Tiktok content creators express fatigue according to the future of the application: NPR

Tiktok creators in the United States have been an emotional Rollercoaster for the last few months. President Trump’s decision to expand the sale of the platform 75 days on Friday will probably protect those who are dependent on livelihoods in a long time longer.

. thought In accordance with a federal law adopted in April 2024 This said that the implementation should go unless the Chinese parent company sells strong emotions among many crews, and the US operations. In January.

“It seems like I’m losing a really good friend,” said creator Emily Senn in tears video Published on January 15th. “And that sucks.”

Later, when the platform came into force on January 18th and returned to life, after a few hours, his grieving and feeling of fear turned into widespread confusion and anger. Suddenly, algorithms on the restored platform looked different and complained to content.

Creative Lil Kombuchaa, “This is not the same tiktok we used in the past” in question On January 20 post.

(In a statement to NPR, Tiktok policies and algorithms have not changed, but users may experience “temporary imbalance” around the access to the application while trying to restore US operations in January).)

Companies like us This week, Oracle and Amazon bids through the platform, and Trump’s decision to allow Tiktok to be activated despite the deadline for sales on Saturday seems to be shrinking with the judge of the judge among the creators.

“I literally have a career in this practice. And I don’t care,” Ps Cirina said post On April 3. “And I don’t know if they want to ignore us, so that we don’t fight.”

“How many times will we do this?” Princess Milkyy Bir post Tuesday titled “Tired”.

“I finished. Finish. I’m tired,” Conner Babcock published Thursday. “Bigger things are happening in the world. Why are we focusing on Tiktok? I don’t know. Al. I’ll be a teacher. I will do something else.”

Fatigue is about bigger problems

The fatigue experienced by Tiktok content creators can be seen in the context of those who are wider in the country and in the world.

“Everyone has already run out of a few chronic stress factors that began with pandemi, many wars around the world and then by politics, a very separatist,” he said. ARASH JAVANBAKHTStress, Trauma and Anxiety Research Clinic Director and author of the book at Wayne State University Fear: Understanding the purpose of fear and using the power of anxiety.

Joel PenneyAt the Montclair State University of Communication and Media School, an associate professor points to the suggestion that Trump is thinking of providing some relief about the newly imposed US tariffs for China if an agreement is made with an agreement with an agreement.

Penney, one of the creators who trust Tiktok, said, “I understand the tone of resignation; it is used as a ‘political football’.” “These people feel like they’re being played in these greater political negotiations that they don’t really understand and certainly do not know what to expect. Uncertainty is the keyword here.”

Javanbakht, uncertainty, fatigue is an important symptom is the main reason for stress, he said.

“We want to know the results. And when we don’t know, you are more prone to the effect of stress,” he said.

Another factor is a lack of control. “When we have a sense of lack of control on the fate of what is important and important to us, we reach a learned desperation situation,” he said.

Cope with emotional exhaustion

But that’s how it doesn’t have to be. Michelle rebellionA professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan and former president He said that the American Psychiatry Association is a way to combat the exhaustion that can be used for everyone who feels overwhelmed and tired as a result of the turbulent political and media view both in the creators in Tiktok.

Tiktok creators “remember that they are not alone – there are many people who feel it there,” Riba said. “Finding a group of people they can speak, jump back and forth, learn from each other and a good idea.”

Riba, probably in the past, uncertainty and lack of control, remembering that they have proved to be flexible, can help emotionally exhausted creators, he said.

“Have you ever experienced this before? It may not be the same problem as Tiktok, but it helped you in the past?” he said.

Riba added that there was no such thing as getting away from Tiktok for a while to facilitate exhaustion. This applies to the creators on the platform and for the rest.