ICYMI: TikTok Is Back…Are We?

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🗓️ 25 January 2025

⏱️ 34 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. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:12.8	That sounds like a great movie.
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0:17.7	Oh yeah.
0:18.4	I knew that.
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0:24.0	When you take out a qualifying product to compare the market, one membership per year,
0:27.0	participating cinemas, two standard tickets, only cheap as free. T's and Cs apply. Hey, I'm Candice Limb.
0:45.6	And I'm Kate Lindsay, and you're listening to I-C-Y-M-I.
0:48.7	In case you missed it.
0:50.3	Slate's podcast about internet culture.
0:52.8	And Kate, how are we doing today?
0:56.2	Well, so the TikTok ban went exactly who I feared it would, which is things were wildly
1:02.4	changing down to the last minute, starting with the ban, quote on quote, we'll get to that
1:07.5	later, came early.
1:09.4	Yeah, I mean, like on Saturday, I was doing my little
1:12.0	nighttime routine, you know, skincare, Bob's Burger's Kindle Time, and I like reach for my phone.
1:17.3	It's TikTok time. I opened the app at 7.53 p.m. Pacific. And TikTok was down.
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