Kourtney Kardashian, Spencer Pratt and Heidi Montag are among the celebrities coming together to mourn the shutdown of TikTok for US influencers after the app went dark on Saturday.
The “Kardashians” star, 45, took to her Instagram Story Saturday to re-share a compilation of clips of herself promoting her Lemme vitamin brand via TikTok.
“If this is goodbye, we love you @TikTok,” she wrote alongside a white heart.
Heidi Montag, 38, and her husband, Spencer Pratt, 41, also shared a video of counting down the minutes before the beloved social media app kicked Americans off the platform.
“They’re saying there’s only five more minutes left of TikTok!” the “I’ll Do It” singer lightheartedly said, per the US Sun. “Oh no what are we going to do? No, no, no.’
“Please Jesus, we need this, help our family, please God,” she continued, alluding that the app has helped her family since they lost their home in the Pacific Palisades fire earlier this month.
Lizzo, 36, seemed optimistic that TikTok “would be saved” after President-elect Donald Trump vowed to “save” the platform, according to the outlet.
The “Pink” songstress, however, admitted she was skeptical about the US government’s motive behind taking away the app, saying, “Don’t you think that the government likes seeing us stressed and scared and fearful? It really feels like it.”
Alluding that the government gets “twisted satisfaction” out of fear she continued, “I’m choosing to not be fearful right now. I am not afraid.”
Alix Earle, meanwhile, went to bed Saturday night with a glass of red wine clenched in her hand, writing over an Instagram video, “How I’m going to sleep tonight.”
“Thank god for this wine rn,” she continued in the caption.
Influencer James Charles, 25, admitted he “opened and closed” the TikTok app several times out of habit despite hitting the same notification about the ban.
“I can’t believe I’m making an Instagram Reel right now because normally when something happens in the world, I go to TikTok,” he said, referring to the ban as “dystopian.”
Billionaire and owner of X (Formerly Twitter), Elon Musk, 53, addressed the ban on X, writing, “I have been against a TikTok ban for a long time, because it goes against freedom of speech.
“That said, the current situation where TikTok is allowed to operate in America, but 𝕏 is not allowed to operate in China is unbalanced. Something needs to change.”
On Saturday, over 170 million Americans were blocked from using the Chinese-owned app and were met with a message that read, “Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right now.”
The message continued, “We regret that a U.S. law banning TikTok will take effect on January 19 and force us to make our services temporarily unavailable.”
An updated warning told users they were fortunate that Trump, 78, would “work” toward “a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office” on Monday.
TikTok was shut down in the US after the Supreme Court ruled that the app’s parent company, ByteDance, would have to sell the platform to a US-based company or face a ban on Jan. 19.
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