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TikTok Officially Goes Dark Just Hours Before United States Ban
TikTok is present to stay—for now.
With conscionable 1 time earlier the app’s prohibition was expected to spell into effect, if China-based ByteDance was incapable to merchantability U.S. operations of the app to an approved buyer, President Donald Trump has extended the deadline.
“My Administration has been moving precise hard connected a Deal to SAVE TIKTOK, and we person made tremendous progress,” Trump wrote connected his app, Truth Social, April 4. “The Deal requires much enactment to guarantee each indispensable approvals are signed, which is wherefore I americium signing an Executive Order to support TikTok up and moving for an further 75 days.”
He aboriginal added, “We bash not privation TikTok to ‘go dark.’ We look guardant to moving with TikTok and China to adjacent the Deal. Thank you for your attraction to this matter!”
Just 2 days earlier, it was reported that Jeff Bezos’ Amazon had emerged arsenic a imaginable customer, a idiosyncratic acquainted with the ongoing discussions told NBC News.
According to the outlet, Amazon’s bid was delivered successful a missive addressed to Vice President JD Vance and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick, nevertheless due to the fact that the connection was received lone days earlier the deadline, it was reportedly not considered a superior bid.
TikTok already went acheronian earlier this year connected January 19, aft the institution didn’t adhere to authorities passed nether erstwhile President Joe Biden. The lack was short-lived, however, erstwhile Trump extended ByteDance’s deadline by 75 days connected his archetypal time successful office.
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The enforcement bid that extended the deadline besides included acquisition for the lawyer wide to not enforce penalties for net work providers and app stores similar Google and Apple for continuing to big and supply services for TikTok.
Since taking office, Trump has been adamant successful his determination to support TikTok unrecorded successful the United States.
“We person a batch of imaginable buyers,” the 78-year-old told reporters March 30. “There’s tremendous involvement successful TikTok.”
While noting the last telephone connected the merchantability is going to beryllium his “decision,” Trump added, “TikTok is precise interesting. A batch of radical privation to bargain it.”
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While Trump projected assurance up of the April 5 deadline, his vice president acknowledged the intricacies of specified a large concern deal.
“Typically, immoderate of these deals that are overmuch smaller and impact overmuch little superior instrumentality months to close,” Vance told NBC News March 14. “We’re trying to adjacent this happening by aboriginal April. I deliberation that the outlines of this happening volition beryllium precise clear. The question is whether we tin get each the insubstantial done.”
While we await a determination connected TikTok’s future, support speechmaking to spot however overmuch wealth influencers marque from posting connected the app, arsenic good arsenic different societal media platforms.
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Sophie Rain
The OnlyFans exemplary revealed that she made implicit $43 cardinal successful conscionable 1 twelvemonth connected the big subscription platform. In fact, she adjacent shared screenshots of her net from November 2023 to November 2024, which included a $4.7 cardinal paycheck from 1 subscriber alone.
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JoJo Siwa
The Dance Moms alum revealed that she made "six digits a month, easy" connected YouTube videos arsenic a 13-year-old. She added successful the 2024 documentary Child Star that she present posts up to 300 times a time connected Snapchat arsenic portion of her influencing career.
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Chris Olsen
The TikToker revealed he has a nett worthy of implicit 7 figures.
"You guys tin support calling maine annoying," helium quipped successful a July 2024 video. "Being annoying has made maine a millionaire."
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Jeffree Star
The constitution creator revealed helium earns $50,000 erstwhile helium hosts a TikTok live—which helium does 4 oregon 5 times a week—through selling cosmetics and gifting from fans.
"I'll marque bacon successful the greeting and marque $50,000," Jeffree told the Cancelled podcast successful November 2024. "There's immoderate times wherever I don't merchantability astatine all, and I'll conscionable marque bacon successful my kitchen, successful my bathrobe, successful my small slippers, we'll conscionable bent retired and I'll conscionable chat and I'll bash a Q&A."
Other times, he's making slope by offering discounts connected his ain branded constitution products.
"It's a niche marketplace but it's massive," helium added. "We're the No. 1 oregon 2 quality store."
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Lily Phillips
The OnlyFans model—who made headlines successful December 2024 for sleeping with 101 men successful 1 day—told E! News that she earns a "good amount" disconnected of creating NSFW contented connected the subscription-based platform.
As for a ballpark figure, she said, "Oh, we're successful the millions."
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Markell Washington
Markell—known for his creation videos—told Salary Transparency Street successful 2023 that helium earns betwixt $500,000 and $700,000 a year, mostly from marque deals and Snapchat's mid-roll program.
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Deepti Vempati and Natalie Lee
After appearing connected Netflix's dating amusement Love Is Blind in 2022, the brace pivoted to societal media stardom and said they each made $500,000 successful little than 2 years arsenic influencers.
Julia
The ASMR influencer—known arsenic @itsblitzzz connected YouTube —admitted successful January 2024 that she scores astir $56,400 a twelvemonth connected advertisement gross from aged videos, without creating caller content.
She's made implicit $610,000 successful 14 years connected the level successful advertisement gross alone, with little than a cardinal subscribers.
King Caitlin ASMR
The ASMR creator shared that she made $3,948.05 connected TikTok successful September 2024 (with astir 400,000 followers) and $910.95 connected YouTube successful the aforesaid period (with astir 27,000 subscribers).
Makayla Samountry
The Minnesota YouTuber made implicit $193,000 connected the big level OnlyFans from January 2020 to December 2022, she shared successful a Medium article.
Morgan Presley
As explained connected The Really Good Podcast successful 2023, the contented creator has scored $50,000 connected a azygous sponsored video.
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Gigi Robinson
The chronic unwellness advocator told Salary Transparency Street successful 2023 that she earns astir $150,000 a twelvemonth with little than 40,000 Instagram followers.
Ben Brainard
The comedian charges betwixt $5,000 and $10,000 for a sponsored video, helium told Salary Transparency Street.
Kamillah Rae
The YouTuber shared that she made $4,746.94 from monetization connected the level from August 2023 to January 2024 (from a full of 923,700 video views), with nether 30,000 subscribers.
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