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Back-Breaking ‘WAP’ Dance Sends TikTokers To The Hospital

TikTok has done it again as yet another dance has taken over the social media platform. However, unlike past popular dance trends like ‘Renegade’ or ‘Say So’ which even novice dancers can perfect, the ‘WAP’ dance has proven to be more of a challenge. Soon after Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion released their explicit […] Back-Breaking ‘WAP’ Dance Sends TikTokers To The Hospital TikTok has done it again as yet another dance has taken over the social media platform. However, unlike past popular dance trends like ‘Renegade’ or ‘Say So’ which even novice dancers can perfect, the ‘WAP’ dance has proven to be more of a challenge. Soon after Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion released their explicit and sex-positive chart-topping single ‘WAP’, dancer and choreographer Brian Esperon wasted no time in creating his original dance for the new hit. Almost immediately, Esperon’s dance became a viral sensation with the original #wapchallenge video reaching 6.4 million views and the dance t...

Trump orders ByteDance to divest interest in US TikTok operations within 90 days

President Donald Trump ordered ByteDance on Friday to divest the U.S. operations of its video-sharing app TikTok within 90 days, the latest effort to ramp up pressure on the Chinese company over concerns about the safety of the personal data it handles. “There is credible evidence that leads me to believe that ByteDance … might take action that threatens to impair the national security of the United States,” Trump said in the order. Trump’s latest move comes on top of an executive order he issued last week that would prohibit certain transactions with TikTok unless ByteDance divests it within 45 days. ByteDance is already in talks to sell the North America, Australia, and New Zealand operations of TikTok to Microsoft Corp.  The new order adds to pressure for ByteDance to divest TikTok and legally buttresses the U.S. government’s crackdown on the Chinese-owned social media app. It authorizes U.S. officials to inspect TikTok and ByteDance’s books and inform...