Some creators say they would focus more on YouTube if TikTok was banned.Getty The Google- and Meta-owned platforms have been trying to fend off TikTok for years. If the government intervenes, what happens next? If TikTok was banned tomorrow, Ahmad Alzahabi knows exactly what he’d do. The Syrian-American creator, who goes by the handle The Golden Balance, posts videos of himself cooking dishes from cuisines around the world. He first gained success on TikTok, where he now has 6 million followers, but if the app was suddenly booted from the U.S., as some lawmakers hope, he says he would “go harder” on another platform that has already demonstrated its longevity: YouTube. “That’s the space to be, because of its history,” he told Forbes. “It’s proven that no matter what other platform comes out, it’s still very legitimate.” Alzahabi has 1.3 million subscribers on the Google-owned video service, less than the 2 million he has on Instagram, but it’s his preferred destination after TikTok. He would even focus more on longer videos—the platform’s bread and butter—instead of Shorts, YouTube’s TikTok clone, in order to invest more in “quality over quantity.” As Congress and the Biden administration push for TikTok’s exit in
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A TikTok Ban Would Be A Godsend For YouTube And Instagram – Forbes
