Tiktok Ban - Blog Posts

jk guys tiktok is back and i will not be swan diving off of anything!! 🤗🤗🤗

huzzah!!! have a great day doom scrolling:D

GUYS THE TIKTOK BAN WENT THROUGHHH

im gonna literally jump (not fr guys i swear)

i CANNOT do this rn

GUYS THE TIKTOK BAN WENT THROUGHHH

im gonna literally jump (not fr guys i swear)

i CANNOT do this rn

tiktok ban to tumblr

Basically I've spent the past decade interacting with fandom content that originated from here on different platforms. Once fandom stuff found it's way to tiktok I completely moved onto there but as someone living in the US that's kind of done for at this point lol. I don't know I think I'm just rambling now but it feels so nostalgic and full circle that I finally actually made my own tumblr account after a decade and everything is so beautiful and nice here and all the awesome fanart from my fyp is all here too!! I don't know it just feels very nostalgic and nice to finally be here :')

Someone please tell me that did not just happen.

[Image ID: A photo of Elon Musk. He is holding his right arm out in a gesture eerily similar to a Nazi salute. /End ID]

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The link includes a video and if you think this is just a photo taken at the right moment to make it seem like a Nazi salute I am sorry to report that the video makes it worse. My heart goes out to all Americans that they have now a President that is friends with and has appointed to a government position someone who does the Nazi salute at his inauguration.

FRIENDLY REMINDER THAT TRUMP DID NOT SAVE TIKTOK!! THIS WAS ALL A STUNT TO MAKE HIM LOOK GOOD!!

PAY ATTENTION TO WHATEVER HAPPENS NEXT!!

Sooo, tiktok is back from being banned in less than 24 hours. Good to know that still nothing ever happens

Republican wanted it banned so they can have a win once they got it back

The only reason why they wanted to ban tiktok is because it was the only place(media site/organization) where people were protesting the genocide in Palestine.

Reposting the potato in hopes it saves TikTok

This guys gets it.

it’s not the fact we don’t have the entertainment anymore on tiktok it’s the fact that we DONT have a unfiltered platform to talk about what’s happening in the world. Maybe this only goes for people in the USA but we don’t have a MAJOR PLATFORM THAT IS NOT CONNECTED TO THE US GOVERNMENT TO COMMUNICATE ON.

hear me loud and clear we don’t have freedom of speech

and i’m using all the # to get awareness.

we should blow up the White House guys

just saying.

yall fuck tiktok, can we talk about how CAPCUT is getting banned? because I legitimately did NOT know that capcut was even a bytedance company and like. I'm an editor I don't want to relearn how to edit on another platform! 😭😭😭😭😭😭

IM SORRY CAPCUT I SWEAR I DIDNT MEAN ALL THAT SHIT I SAID ABOUT BEING AN ASS

Updates about the TikTok ban/relight … a lot of people thought that TikTokers were being dramatic. We were forced to say “unalive” “pew-pew” and “grape”… now it’s a community violation to say that Meta sucks.

Do not let them erase this. Do not let them tell you he meant "my heart goes out for you."

This man is the grandson of a Canadian Nazi sympathizer who moved to South Africa BECAUSE he thought the apartheid was just the coolest.

He has a gaggle of kids specifically because he believes his genes are superior and need to be spread to improve humanity.

He has thrown his support behind the neonazi party in Germany and the far right party in the UK, not to mention how far he's wormed up the ass of the Republican party.

He threw two sieg heil salutes back to back at the inauguration of the president of the United States and is trying to scrub the evidence off the internet.

Elon Reeve Musk is a fucking Nazi.

oh my god...

so the first screenshot is trying to look this up on tiktok normally, "donald trump rigged election" and it says that search violates community guidelines.

the second screenshot is looking up the same exact thing, but with a (australian) vpn on. canadian vpn didn't fix it fyi.

THIS is exactly the type of censorship to be looking out for on tiktok. this actually is crazy.

Yeah okay so like I said in the tags of the last post I’m rising from my tumblr grave to say that the ban on TikTok is symptomatic of a MUCH larger and more terrifying problem. Because yes, on its surface it’s silly dances and asmr and cooking videos and whatever, but in truth and at its core, TikTok single-handedly revolutionized the way 170 million Americans communicated with each other AND the rest of the world. Non-Americans love to point out how America-centric Americans are, but fail to realize that we are purposefully raised in an isolated, insulated environment where we are told from basically day 1 that America Is The Best and not to even bother taking a look around because it’s all downhill from outside of here. TikTok has, for MANY Americans, single-handedly destroyed that notion and allowed them (us!!) to broaden our world-view and realize that actually, things are better in other countries, and it did so in a kind, empathetic, and compassionate way.

And yeah most people wake up to the truth of that on their own as they get older, but holy shit!! The VAST majority of the Americans on TikTok are millennials and gen z (and even some older gen alpha)!! People who are becoming disillusioned with “The American Dream” (said with the HEAVIEST sarcasm) while they’re still school-aged or are just entering young-adulthood!! People who are entering - or TRYING to enter - the American workforce who suddenly have an unfiltered window into non-American lives and are wondering why tf we’re struggling and penny-pinching and toeing the line of poverty while our rich elected officials sit around and fight and argue over everything that actually matters to the citizens they supposedly represent and get richer all the while. THAT is why they’re banning the app, and that fact alone should terrify every single American citizen.

Not to mention the precedent it sets for other social media platforms!! You think some nebulous, unproven, and unfounded “threat to national security” will stop with TikTok?? They’ve already censored Adult Material on tumblr, who’s gonna stop them from coming back and doing it again or getting rid of it altogether for the exact same reason? It’s a blatant act of censorship and a direct attack on the American first amendment right to free speech.

NOTHING radicalized me the way tiktok did. I watched people in my life who were STAUNCH Trump supporters in 2016 AND 2020 wake up to the truth and vote blue for the first time in their lives BECAUSE OF TIKTOK, and did so with al the nuanced understanding that even Democrats are severely failing this country, but are at least better than the alternative. That level of awareness and presence in the average US citizen scares American politicians.

The fact that the vast majority of them - including the ones loudly opposing the ban!! - bought stock in Meta BEFORE the ban was legalized/upheld by the Supreme Court?? That Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk were legally allowed to lobby congress to ban TikTok when BOTH stood to DIRECTLY financially gain from their biggest competitor being banned in the US and are guilty of unethically gathering data and selling it to MULTIPLE third parties?? The fact that Trump is now teasing that he may or may not intervene to save TikTok when he was the one who talked about banning it in the first place AND ALSO OWNS HIS OWN COMPETING SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM??

It’s the burning of Alexandria. It’s the loss of a significant chunk of culture. It’s the sharp and sudden loss of contact with the rest of the world for more than half of all American citizens. It’s the loss of $240 BILLION dollars in the GDP when the country is already TRILLIONS of dollars in debt. And on an individualistic level, it’s the loss of millions of small businesses and primary income streams for so many individuals and families who found their primary audience on TikTok. Is the app perfect? HELL no. Are there significant changes needed to make it a safe environment for all users? ABSOLUTELY. But that can also be said of ANY social media platform. TikTok openly fostered connection and communication and creativity and compassion that is completely unique to that platform! It made so many people - myself included!! - feel less alone. I get the feeling I know what the general consensus is about TikTok on this site, but the ban on this app should scare the shit out of everyone.

it’s not the fact we don’t have the entertainment anymore on tiktok it’s the fact that we DONT have a unfiltered platform to talk about what’s happening in the world. Maybe this only goes for people in the USA but we don’t have a MAJOR PLATFORM THAT IS NOT CONNECTED TO THE US GOVERNMENT TO COMMUNICATE ON.

hear me loud and clear we don’t have freedom of speech

and i’m using all the # to get awareness.

This is your sign to get off tik tok NOW.

First, it was the ban. But not only that, when they lifted the ban, it had a message.

(Source: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/us-politics/tiktok-ban-lifted-us-donald-trump-b1205689.html )

This is extremely concerning. This either means that someone who works in TikTok is a huge trumper, or that the United States Government had paid TikTok enough money to spread this message, and I think it's the latter. Why? Because, well, look at the message. Think about how short the ban was in retrospect.

Pair this extremely suspiciously short ban with the US & Canada (and possibly Mexico & etc.) censorship, and you get extremely concerning news that is basically screaming at you "TRUMP IS GREAT! WE ARE NOT A CULT! TRUMP IS GOD! HE WILLED THE APP BACK UP!! PRAISE TRUMPSUS!"

I know I got a little silly at the end, but that is the jist of it. If they are willing to censor anything about politics, what makes you think they won't do it for your own content?

Just... Think about it. And maybe log off. Forever.

oh my god...

so the first screenshot is trying to look this up on tiktok normally, "donald trump rigged election" and it says that search violates community guidelines.

the second screenshot is looking up the same exact thing, but with a (australian) vpn on. canadian vpn didn't fix it fyi.

THIS is exactly the type of censorship to be looking out for on tiktok. this actually is crazy.

now that trump has tiktok, twitter, facebook and insta in his pocket, get ready for a massive wave of internet censorship. one of trump's greatest weapons has always been misinformation; it's going to become harder and harder to spread facts and criticism going forward. posts that aren't made invisible will be magically ignored by the algorithm. dissidents will have their accounts deleted and voices erased.

this is a suppression tactic. this is another stage of fascism.

Yall I’ve been in pottery studio purgatory for so long that tiktok died and came back to life before i even had free time to mourn it lmao

Roses are red,

Ur mom is a cow-

NOOO THEY GOT CAPCUT TOO WHY GOD WHY

It’s been like 30 minutes I’m already having withdrawals

Ok hopefully this doesn’t end up being something embarrassing like a porn but what’s the show/movie where one of the characters is like psychically connected to a bunch of other people and somehow they end up severing the connection and someone asks them ‘how does it feel?’ And the character tears up and they say ‘lonely’ or something like that?

Cause that’s how I felt when TikTok went dark 😔

All in favor of just straight up deleting tiktok now that trump brought it back?

i cannot believe i had to explain to a friend that the tiktok ban was a ploy to make our generation like tr*mp more. like i was genuinely disappointed in here for falling for the easiest propaganda ever

when she texted me to tell me it got banned, she was basically upset about her edits and stuff being lost. i had to explain to here that the ban wasnt going to stick because it was a ploy to make our generation like him better. she then was saying how he better save it and shit. she was probably joking but damn cannot believe i had to lay it out for her

genuine disappointment in her bro 😭

Can't believe they banned tiktok for a couple hours just so they could unban it and encourage everyone to put Trump's dick right up their assholes and moan about it

Reminder for when he “saves” it. He was the one who wanted this, and now he gets to be the hero and win favour with young constituents. Don’t give him the credit for fixing his own problem.

"lol tiktok users would rather learn mandarin than come to tumblr" yeah man that's crazy. who would have thought that people from the video-based dopamine-machine app wouldn't decide to join the text- and image- based no-algorithm website?

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