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Steffi Cao

TikTok’s Near-Death Experience

It was like a party at the end of the world. Before TikTok’s owner, ByteDance, pulled the plug on the app last night—getting ahead of the official ban in the United States, which took effect today—the app’s most devoted users were going overboard. I watched someone with their hand up a Kermit puppet having (or maybe just performing) an emotional breakdown over the app’s impending demise, the frog’s mouth gaping toward the ceiling on livestream.