He is saying: hey guys, if only you would implement this more rationally and carefully? Pretty please? Why does he think anyone in the Administration would listen to this? If they were inclined to do so, they wouldn't have come up with this policy in the first place

Yeah I know about the detailed Project 2025 plans. But these "executive orders" are so sloppily drafted they don't even make sense in terms of the supposed goals of Project 2025. It's not clear in many cases what the orders are even ordering. It's at least for now partly incompetence IMO

Eh, I don't know. Yes, there is a strategy to it, and many years of planning, but there is also chaos due to incompetence

I have had TikToks hit a million views for no reason whatsoever I can fathom. I've made zero effort to gain followers or go viral. I post about random topics that are completely unrelated. But I don't think I'll ever become a "big account" even if TikTok isn't banned because I don't cater to the 8

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Okay, and now the servers are back up. But app is gone from app stores still.

I thought about that. I have a Korean Apple ID I use to download Korean App Store apps that have no US App Store representation. I won't be able to access my account or followers but I guess I could start over with a Korean identity

It was kind of eerie. It's not like it went totally dark for me instantly. I was able to watch videos for a while, that had been cached. I even could read comments. Then I clicked on a creator profile and it was empty. I can still play about 25 videos from my account but can no longer download them.

Thanks a lot! We'll see how it goes. For now, just posting to my 10 followers on YouTube. I might see if my account is still accessible in South Korea, where I lived when I first started TikTok

Los Angeles also didn't burn to the ground. I've seen people posting "I've always wanted to visit Los Angeles and now it's too late". It is a horrific tragedy and so many people lost their homes. But there are 3,000,000 structures in LA county and 10,000 of them burned. City still here