As the TikTok Ban comes into affect in the US, American TikTokers hold out hope.
Roger Stringer Last night, Bytedance removed all of their apps from the US apps stores:
- TikTok
- Lemon8
- CapCut
- Marvel Snap
- Gauth
- Hypic
- Lark
They also shut down their US servers aka "going dark" as they put it.
The wording of their message displayed to US users means they think the ban is temporary and that they hold out hope that Donald Trump will uphold his election promises of not banning TikTok after his inauguration.
Considering the TikTok ban began with Trump in 2020, chances are extremely good that if the ban is reversed, it will be temporary and again be as long as they are sold to an American-based company.
Of the companies bidding to buy TikTok, Perplexity AI is one of the more promising offers.
The new structure proposed by Perplexity would allow for most of ByteDance’s existing investors to retain their equity stakes and would bring more video to Perplexity, the source said, requesting anonymity because the matter is confidential.
TikTok did not immediately respond to requests for comment. New Capital Partners could not be immediately reached.
Perplexity AI believes its bid may succeed since the proposal is a merger rather than a sale, the person said.
Meanwhile, non-US based TikTok users woke up to a very different app experience Sunday morning as the faces they usually see had vanished.