On Saturday, TikTok users in the United States passed on the app for what could be its final hours after the Supreme Court upheld a law requiring ByteDance, TikTok’s parent company. Chinese father, selling the app from Sunday or otherwise is prohibited.
The demand seems low, at least by TikTok’s standards.
Alix Earle, a content creator with 7.2 million followers who rise to fame on the app in 2022posted tearful videos on the platform.
Mrs. “I feel like I’m in pain,” Earle wrote in. a video. “This platform is more than an app or a job for me. I have many memories here. I have posted every day for the last 6 years of my life. I have taught my friends , family, relationships, personal struggles, secrets.”
Mrs. Earle added that he was “in denial” about the ban. He is not the only one.
In the days leading up to the Supreme Court’s decision, the voice of the app is fun and even optimistic that many users do not believe that TikTok, a platform with 170 million people used in the United States, may be prohibited.
Some users have reported satirical videos gambling for their Chinese spies, a game of TikTok jokes in which every American has been chosen as an agent of the Chinese government to spy on them through the app. Others have given advice on how to use a virtual private network in hopes of bypassing restrictions.
Friday, Supreme Court jointly hold the law which effectively banned TikTok in the United States. After the order, the feeling of the app began to change. While some users are still laughing, others start posting more seriously.
“There’s a lot of emotion and memories there,” Marc D’Amelio said of the app in an interview this week. In 2020, his daughter Charli D’Amelio became the most popular TikTok user in the world for posting videos of her dancing in her home, reaching 100 million followers. This week, he posted a few of his old dance videos and followers left comments lamenting the end of the era.
“Finished what we started,” many commentators wrote of Ms. D’Amelio’s videos, making his role one of the most popular stars on the platform.
Other users have posted good addresses, thanking fans and viewers and mentioning other social media sites that they still have, such as Instagram and YouTube. (To some extent, that includes the Chinese video platform called Red Note which has become popular in recent days.)
Even through the sadness, TikTok’s brand of humor has emerged.
Markell Washington, a 27-year-old content creator in Los Angeles, hosted one mocking the funeral for the app in his house with a group of friends. He turned his coffee table into a small coffin, cut out the big TikTok logo from the poster and put it inside. He bought 50 red roses from a grocery store and lit candles to light up the place. The group dressed in black along with Mr. Washington, who spoke highly of the app.
But the fall of TikTok is not a lie, Mr. Washington said. Before finding success on the app, he worked at a Subway sandwich shop. The app gave him “financial freedom,” he said. Since Friday’s decision, the vibes of the app have become “authentic and emotional,” he said, referring to Ms. Earle’s tear film.
“It has affected me, but it doesn’t seem real because it has had such an impact on my life,” Mr. Washington said. Washington said. “It’s like losing a relative.”