The following article was originally published in the Ohio Capital Journal and published on News5Cleveland.com under a content-sharing agreement.The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill earlier this month that would lead to a nationwide ban of TikTok — if its China-based owner ByteDance doesn’t sell its stake. Lawmakers are worried ByteDance would share user data with the Chinese government or push propaganda and misinformation.
More than 70% of her customers come from TikTok and she is concerned her business might not survive if TikTok is banned. She joined TikTok in 2021 as a way to edit her videos for her other social media platforms, but then her videos started going viral with millions of views and she watched her sales spike.
She uses her TikTok account to show her followers baking tips and tricks and how she makes her cakes, and in turn, she uses TikTok to learn the latest trends.