TikTok, an app for creating short videos, is no longer available on Android's Google Play and iOS' App Store in India.
The development took place after the Madras High Court issued a directive to ban downloads of the app in India.
Several reasons such as quality control, where multiple reports surfaced with questions of how abusive or pornographic a general section of TikTok’s content was and the app's addictiveness and cyber-bullying contributed to its deletion. The app received severe backlash.
But, Twitter tried to help us find the funniest reasons behind the ban.
Twitter reactions:
Chinese app TikTok removed from Google and Apple App Store in India. Now we are left with only one source of entertainment🤣#TikTokban pic.twitter.com/9rO5YdMagO
— Sir Jadeja fan (@SirJadeja) April 17, 2019
One of the main reasons for banning tiktok in india...😂😁#TikTokBan pic.twitter.com/WmgAuTcSuJ
— Yash Saraswat (@yash782386) April 17, 2019
Tiktok banned Because of this video 😂 #TikTokban pic.twitter.com/i2BBqRUMgC
— Arham Sayyed (@Tweet2Arham) April 17, 2019
#TikTokban
— Amruth Rathore (@AmruthRathore) April 17, 2019
Government Ban #TikTok after seeing this video 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/F8TtG3SOPX
I have never liked tik tok... But this is... 😂 #TikTokban pic.twitter.com/Ym7sZy4WlV
— Prakash Shetty (@kitneka) April 17, 2019
No Wonder They Got Banned 🙄😏 #TikTokBan pic.twitter.com/72cBspKOjP
— #TheIyerGuy (@Iyer_LFC) April 17, 2019
This is the main reason behind tikaton ban😨😨 #TikTokban pic.twitter.com/7mfhwltTwV
— Basant Thakur (@iambsnt) April 17, 2019
Tik tok users be like #TikTokban pic.twitter.com/0Iy0jt5wJV
— Wasim Khan (@WasimKh71243016) April 16, 2019
After #TikTokban other apps like Vego, Like..... pic.twitter.com/BCRuyE8o72
— Jaggu (@rhumour_D) April 17, 2019
#Tiktokban
— Memelationship✿❤🔥 (@meme_dewani) April 17, 2019
Meanwhile manjul and all other tiktok user right now: pic.twitter.com/ftvQLdtdbR
This is the reason why tik tok is ban in India after us.#TikTokban pic.twitter.com/G5llCeqoIK
— loveubikasss (@loveubikasss) April 17, 2019
Take a Clear look why #TikTok was a Threat For India. #TikTokban 🎉🎉🥂🥂 pic.twitter.com/Sh3iZHBhvT
— Beingamrit19 (@Beingamrit191) April 17, 2019
Responding to the orders, India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) asked Apple and Google to disable the downloads of the TikTok app.
The company employs more than 250 people in India and had plans for more investment as it expands the business.
