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TikTok Creators In The U.S. Urge Followers To Join Them On Instagram And Youtube
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Posted on Dec 9, 2024
TikTok creators in the United States are encouraging their audience to follow them on other social media platforms like Instagram or YouTube as they fear the Chinese app could be banned in the country in January.
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- TikTok creators started asking followers to subscribe to their content on other social media platforms as they fear the Chinese app will be banned next year
- The suggested deadline for Bytedance to sell TikTok to another company is January 19, the consequence if they don’t comply would be the ban
- TikTok can still appeal to the Supreme Court, but a few creators believe the app will disappear in the U.S.
In March, U.S. lawmakers passed a bill to ban TikTok in the U.S. next year unless the social media is sold to another company and disconnects from its parent company the Chinese giant ByteDance. The Chinese social media app—which has 170 million American users— has been considered a threat to national security and an espionage tool.
According to Reuters, the deadline for the sale is January 19, and TikTok is being forced to do it but there isn’t a deal yet, and ByteDance could steal an appeal to the Supreme Court. The tension has increased in the past few days and its users and creators are concerned.
“For the first time I’m realizing that a lot of what I worked for could disappear,” said Chris Mowrey, a Democratic social media influencer with 470,000 TikTok followers to Reuters. “I don’t think it’s been talked about enough how damaging it will be from an economic standpoint for small businesses and creators.”
Another content creator, Chris Burkett, with 1.3 million followers, asked his audience to follow him on Threads, Youtube, and X. “I don’t think there’s longevity on this app in the United States,” he said in a video. Other creators are waiting to see how things evolve.
Earlier this year, TikTok creators filed a suit against the American government claiming that the social media ban was an attack on their freedom of speech.
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