‘Goodbye to my Chinese spy’ might be the last great TikTok trend

TikTokers face the potential ban of the app with an unusual trend: goodbye to their “Chinese personal spy”. The trend, which makes fun of the security problems surrounding the app, has users thanking their “spy” for surveillance and filling their For You page with funny content, while others. to proclaim that they prefer to share their data directly with the Chinese government instead of going through Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts.

A placewhich has gained more than 1.5 million likes, depicts an emotional scene from Squid game with the caption, “I say goodbye to my Chinese spy on the 19th (He perfected my algorithm).” Other TikTokers they talk — and sing – in Chinese, while some pretend to be the “spies” that feed the individual algorithms.

“It’s been a great honor to spy on you for the last few years,” TikToker yanxiao1003 he says in a video. “I wish you all to have a good life in the future… Laura from California, you shouldn’t drink so much Coke, it’s bad for your health.”