Are any of you concerned about the implications of the Tiktok ban in the US?

Of course it will still be available in other countries, but for us in the US SO MUCH content from like 2016-now is going to stop existing. It will be more difficult to obtain if it’s not stored somewhere before the ban. And there is way too much content to save it all.

Both presidential candidates for 2024 campaigned on the app. Many other politicians had a presence. Journalists and news source do reporting on Tiktok. Even if the 99% of the rest of the app’s content could be labeled unimportant slop, it still has meaning to people. Me, I’m relatively young, and I feel like I grew up with Tiktok. It has shaped my perception of certain periods of time, namely 2020-21 when we first entered the pandemic.

Am I making this a bigger deal than it is? I am not an archivist, just wanted to know your opinions on it.