“I want to stop the misconception that it’s just an app. It’s so much more than that,” TikTok creator Duncan Joseph said
NBC News. “If it were to be removed, these communities can’t just go to another spot. This is the home…and you just can’t rip that social fabric away from so many people.”where he claimed the app had more than 150 million monthly US users, a 50% increase from the 100 million users reported just two years earlier. Chew referenced that figure repeatedly during his Congressional testimony, where he tried to convince antagonist lawmakers of the app’s crucial importance for a wide swath of Americans.