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TYLER\u2013 Our news partner, KETK, reports that the potential ban of TikTok is set to fade nearly 170 million users to black in the United States. Content creator and Tyler local, Bridgette Hartt, says that the app not only transformed the quality of her life, but also her families.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou feel silly, in a sense of crying over an app, but it\u2019s so much more than that,\u201d Hartt said. Hartt began her TikTok account by sharing funny videos with her family, but through the years, she has gravitated toward body positivity. \u201cI started sharing clothing and just how to dress your body if you\u2019re midsize. That\u2019s kind of how I grew my community. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s been so neat to hear people tell me that I\u2019m the reason that they put on shorts and I\u2019m the reason that they felt comfortable wearing a swimsuit,\u201d Hartt said. Her audience grew exponentially, opening up the opportunity to make money from her videos. \u201cI found myself in motherhood. I\u2019ve been able to create an income from this app and to be able to support not only my family and my kids, but I\u2019ve been able to kind of make a career out of this for myself,\u201d Hartt said.<\/p>\n
In March 2024, five U.S. congressmen from East Texas, Nathaniel Morgan, Lance Gooden, Pat Fallon, Jake Ellzey, and Pete Sessions all voted to proceed with banning the popular app. Their vote could lead to some repercussions for their constituents such as realtor and content creator Austin McFarland has created videos which led to closings, proving TikTok an effective source for his business. Now, McFarland can\u2019t believe the app could actually disappear. \u201cI thought it was just more of a tactic-scare, like we\u2019re not going to deal with TikTok anymore. I think, in the long term what will probably happen, is we\u2019ll get another platform similarly to… Vine back in the day and some of the more old school networks,\u201d McFarland said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TYLER\u2013 Our news partner, KETK, reports that the potential ban of TikTok is set to fade nearly 170 million users to black in the United States. Content creator and Tyler local, Bridgette Hartt, says that the app not only transformed the quality of her life, but also her families. \u201cYou feel silly, in a sense … Continue reading Local content creators react to looming TikTok ban<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1384527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/030568a27be311638046b04b0051bbc9-e1737410778805-200x200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1384517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-10 18:10:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/07\/030568a27be311638046b04b0051bbc9-e1737410778805-200x200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1384517"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1450900,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1384517\/revisions\/1450900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1384527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1384517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1384517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1384517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}