ICYMI - TikTok Is Back…Are We?
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4.2 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Candice Lim and Kate Lindsay make sense of TikTok’s surprise return, and what’s going on with the influencers who said goodbye to the app by sharing controversial secrets, only for it to come back the next day. Then, the pair debunk some of the social media conspiracy theories that have proliferated since the presidential inauguration.
This podcast is produced by Alexandra Botti, Daisy Rosario, Candice Lim, and Kate Lindsay.
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| 1:00.4 | And I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I. |
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| 1:07.7 | And Kate, how are we doing today? |
| 1:15.1 | Well, so the TikTok band went exactly who I feared it would, |
| 1:21.4 | which is things were wildly changing down to the last minute, starting with the ban, quote-unquote, |
| 1:26.7 | we'll get to that later, came early. Yeah, I mean, like on Saturday, I was doing my little nighttime routine, you know, |
| 1:28.5 | skincare, Bob's Burger's Kindle Time, and I like reach for my phone. It's TikTok time. I opened the |
| 1:33.4 | app at 7.53 p.m. Pacific, and TikTok was down. Yeah, I was wondering how they were going to |
| 1:39.4 | handle the time zones of Eastern, Central, Pacific, but it seems they avoided all of that by just |
| 1:44.9 | shutting the app off early. And by that, I mean, loading this little pop-up message when you |
| 1:49.3 | open the app that said, sorry, TikTok isn't available right now. Yeah. And then the weirder part of |
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