TikTok

TikTok, also known by its Chinese counterpart, Douyin, is the official Chinese YouTube channel for the short-form content platform, , that uploads compilations from their own app.
==History==
===App===
On September 26, 2016, A.me was released by ByteDance, a parent company known for Toutaio, as a short-form educational videos platform after 200 days of developing the app. A.me had 100 million users in one year after its launch. In December 2016, The app was then renamed to "Douyin" and it became known for being one of Musical.ly's copycats at that time. On November 9, 2017, ByteDance acquired Musical.ly for $1 billion to merge with Flipagram into one app, which became known as "TikTok". Additionally, Facebook was supposed to buy Musical.ly but passed due to concern about the app's young user base. 
TikTok was then released under international markets and in September 2018, TikTok became the most downloaded app in the United States.
On September 27, 2021, the platform reached one billion users.https://twitter.com/tiktok_us/status/1442489722358620162
===Channel===
The channel used to be Musical.ly and was created on September 27, 2015. The channel uploaded their first video on August 3, 2018.
==Locations==
As of October 13, 2021, TikTok has operations on 5 different locations from their parent company ByteDance Ltd. These are:
*Bellevue, Washington, United States
*Culver City, California, United States
*Dublin, Ireland
*London, England, United Kingdom
*Singapore
==Controversy==
The platform is widely regarded as one of the most controversial and despised sites on the Internet. Despite its success and growth, it is generally hated by many people outside of the app for its nature and the user base's mentality in general. It has also been dubbed a "music killer" by many despite being a success for certain artists due to it portraying bad music as good, as well as users performing dances (which are always panned) to the song, which gives the song itself a bad image and reputation.
===TikTok ban===
On July 7, 2020, the U.S Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced that the government was considering a ban on TikTok for national security reasons, which had been the reason for TikTok's ban in other countries, such as India. On July 31, 2020, the President of the United States at the time, Donald Trump, ordered TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, to divest ownership of TikTok. Nothing came of it until September 2020, when the Trump administration was expected to ban the apps TikTok and WeChat from app storeshttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/business/trump-tik-tok-wechat-ban.html. To avoid a U.S ban, ByteDance began talks with computer software company Oracle, about transferring some control of TikTok to the company. However, talks fell through, and the ban was scheduled for September 20, 2020. On September 19, ByteDance challenged the ban, citing the ban was for "political reasons" rather than security concerns, postponing the ban for a week. On September 23, 2020, ByteDance moved to prevent the ban, which was approved on September 27.
Over the ordeal, Trump was met with both backlash and support, with many supporting the ban as they accused TikTok of being Chinese spyware, while others accused Trump of censoring TikTok to avoid losing the 2020 presidential election and/or to punish TikTok users for criticizing him.
In June 2021, President Joe Biden revoked the ban and instead proposed an investigation of TikTok. In light of the Facebook controversies of October 2021, TikTok told American lawmakers that it did not give data to China.
The app was going to be banned in Montana, however a federal judge blocked the ban before it could be taken into effect as of 2024. https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/17/tech/montana-governor-tiktok/index.html
===Devious licks===
The devious lick trend started on September 6, 2021, by a user on TikTok, with someone pulling out a soap dispenser, with the following text, "only a month into school and got this absolute devious lick."https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl0871hchCs While some people made memes about the trend, most high school and college students actually stole school supplies. Some news channels talked about the trend, which includes Fox News, NBC2 News, and more.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzuFOeITSY0https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbw4H7Ukeq8 Due to the trend, some schools shut down their bathrooms and arrested students who participated.
A few days later, TikTok banned videos related to the trend and banned the phrase from their search.https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/787409119270797323/899396908928344134/unknown.png
==Subscriber milestones==
==References==
Category:Film YouTubers
Category:Vlogging YouTubers
Category:Music YouTubers
Category:Tech YouTubers
Category:News YouTubers
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Category:Users who joined in 2015