Soulja Boy offers to buy TikTok: “How much y’all want?”
nme.comSoulja Boy has shared his interest in purchasing TikTok after US Congress passed a bill that could lead to the app’s potential ban.This week (April 23), US Congress passed the 21st Century Peace Through Strength Act that could force TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell the platform within nine months.
If not, TikTok will be banned from US markets and removed from Apple’s App Store and the Google Play Store nationwide. US President Joe Biden signed the legislation yesterday (April 24).After the news broke, the Atlanta rapper took to X/Twitter to show his frustration around the decision. “I can’t believe y’all just gon let them ban TikTok like that,” he wrote. “And y’all think it’s funny.
If they do it to this app, they can do it to any app or site. Not cool [for real], y’all will see later.”I can’t believe yall just gon let them ban TikTok like that.
And yall think it’s funny. If they do it to this app they can do it to any app or site. Not cool fr yall will see later.— Soulja Boy (Draco) (@souljaboy) April 24, 2024A fan replied to the rapper saying he could use other social media platforms, to which Soulja said: “You maybe don’t see it now but TikTok is more important than any other platform right now that’s why they’re trying to ban it trust me.”He also replied to another tweet detailing that TikTok won’t be banned if ByteDance can sell the stakes in time. “That’s still not right [to] sell it.
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