TikTok faces a attainable ban within the coming days, however that didn’t cease one notable new person 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 acquired 30 seconds king,” one commenter stated, receiving greater than 9,000 likes. One other stated: “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 go away immediately.”
Dylan is presently having a second in Hollywood thanks partly to “‘A Full Unknown,” a biopic starring Timothée Chalamet. He has been recognized to dabble in social media. He joined X, then known as Twitter, in 2009, and generally shares his random ideas, reactions to information, or promotional supplies. There’s 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 a minimum of one commenter calling on him to avoid wasting the app.
TikTok appeared earlier than the Supreme Court docket final week difficult the legislation forcing a sale or ban, which was signed by President Biden in April due to considerations that the Chinese language authorities may manipulate its content material to achieve entry to person knowledge. There are greater than 170 million customers in the US. However President-elect Donald J. Trump is stated to be contemplating an govt order that might permit the app to proceed working.
Even when the app is formally banned by Sunday, it’s unlikely to instantly disappear, giving Dylan’s followers extra time to get pleasure from his content material, ought to he proceed to publish.