“A law banning TikTok has been implemented in the United States. Unfortunately, this means that you can no longer use TikTok at this time,” Americans can read since Saturday when they try to connect to the Chinese social network.
“Sorry, TikTok is not available at the moment.” This is the message that users of the Chinese social network in the United States are now encountering. On Saturday, the video application phenomenon made itself inaccessible across the Atlantic, after being rejected by the Supreme Court on Friday, which confirmed the entry into force on Sunday of the law banning TikTok.
“A law banning TikTok has been implemented in the United States. Unfortunately, this means you can no longer use TikTok at this time.Americans can read when they try to connect to the social network. “We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to restore TikTok once he takes office. Stay tuned!”concludes the message, inviting you to either find out more or close the application.
Despite everything, this brutal black screen of TikTok despairs some American content creators active on the platform. Like James Charles, 38 million followers on the short video application. “I don’t know what to do. I've already opened and closed the app six times just to keep seeing the same stupid warning message every time. It's so dystopian. I feel cut off from the world and my community. It's crazy. And now I have to support Trump? Yuck”he reacted in a video posted on his Instagram account. The future of the application in the United States is in fact now in the hands of the elected American president. On Saturday, the Republican billionaire declared on NBC that he would study the matter closely once invested on Monday, and that a “90 day postponement (would) probably be decreed”.
Before the expected banning of the application in the United States, influencers had already expressed their despair in videos published on TikTok. Some even film themselves crying, like Emily Senn, 350,000 followers. “You just deprived millions of people of their livelihoods”she lamented, with misty eyes, on the social network, just before it closed. “I feel so stupid coming on the internet and crying about an app. But I found a real community there, for years. This allowed me to get through very difficult moments in my life: the pandemic, the loss of my job, my divorce”she also declared.
-“This decision is truly devastating for me, who built my platform on TikTok”recognized Sofia Bella, a TikTok creator with 4.8 million subscribers, cited by the American media Business Insider. “Losing the majority of my audience is a difficult reality to face, and although I do everything I can to prepare for it, it's hard not to feel like I'm starting from scratch.”
This brutal closure of TikTok in the United States went around the world, as shown by American tennis player Coco Gauff. «RIP TikTok USA»she signed on camera after qualifying for the quarter-finals of the Australian Open in Melbourne.
Content creators from the Chinese application have already chosen to migrate to YouTube. Just a few minutes after the suspension of TikTok, several influencers had posted videos on the Google subsidiary to welcome the “refugees” from TikTok. Like celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, who has nearly 470,000 subscribers on YouTube. “Thank you for following me on YouTube”he told his followers in a video broadcast live. As for American Internet users, thousands of them have anticipated the closure of TikTok by joining in recent days another Chinese application, Xiaohongshu, called RedNote in English, propelled to the top of the most downloaded applications in the United States.
