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Welcome guys . If you guys are new here , my name is Anthony

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and I'm Janoka .

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. You did see that we recently announced

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we have baby number two on the way .

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Yes , you had a delay .

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You're not clapping , you're staring at the camera . I wasn't

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sure , and we posted a

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video about family reactions , so be sure to check

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that out as well . But what are we talking about

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today ? Tiktok is possibly going to be banned

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from America , possibly going

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to be banned from America , and recently the vote

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was a landslide , with Congress voting

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in favor to ban

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TikTok . They basically said

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that either the company sells

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it , I guess , to us us

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being America or it

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will be banned on all , like Apple , google

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Play . You won't be able to purchase it anymore . So

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I was saying , well

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, I

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said to Anthony , well , why would they sell this to us ? Like , how does that even ? Why would that

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make sense ? Are we the biggest consumers , we being Americans ? And like , maybe

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that's a good question . I have no idea of the stats

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, of the numbers , because , as we know , tiktok

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is a worldwide thing and the

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impact that that has . I know a lot of people were

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speaking about the impact that has on creatives

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and people that have blown up from

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TikTok and that we know from TikTok . What

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does that do to them and their following ? The

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hope is that they have built

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things outside of that , or

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that they at least have a YouTube or Instagram

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or just other ways , email

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list , that type of stuff that people can tap

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in with them if they do not

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. Um , that's kind

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of like a full change in finances in life

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. I saw a creative say follow

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us on snapchat which snapchat

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still around well , I've seen people coming back

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on snapchat . I was gonna say I saw people coming back on

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snapchat so I think it's becoming a bit more popular again

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, but I don't think it compares to instagram

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and tiktok at this point .

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But yeah , that's so . You asked

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why would ? Why would they sell ? So one of the reasons

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if if you're so , I

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my thing is I think we we don't

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want tiktok in the us unless

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we own it , because you said they

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want the data , like we have the meta

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, we have , like we have everything essentially

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that we need here and we don't get any

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data from , from tiktok , us

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being the us . So the

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way they built the tiktok platform is that

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they were like I , just like most platforms , they go through

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these cycles where they want to get as many

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users on there as possible . So , like

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when you first got on tiktok , you know , a couple years ago

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, you post something and you go viral like

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that was the thing , like they wanted , oh

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, you could get easy credibility . You get easy

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, um , I don't just walk

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.

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He never walks out because the doors usually close .

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I don't know go

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ahead as we record , like so

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you get easy credibility , easy

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fame , you know insta stats , whatever

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, and essentially

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people get on tiktok like yo I'm gonna blow up on here

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. So a lot of people kind of create their name from TikTok

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. So the problem

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is that we don't own any of that data in

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the US . You know , we're all about data . We want to control

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it , we want to manage it , we want to essentially use

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it for whatever we're going to use it for . So if

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China did , or

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the owner of TikTok or

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whoever it whether it's a personal , individual , team

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, company , whatever it's how to sell it to us , they

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would need to decide okay , well , I'm

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selling it to them because yeah , I'm selling

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it because us is my biggest market . If I can't be in my

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biggest market , I'm wrapping this thing up , and

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that would be the only reason they would sell it .

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Or they would just say f off us and keep this thing

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pushing now I I don't know

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that I feel like tiktok should oh

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necessarily be banned completely

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. However , I think there should be some regulations

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around it , simply because I feel I think

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I've mentioned this before me as an adult

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, I indulge in TikTok a lot and

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it is very , let's

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say , addicting . You can be on that thing . If you're

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not on TikTok , stay off . You could be on that thing

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forever because it just keeps going . It feeds to

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you exactly what you want to see and

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read and engage in . So I

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think that there should be some type of limitations , particularly

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with the kids , because I'm like , as adults , if we're

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doing this , what does this do to

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our children , teenagers , etc . Etc

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. So , in some form , there

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should be I don't know , a cut off , some

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something to control um

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tiktok in some capacity , but I guess

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, because America doesn't own it , they can't control

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anything .

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So they're like let's just ban it all together

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on top of what you said with the data part

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probably so why would it be up to TikTok

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to regulate your children's behavior , wouldn't that

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be ?

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on you . That's what you think .

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Wouldn't that be on you as a parent ? Yeah

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.

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But how much regulating are people able

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to do , really , when your kid may be at school eight hours

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a day ?

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There's not much regulating . Take it off their phone

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, block it Right .

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There's options there . There's options , but

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how much people one are really doing

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that and how much kids are

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actually sticking to that ?

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I think that if Alani

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got to the age where we had to regulate her social

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media . We would absolutely do that . It wouldn't

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be . I wouldn't expect TikTok or Facebook to put something

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in place that says a kid can only be on

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here eight hours . It would really be on us as parents .

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Some type of limitation . I mean , that's the same thing with YouTube

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, right ? I mean , people say that they're they're

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watching YouTube kids , and then the commercials

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are what you call it . The

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ads that come up are not for kids Technically . Who are you blaming then ? You blaming YouTube

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or you blaming yourself ?

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I'm blaming me , because if you go

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to YouTube for kids , youtube

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is kind of regulating a little bit , but you could set

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parameters on if you want to pay

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for not having commercials , you want the YouTube premium

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, you want all this other stuff . So I think

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, as parents , we would have to regulate that more than the

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application itself , because things are still going to slip through . Are

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you going to sit there and blame tiktok ?

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not forever . I don't agree that it's all

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on them , but I feel like , because of

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the way the platform is set up , it still

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should be something in place for kids , because

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that's another thing . How many people are

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children on their platform compared to adults or

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like young adults if you were 18 and younger

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, all that type of stuff ? So that's just a conversation

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, not , I don't feel like they should ban it because I actually

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love the app . I find it to be one of my

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favorite apps . It's basically twitter and tiktok

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for me , but um

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that's where we are at this point . I actually hate

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it well , you don't , you don't watch

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it , you don't hate it .

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That's a strong word . You don't hate it . I

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don't enjoy tiktok all , but

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you be on it . What do you mean ? I don't send you TikToks all

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the time . So I'm on

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TikTok because you send me videos , but I'm not on

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TikTok because I'm consuming content . I

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really , if you look on my app , let's actually pull it up right

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now .

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Well , we can't tell we're signing on to the same thing . No

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, I

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could go screen time , oh , and see how long , and see how long I actually spend on on tiktok

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. I go through waves . Sometimes it's like , oh , I'm over it , and then sometimes I'm like on it , on it this week , I think I'm

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on it .

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I go through waves of it website and activity

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instagram messages

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, mail x , youtube , nike

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run slack , facebook

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safari podcast photos . Whats

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Is that ?

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for this week or in general Threads

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music weather , my

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weather app .

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I'm on there longer than I'm on TikTok .

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My weather app .

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Whatever , if that gives you any

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indication on my time on TikTok

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.

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it says about five minutes a day , that's you , but

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the rest of the world is on it .

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Maybe not everybody . I'm on my weather app

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longer than I'm on a Tik TOK .

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What are you doing ? Checking just to run , probably

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with the weather app but either

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way that is what's happening

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in the world on Tik TOK .