TikTok faces a potential ban within the coming days, however that didn’t cease one notable new person from becoming a member of the app this week: Bob Dylan.
A verified account for the legendary singer-songwriter, Nobel Prize-winner and present topic of a Hollywood biopic appeared on the app this week with a 50-second video montage that includes excerpts from “Like a Rolling Stone,” “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” and “Hurricane.”
Followers had been happy, however shocked to see Dylan present up on what may very well be the app’s last days, given {that a} regulation requires TikTok’s proprietor, the Chinese language firm ByteDance, to both promote the app by Sunday or face a ban. “You’ve acquired 30 seconds king,” one commenter mentioned, receiving greater than 9,000 likes. One other mentioned: “bob tiktok is knocking on heaven’s door.”
Dylan, showing to get in on the joke, posted a second video on Thursday. This time he posted a six-second black-and-white clip of himself showing at a information convention within the Sixties and saying, “Good God, I have to depart immediately.”
Dylan is at the moment having a second in Hollywood thanks partly to “‘A Full Unknown,” a biopic starring Timothée Chalamet. He has been identified to dabble in social media. He joined X, then referred to as Twitter, in 2009, and generally shares his random ideas, reactions to information, or promotional supplies. There’s additionally an official Dylan Instagram account, on which he posts clips from his prolonged profession and different memorabilia.
His arrival to TikTok in its potential eleventh hour has sparked pleasure in some followers, with at the least one commenter calling on him to save lots of the app.
TikTok appeared earlier than the Supreme Courtroom final week difficult the regulation forcing a sale or ban, which was signed by President Biden in April due to considerations that the Chinese language authorities might manipulate its content material to achieve entry to person knowledge. There are greater than 170 million customers in the US. However President-elect Donald J. Trump is mentioned to be contemplating an govt order that would enable the app to proceed working.
Even when the app is formally banned by Sunday, it’s unlikely to right away disappear, giving Dylan’s followers extra time to get pleasure from his content material, ought to he proceed to publish.
