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Jazz Thornton: Influencer and mental health advocate reveals how online celebrities address TikTok uncertainty · Best of Business

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  Speaker 2: TikTok users in the USA had a bit of a
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  Speaker 2: roller coaster ride this morning. The app started functioning or
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  Speaker 2: stopped functioning. At first there was a pop up message
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  Speaker 2: that said this is because of the impending band by
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  Speaker 2: the US government, who's very worried about mining of data
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  Speaker 2: by China, and then about twelve hours later it was back.
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  Speaker 2: In Coming President Donald Trump says, I'm going to arrange
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  Speaker 2: for TikTok's parent company, Byte Dance to become part of
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  Speaker 2: American owned. It's all good. We've We've sorted it, says Donald.
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  Speaker 2: Mental health advocate jas Thornton is on the TikTok and
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  Speaker 2: joins you now, hello, Jazz, Hey, how many followers you got.
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  Speaker 3: On one account? I got two point three mill or
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  Speaker 3: two point four million, I think, and then another account
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  Speaker 3: with another million on it.
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  Speaker 2: Does that blow your mind?
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  Speaker 3: Yea?
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes can you make money from that two point four
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  Speaker 2: million people who like to look at what you say
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  Speaker 2: on TikTok?
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  Speaker 1: Ah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely can, but not compared to what the Americans
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  Speaker 3: can make. They're actually getting paid for the purviews on
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  Speaker 3: the New Zealanders don't get that. Why don't we get
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  Speaker 3: that because we're not in the creator fund, which is ridiculous,
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  Speaker 3: but it's Yeah, it's America, and I think Canada or
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  Speaker 3: better inert but not US.
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  Speaker 2: So if TikTok stops, do you lose lots of Moody?
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  Speaker 3: I don't personally, but I think a lot of creators do.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it definitely affect our engagement and our ability
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  Speaker 3: to be able to do like ad campaigns and stuff
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  Speaker 3: like that. But yeah, it's not compared to what America
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  Speaker 3: is going to be hit with.
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  Speaker 2: Should the Wes be worried about China owning TikTok and
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  Speaker 2: mining for our data like exactly how we like to
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  Speaker 2: stroke our dogs?
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  Speaker 3: No, not at all. I think if the US were
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  Speaker 3: genuinely concerned about data security, they would have banned things
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  Speaker 3: like TIMU. This is entirely a money control thing. A
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  Speaker 3: whole lot of the Senates that voted yes on the
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  Speaker 3: bill have stocks and Meta and Meta was losing billions
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  Speaker 3: of dollars because all eyes were on TikTok. So they're
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  Speaker 3: trying to make it out to be this whole thing
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  Speaker 3: about with security, But it's not. If it's about that,
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  Speaker 3: then they would have banned so many other things first,
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  Speaker 3: So I don't think we have to worry about that.
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  Speaker 2: And of course, because there's so much money involved, as
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  Speaker 2: soon as you say TikTok stopped, another one will pop up.
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  Speaker 2: It's like whack a mole. Have you ever heard about
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  Speaker 2: Red Note?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Yes, I downloaded Red Note as soon as all
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  Speaker 3: this started happening.
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  Speaker 2: Is it any good?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 3: Not really. I mean a lot of it's in Chinese,
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  Speaker 3: but to be honest, it was pretty much just a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people trying to go against the US government
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  Speaker 3: and Meta because they knew that this band was coming
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  Speaker 3: from that, so they will like, screw you, We'll get
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  Speaker 3: our data directly to the Chinese, which I thought was
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  Speaker 3: quite funny, so I joined on that as well.
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  Speaker 2: So you're putting your stuff on YouTube shorts now I understand.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, I think it's for security, but also, you know,
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  Speaker 3: to be able to continue to reach the people that
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  Speaker 3: we do. There's so much uncertainty with all toun of
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  Speaker 3: social media that you can't put everything in one basket.
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  Speaker 2: So has the don saved TikTok? Do you think it's
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  Speaker 2: gone or is it going to stay?
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  Speaker 3: He was the one that initiated the ban in twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 3: He was the person that put this thing into play.
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  Speaker 3: So I think it's I think it's going to stay,
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  Speaker 3: but I think they probably, to be honest, have already
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  Speaker 3: sold it. I think this whole thing has been amployee.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, I think it's not going anywhere, but it
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  Speaker 3: won't be the same as.
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  Speaker 2: What it was. Jazz what's your handle?
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  Speaker 3: Jazz Thornton, underscore.
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  Speaker 2: Jazz Thornton, the whole thing underscored.
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  Speaker 3: No, just Jazz Thornton and then a underscore a.
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  Speaker 2: Little because is there another Jazz Thornton?
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  Speaker 3: I know, but I have another account called not jas Thornton,
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  Speaker 3: which is my silly one that blew up in America.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, so you need the underscore? Okay, yeah, apparently
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  Speaker 2: it's all good. I'm on Twitter x whatever that's called.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Andrew Dickens two and I'm not Oh, there we go.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't found the Andrew Dickens one yet, and I
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  Speaker 2: want to talk to that man. I thank you for
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  Speaker 2: your time today, Jazz no Worries.
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