TikTok Teens Mobilizing Against Trump Over Threatened Ban Of Their Social Network
Angry users of the popular TikTok video social network are hitting back at the Trump administration over a threatened ban of the digital operation by whacking Donald Trump’s own campaign app with savage reviews.
President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he was considering prohibiting TikTok, which is owned by China’s Bytedance Ltd., to punish China for its role in the spread of COVID-19, which the president has referred to as the “Wuhan flu” and even the racist “kung flu.” “Look, what happened with China with this virus, what they’ve done to this country and to the entire world is disgraceful,” he told Greta Van Susteren in an interview Tuesday.
Trump’s threat followed by just weeks TikTok users’ mobilization against his poorly attended campaign rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Users boasted they were in part responsible for a largely empty arena because they flooded Trump’s campaign site with fake requests for tickets to the event.
The retaliation against Trump got a boost Wednesday when popular TikTok user DeJuan Booker (@unusualbeing) called his 750,000 followers to action, Bloomberg was the first to report. He explained how to ding the Trump campaign app with a single-star rating.
“Gen Z don’t go down without a fight,” he told his followers. “Let’s go to war.“
Spread the word
The app had a feeble 1.2 rating average from 227,000 reviews on the Apple store as of Thursday night. “Horrible president, horrible app,” noted one review among a sea of one-star ratings.
Another read: “OMG PLZ DON’T DOWNLOAD.” Another bashed the app, adding: “I promise this isn’t another one of those ‘tik tok’ reviews.”
The TikTokkers hope the bad reviews will persuade Apple to remove the campaign app, but unpopularity isn’t enough to delete an app, according to Bloomberg. Still, the scathing reviews make for interesting reading.
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