For those of us in the US, you know things don’t look certain for the future of TikTok. The federal ban on TikTok has left creators scrambling for what’s next. It has also created a lot of different possible scenarios from TikTok’s side. We’ve already seen lots of pivoting (TikTok’s weekend blackout, bids for buying the company, and statements from presidents).
How long will TikTok not be available in App Stores? Will they let TikTok US keep running and rely on US consumers to use VPNs to download/update the popular app? Will a group of investors make it a partially US-owned entity? Or will TikTok just shut down operations sometime in the next 90 days?
If they end up shutting down US operations, creators may no longer want to continue having previously embedded TikTok videos on their sites. That has led some people to wonder what to do with TikTok videos they’ve embedded on their WordPress site. After all, WordPress built a dedicated embed block for TikTok videos in 2020. But what are we supposed to do with those now?