Social Media Can’t Stop Joking About The TikTok Ban, Sparking These 30 Brilliant Memes
Tick-tock, tick-tock, time is running out. The fate of short-form video app TikTok will become clear on January 19th, which, at the time of writing, is only three days away. If its owner, Chinese internet company ByteDance, that is seen as a threat to national security, doesn’t sell it to a non-Chinese buyer, the app will be banned in the US.
Its 170 million American users are feeling mixed emotions about this whole situation, which they poured into memes, flooding the Internet with them. Bored Panda has compiled a list of the best ones you can check out below. While you scroll through, make sure to also leave your own thoughts in the comments, telling us if you’d be sad seeing TikTok go.
We also reached out to certified information privacy professional and director of the Internet Ethics Program at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Irina Raicu, who kindly agreed to talk with us more about the risks TikTok poses to our data security.