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TikTok Teens Are 'Going to War' Against the Trump Campaign After Republicans Call to Ban the App
TIME ^ | July 10, 2020 | SHELLY BANJO AND MISYRLENA EGKOLFOPOULOU

Posted on 07/10/2020 7:22:41 AM PDT by Stravinsky

TikTok fans are retaliating for Trump’s threats of banning the app, which is owned by China’s Bytedance Ltd. and is hugely popular in the U.S., especially among teens. The thought of taking away a key social and entertainment hub in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic has led to outrage.

“For Gen Z and Millennials, TikTok is our clubhouse and Trump threatened it,” said Yori Blacc, a 19-year-old TikTok user in California who joined in the app protest. “If you’re going to mess with us, we will mess with you.”

Blacc said the movement gained steam Wednesday when a popular TikTok user, DeJuan Booker, called on his 750,000 followers to seek revenge. He posted a step-by-step primer on how to degrade the app’s rating, notching 5.6 million views. “Gen Z don’t go down without a fight,” said Booker, who goes by @unusualbeing on TikTok. “Let’s go to war.”

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Many TikTok users say they care less about potential Chinese snooping and more about Trump taking away their digital hangout. In the U.S., TikTok has been downloaded more than 165 million times, according to Sensor Tower.

“I don’t believe Trump is trying to take TikTok away because of national security, but more to retaliate against activism on the app and all the videos about him that drag him through the mud,” said Darius Jackson, an 18-year-old TikTok user in Champagne, Illinois, who asked his followers Wednesday to give Trump’s app a one-star.

“This is the first year I’ll be able to vote and I think activism on TikTok is going to make a big difference,” Jackson said.

(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: bigbrother; brainwashed; bytedance; california; champagne; chicom; china; dariusjackson; dejuanbooker; egkolfopoulou; espionage; genz; illinois; privacyrights; sensortower; shellybanjo; tiktok; timemagazine; trump; unusualbeing; yoriblacc
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1 posted on 07/10/2020 7:22:41 AM PDT by Stravinsky
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To: Stravinsky

Would TikTok Teens be known as “Chineens” as they work for free for the Communist Chinese?


2 posted on 07/10/2020 7:24:50 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Stravinsky

Yet another group against Trump. It will be a miracle if Trump is not obliterated in the election in November.


3 posted on 07/10/2020 7:26:04 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: Stravinsky

TikTok nurses who were too busy making dance videos to service patients?


4 posted on 07/10/2020 7:27:00 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: Stravinsky

“...Champagne, Illinois...”

TIME editors didn’t catch that error. Folks, it’s “Champaign, Illinois.”


5 posted on 07/10/2020 7:28:50 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Stravinsky

I looked at videos on TickTock one day.
I felt IQ points draining away rapidly.


6 posted on 07/10/2020 7:28:58 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (I'd rather be anecdotally alive than scientifically dead...)
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To: Stravinsky

“This is the first year I’ll be able to vote and I think activism on TikTok is going to make a big difference,” Jackson said.

And possibly your ignorance with it.


7 posted on 07/10/2020 7:31:06 AM PDT by heshtesh
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To: Stravinsky

India has banned it because they felt it presented a real security threat.


8 posted on 07/10/2020 7:31:33 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Stravinsky

Tik Tok is a communist Chinese tool.

As are the yutes who use it.


9 posted on 07/10/2020 7:31:54 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Nice that the urinalists at Slime Magazine did most of the doxxing work on the loudmouths cited in the article.

10 posted on 07/10/2020 7:33:51 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

Hasn’t the DoD banned it as well?


11 posted on 07/10/2020 7:34:35 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Sinister little movement to threaten us all, and the useful idiots who follow along blindly...


12 posted on 07/10/2020 7:35:06 AM PDT by Shady (One More Time: CO2 is PLANT FOOD! Without it we die. Any questions?)
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To: ConservativeMind

How dare you expect a piece with two authors, an “with assistance from” credit at the end, and no doubt one or two editors working on it behind the scenes to be free of basic mistakes like that. Be gone with your racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic HATE!!! < /s>


13 posted on 07/10/2020 7:36:40 AM PDT by Stravinsky (Politeness will not defeat the Marxist revolutionaries)
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To: Buckeye McFrog

TikTok is full of animal torture videos and the heathen Chinese see no need to take them down when reported.

Do the little teeny boppers approve of that?


14 posted on 07/10/2020 7:37:52 AM PDT by Salamander (Flying Colours....)
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To: FreedomPoster
Hasn’t the DoD banned it as well?

Wouldn't surprise me. I was horrified to see Kellyanne Conway's daughter using it. The ChiComs have likely been listening in on her mother's work related calls taken inside their home.


15 posted on 07/10/2020 7:38:24 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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16 posted on 07/10/2020 7:39:23 AM PDT by mosesdapoet (mosesdapoet aka L.J.Keslin posting here for the record hoping somebody might read and pass around)
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To: T.B. Yoits

I call them wumao, like their mainland Communist Chinese filth they adore.


17 posted on 07/10/2020 7:46:21 AM PDT by Starcitizen (Communist China needs to be treated like the pariah country it is. Send it back to 1971)
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To: Stravinsky
TikTok actually pulled the plug on its own application in Hong Kong - yesterday, I think.

The new Communist imposed speech laws have life-in-prison penalties for sedition and other anti-state activities, and TikTok does not want to be part of the enforcement process.

Since TikTok is a Chinese company, I assumed their number one market was China.

Maybe they have two different applications - one for free countries, and one for police states?

18 posted on 07/10/2020 7:47:21 AM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Stravinsky

Stpidity and youth on a grand scale. Complete suckers but do not even know it.


19 posted on 07/10/2020 7:47:49 AM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and diamonds, and harder to find.)
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To: Stravinsky
DeJuan Booker, called on his 750,000 followers to seek revenge

OK, so the overheated headline cites "DeJuan Booker" and his 750,000 followers. This fellow is SO famous, the author of the piece MISSPELLED his name! It is DAJUAN BOOKER.


One, not all those on TikTok are teens.

Two, TikTok has been a "thing" for about a year. When it is no longer a "thing" for whatever reason, the followers go back to Snapchat, Instagram, or the hot new thing, and TikTok winds up in the same spot as MySpace. In fact Dajuan has Facebook and Instagram.

Three, a large number of these people are NOT stateside, and Europeans, Canadians and Asians aren't supposed to vote in our elections.

Four, a larger number of the "teens" will not be of voting age on election day.

Five, of those 750,000, 675,000 are occasional or casual users. The world is heavily populated with marginal celebrities who claim millions of followers. Maybe. No big deal if they are.

Six, Dajuan has as many hits on Google for drug offenses as for his online presence. His followers weren't voting for Trump (those who have grown out of braces and training bras) any way. We don't WANT his favor.

Another nothingburger from somebody looking for something against Trump.
20 posted on 07/10/2020 7:48:00 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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