the tiktok exodus is widely known! for those of you who don’t know, i am in high school. i can’t count with my hands how many people have talked about it, and that’s just in the two classes i had yesterday (exam week, yay). i’ve already gotten 2 people to download it. they both made accounts and use it now! it’s broken the niche internet thing into the real world, at the very least for young people.
on the app front, lots of americans are posting things like “we’ve been lied to, china isn’t that bad!” i’ve come across so many americans learning about chinese culture and responding positively to patriotic or socialist posts from chinese netizens. it’s insane, i’m really amazed at how, for at least a good chunk of americans, china is becoming less demonized.
Yes, but that would mean the US gov would be competent, which they are demonstrating they are not. I believe it is more likely they will take the knee jerk reaction to ban the app, and the Supreme Court has already upheld the TikTok ban. We’ll see what happens, but I see this as a major win regardless. The damage has been done. People will not be able to unrealize the propaganda they’ve been fed.