Published 17:14 IST, May 18th 2020

TikTok rating down: Why the app's rating dropped drastically on Play Store?

Popular app TikTok has seen a significant drop in its rating on the Google Play Store after a recent video posted by YouTube star.

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Over past few days, re has been a huge battle of memes of sorts on internet between YouTube and TikTok supporters. It was after a video titled "YouTube vs TikTok: End" that took social media by storm, resulting in all kinds of reactions, from funny to angry.

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video was shared on May 8 by YouTube sensation CarryMinati (Ajey Nagar) where he roasted Amir Siddiqui, a ‘social media influencer’ within TikTok community. video, which was essentially a roast of TikTok stars, had mand to cross over 70 million views on platform and quickly became most liked n-musical Indian YouTube video. However, it was soon pulled down for violating YouTube’s terms of service after it was widely reported by community with a number of users calling out queerphobic slurs used in video. Certain people also called video as dehumanising and degrading value of a queer person's life.

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Soon after video was taken down, a Twitter storm erupted with users demanding justice for YouTube star and banning TikTok in country. According to his supporters, video was intended as good, harmless humour. A number of hashtags also started trending on social media service, including #CarryMinati and #JusticeForCarry. Actor Himansh Kohli came out in support of YouTube star stating that video was just a fun roast while encouraging him to keep good content coming.

neless, video had a significant impact on TikTok rating on Play Store. app’s rating has dropped down from 4.5 all way to 3.2 in only a matter of days. In addition, a number of YouTube users are also visiting YouTube handles of certain popular TikTok stars to dislike ir recent videos in an effort to turn m into most disliked videos on video-sharing platform. Many users even claimed to have uninstalled app in support of YouTube content creator.

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Some users are also encouraging ir friends to give poor ratings to TikTok on Google PlayStore while demanding that Chinese app be banned in country. CarryMinati currently has more than 17 million subscribers on YouTube and is also one of most subscribed YouTubers in India.

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17:13 IST, May 18th 2020