Last night was rough without Tik Tok lulling me to sleep.
I was one of the unlucky few whose app was shut down a day earlier than the scheduled tonight.
I tried the Red Note app, that Tik Tokers are migrating to, but didn’t like it.
There are not the Crazy Karen videos I so enjoyed, the dance tutorials, the movie shorts, the Korean boy band performances — like BTS and Stray Kids, no jump scare videos, a few but not many odes to Luigi Mangione, and missing are a myriad of all the other fun things I’d so enjoyed on Tik Tok.
Red Note is too civilized, a "let’s be polite" community …… boring.
I couldn’t find any movies elsewhere that I wanted to watch so, getting to sleep last night was rough, and I expect will be so tonight and tomorrow and tomorrow, so on and so forth, as I go through withdrawals, figure out what to do with myself between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and midnight.
I may have to go back to the ancient times, when I read a book and meditated myself to sleep.
To top it off we’ve been given yet another Public Safety Power Shutoff Alert …… "High winds and dangerous fire conditions are forecast from Monday morning through Tuesday evening. We may have to shut off your power to decrease risk of dangerous wildfires".
I’ve been playing it safe, not keeping more in the refrigerator than I can store in the electric bag, so no worries there; but without access to Tik Tok on my phone, the nights are going to be even more restless than last time power was off, when I at least had Tic Tok.
Would be glorious if the power was to go out nationwide, so that the inauguration could not be televised; and speaking of the inauguration …… What’s with the event being moved inside???
My spidey sense is telling me the move is to save Das Fuhrer from further crowd size embarrassment.
It's gonna be too cold to have the inauguration outside. This will make his crowd size very small. It's less risky for his little ears too with an indoor smaller crowd. Ooo. I said that. I like your idea for at least a power outage in DC. Lots of Pepto Bismol will be sold tomorrow. Bet the speech is 2 hours long. Bleh. Not gonna watch. Linda in Kansas, where it will be -1 degree in the morning.
ReplyDeleteIt will be like a Diddy party. Doors will be locked so no one can leave
DeleteI never applied the app for Tik Tok. The news says it's back on. Linda in Kansas
ReplyDeleteI heard about that, checked and still get message "app paused due to US legal requirements".
DeleteI'm not on social media other than Instagram, so I couldn't have really cared less about what happen to Tic Tok. I couldn't believe how in tears and hysterical people got over it. It won't be around forever...people almost always migrate to the newest, next, and more "in" thing.
ReplyDeleteThose in tears was probably because they are content creators, make their living off views they got on the platform. The platform was like a side hustle for some, a business for many others.
DeleteJFK had his inauguration outside despite temp of 22, wind chill 17. So the 2025 inauguration's temps are similar but the big man baby can't be outside. Um, maybe it is because JFK was young and vigorous? Regardless, I will be cleaning my house, listening to music. It's 10 degrees here right now, with lows most of tonight at 2 degrees. Don't want to know what the wind chill factor will be!
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I still can't access the "temporarily restored" up and running Tik Tok mentioned by Drum Major on my phone, but can on the laptop. I'm not watching the news, so I don't know if the news is televising, but what I'm seeing on Tik Tok is millions marching on Washington, peacefully protesting the crybaby being inaugurated. They don't mind the cold, not at all. The move inside was probably because of the protests. This demonstrates the real reason the billionaires want Tik Tok banned .... it keeps us informed of things those running the country don't want us to know.
DeleteMaybe it's just me but I assumed changing the venue for the inauguration was more about the people who would have started lining up outside hours before the event.
ReplyDeleteYears ago when I did playground duty at the kid's school there was a big difference between the classes that came out for 15 minutes and went back inside and the monitors that had to be out for two hours.
If by people lining upside outside you mean the peaceful protestors, the millions that are marching in the area of the event, you are dead on. Other than that, I can't see the big crybaby caring about anyone's discomfort but his own.
DeleteI had TikTok on my tablet and phone. It stopped playing weeks ago and would just freeze so I uninstalled it all together and won't be going back. I just watch videos on Instagram now when I have time to.
ReplyDeleteDo they have crazy Karen videos on Instagram?
DeleteYou could always work on making that red ball gown for your voodoo doll of the orange ass monkey....
ReplyDeleteI've been thinking about that and came to conclusion not doable because would disturb the juju in pins already in place.
DeleteI don't think I ever watched Tik Tok. At least I have no memory of it so I'm not missing it. The inauguration was moved inside because of extremely cold weather in Washington today. I began watching but gave up shortly after the evil man began his campaign speech.
ReplyDeleteExtremely cold weather my ass. More like fear and dodging being embarrassed by a bigger crowd size of protestors than he could raise to cheer him on.
DeleteAnd now it's back, saved by that guy who is now the president. Hope you enjoy your tiktoc....I am not a video person, I don't watch them on any social media. And, I keep the sound off on my phone because all of the noise those apps make is embarrassing.
ReplyDeleteBack, but only back until he and his billionaires can regroup, find another way to force Tic Tokers in the direction they want, after their plan to drive Tic Tokers over to the platform of his billionaire friend failed.
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