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I have about 100,000 followers on that app. I joined during the pandemic. I was lucky to find a community full of incredible people, many of whom I now consider lifelong friends. Because of the community I found on that app, I found space to experiment with my gender presentation. I was able to come out as nonbinary (to feel SAFE ENOUGH to come out as nonbinary) because of that app.

I've seen a few Tumblr posts in which people gloat they never got into TikTok. Good for you. You won't suffer emotionally, and that makes you feel superior. But if you have no concept of what that app has meant for more than 170,000,000 Americans (that's half of all Americans!), many of whom do not have access to community in physical spaces, kindly sit down.

The ban constitutes the largest mass layoff in American history. We will lose billions of dollars in our domestic economy. Over 7 million small businesses are shuttering because of the ban. You will feel the effect of that whether or not you were on the app. If you can't grasp the significance of that, again: kindly sit down.

The language of the TikTok ban has set a dangerous precedent for the American government to shutter any tech platforms they deem "dangerous" for arbitrary, undisclosed, nebulous reasons. This will affect Americans' ability to organize, spread information, and protest. They have effectively banned our right to assembly in digital spaces. This is the greatest infringement of free speech that has ever occurred in the United States. If you can't grasp the significance of that, either: kindly sit down.

This is bigger than "never falling for the TikTok craze." This is an enormous governmental overreach sanctioned by our own Supreme Court. It's bigger than teens doing silly dances you can sneer at from your smug high horse.

Thank you for summing up my entire issue with anti-vote people in one sentence.

An empty idealogical gesture that doesn’t make anything better, let alone even engage in harm reduction, is not leftism.

Especially if they think there’s nothing that can be done that will make a difference, so they’re just planning to make empty idealogical gestures until circumstances get bad enough that someone else gets forced to start a revolution for them because if they were going to do it instead of ranting about how useless voting is they’d have tried it already.

That’s not leftism and I will never shut up about how that’s not leftism. Because leftism is not about dying an honorable death on a hill that’s stupid.

Honestly, creators that use adfly piss me off more than creators that want me to pay $25 dollars so I can have one set of theirs.

Adfly links are often blocked by anti-virus/anti-spyware software, google extensions, some VPN's features, etc. Even if I wanted to take the risk for your content, I would have to temporarily leave my computer or browser unprotected. Clicking "proceed anyway," or "allow" doesn't seem to work anymore.

Adfly links are NOT safe. I had to learn that lesson the hard way. They can, and often do, force you to allow unknown programs onto your computer. The "ads" shown can be dangerous and contain malware, which most people don't click, but accidents happen. All it takes is one click.

To me, when I see a creator using adfly, my first thought is they're either ignorant of the problems or they just don't give a crap about their fans and supporters. It's late enough in the game, and many of these creators are popular and experienced enough, I generally assume the latter. And guess what? If that's the case, you can shove your adfly links where the sun don't shine. As long as your content is behind adfly links, I won't support you.