"I was worried"- Addison Rae Calls Out President Donald Trump for the Looming TikTok Ban

The 'Aquamarine' singer and TikTok obviously go a long way back, without a single doubt. Addison Rae had amassed herself quite the fan-following on the platform, becoming the fifth most-followed person on the platform with a whopping 8.8 million followers, back in the day (by which one would mean good old 2019). Only making it justified for her to be worried about the flurry of news about the ban of the giant social network slash media platform.
The controversies around the platform's data security concerns have often had it dipped in hot waters, and a threatening wake-up call to the artists that thrive solely on the basis of this very network, but as times change, the fruit ripens and rots. And so did Rae's rostrum on the application.
Addison Rae faces one of the worst nightmares of a TikTok Star
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Constantly under fire, TIkTok was yet again caught in the governmental radar and became the first subject to the cutting down on that ensues. It is towards which Addison Rae seems to not have been able to suppress her worries, and President Trump's decision to give the Chinese-owned network a second chance let Rae release a breath she had been waiting to let go of. However, when asked by Vogue France if she wanted to thank President Trump for withdrawing the ban, Addison Rae did not bat at an eyelash, something she is very fond of doing, before stating "no." She further explained that he had been the initial cause of the blockage in 2020, saying "I was worried. Of course, I'm glad the network survived."
Rae's burst into the Hollywood slash music scene was taken as a surprise, given that she had actually debuted with the Netflix movie He's All That, where she plays the lead role in a gender swapped version of the 1999 romance-comedy, She's All That. Addison Rae had later that year also progressed with a music career starter, 'Obsessed', released March of 2021, succeeded by her debut EP title 'AR' as recent of August 2023.
While it is understandable for the new generation starlet to feel as if a home had been slipping from her clutches when TikTok was under troubled waters, she need not be as worried or tensed about creating newer spaces of expertise and honing new talents of use in the showbiz.
The many possibilities 'of' Addison Rae
It would have definitely been a loss if a fan-following of that size had been lost on Addison Rae. But, who is to say that the pop-singer's steadily rising and increasingly acclaimed musical presence might just help Rae in ways unknown? A recent example of which is the surge in fans urging Rae to be cast in a rumored Britney Spears biopic, second to only Sydney Sweeney. While Rae might be entirely new to the field, there is a first time for everything, which might have also brought her traction similar to that of her gigantic TikTok spectre.
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Addison Rae can also be credited to be one of the only TikTok stars to have successfully broken into the Hollywood industry, and with not simply a mediocrity that one might expect from someone who has not always been famous solely for her musical talents, surely taking not only the internet but the world, by surprise.
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Edited By: Aliza Siddiqui
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