On July 9, 2020, TikTok users noticed that the app was a bit unconventional. All the videos in the app show 0 perspectives and 0 likes, no matter how many likes/perspectives you have gotten in the past. Mysteriously, the comments in the videos remained. While social media apps fail all along, the timing for this specific challenge was disconcerting, as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo recently commented on the option to ban TikTok altogether in the United States. Naturally, TikTok’s influencers have lost it.
On July 9, several TikTok stars went to TikTok Live to inspire enthusiasts on Instagram and YouTube, after locating that their videos lacked prospects and I like it.
Melissa Ong, who goes through @chunkysdead, is the leader of the “TikTok cult” known as Step Chickens. He went live, part of his time to sing in an Elmo voice (because he did, of course). Ong noted that this challenge was similar to the closing of Vine. She appeased her “cult” fans by telling them she would continue on YouTube.
The user @chakiraclark, who has almost a million subscribers on TikTok, also went live saying: “I don’t know if there will be more TikTok”. Enthusiasts also back up their TikTok videos on their phones.
TikTok influencer @ladyefron told his fans: “I’m going to create a YouTube. I love you all. It’ll be all right.”
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While many influencers, who added the popular mega @snarkymarky, went online on the app, no one seemed to know what was going on.
“Rest in peace TikTok,” the popular TikToker said on Live. “Maybe it’s just a problem, but … why?”
The challenge a few days after American politicians began braking about the siege closure.
According to CNN:
The U.S. is “considering” banning Chinese social media apps, TikTok, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, said Monday.
On a FOX News show by Laura Ingraham, Pompeo told the presenter, “We take this very seriously.”
“With regard to Chinese programs on people’s cell phones, I can guarantee that America will too, Laura,” the secretary of state said. “I don’t need to go before President [Donald Trump], but that’s something we’re at.”
Much of the decision-making comes from the fact that TikTok is a Chinese application. Pompeo warned that he only uses TikTok “if he needs his personal data to be in the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.” However, a spokesman for TikTok disagreed.
“TikTok is led by an American CEO, along with a lot of key workers and leaders in the security, protection, products and public policy spaces here in the United States,” they told CNN in a message. Continued:
We don’t have higher priority than selling a secure app to our users. We never provide user knowledge to the Chinese government, nor would we if asked.
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About an hour after the challenge began, some users noticed that TikTok had returned to normal. TikTok tweeted in his account:
“Hello, TikTok community! We know that some users enjoy app disorders. We are working to temporarily fix the issues and we will share the updates here!”
A TikToker shared the tweet in a video, mocking herself, saying, “We’re so dramatic.”
Then all the lives in panic were in vain. But still, influencers seek to ban the app at any time. After all, it happened in India.
“Well, right now it’s a little laughing challenge,” Ong, also known as @chunkysdead, said in a new TikTok video. “Personally, I am grateful for the 20 minutes of chaos we have just experienced collectively.”