Millions of people consume content on TikTok each day, but the future of the video app is up to debate after a bill passed last year gave the owners of the app an ultimatum.
“To take away a tool for our small and local business and our small creators would be absolutely devastating,” West Hartford content creator Kathleen Roche said.
Under the bill, Chinese-owned ByteDance has to sell TikTok or face potential ban of the app in the Untied States by Jan. 19.
Roche runs Connecticut Bucket List on TikTok, which has amassed 80,000 followers. She said a lot of her audience on TikTok are young people looking for things to do in Connecticut.
“If it was banned, I would lose almost half of my audience,” she said.
While she has a large following on Instagram, she said her audience on TikTok is younger.
New Milford’s Addison Ruppert faces the same fate. Her account @vintagelakehouse documents her thrifting and …