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Pokemon TikTok bids a tearful farewell to fans ahead of its nationwide ban in the United States on January 19, 2025.
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Its last video shared is the iconic Butterfree scene from 1997, which is nostalgic and sad.
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Despite the Supreme Court ruling and political opposition, there remains hope for US TikTok users.
official Pokemon Ahead of the video-based social networking app's nationwide ban in the United States, the TikTok account has bid farewell to its fans. An English-language TikTok account, with over a million followers and over 10 million likes on a list of videos Pokemon Company Int'l dug deep into the anime series to share a tear-jerking farewell to its American fans.
The nationwide ban on the app, ordered by the United States Congress in March 2024 as an ultimatum to pressure China-based owner ByteDance to sell ownership of the social media platform, will take effect on January 19, 2025. Despite many attempts. To protect the use of the social media app for American audiences, a recent unanimous federal Supreme Court ruling in TikTok supported Congress' decision, citing app users' “susceptibility to anti-foreign censorship.”
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In a heartfelt final farewell on TikTok's last full day before the ban, Pokemon Company International shared a similarly fond farewell from 1997. As perhaps its final act, the account shared one of its most famous and tear-jerking moments. Pokemon In the anime, when Ash Ketchum and Butterfree say goodbye to each other, the former releases the latter to live among his own kind with his pink friend Butterfree. The episode in which this scene appears is only the 21st in the series, titled Bye Bye Butterfree, but it holds special significance because Butterfree was Ash's first Pokemon when it was just a Caterpy. “Thanks for the memories, coaches,” reads the text of the post, inviting fans to follow along Pokemon on other social media platforms.
Pokemon TikTok said goodbye through the infamously sad Butterfree scene
While Ash and Butterfree reunite after 25 years, there is hope that TikTok users in the United States won't have to wait that long. USA Today reported that outgoing President Joe Biden's administration has no plans to implement the ban, which would take effect on his last full day in office. Meanwhile, President-elect Donald Trump, who will sign an executive order to ban TikTok in his first term in 2020, recently told Meet the Press that he is likely to push the deadline back by 90 days, which some political analysts have speculated he is. Willingness to work with ByteDance to find a buyer for TikTok or secure it through some other means.
TikTok CEO Shou Chew responded to the Supreme Court decision by praising Trump, saying he was willing to work with the company's leadership so it can continue serving its 170 million daily users in the United States. Chew's video statement called the move “a strong stand for the First Amendment and against arbitrary censorship.” The original congressional proposal to ban TikTok was overwhelmingly approved by both major political parties in the House of Representatives, with Republicans voting 197 to 15 and Democrats voting 155 to 50.
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