US TikTok ban bill moves to Senate, San Diego creators worried [Video]

“Tiktok has literally changed my life, and that’s not an understatement,” said Harini Baht. Baht grew up in San Diego and uses the platform to teach people about science.

“As soon as I started to post videos it was like this unleashing of creativity and freedom to express myself,” she said.

She now has about 603,000 followers and uses the platform as her main source of income. “It’s considerable compared to Instagram. Instagram doesn’t pay you for reels, and it’s in cents. It’s minimal and obviously not enough to live on,” she said.

She worries her livelihood, and ability to reach her audience could be in jeopardy. 

“How many people it’s going to affect both on the creator side and people that go on TikTok to learn — it’s more about …