“Our Community Guidelines apply to everyone, and to everything shared on TikTok. “There is nothing more I can do at this point,” Mr. And they never get taken down from any other platform,” he wrote. Hilton also pleaded with the company to reinstate his account, claiming that the content he shared, including that which related to Black Lives Matter and so-called “ Karens,” had news value. Hilton and Anthony Fernandez, a content partnerships manager at TikTok, obtained by The New York Times, Mr. D’Amelio and her family to help reverse the ban. Hilton posted several tearful videos to YouTube and Twitter, refuting the idea that he had ever violated guidelines and begging Ms. “But I haven’t done any harassing or bullying and TikTok is claiming that I am.” Hilton said in a video posted to YouTube and Twitter. “I think the reason I have been permanently banned without any warning is because I’ve been talking about a lot of creators on TikTok,” Mr. Hilton was also making around $3,000 a month through TikTok’s Creator Fund program.)
Similar accounts, including Drama Alert and TikTok Room, have become monetized media businesses with staff or contributors. Hilton’s TikTok posts fall into a loose category on the app known as “TeaTok” or “MessyTok,” in that they often consist of gossip, analysis of celebrity drama and opinionated commentary.
“Perez was and is a controversial media figure, but this feels like a dangerous step towards media censorship in favor of prioritizing the feelings of popular creators.” “Frankly, this is pretty disturbing to me,” Ben Goggin, a digital culture editor at Insider, tweeted on Saturday. “He used his platform to just throw around drama which was not a good thing to use his platform for.” “I think it was a good decision for him to be banned,” said Grace Honeycutt, 17, a TikToker with nearly 20,000 followers. “I don’t know, Perez, maybe it’s time for you to just go to Facebook or something,” said Tatayanna Mitchell, a TikToker with 4.5 million followers, in a TikTok video she posted on Sunday.
Still, the ban set off alarm bells because influencer fans had been pushing for it - and young creators celebrated it. Our Community Guidelines apply to everyone and everything shared on TikTok, and we remove accounts that repeatedly violate our policies,” a TikTok spokesperson wrote in an email statement. “We are deeply committed to maintaining a welcoming and supportive community environment. Hilton believes it was pressure from TikTok’s biggest stars that led to his ban, though the company disputed this. “Not only do they ban together and mass report your account, they mass report your comments so you’re banned from commenting for several days or a week,” Mr.