Yup every top comment on TikTok now is almost always the most divisive shit. I assume they’re doing the equivalent of reddits “sort by controversial”. It changed as soon as it came back.

Of course it was about Israel

The thing that will kill this is forcing users to migrate to a new app. Removing the largest friction barrier that prevents people from leaving your app by forcing them to cross it is a great way to scatter the TikTok userbase to the four winds.

I hope this kills TikTok, and that the people who enjoyed using it remember who was responsible for it.

China doesn’t have to do a thing because Douyin is already maintained separately for the Chinese market.

Nobody really wanted to grapple with the reality. They just saw "Chinese investors mean Communist propaganda means Americans most be protected from the thing". Then Cold War brainrot kicked in and that was that.

A country that fumbles this hard doesn't deserve to exist.