“Goodbye to my Chinese spy” may be the latest great TikTok trend

TikTokers are dealing with the app’s potential ban in an unusual direction: by saying goodbye to their “personal Chinese spy.” The trend, which mocks security concerns surrounding the app, has users thanking their ‘spy’ for monitoring them and filling their For You page with entertaining content, while others Announce They would rather share their data directly with the Chinese government than switch to Instagram Reels or YouTube Shorts.

One postWhich has received more than 1.5 million likes, depicts an emotional scene from Squid game With the caption: “I’m saying goodbye to my Chinese spy on the 19th (he perfected my algorithm).” Other TikTokers They talk — And singing – in Chinese, while some pretend to be “spies” driving individual algorithms.

“It’s been a great honor to have been spying on you for the past few years.” TikToker yanxiao1003 He says in the video. “I wish you all a wonderful life in the future… Laura from California, you shouldn’t drink too much Coca-Cola, it’s bad for your health.”