They F*cked The Country Up With This One

Before I started writing this post, I had to check one more time to see if CapCut was still banned in the United States. Yep, it is still banned. Mind you, it is 10:32 a.m. on Monday, the 20th, and by the time you guys read this, Mr. President MIGHT have the editing software back up and running. However, the damage is already done!

When the TikTok ban was announced early this year, we were all worried. Some people prepared for it, others didn’t think it would happen, but we knew it was coming… It came and went in a matter of hours. I left the platform months ago because I didn’t see the point of trying to grow on it now if it was going to be shut down. This is why Brittani’s Bubble isn’t on TikTok and I don’t plan on going over there now that it’s “back”.

But this isn’t about TikTok, there are plenty of newsletters and Medium articles about it, and everybody on every social media platform is talking about it, but that’s not what crushed me. I woke up at 7 AM Sunday, grabbed my phone, and started to scroll Threads. As expected, the TikTok ban was the talk of the app, but as I was scrolling, I came across a post saying that CapCut shut down in the middle of their editing. To which I replied CAAAAPCUUUT?! (Insert Soulja Boy Drake meme here.)

I was like oh no, they didn’t take The Cut too! But sure enough, I went to open the…