> Is it a bratty thing ... govt took away what I was using and so Im going to go all in and only use Chinese Tiktok competitors? I wouldn't call it "bratty," b

> Is it a bratty thing ... govt took away what I was using and so Im going to go all in and only use Chinese Tiktok competitors? I wouldn't call it "bratty," but that is certainly part of it. My impression of the situation is that yes, folks flocked to a Chinese app because they were a) angry at the US government and wanted to undermine the purpose of the TikTok ban; b) equally angry at US social media services that are seen as being to willing to acquiesce to the demands of the US government in general and the current administration in particular, and c) ultimately unconcerned about who has their data. I have a hypothesis about my point c, which is that TikTok's user population skews younger, and so we have a population of social media users who grew up with the understanding that their data and attention are packaged, sold, and analyzed by anyone and everyone; they're not concerned about the implications of giving data to China, and it strikes them as hypocritical for the US government to spend decades on data collection and only express concern when users decide to take that data outside the the US sphere of influence.