James Charles ‘crashes out’ on his burner account amid TikTok ban
Shortly after TikTok was banned in the U.S., James Charles posted a video on his burner account, “crashing out” over the app’s shutdown.
The makeup artist claimed to have found a workaround as he uploaded a video from a new burnerTikTokaccount,user748392822494, which has already amassed over 500,000 followers.
Hiding under white covers, James addressed fans in a whispered tone: “Hello, rest of the world. It’s James. I don’t know if you guys can hear me or see me or if this is even going to work. I think I may have found a loophole — the rest of America is banned.
“Things are not good over here and I have to make this quick before they get me. They told us the app was getting banned at midnight, but, surprise, they took from us two and a half hours early.”
James Charles shares video from a burner TikTok account, claiming to have found a ‘loophole.’pic.twitter.com/CDqiqMp8op
He continued: “We were all just literally scrolling and doing our last couple of moments on the app when we get a fking pop up on the app saying, ‘Sorry, TikTok is closed. Hopefully, Donald Trump will bring it back.’ What? Land of the free home of the brave. I don’t fking think so, but this is crazy.
“We are all crashing out. I don’t know what the f**k to do. I’ve opened and closed this app literally 50 times already just from muscle memory alone. You guys, please take good care of it while we’re gone. I don’t know if we’re ever coming back.”
Fans quickly began speculating about the methodsJames Charlesmight have used to get back online. “The loophole is to make a new acct not based in the US and access it w/ a VPN,” one suggested. “They could technically fine you for circumventing the law, but prob wont.”
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Another wrote: “Now when they said it would be criminal to access TikTok… and James Charles with his big a** platform thought it would be a good idea to publicly access the platform. Bad idea.”
Thankfully,TikTok has been restoredjust 14 hours after the ban, and is now functioning again for some users in the United States.
