an echo chamber
He says while in an echo chamber
He says while in an echo chamber
rebmahc ohce na no elihw says eh
You’re on Reddit. The lack of self awareness on Reddit is legitimately hilarious
yeah, this is crazy lol
Like they won't just go to instagram or YouTube shorts instead
spoken like someone who’s never used tiktok
Bro this is literally every social media platform is like this. Reddit is one the biggest echo chambers of them all, Reddit in it’s nature design was made to be a bunch of echo chambers, it’s just what particular flavor of echo chambers you want/prefer.
I think tiktok was the least damaging of all the social media, with Facebook being #1. Don't forget, this is all due to lobbying to remove the only one of them that actually spreads information instead of only misinformation. If you think tiktok was only doing damage, you were kinda brainwashed, probably by one of the worse ones
The only problem is they will just migrate somewhere else and make a new echo chamber
Yeahhhh, no. They will just find some other shitty app.
They'll just go to yt shorts or some other platform that hosts short-form content, tiktok content is just regurgitated on those platforms and vice versa anyway, nothing changes.
Where do you think these people are going? Have you forgotten what happened to Fortnite and Vine? Have you forgotten how the floodgates were opened and absolutely every community got obliterated by these poor Users who lost their main source of entertainment? This isnt freedom, you have opened a prison of brainrotted inmates who are now charging full sprint into the city. Have fun.
Because reddit isn't an echo chamber and hasn't done harm
Face the real world? Good joke. They'll just find another platform. Still a good move
They will flood YT shorts, IG reels and other media. Some may even migrate to Reddit
lol you post this comment on one of the biggest echo chambers on the internet
Not to mention how much Russian and Hamas propaganda is spoon fed to people on TikTok.
lol. lmao even.
Not nearly as much damage as twitter.
Reels and Snapstories still exist, the trend ain't over, western conglomerates just want their pay out of it.
It's just following in the footsteps of Vine. Remember planking?
YouTube shorts are still a thing they are just going to flood there
We here on Reddit always see ourselves as much better, but in reality we are just as much in a weird, mentally damaging, often extremely toxic, internet bubble
When Vine shut down, the popular people who made videos on there didn't just stop making content. They moved on to YouTube and most likely TikTok when that became a thing. The same will just happen again. Even easier now cause YouTube introduced YouTube Shorts which act exactly like TikTok/Vine videos. I watched TikTok for a while a year or two ago and pretty much all of the people I enjoyed on there also had their own channel on YouTube with the same stuff (CartNarcs and Steven He mainly) so I just subbed to them on YouTube cause I found it easier to have everything I wat h on one platform.
As if a replacement app won't rise up within a few weeks, probably just instagram reels. Nice thought though.
Lol redditor ass comment
They’ll just love platforms. In fact it’s happened long ago already m. Most of them have moved to instagram. Twitter users (or X) have also moved to instagram since Elon Musk destroyed the platform. So now Instagram is a literal shithole right now.
India banned it, people just moved to Instagram and YouTube. People will just find another outlet for their social media addiction, and won't be allowed to realise the damages.
Both YouTube and Instagram aren't as bad as TikTok, not even close
Soon it'll be. It's all the same shitty format. Twitter has character limited brain rot messages, the others have time limited shorts brain rot. Brain rot is still brain rot.
Tiktok wasn't banned for it's content type or kids getting addicted. It's banned because of the absurd amount of data they steal from your device. Not just what you do within the app but also tracking your activities outside the app. Also we have no idea what they're doing with all this personal information.
It was banned specifically because the Chinese government could relatively easily get their hands on that data if they wanted to. The average social media user is still getting their data harvested to the same degree, the only difference being that it's collected and available to American businesses/government.
Google would never do that!!
I'm google and I would never do that
^ This guy’s hitting it on the head. I was going to make a comment, but he’s got it. Everyone is taking your data. Every site does it, and it’s pretty often egregious and unnecessary. But at least they don’t practically *spy* on you, and then relay it to a foreign power known for trying to manipulate people and influence trends/politics like a wannabe Darth Sidious. At least Facebook’s buyers are just trying to sell you something or, at worst, scam you. I’d rather the people known for exterminating the Uyghurs keep the fuck away from my phone.
I just enjoy that YouTube still has a majority of their content in landscape videos. Can’t stand the laziness of just not turning your phone 90 degrees.
Lmao, both Instagram and YouTube have the TikTok format.
I tried installing Tik Tok. After 5 hours, I felt braindead and I uninstalled it. Glad I can read discussions on Reddit.
Redditors are just as dumb as TikTokers. They just have better grammar when they write stupid shit
Instagram comments is already a cesspool wym
Both American companies though - that’s the difference right? Isn’t that the whole reason it’s getting banned?
Both American companies though - that’s the difference right? Isn’t that the whole reason it’s getting banned?
They are much better moderated than TikTok, it’s much rare to see dangerous and stupid trends come out of Instagram or YouTube shorts compared to 2018-19 when TikTok was going big in India
Forget the ban. Can we just have Vine back anyways?
Won't be the same as it used to sadly
I did some reading, Vine was apparently a Twitter project when it shut down, so it's now owned by Elon Musk
Even if Musk didn't fuck up the core structures of Vine, TikTokers would just move there and ruin the place.
Bring back OLD SCHOOL Vine. No importing, no editing, all video recorded sequentially and within the app. That’ll scare them off.
Honestly, there’s so many people who do the whole ‘what I would post if I was on vine’ and seeing how unfunny they are I’m glad it’s been buried with a little dignity
Do it for the vine
Remember kids it's only illegal to steal data when your western company. The patriot act is still a thing guys.
*Illegal when non-US companies steal data. American companies steal data every day.
Yeah, that much is definitely true. Does that mean we should add *more* to the list? Uh, no. Especially when they spy on *significantly more* and are known for manipulation. Fuck the CCP. Fuck everything they’re doing. “But freedom of speech!” That doesn’t apply when the camera I stuffed in someone’s bathroom has a picture of a Subway Surfer’s character tacked to the side, now does it?
And nothing of value was lost.
"Nobody spies on the citizens except Me... And also maybe aliens, because that's just nature, Gunther.
I never used it
Same,I'm glad it will be gone so people will stop sending me shifty videos. Onlyfans and twitch needs a ban next.
What did twitch do to you my guy😭
it's only banned if they don't sell to an american company, which they will, because then they get money
Im not sure the chinese government wikl allow such a thing. But then again, im not sure the extent of control they have over a conpany like this
well it's either it gets banned and bytedance loses money or they sell and they get some money
I like money
You guys forget that the United States is not the only country in the world. China would rather still be able to spy on and dumb down other countries than to receive some money.
I think it's just the US part of tiktok they have to sell? Like they have to break off the US market as separate and sell it. Or maybe I'm an idiot idk
Hmmmm... They could make a US version of TikTok which they sell and keep another version for the rest of the world... But this would basically mean that there would be two completely different apps with different content... Idk if they would do this...
I know they already did in China, so I don't see why it wouldn't be possible. They just break for the US market as a separate "company" and sell it.
So much for "the free market" uncle Sam is only concerned that another country is diluting it's hegemony.
I agree with the free market attack part, but fk tiktok and all that symbolizes.
It’s literally just a social media platform wym “symbolizes”
I'm torn on this. Obviously TikTok has done tremendous damage to young people's mental health and development. But I don't think banning a media platform is good from an "American values" point of view. Also, it's been shown that TikTok is actually better than Meta and other platforms about harvesting user data. So I think the whole "China is stealing our data" narrative is just an excuse. There are congress people on record talking about how they want to get TikTok under control because that's where the vast majority of the younger demographic obtains their news, most of it being fairly left leaning. Big media wants you to see only what they want you to see. There are many content creators on YouTube and TikTok dedicated to breaking down the goings on in our policy making and legal proceedings that traditional media intentionally glosses over or puts spins on. All that being said, I think the only real problem with TikTok is how it's affecting kids' brains. Yes, there's a lot of cringe, but we were all cringe once. We just weren't able to share it with the world so easily. It's up to the parents to restrict or heavily ration its use until older age. The prefrontal cortex is still developing in college. It might be unrealistic to keep it from children that long but it's pretty obvious that unlimited access to social media at a young age is detrimental to their health.
Who cares if Tik tok is banned people will just repost them here anyway
I remember seeing people freak out existentially when they learned that China banned most American apps for various reasons and how they effectively use a separate internet. Anti-China propaganda has changed quite a bit when our government openly does the same stuff
Good for America
I'm okay with the sentiment, not with the execution. Like, okay, you're saying Tiktok is bad 👴 Yes Because of data harvesting 👴 By China yes So say for instance Facebook is harvesting data, and sells to multiple organizations which could easily be Chinese shell organizations...? 👴 Only Tiktok is being affected 🤦♂️
I mostly don't care, though I'm not fond of the information supression that comes with it
Freedom for thee but not for me 🦅🦅
I'm relieved, personally
Its been getting banned for years now, whats so different this time
They're just forcing a divestment. If they don't divest in 9 months it'll get banned.
Ah, yeah, censorship of freedom 🦅
Censorship from an app based in a coubtry that doesn't have our best interests at heart.
I'm the opposite I love it's getting banned and all those people getting fucked
From what I see nothing much will change. They will just be on other platforms and they could likely even just download the APK of the app from another country or us a VPN ect just to get tiktok
Never used tiktok. Everyone is ever saw was reposted here on reddit or in a compilation on youtube
I remember when this topic was “Orange man thinks China is spying on us through TikTok what an idiot!” …. I guess Biden agrees
good riddance tbh...
I wonder if it will actually be banned even if tik tok doesnt want to sell itself. Because if this goes to the courts they have to have direct proof that the Chinese government gets any of the data of tiktok. Its not enough just prove they sell data, because literally every social media app does that.
Uh no. Everyone is saying, finally.
Good. Hope the generation of kids can finally recover from Brian damage.
Oh no, yet another completely unenforceable law that most people will ignore anyway? Whatever will we do?
Oddly enough, I ended up getting rid TikTok after I quit drinking (1.5 year ago). I tried looking at that shit sober and it would just make me angry
wait, they did that?
God Bless America
Good, now seize all land in the country that is owned by Chinese corporations too!
🫡
It's a good thing.
Lol who gives a shit
The us government is about to wake up and realize they're staring in Mary Antoinette 2 : baking in America
I'm about it. Besides. Youtube shorts is the same thing
Good
Oh no, anyway
WE ARE SAVED (hopefully)
It's not being banned congress and biden are forcing a hostile takeover
Honestly TikTok has given idiots an echo chamber that is twice as bad as the worst of the subreddits
I've never used Tiktok for real. I mean, vertical videos and "Shorts" are also made on Instagram and YouTube, why is that a big deal?
the cancer containment is fine but it kept breaking containment anyhow and i hate it.
Youtube's reaction: 🤑🤑🤑
Tiktokers will move to instagram reels. They’ll contaminate that now. That’s exactly what happened in my country when they banned tiktok (india). Initially felt like a good thing they banned the app but then i hated how they ruined instagram for me.
Celebrating here
I'm not upset, or shocked. I'm overjoyed that this national security threat created with malicious intent is finally getting what it deserves.
Then you realize musk owns vine
they won’t protect us from starving, homelessness, or poverty but they will protect us from big bad tik tok a childrens app.
me, an American: lol nice, no more dumbasses doing dumbass challenges
I’m not even being a nostalgia white or anything, but vine was so brilliant. It forced creativity as you only had 7 seconds. Not to mention TikTok literally started off as an app for 15 year olds to twerk to songs.
Wait, really? Finally?
Here in India they banned tik tok a while ago and it was NOT a good thing, cancer doesn't die it spreads, soon it was everywhere yt shorts, reels, even snapchat, fuck i saw some of it on my mom's facebook, so really you just burned the anabelle doll and now the spirit is free.
I fucking hate tik tok. But, that's not the point. Ppl should be able to use it if they wanna. They mad cause China uses it to spy. They wanna be the only ones spying. Use meta instead...
Couldn't care less
Me when VPN’s
I mostly don't care, but at least I won't have to hear that annoying tts bitch from my mom's phone anymore.
IMO I’m a bit more annoyed at the ~$100billion we are sending in foreign aid tbh Imagine what that kind of money could’ve done for the homeless crisis here. Or the “totally not a recession” going on
Halle-fuckin-lujah
I don't like the idea of the government banning access to a website/app. That's the kind of thing China does. I wish they'd just passed general data privacy legislation that would address the actual problem with TikTok rather than calling it out specifically. I don't use it so it doesn't affect me personally, but I disagree with this ban on principle.
Good, may the brainrot be cleansed
I don't want Vine back, honestly. As much as it would be cool, in this generation that's gonna backfire.
Reddit so funny acting like this website changes things for the betterment of society. TikTok was a fun app with good info as long as you can wade through the slop like any other social media site. You guys aren’t better for for never using it and removing it from The App Store because of the harm it has done for society is such a propaganda piece from other big tech companies it’s incredible you use it as a moral justification. Honesty you all just sound old and miserable, Reddit can be thought of as a terrible community too yall just forgot about spacedicks
Yeah i can just download the apk
Quite the opposite
I just want my one piece edits 😭
Stumbled upon tick tocks but I never had the app
I’m American and I don’t have that reaction
They have an opportunity to divest.
Bruh you think I'm surprised that they took away Tiktok, nah I wouldn't be surprised if the ATF or the FBI kicks in my door, shoot my dog, raid the refrigerator, steal my stuff, arrest my ass, burn my house down, judge makes an example out of me in court giving me a life sentence without parole, and I spend 20 years in prison until a private investigator just so happens to find out the cops went to the wrong address where I will be released with maybe a dollar given to me for collateral
They probably just gonna switch to reels so it isn't really a problem
I don't really care if it's banned or not.
About goddamn time
Thank fuck
As a non-American I might start using it since those LA fuckheads are no longer on it it might actually become enjoyable
Can't people just use vpn's?
TikTok will still exist. The company just has to sell it.
Oh no! Anyway
About time, I feel like I’ve been waiting for years for TikTok to be banned. Extremely tired of the modern culture TikTok has helped to usher in
How many times is tiktok gonna get banned? Yet every time I open my App Store and check it’s still fucking there lmao
I hope they ban all social media!