What is Tik Tok?
TikTok is the most popular addictive app that everybody can use to create, watch, and share a 15 second video. You can shoot from your phone, or any mobile device in the comfort of your home, car, job and even church. You can set it to music and use special effects to make it more to your individual style. You become the producer, director, and performer all at the same time.
The app was started by a Chinese tech company called Bytedance in 2016. It is available globally all over the world with over 1 billion daily users. Even with all this political pressure to shut it down, it still is the most popular app being used today.
In the beginning, it was mostly used by generation Y to do new dances, but since then; it has become a comedic relief, as well as self-help, informational, how to, beauty, fashion, finances, and even cooking. One of the most important aspects of TikTok is the promoting and selling of products, which are in the billions of dollars.
The company Bytedance is worth billions and TikTok is worth about 50 billion, so as you can see it’s really not about the Chinese stealing our secrets, but about them cash dollars.
In 2020, then President Orange one went on to attack the app, and said he would ban it, because the Chinese Communist Party could get information from the online users without their knowledge and use it against us, by spying on US citizens, but he came to that conclusion only AFTER they wouldn’t sell it to the United States.
A lot of companies are excited to be able to use this platform for their brand, because the old conventional way doesn’t work like it used to. Whereas with TikTok they can come up with a funny, entertaining sales pitch, set it with the music of their choice, and influence listeners to click on it, which helps it to go viral and have millions of people imitating their video all over the world in just a click of a mouse.
For example, Chipotle, NBA, and Elf used TikTok to post about their upcoming specials, and each got billions of hits to their surprise.
Which translates into millions of dollars. It’s about the dollar bill. Not the Chinese spying on us, but about getting control of this platform for their own greedy use. Don’t piss on me and say it’s raining; I won’t fall for that without some evidence.
TikTok also made about 80 million with in-app purchases. Now tell me again it’s about China spying on us. There is a lot of money involved. There are more than150 markets, over 35 languages with over 3.5 billion downloads worldwide, and it’s still growing, but not without some controversy about the use of this app.
TikTok has been banned in India, Pakistan, Indonesia, and Bangladesh, and judging by these countries you can see the similarities, and that is; they are countries being under control by their men dictators. In most of these countries’ women are not allowed to drive, go to the store alone, work, or go to school. So, I don’t find it completely shocking with them banning this app, because it gives people freedom, and we all know freedom is not exactly free.
So why are we banning it? Well let me clue yall in. It’s all about capitalism. Power, control, and money. These are at the forefront, but only for the elite 1%, and just as big a reason is to stop minorities from being able to compete with the big businesses in terms of advertising dollars.
Finally, I know now what my grandfather meant when he said that the world is gone to hell in a handbasket. When a social media app that has helped millions of people financially, mentally, and even sometimes spiritually, to make it through three long years in a deadly pandemic and the only conclusion they could come up with is that China is spying on us, I think not.. That makes no sense. It’s being banned on a false narrative and conclusion they came up with to justify their actions.
What harm can they do to us when we are watching a cooking show, or a father and his son dancing in suits, or a mother teaching us how to get cleaner clothes.
REALLY REALLY!
What it’s really about is cash money, dollar bills yall. There are billions of dollars at stake here, and the U.S. wants a piece of the pie or else.
Tik Tok has brought us joy, laughter, and peace of mind, with an urgent sense of normalcy to millions of people.
Tik Tok has taught people how to do things, helped made thousands of people a household name, and has helped to create an atmosphere of inclusion.
It has dominated the social constructs that were put in place to only entertain us, but never to teach us.
They didn’t expect us to see our similarities and become bound together on issues affecting us all.
They didn’t consider the fact that we would connect to people all over the world with similar ideologies.
So now they want to ban it, because they say that China is stealing secrets from the USA with this app. REALLY REALLY! They weren’t saying that when everything we had made in this country was made by China, but now you worried about Tik Tok.
THAT’S A BALD-FACED LIE!
Any excuse to stop the 99% from forming a more perfect union on issues that we all are dealing with, and finding out about stuff they have been hiding from us.
THAT’S THE REAL REASON!
The 1% know that if we, the 99% EVER realize that we are all in this together. Then we who are black or white, gay, or straight, young, or old, democrat or republican, man or woman, will know that together WE CAN make this world a better place for everybody.
So, they keep us divided with their lies, fear, and false rhetoric.
However, with that being said, I do have a problem with TikTok and that’s the content creators who have made their app so popular are not getting the credit or the bag they so rightly deserve, and I’m speaking about black people.
We took this app and made it our own and added to it by establishing it and making it cool to do. Why and how? Because!
WE ARE THE CULTURE, THE SWAG, THE SOUL, THE FLO. WE JUST NOT GETTING THE BAG. WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR.
As I stated above the 1% do not want to see black people with the same stuff they have. They are so scared that if we gain control of this world, they will be the second-class citizens that they have put everybody else in, and because of that there is that White Fear just like Roland Martin book talks about. White people know that we are a compassionate group of people, and they know that when we become established, we don’t mind bringing in other minorities.
They definitely don’t want minorities to have their own farms, land, houses, cars or property, and because of technology the minority people no longer need white people as managers to rip them off, because now they can just go on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Tik Tok, and become rich and famous, while keeping all the money to themselves. We have so many white influencers who are making millions on these platforms from black creators and even still, wouldn’t you know suddenly, the powers that be don’t like that, and that is why we are having so many problems with Facebook or Meta, you tube, Instagram.
I need to let yall know that is not the only reason we are having a problem with these platforms now.
It is a spiritual warfare. As long as it was ungodliness, profanity, sex, and drugs there was no problem, but now that a lot of preachers are using these platforms to introduce Jesus to people all over the world, now all these hiccups, all these problems, all these setbacks, and all these political shutdowns.
They shut down all the churches thinking that would stop Jesus word from going forth, but our Jesus is mighty and he used that Pandemic to invite even more people to his Father God, through the online virtual platform.
In the beginning, we as Black people came from Kings and queens, and even when we were slaves, we put our trust in Jesus and look how far we have gotten when we put our faith in Jesus.
GOD HAS ALREADY WON! WE GOT THE VICTORY!
LET’S GET BACK TO JESUS AND WATCH HIM WORK MIRACLES.
And stop letting technology, passwords and bots control our lives.
US Bill S. 686: The Restrict Act – 20 Years in Prison for VPN Use? This is what they are trying to pass in Congress.
NOW
What this means if you communicate with these adversaries: China, Cuba, Russia, Iran, Korea, just to name a few, In any way with your modem, wireless, or router you will get 20 years in prison. This bill is known as the TikTok ban. STAY WOKE