"The thought of just losing it, just losing all of it is quite scary - for myself and other influencers," he said. Onosike, who has built both his career and social group around TikTok, is among those who has been on edge amid the back and forth between the president and ByteDance.
"I've met a lot of friends on here it's really a happy place."
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"My 'For You' page is full of queer people - I love it," he said. 'Full of queer people'Ĭollins Onosike, a verified TikTok content creator, has amassed 4.4 million followers since joining the platform several years ago. TikTok responded to Trump's executive order this week with a lawsuit claiming that the administration had failed to follow due process when it ordered the ban, and that it never provided evidence that TikTok posed a security threat. company, according to NBC News' previous reporting. The order, which is set to go into effect next month, would be a major blow to TikTok if it is not sold to a U.S. companies from doing business with ByteDance. 6, the White House issued an executive order barring U.S. On July 31, following previous concerns over data privacy on the app, President Donald Trump announced aboard Air Force One that " as far as TikTok is concerned, we're banning them from the United States." That same day, reports surfaced about Microsoft being in talks to purchase the app from its Chinese parent company ( Oracle subsequently expressed interest in the platform). But some fear the queer community they helped foster on the social network may be in danger amid the face-off between TikTok's Chinese parent company, ByteDance, and the Trump administration. With the help of the algorithm on its "For You" page, which feeds users curated content based on their previous interactions and "likes," TikTok has helped LGBTQ content creators and audiences find one another on the platform. "To be able to empathize and put myself back in the position that these teenagers are in, knowing where I came from and how I made it through, I just had to give back that information." "The traumas that we suffer from as we grow have a huge impact on who we are as adults," King said. So in February 2019, King, who lives in Arizona, began doing livestreams where he would answer questions from his followers - many of them LGBTQ youth and young adults - and creating videos to share his advice and aspects of his life story, from his 24-year relationship to his sobriety. "When I joined TikTok, there was definitely the sense that it was a young-adult app," he said, and "I knew right away that these were teenagers asking, and I had a responsibility." Whether she meant for the TikTok video to have this effect or not, fans are congratulating Madonna for living her life as she pleases and officially coming out of the closet at 64.King, now a verified creator on the platform, said he knew he was onto something when the comment sections on his page started to fill up with questions about coming out, LGBTQ relationships and confidence in one's own identity. “Velma and Madonna?! A win for the lesbians,” one commenter wrote, referring to the Scooby-Doo character Marvel recently acknowledged as gay. Madonna was also seen grinding against kissing Tokischa and kissing her passionately on stage during a recent performance. The two released a music video just three weeks ago where they can be seen kissing and flirting. Others spoke about the celebrity’s link with Dominican rapper Tokischa. “Y’all, Madonna has been out as bi longer than some of us have been alive,” wrote TikTok commenter Gee under the video. You might remember Madonna’s iconic on-stage kiss with Britney Spears, but many are arguing that her roots in the LGBT community go much deeper.
However, the celebrities she mentions in her lyrics are not Black, and are mostly heterosexual. In her music video “Vogue,” released in 1990, Madonna can be seen dancing with NYC ballroom legends. She’s been a major influence on and ally of the LGBTQIA community but has also come under fire previously for appropriating NYC’s enduring ballroom culture that began in the 1980s. While the Material Girl has sparked rumours about hooking up with women during her 43-year career, her publicly acknowledged relationships have been with men. Others said this was just Madonna’s sense of humour and that she was always known to be bisexual. Most thought this meant the star was coming out officially. Then the star is seen deliberately missing the bin and turning around in a stylish twirl.įans were perplexed. On Monday, the “La Isla Bonita” singer shared a video where she’s holding a pair of shocking pink underwear and getting ready to toss it into a bin from afar. The internet is abuzz with conversations about Madonna, who posted a video on TikTok supposedly coming out as gay - sort of.
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