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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'What's The Real Reason Tik Tok Is Getting Banned?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-01-17. Transcript available.

let's talk about some things that are happening right now one of the biggest
ones right now is
tick tock and the sale of it right um like there's a big uh uproar right now
you see a lot of videos
on tick tock about what to do if tick tock disappears where to go people like
there's like
safe rooms and shit i'm like i think people are probably they'll figure it out
but maybe some
people won't what do you think um is behind the tick tock ban do you think it's
actually going
to get banned i'm very unsure about the second question i really don't know um
it'll be interesting
i don't use tick tock um and so i don't really but have a connection to like
though but the people
who love tick tock i've seen this too they're losing their minds like they're
like i think they
are some type of addicted to it um what's behind it is really interesting and i
think that that's like
it's kind of a it's a it's a microcosm of like kind of what's going on in
general but tick tock very
quietly to people who are not like on it and not using it but it became like
the main
like news source for young people yeah and like in a crazy way that for people
our age if you even
think back to like when we were little kids it's so like it's hard to even
imagine that it's real
it's like oh they now these young people are connected to information in a way
that totally
like goes around older people at all they have nothing to do with it you know
what i mean like
and nancy pelosi's sitting there just furious like what is this no they don't
care about like
they don't even know the people on tv news you know and so okay when i say this
i'm not just
like pulling this out of my ass like there was like one uh it might have been
the head of the adl but
it was someone real high up in the in the adl who said this and what is adl the
anti-defamation league
um and then there was uh anti-defamation league so they're it's like graffiti
or whatever yeah well
not exactly they're not the name doesn't exactly describe what they do but they're
one of these uh
um people yes in fact it was him it was greenblatt um ceo of anti-defamation
league they're a league
that was started by uh jewish people and it was kind of at least at the
beginning i think was to be
whatever fighting anti-semitism or exposing this stuff they've they've come to
be an organization
that will really try to go after and ruin anybody who's critical of israel
right i said they had
something to do with elon now i remember maybe a year ago or eight months ago
or something there was
something with him maybe that was adl okay yeah it's but it's possible um but
so they one of the
things that they were real upset about was that from october 7th 23 up until
now tiktok has just been
dominated by you know um anti-israel kind of critical of this war that's where
a lot of the young people
are seeing all the images of like the palestinian babies dying and stuff the
kids like people like
begging for food and stuff like that a lot of um yeah like the icc when they
tried to send like
condemn netanyahu that was loose on there yep or it was real information but
yes yes that's right
you're saying that it's because and this i believe that yeah one of the main
reasons tiktok has been
banned is or is there's a threat of the ban or the force of the sale is because
they don't want it to
be in the hands of a place where they can't have um the other side of the story
come out well whether
it be about palestine or about anything no the cover story the reason they
claimed at first that they
were trying to ban it was because of china but it really wasn't until the war
broke out in gaza that
this pressure kind of started mounting but the china thing i mean i don't know
you know i remember like
tucker did a whole thing on this back when he still had the show on fox news
and he was showing the thing
where like i don't have you ever seen like the way the algorithm on tiktok
works in china compared to the
way it works in america there's more educational and fun the number one
trending video for 17 year
olds in china is like a kid playing the violin or something and then ours is
just some chick
twerking you know like on a sports car or something like that and then they
were like kind of saying
like oh see it's china's poisoning our kids minds but i always thought i mean i
don't know what the
answer is but like isn't it possible that our kids are just poisoning our minds
yeah like their
algorithm is just showing them this garbage and their algorithm is showing them
this because like
if i go if i just made a conscious effort to go on twitter every day and only
look up like violin
lessons i'm sure that's what the algorithm would start sending me right after a
while so i don't
i've always like been suspicious that is like i think our culture is just
messed up and that's
we're our worst enemy at a lot of the same time because it's like we want
certain things but we're
not willing to um let go of any comforts or any or really battle some of our
addictive natures you
know yeah um i think some of that's too is just a side effect of capitalism and
a side effect of
comfort over time and a side effect of like kind of deterioration of our
society you know like even if
you look at like i was reading this the other day about pornography like a lot
of the the videos in
progress someone would be like dad's daughter dad when you really think about
the fact that that's
how they're you know what i'm saying it's like there's somebody has a dark goal
to tear down like
the little things like family things that matter you know i'm saying like so um
you know i i was
wondering i remember asking a friend about this like this was a while ago but
it was
10 years ago or something like that but it was like when i started noticing
that i was like what's
up with all the porn categories of like family swap and this and that and a
buddy of mine said this to
me and i thought oh man that kind of makes sense but he was like oh you know
what it is is he goes
nowadays like families are so broken up and mish mashed and everyone's from
divorces and everything
that so many people grew up with like a stepmom and step siblings so you just
be a kid and then all
of a sudden you got like these new girls who aren't your mother and sister
right you know what i mean
like living in your house and so like that's what led to that which i don't
know if that theory is
correct or not it sounds like that dude it's kind of i was like yeah either he's
a really sick person
or you're on to something that guy sounds like he was building it like he was
literally using you to
build a case for for a future indictment he was going to face but no it's kind
of came out with it
really quickly too like it was like we just signed sign this petition right
here dave i'm so glad you
asked i've been dying to talk to someone about this um but let me i'm trying to
tie this what were we
talking about in my mind just tick tock and then but tick tock yeah like um
yeah we're also part of
the our own pro it's like we just keep creating this stuff but um or just
ridiculousness we and
we get addicted to the ridiculousness but also some of that's part of the
freedom of just being in a place
where you can make whatever you want um and you have that like freedom of
creation kind of to an
extent or freedom of your own creativity some places you can't even really be
creative in because it's
not um it's not not allowed but the expressions of certain creativities aren't
and so that's why i
really worry a lot like with this tick tock ban i'm like well because if news
is getting out there
right um about all types of things it could be like uh there was also a lot of
um barbara o'neill did you
see those clips she's a medicine woman an australian medicine woman but there
was a lot of like natural
remedy stuff that started to just be put out there like i don't know if it was
valid or not but it was
like you would see a ton of it like like so basically opposition to all these
medicines you all these like
prescriptions you need like so i could see certainly how no but like the powers
that be if they exist
don't want a lot of this type of information out there oh yeah but so do you
believe that the tick
tock ban what do you really believe or do you think we're still figuring it out
do you think that our
elected officials will uh let it stay around trump seems like he's wishy-washy
on it he does yes he
seems like he's not exactly clear what and it's weird because the talk was
initially the talk was
like that it was a china thing and trump always tried to be the most hawkish on
china but even he
does seem like he's not doesn't really seem like he's got strong convictions
about getting rid of it
my guess is that tick tock survives i don't know if i'm right or wrong about
that frank mccourt and
someone else is going to be buying tick tock they said so i think the thing is
that if they sell then
they escape the legislation because basically it was saying it's because its
own their parent company
is owned by the ccp or whatever so it you know i have a feeling i think that um
there's been there
was a real move to really censor the internet over the last few years it seems
to me like it's failed
and that they're just they've accepted they're not going to be able to do it as
the deadline for
a potential tick tock ban in the u.s approaches billionaire and former los angeles
dodgers owner oh hell yeah
frank mccourt's project liberty confirmed making a formal offer to bite dance
the platform's chinese
parent company to buy the social media giants american assets and he was going
to do it with
in conjunction with one of the guys from um uh sharks good evening sharks
whatever that show is
shark dance or whatever shark boy no there's a woman shark tank shark tank
there you go shark tank
who was it danny or something from shark tank oh one of them billionaires was
gonna throw in
um kevin o'leary so him and kevin o'leary i believed uh i believe don't quote
me on that was
supposed to be uh the videos are short on tick tock right isn't that the idea
there some of them now can
be longer some of them can be i think 90 seconds is the length on instagram
tick tock can be a couple
minutes now here's a weird thing how the internet has kind of like very organically
grown into almost
it's almost like long form or seven seconds yeah like there's no there's no
like middle ground anymore
it's always like okay we want to hear a four-hour conversation or give me six
seconds of whatever
you got and then we'll do a hundred thousand of those yeah it is kind of true
huh tick tock videos
can range from three seconds to 60 minutes long depending on how you film or
upload the video
but this also could have been from chat gbt i don't know where from ai this
fact and so who knows if
they're harboring that from years ago and today videos or images and tick tock
stories can go up to
15 seconds long but they disappear after 24 hours if you put in the story so
the way i look at it is
kind of like it's like if you had like say like a buddy of yours or something
was in like just an
awful relationship you know like just like the chick he's with is like the
worst oh it's like you
hate her and she's shitty to him and she she's so mean to him she cheats on him
she's just the worst
and then like if he breaks up with her and he's like i'm just dating i'm dating
a bunch and you're
like great thank god you're like back out there go find someone else that chick
was a nightmare you
know and they'd be like well i'm meeting some nice girls but i'm meeting some
real awful girls too
it's like okay well whatever just get out there and that's kind of how i feel
about like i'm just
happy that the young generation isn't consuming the corporate media and like i'm
sure on tick tock
they get some bad stuff and then they get some good stuff but at least you're
out there like shopping
around and you're not just listening to like cnn tell you that iraq has weapons
of mass destruction
and we need to go fight this war with them or just listening to msnbc tell you
that trump's a russian
spy or whatever it's like all right yeah get out there mingle a little bit see
what kind of crazy
person's on tick tock i don't know yeah one of them might be like oh it's you
know one of them's like
it's the jews and then someone else is like you know whatever the gays or
whatever is or okay maybe
some of them are wrong but at least you got a shot of meeting someone who might
have something
interesting to say yeah yeah that's interesting man that's certainly yeah yeah
i think yeah at least
you're kind of out there meeting people you're there's definitely everything
there's like people
shooting each other there's mexican stuff there's dancing there's um you know
uh bacchanalia there's
people getting their nails done sometimes you pop into a live you don't even
know what's going on
you're just in some kids live and he's eating a burger there's some kid eating
look at this burger
there's some kid like in a broth who lives like the under a brothel or
something in scotland
and somebody gave him a big burger and he just made this video he's like look
at this burger and
it's like eight parties eight parties stocked up boys and it went crazy right
and that kid could be
the next governor of glasgow right but it's like that's the thing i think
because people also can
maybe over time maybe um they get to know you i don't know what it is but yeah
i think it's fascinating
man and tick tock it does pull more my information and that's the only thing i
just want it to be fair
that's my thing i just want it to be fair don't say that this this truth can't
come out if this
truth can't come out like just make it fair you know what i'm saying if if america
isn't a country
that's american and it's a country that's owned by other countries tell me that
if that's the case but
just let me live fair let me live through the truth you know look 100 100 i
completely agree and then
also it's just like i think like i was saying before i don't trust any of you
motherfuckers to be the
arbiter of what is true and what i agree so forget anyone having this control
over getting to decide
what's misinformation or what's disinformation because it's the old it's like
the old uh lord
atkin uh quote about like um you know the atkins diet he's the original no it
was before that he
didn't figure that out uh but he's the guy who said uh man am i messing atkin i
believe um he's the one
who said the the quote about um power corrupt power tends to corrupt absolute
power corrupts absolutely but
it's like as soon as you have the power to determine what the truth is then you're
corrupted already just
by like having that power and i never liked rich people anyway bro facts dude i
hated them
i didn't hate them but i didn't like them yeah you know i don't yeah i just i
don't know and maybe
yeah and i have money now and that's true but i'll never really have money
you know what i'm saying not like deep inside of me you know what i'm saying
yes like that part
of me will never have any money bro now you need three more generations of vons
before you're like
a real rich prick who just thinks they're better like an old money oh deep
inside dog i'm a real
fucking wigger son you feel me um what else oh but kevin o'leary i think i
wanted to get that right
it was 250 million they offered to investor and shark tank star kevin o'leary
is willing to pay up
to 20 billion for tick tock calling it a legacy opportunity i think that that
is a steal
Thank you.

What's The Real Reason Tik Tok Is Getting Banned?

let's talk about some things that are happening right now one of the biggest
ones right now is
tick tock and the sale of it right um like there's a big uh uproar right now
you see a lot of videos
on tick tock about what to do if tick tock disappears where to go people like
there's like
safe rooms and shit i'm like i think people are probably they'll figure it out
but maybe some
people won't what do you think um is behind the tick tock ban do you think it's
actually going
to get banned i'm very unsure about the second question i really don't know um
it'll be interesting
i don't use tick tock um and so i don't really but have a connection to like
though but the people
who love tick tock i've seen this too they're losing their minds like they're
like i think they
are some type of addicted to it um what's behind it is really interesting and i
think that that's like
it's kind of a it's a it's a microcosm of like kind of what's going on in
general but tick tock very
quietly to people who are not like on it and not using it but it became like
the main
like news source for young people yeah and like in a crazy way that for people
our age if you even
think back to like when we were little kids it's so like it's hard to even
imagine that it's real
it's like oh they now these young people are connected to information in a way
that totally
like goes around older people at all they have nothing to do with it you know
what i mean like
and nancy pelosi's sitting there just furious like what is this no they don't
care about like
they don't even know the people on tv news you know and so okay when i say this
i'm not just
like pulling this out of my ass like there was like one uh it might have been
the head of the adl but
it was someone real high up in the in the adl who said this and what is adl the
anti-defamation league
um and then there was uh anti-defamation league so they're it's like graffiti
or whatever yeah well
not exactly they're not the name doesn't exactly describe what they do but they're
one of these uh
um people yes in fact it was him it was greenblatt um ceo of anti-defamation
league they're a league
that was started by uh jewish people and it was kind of at least at the
beginning i think was to be
whatever fighting anti-semitism or exposing this stuff they've they've come to
be an organization
that will really try to go after and ruin anybody who's critical of israel
right i said they had
something to do with elon now i remember maybe a year ago or eight months ago
or something there was
something with him maybe that was adl okay yeah it's but it's possible um but
so they one of the
things that they were real upset about was that from october 7th 23 up until
now tiktok has just been
dominated by you know um anti-israel kind of critical of this war that's where
a lot of the young people
are seeing all the images of like the palestinian babies dying and stuff the
kids like people like
begging for food and stuff like that a lot of um yeah like the icc when they
tried to send like
condemn netanyahu that was loose on there yep or it was real information but
yes yes that's right
you're saying that it's because and this i believe that yeah one of the main
reasons tiktok has been
banned is or is there's a threat of the ban or the force of the sale is because
they don't want it to
be in the hands of a place where they can't have um the other side of the story
come out well whether
it be about palestine or about anything no the cover story the reason they
claimed at first that they
were trying to ban it was because of china but it really wasn't until the war
broke out in gaza that
this pressure kind of started mounting but the china thing i mean i don't know
you know i remember like
tucker did a whole thing on this back when he still had the show on fox news
and he was showing the thing
where like i don't have you ever seen like the way the algorithm on tiktok
works in china compared to the
way it works in america there's more educational and fun the number one
trending video for 17 year
olds in china is like a kid playing the violin or something and then ours is
just some chick
twerking you know like on a sports car or something like that and then they
were like kind of saying
like oh see it's china's poisoning our kids minds but i always thought i mean i
don't know what the
answer is but like isn't it possible that our kids are just poisoning our minds
yeah like their
algorithm is just showing them this garbage and their algorithm is showing them
this because like
if i go if i just made a conscious effort to go on twitter every day and only
look up like violin
lessons i'm sure that's what the algorithm would start sending me right after a
while so i don't
i've always like been suspicious that is like i think our culture is just
messed up and that's
we're our worst enemy at a lot of the same time because it's like we want
certain things but we're
not willing to um let go of any comforts or any or really battle some of our
addictive natures you
know yeah um i think some of that's too is just a side effect of capitalism and
a side effect of
comfort over time and a side effect of like kind of deterioration of our
society you know like even if
you look at like i was reading this the other day about pornography like a lot
of the the videos in
progress someone would be like dad's daughter dad when you really think about
the fact that that's
how they're you know what i'm saying it's like there's somebody has a dark goal
to tear down like
the little things like family things that matter you know i'm saying like so um
you know i i was
wondering i remember asking a friend about this like this was a while ago but
it was
10 years ago or something like that but it was like when i started noticing
that i was like what's
up with all the porn categories of like family swap and this and that and a
buddy of mine said this to
me and i thought oh man that kind of makes sense but he was like oh you know
what it is is he goes
nowadays like families are so broken up and mish mashed and everyone's from
divorces and everything
that so many people grew up with like a stepmom and step siblings so you just
be a kid and then all
of a sudden you got like these new girls who aren't your mother and sister
right you know what i mean
like living in your house and so like that's what led to that which i don't
know if that theory is
correct or not it sounds like that dude it's kind of i was like yeah either he's
a really sick person
or you're on to something that guy sounds like he was building it like he was
literally using you to
build a case for for a future indictment he was going to face but no it's kind
of came out with it
really quickly too like it was like we just signed sign this petition right
here dave i'm so glad you
asked i've been dying to talk to someone about this um but let me i'm trying to
tie this what were we
talking about in my mind just tick tock and then but tick tock yeah like um
yeah we're also part of
the our own pro it's like we just keep creating this stuff but um or just
ridiculousness we and
we get addicted to the ridiculousness but also some of that's part of the
freedom of just being in a place
where you can make whatever you want um and you have that like freedom of
creation kind of to an
extent or freedom of your own creativity some places you can't even really be
creative in because it's
not um it's not not allowed but the expressions of certain creativities aren't
and so that's why i
really worry a lot like with this tick tock ban i'm like well because if news
is getting out there
right um about all types of things it could be like uh there was also a lot of
um barbara o'neill did you
see those clips she's a medicine woman an australian medicine woman but there
was a lot of like natural
remedy stuff that started to just be put out there like i don't know if it was
valid or not but it was
like you would see a ton of it like like so basically opposition to all these
medicines you all these like
prescriptions you need like so i could see certainly how no but like the powers
that be if they exist
don't want a lot of this type of information out there oh yeah but so do you
believe that the tick
tock ban what do you really believe or do you think we're still figuring it out
do you think that our
elected officials will uh let it stay around trump seems like he's wishy-washy
on it he does yes he
seems like he's not exactly clear what and it's weird because the talk was
initially the talk was
like that it was a china thing and trump always tried to be the most hawkish on
china but even he
does seem like he's not doesn't really seem like he's got strong convictions
about getting rid of it
my guess is that tick tock survives i don't know if i'm right or wrong about
that frank mccourt and
someone else is going to be buying tick tock they said so i think the thing is
that if they sell then
they escape the legislation because basically it was saying it's because its
own their parent company
is owned by the ccp or whatever so it you know i have a feeling i think that um
there's been there
was a real move to really censor the internet over the last few years it seems
to me like it's failed
and that they're just they've accepted they're not going to be able to do it as
the deadline for
a potential tick tock ban in the u.s approaches billionaire and former los angeles
dodgers owner oh hell yeah
frank mccourt's project liberty confirmed making a formal offer to bite dance
the platform's chinese
parent company to buy the social media giants american assets and he was going
to do it with
in conjunction with one of the guys from um uh sharks good evening sharks
whatever that show is
shark dance or whatever shark boy no there's a woman shark tank shark tank
there you go shark tank
who was it danny or something from shark tank oh one of them billionaires was
gonna throw in
um kevin o'leary so him and kevin o'leary i believed uh i believe don't quote
me on that was
supposed to be uh the videos are short on tick tock right isn't that the idea
there some of them now can
be longer some of them can be i think 90 seconds is the length on instagram
tick tock can be a couple
minutes now here's a weird thing how the internet has kind of like very organically
grown into almost
it's almost like long form or seven seconds yeah like there's no there's no
like middle ground anymore
it's always like okay we want to hear a four-hour conversation or give me six
seconds of whatever
you got and then we'll do a hundred thousand of those yeah it is kind of true
huh tick tock videos
can range from three seconds to 60 minutes long depending on how you film or
upload the video
but this also could have been from chat gbt i don't know where from ai this
fact and so who knows if
they're harboring that from years ago and today videos or images and tick tock
stories can go up to
15 seconds long but they disappear after 24 hours if you put in the story so
the way i look at it is
kind of like it's like if you had like say like a buddy of yours or something
was in like just an
awful relationship you know like just like the chick he's with is like the
worst oh it's like you
hate her and she's shitty to him and she she's so mean to him she cheats on him
she's just the worst
and then like if he breaks up with her and he's like i'm just dating i'm dating
a bunch and you're
like great thank god you're like back out there go find someone else that chick
was a nightmare you
know and they'd be like well i'm meeting some nice girls but i'm meeting some
real awful girls too
it's like okay well whatever just get out there and that's kind of how i feel
about like i'm just
happy that the young generation isn't consuming the corporate media and like i'm
sure on tick tock
they get some bad stuff and then they get some good stuff but at least you're
out there like shopping
around and you're not just listening to like cnn tell you that iraq has weapo