TikTok faces a attainable ban within the coming days, however that didn’t cease one notable new consumer from becoming a member of the app this week: Bob Dylan.
A verified account for the legendary singer-songwriter, Nobel Prize-winner and present topic of a Hollywood biopic appeared on the app this week with a 50-second video montage that includes excerpts from “Like a Rolling Stone,” “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” and “Hurricane.”
Followers have been happy, however shocked to see Dylan present up on what could possibly be the app’s remaining days, given {that a} legislation requires TikTok’s proprietor, the Chinese language firm ByteDance, to both promote the app by Sunday or face a ban. “You’ve bought 30 seconds king,” one commenter mentioned, receiving greater than 9,000 likes. One other mentioned: “bob tiktok is knocking on heaven’s door.”
Dylan, showing to get in on the joke, posted a second video on Thursday. This time he posted a six-second black-and-white clip of himself showing at a information convention within the Nineteen Sixties and saying, “Good God, I have to depart instantly.”
Dylan is at present having a moment in Hollywood thanks partially to “‘A Full Unknown,” a biopic starring Timothée Chalamet. He has been identified to dabble in social media. He joined X, then called Twitter, in 2009, and generally shares his random ideas, reactions to information, or promotional supplies. There may be additionally an official Dylan Instagram account, on which he posts clips from his prolonged profession and different memorabilia.
His arrival to TikTok in its attainable eleventh hour has sparked pleasure in some followers, with not less than one commenter calling on him to save lots of the app.
TikTok appeared before the Supreme Court final week difficult the legislation forcing a sale or ban, which was signed by President Biden in April due to issues that the Chinese language authorities may manipulate its content material to achieve entry to consumer information. There are greater than 170 million customers in the US. However President-elect Donald J. Trump is said to be considering an executive order that might enable the app to proceed working.
Even when the app is formally banned by Sunday, it is unlikely to immediately disappear, giving Dylan’s followers extra time to take pleasure in his content material, ought to he proceed to put up.
