The app became a safe way for some users to protest, while also staying at home, Lobati said. Today, at perhaps the worst possible time, TikTok users were unable to see videos tagged with #BlackLivesMatter or #GeorgeFloyd. Before tiktok got popular it was just some annoying ads on yt videos Now it has become the new musical.ly and vine thing. | BLM ♥️ . It’s literally human rights,” Smith said. TikTok has issued an apology to the black community, ... and the most common issue I see happening is Black creators having their posts or accounts shadow-banned and/or randomly deleted for 'going against community guidelines. The second "Blackout" is planned for the week of June 19, or “I think we are headed to a good direction of coming together unified and accepting these different perspectives,” Lobati said. “I see it all the time when a Black person speaks about injustices literally in our community. That just shows how much the way community guidelines implementation needs to change.”Bernard Velasquez, a TikToker who recently created an account, also shared what he had observed and considered to be problematic on the app.“I think the biggest challenge Black creators have on the platform is being silenced,” he said.
“I know a lot of Black creators partook in the ‘Blackout’ and it got to the point where Black content was rolling through as a ‘screw you’ to Tiktok for doing all this to us.” We are aware of an issue that is impacting the hashtag view counts displayed at the upload stage. "So hopefully, there will be less of that.”Once #GeorgeFloyd and #BlackLivesMatter returned to the app, “I think part of why I really like TikTok is because it’s really good to see Black beauty,” Lobati said. Several Black TikTokers participated in a 'Blackout' supporting Black content throughout the app. “Although I have been on the app for a short period of time, I pay attention, and the most common issue I see happening is Black creators having their posts or accounts shadow-banned and/or randomly deleted for 'going against community guidelines.
| BLM ♥️. Discover . TikTok Analytics & Viewer. Here you'll be able to see what's happening on TikTok and get a taste of the most popular, exciting, and intriguing content heating up inside TikTok. NilandUwU 2 minutes ago. '”Velasquez said that in his experience, when black creators would flag racist videos to the company, they would often get a response that said: “This does not go against our community guidelines.”“When I read that statement, knowing that I just watched a video with a text box that says, ‘Now that I have all the Black people's attention,’ and then the white boy proceeds to get on his knees as he makes a joke about the Black community being targets of police brutality, it proves to me that TikTok condones and welcomes racism,” he said.Speaking on the community guidelines, Chikumbu and Pappas said racism and hate speech are “not tolerated” — but they acknowledged that the app's method of moderating could improve.“We use technology and a dedicated team of human moderators to remove content that violates these guidelines, but we know that our systems are not perfect and we want users to flag content they feel violates those standards so we can take appropriate action,” wrote Chikumbu and Pappas.Chikumbu and Pappas also addressed a most recent accusation that TikTok had deliberately muted critical hashtags that were being used as the nation protested the death of George Floyd, blaming the mishap on a “technical glitch.”The statement said this was a “display issue only that widely affected hashtags at large.” They said that content with the hashtag #BlackLivesMatter was still being uploaded to the platform and had generated “well over 2 billion views.”“We understand that many assumed this bug to be an intentional act to suppress the experiences and invalidate the emotions felt by the Black community.