Posted on 07/10/2020 7:22:41 AM PDT by Stravinsky
TikTok fans are retaliating for Trumps threats of banning the app, which is owned by Chinas 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 youre 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 apps rating, notching 5.6 million views. Gen Z dont go down without a fight, said Booker, who goes by @unusualbeing on TikTok. Lets 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 dont 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 Trumps app a one-star.
This is the first year Ill be able to vote and I think activism on TikTok is going to make a big difference, Jackson said.
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When it comes to national or even personal security what does a teen know or even care?
Biggest effect it’s had on Trump to date is that it apparently served as an organizing platform for punks wanting to disrupt his Tulsa rally.
Hope they’ve got the countermeasures in place for New Hampshire.
SHELLY BANJO AND MISYRLENA EGKOLFOPOULOU
Wtf? Haha!
I know a guy whose daughter went to China last year.
Before leaving she had to get an entirely separate phone and load it with the “approved” ChiCom apps because virtually nothing on her existing phone was permitted there, and she needed some way to communicate with people back home.
That phone should have its data plan turned off.
This is what happen when. You have a 12 year old mentality and a 3 year old dinky
TikTok is like an electronic drug, beckoning “entertainment” if you will but look and listen to the sinister stuff lurking underneath. These 19 and 18 year olds bleating about the potential banning of this electronic WEAPON—there, I said it-—are perfect examples of libtard-raised mentally deformed individuals. Their internal moral compass was replaced with a willingness to hear the latest message from their lefty puppetmasters and mindlessly parrot it. Throw your stupid TikTok transmitter away, get out of your basement and go do something useful! Take a walk, visit an elderly person, volunteer at an animal shelter. Have a life, stop being a programmed little drone idiot.
Ive heard from many here that trumps campaign will win in a landslide. We dont answer polls seems to be the reason. Dont worry, all is good has been mentioned often.
Where the Trump administration made their mistake was talking about it. They should have just made it stop working.
Aww, spoiled Stalinazi brats and snots won’t have a Communist Chinese platform to spew their garbage on. Boo hoo.
Of course the teen don’t even weigh the fact that they are being spied on. The current level of brainwashing of the youth is through the roof. Unless they become woke somehow then they are the biggest threat to this country that there ever was. As a nation we cannot survive as they come into power.
Dumb American girls are the useful idiots of Chinese communists. Little traitors.
I’ve encountered this issue with Millenial family members who present me with stuff like Alexa or Ring doorbells as gifts. I inform them that I would not have these creepy spy devices in my home and none of what I am saying appears to register in the least.
They are opening themselves up for doxxing & bullying in the present. When they come of age their videos will hamper them from jobs, insurance coverage, credit, political office, etc.
I just installed a Ring doorbell out front to deter porch pirating and another out back because of my creepy neighbor (long story there). But not using them inside the house.
Except that these “movements” are entirely overestimated in size. The media does this to create apathy on our side.
“TikTok is our clubhouse”
Your clubhouse is a fire hazard. Get out. Here comes the wrecking ball.
Teens? Those under 18 are too young to vote, just like dead people are supposed to be off the roles.
No miracle. You can’t cheat except in close elections. This will not be close. Trump will win in a landslide.
so is Zoom
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