TikTok users are scrambling during the app’s final hours
CNN
Some users are holding out hope that TikTok won’t be banned forever. Others are saving their videos and saying goodbye in the app’s final hours.
TikTok users who procrastinated in saving their favorite videos have been doing some last-minute housecleaning with the app set to shut down. On Friday, the Supreme Court upheld a ban on TikTok over concerns about its ties to China. Hours later, TikTok announced it would “go dark” on Sunday at 12:01 a.m. ET. Many TikTok users were coming to grips with the idea that their time on the app might be coming to a close. Users have also celebrated their time on the app by editing TikTok recaps and compilations of viral moments as far back as 2018. It wasn’t just typical users saying goodbye. Entertainment company Lionsgate made an edit to “The Hunger Games” with the caption, “currently crashing out.” One user posted that she was recently hired to create TikTok content for a company. “Who’s gonna tell my new boss,” she said. Employees running company TikTok accounts, including Gatorade, Diet Coke, Disney on Ice and Fanatics, commented from those companies’ accounts that they had similar thoughts. REI’s TikTok account commented: “How long until they actually check though?”
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