Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "TIKTOK BAN - EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW"

Episode Date: December 31, 2024

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticAnalytic Dreamz breaks down the impending deadline for TikTok in the U.S., set for January 19, 2025, where the app faces removal from app stores unless ByteDance divests or wins its legal battle. This segment explores the ban's implications, including the cessation of updates for existing users, potential dysfunction over time, and the blocking of TikTok by U.S. internet service providers. Analytic Dreamz details the legislative journey, from Congress's enactment of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act to the D.C. Court of Appeals' recent decision not to pause the law, highlighting ByteDance's last hope with the Supreme Court. The segment also unpacks national security concerns, contrasting them with political shifts, notably Donald Trump's evolving stance on TikTok. With 170 million U.S. users at stake, Analytic Dreamz discusses the possible outcomes, from ByteDance selling TikTok to a U.S. buyer, to a Supreme Court intervention, or facing the full impact of the ban.Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

All right, let's talk about TikTok. Taking that legal battle to the U.S. Supreme Court, the federal government has ordered the Chinese own app to shut down or be sold to an American company by January 19th, citing national security concerns. Analytic Dreams video on Spotify to see the video along with the audio, because ladies and gentlemen, it is finally here. After covering this topic extensively with it starting, really, all the way back in November, when TikTok, and Billboard was teaming up to launch a top 50 songs chart, right? So ultimately, TikTok was building up a lot of leverage in the U.S. economy to the point where the biggest music label in the world jumped out of the woodworks and was basically saying, hey, how about you pay us more to have our artists on your platform?

Because we basically don't like the amount of leverage you have. TikTok was like, we don't have to pay y'all. We have everybody in the world. guess what you you m g left took all of his artists taylor swift drake post malone all of them included right and then after taylor swift being the biggest gangster in the industry basically told umg that she was going to pull what she did towards screw de brine if umg didn't reinstate all those umg acts on ticot coincidentally that whole debacle was smooth over and the UMG artist was able to come back to TikTok.

Following that, and this is all on my podcast, so as far as TikTok analytic dreams, it should pop up on whatever podcast platform you listen on. Following that in March, TikTok now has beef, not with the biggest music label in the world, but now they have beef with the biggest government in the world. As US came out and was like,

hey, we have a bill that could pass if you don't divest to U.S. companies. As far as the specific operations of TikTok in the United States, if you don't divest that in the algorithm to a U.S. company, we have a bill that could potentially ban TikTok. This was when it was speculative. It was literally saying House passes bill that could ban TikTok, but it had a lot more loopholes to jump through, right?

And then it basically got through all of the loophole. And then TikTok is to the point where they realize the U.S. is actually serious. They're not bluffing like UMG was. They've went through all the levels of getting this bill passed to the point where now TikTok is basically showing up to court to try everything possible to delay the shutdown that could potentially happen. January 19th, 2025. So to put in a concise fashion, basically TikTok is going to be banned, right? Unless they divest to an American buyer or succeed in the U.S. legal battle. Which one of y'all things going to happen?

Either they divest or they get banned. They're not winning in this case. It's in the U.S. It's a case in the U.S. I know we talk about, oh, the justice system is going to provide justice. But the whole time, the people behind the scenes pull the strings. So the justice is what they say it is. We don't care that we have Instagram and Twitter doing the same thing.

You specifically are going to divest to US or else. So basically, that's what TikTok's at. So they're going to get banned unless they're going to get banned unless they, divest. I am predicting that if they don't divest, I believe it may be a hot, hot take. I do believe United States do not want to take down TikTok. They like the way that the ecosystem has turned a lot of brains into zombies, right? The whole purpose of social media was really to connect with the outer world, but you know, out of your region, things in their nature to make it easier to connect with people. The social media.

now is everybody faking a lifestyle and having all type of detrimental mental health effects of too much consumption of social media because they're looking at a life that's already fabricated but now they're trying to implement

that and fall into depression when they can't live up to that false picture of what people put on social media because if you don't know if TikTok ends up getting banned it's going to be a lot of repercussions from that

because currently they have 170 million US users which means this will disrupt a lot of people's mental health now of course their mental health shouldn't be tied to social media in the first place but hey we are in 2024 you can easily

through conversation tell whose mind has been corrupted by TikTok there's a reason why there's things such as TikTok brain and also one of the main reasons that I'm proud that the podcast is successful because I ain't going to lie to you. As far as social media, I have not figured that out as far as figuring out how to get people's short attention span to pay attention to social media clips. So as far as notorious mass effect, I'm glad that everybody comes back week after week to tune in because I'm not going to lie. Those social media platforms, I ain't figured it out yet. So as far as long

forum content seems like I have something working for me but as far as short forum obviously you know clips go viral here and there but as far as consistently I just think the frying of attention spans basically makes it impossible to keep people's attention for longer than like 10 seconds on a social media platform anyways so with that being said TikTok will remain usable for the duration of time until January 20 25, right? And then the U.S. came out, because I believe they said something to, it says something to Apple, I believe.

Because the U.S. came out. I don't think I have it on here. But I remember they told Apple and Google, I believe. Oh, yeah. Okay. So they told Apple and Google to prepare for TikTok's removal for the app stores, which is definitely like a that's like a villainous tactics i'm not going to lie to you who in the world comes out like hey you better be prepared to take that down like my brother i'm pretty sure they've seen the

news i'm pretty sure they're ready so as far as the u.s saying that i think is another one of their marketing tactics to let bite dan's know like hey we are serious we will take you completely off of united states soil if you do not divest into our u.s companies now that does that that that that does bring another interesting tidbit into the freight. So as far as the use of a VPN, I do believe certain content creators that majority make their income from that specific platform may go to those methods. That is something that I believe won't come to fruition because I do believe if the U.S. is going to forcefully take it or that sounds so crazy or a bite dance is going to sell. I don't assume U.S. really wants to take TikTok down.

I believe they do want to see how in the world TikTok's algorithm is set up. So when push comes to shove, I wouldn't be surprised if they just run up in there and take it. So TikTok's algorithm is probably one of the more valuable marketing systems in the past five years. Because for musicians, you can have a track that came out in like 2017. 2019 and basically if you blow up on ticot you might as well have dropped it in in that day right well on that day because now it has a brand new life from a track that's already been out and had no traction but now tic tic ticc picked it up organically and now it's just having millions upon millions of listeners because that's the type of impact tic tic tq has on a lot of independent musicians now

you would say that doesn't instagram youtube twitter do the same thing technically it does but as far as the powers that be having more manipulative hands on the algorithm it's a little harder and i wonder why that is i wonder why ticto's algorithm is more independent friendly as far as people blowing up than instagram twitter or don't let me get started so anyways The algorithm is the main thing I believe the U.S. wants. They don't care for TikTok. They care for the tool that the algorithm has been working on because that's the most valuable asset for what they want

as far as into the offer or not even the offer. The potential ban to avoid that. Basically divest your algorithm to one of our, to basically a U.S. buyer, right? So that's what TikTok is facing. the U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. denied Bight Dances' request for a pause on the law. No, did he? Leaving the company reliant on a potential Supreme Court intervention. Now, the main things is still the main thing. TikTok is going to be banned January 19, 2025.

Objectively speaking, the government is saying they will ban TikTok. in U.S. app stores starting January 19th, 2025. Think of Flappy Bird, bond a whole, well, yeah, it's the same as Flappy Bird, just like a social media platform instead of a one-off viral game. So that's basically it. I mean, for the main thing that you should take away,

I do believe that the U.S. wants to keep TikTok's algorithm. I do not believe they will let TikTok, go to the wayside without figuring out how in the world did TikTok's algorithm work and how can we get it under our control because either they're going to shut it off completely or they're going to control it and I'm willing to bet they would prefer to control it whether it's by force or by them divesting into a U.S. company. So with that being said, TikTok has to January 19th, 2025 and in alternative route if the Supreme court intervenes that is the hell Mary of Hail Mary's as far as being able to intervene to gain TikTok a reprieve

right so yeah man TikTok's in a sticky situation and I don't know if they can dance their way out of it so with that being said click my link to you in my bio Let me know one of my social medias. What do you think about TikTok being threatened by the U.S. to potentially be banned by January 19, 2025, unless Bight Dance, which is the company that owns TikTok, sells the app to an American buyer. And ultimately, who do you think, or what do you think will happen? And what do you think is going to be the ultimate outcome to this whole entire fiasco?