TikTokers are dealing with the app’s potential ban with an uncommon pattern: by bidding farewell to their “private Chinese spy.” The pattern, which pokes enjoyable at safety issues surrounding the app, has customers thanking their “spy” for surveilling them and filling their For You web page with entertaining content material, whereas others proclaim that they’d moderately share their information straight with the Chinese authorities than change to Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts.
One put up, which garnered greater than 1.5 million likes, depicts an emotional scene from Squid Game with the caption, “Me saying goodbye to my Chinese spy on the nineteenth (He perfected my algorithm).” Other TikTokers are talking — and singing — in Chinese, whereas some fake to be the “spies” powering particular person algorithms.
“It is a superb honor to spy on you for the previous few years,” TikToker yanxiao1003 says in a video. “I want you all have an awesome life sooner or later… Laura from California, you shouldn’t drink that a lot Coca-Cola, it’s dangerous on your well being.”
