Heartbroken TikTokers are going cuckoo.
Customers of the now defunct social app nationwide are mourning its loss early Sunday, after the favored video-sharing platform went darkish for its 170 million American customers within the face of a authorized US ban.
“ITS GONE TIKTOK IS GONE,” one consumer posted to X with a gif of somebody nervously smoking.
A podcaster with greater than 1.8 followers named iJustine helped lead the hysteria on X: “It’s been 15 minutes and I’m already going through TikTok withdrawals. THIS IS A CRIME.”
Mikayla Nogueira, a make-up influencer with 16 million TikTok followers, stated she retains clicking to open the app out of behavior forgetting it doesn’t work.
“Mentally I am totally dissociating right now I’m crashing out BAD LOL,” she wrote in an Instagram story. “This can’t be f—g real.”
The net freak out started after TikTok went darkish within the US earlier than 11 p.m., and customers had been greeted with a message that stated: “Sorry TikTok isn’t available right now” and the positioning was in any other case unusable.
“TikTok was just removed from the App store,” Republican State Delegate Sarah Fields posted to X. “The US Government has unconstitutionally silenced millions of voters.”
“Tiktok is gone and im already having withdrawals,” one other consumer posted.
“It’s been 15 minutes and I’m already going through TikTok withdraws,” a podcaster with greater than 1.8 followers stated. “THIS IS A CRIME.”
“TIKTOK IS GONE NOOOOO,” one other consumer posted.
Earlier than it went down, customers started to precise heartbreak and #SaveTikTok trended.
TikTok’s shutdown was broadly anticipated after the Supreme Court docket on Friday unanimously upheld Congress’s regulation that required the platform’s Chinese language-owned dad or mum firm to divest its stake within the firm by Jan. 19 or face a nationwide ban, rejecting TikTok’s attraction that the choice violates the First Modification.
Below the regulation, service suppliers like Google and Apple should cease permitting new downloads of TikTok after the ban takes impact – with potential fines of $5,000 per consumer in the event that they don’t comply.
As of midnight, the app was faraway from Google and Apple shops.
Bipartisan members of Congress and the Justice Division have alleged that TikTok, owned by Beijing-based ByteDance, poses a nationwide safety risk.
TikTok has denied the allegations.
The app’s future now rests within the arms of President-elect Donald Trump, who returns to the White Home on Monday and has vowed to “save” the app, which he has credited with serving to him win in November.
Trump advised NBC Information on Saturday that he would “most likely” give TikTok a 90-day extension to work out a deal.
