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This might seem obvious to some but at first, I didn’t know that you could save your TikTok video as you are editing it. 

When I first started editing my TikToks, which include tons of stickers, captions, effects, it would sometimes take 30 minutes a video. There is no worse feeling than spending 25 minutes editing the perfect video, one that you are super excited to share…..and then the app crashes.

Later someone told me that you could save your video while editing. It’s a big clunky, but I never have to work about losing my hard work. 

Here’s how to do it and you can do this any time in the editing process. 

Click Next

It’ll then appear on your feed as a draft and you can open it immediately to continue editing or save it for later.

Use new features and trends immediately to get an algorithm bump

NEW TikTok Trend: Laugh Pause

Currently trending is “when you accidentally 😂😂😂👀😂😂😂”. It features the “laugh pause” music track. Shoot yourself laughing and replace the “pause” with the emoji of your choice

Here’s our favorite from @louispei:

Here are two more examples from our readers:

https://vm.tiktok.com/J8Ke75T/

https://vm.tiktok.com/J8KDkQ3/

How the Trump administration could ‘ban’ TikTok

Adi Robertson writes that “It’s harder than they make it sound”. This would be an unprecedented move and involve censorship on a scale that we've never seen in the United States. 

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) opened up an investigation on TikTok last year. Robertson writes “If CFIUS decides Chinese ownership is a problem, the council could cause a lot of trouble for TikTok.” However, this wouldn’t result in a “ban”, the outcome could be that the council forces ByteDance to sell off TikTok (Musical.ly) conceivably to an American company. 

It's possible that the government could add TikTok to a list that forces Apple and Google to remove the app from their app stores, which could be devastating to the app. Currently the conspiracy theories about China spying on America via TikTok are purely speculation and not grounded in actual fact.

That one time, yesterday, when we all thought the TikTok ban already started

TikTok creators lost their minds today when a glitch early yesterday caused all TikTok videos to be shown with zero views. It was 45 minutes until TikTok issues a confirmation that there was a glitch occuring, but by then #RIPTikTok was already trending

Don’t worry guys, TikTok will be here for at least one more day!

TikTok Stars Race to Land Reality Shows

What’s next for mega TikTok creator houses like Hype House and Sway House? The ultimate prize would be a reality show on television. Charli D’Amelio has already signed a production deal with the creator of American Idol and 90-Day Fiance.

However, does Gen Z, with their micro-attention spans, actually have the ability to sit through a 30-60 minute reality show?

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Since TikTok getting cancelled is on the top of everyone’s mind, we loved this humorous take on the issue:

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