there is something to be said about the combination of
- americans' dependence on tiktok [and general citizens with social media as a whole but more specifically americans and tiktok for this conversation]
- how that ^ was shown through the reaction of its actual ban last night
- the fact that the ban was reframed as something to put trump in a positive light even though he began the entire process of its eventual ban and how calculated that is on the most surface of surface levels
- the fact that..... not a full 14 hours later. tiktok is back up in america.
with all of these as seperate concepts but coming together to form........ an image. we sure do live in a country huh.