“Long live China, n*gga. Long live Xi Jinping, n*gga!”
This is how one influencer responded to the looming TikTok ban in a viral video with more than 8 million views. While perhaps unique in its eloquence, this reaction was sadly par for the course for how many members of Generation Z and TikTok users are handling their favored platform’s possible deletion.
The U.S. government is seeking to ban the app partly due to concerns that its parent company, ByteDance, is subject to the control and influence of the Chinese Communist Party. However, the young people in the United States who use TikTok simply don’t care. Not only that, but they are so upset about the ban that they are purposefully giving their data directly to the CCP in protest.
That’s not conjecture. It’s their openly stated rationale behind a mass switch to an alternative app called RedNote. As Wired
