TikTok influencers who visited the White House feel betrayed now Biden is backing the ban

TikTok and social media political influencers who were invited to the White House last week are surprised that President Joe Biden and Congressional Democrats have endorsed the bill to ban the popular social media video app.

The House voted 352-65 Wednesday in favor of the bill that would ban the app, as only 50 Democrats and 15 Republicans voted against it. 

Keith Edwards, an influencer with over 14,000 followers on TikTok said it was not a good look for Biden, who continues struggling with young voters. 

'It's not going to have an electoral impact, because voters don't consider things real until it actually happens,' he said in an interview with the DailyMail.com 

'But it's not great we're talking about this when Joe Biden had finally shifted the vibes for him in a positive direction.' 

Social media influencer Keith Edwards told the Daily Mail that Biden and Democrats were sending the wrong message to young people

Gen Z activist and TikToker Johnny Palmadessa said he relied on the platform to communicate with young people

Biden's outreach to over 70 different social media influencers for the State of the Union speech last week sent the message to content creators that he and his campaign were serious about courting young people on TikTok and other social media platforms.

Edwards said he was not concerned about losing the TikTok platform entirely, but warned political content creators to spread their influence across multiple different platforms.

'TikTok's not going away. Someone will buy it, but creators need to spread their bets because between this, Meta's incoming shadow ban on political content, and Elon Musk destroying Twitter ... you can't just depend on one platform anymore,' he said.

Edwards has over 90,000 followers on Meta's Threads platform and 136,000 followers on X.

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters that Biden continued to support the bill that would ban the app and would sign it if it got to his desk.

'We hope the Senate takes action, and takes this up very quickly,' Jean-Pierre said to reporters on Air Force One. 

Gen Z activist Johnny Palmadessa, who has 26,000 followers on TikTok, also expressed his surprise after House Democrats joined with Republicans to pass the bill that would force TikTok's China-based company ByteDance to sell the app or ban it in the United States.

'TikTok links young Americans to opportunities — and as a Gen-Z TikToker, I find myself reliant on the platform for communication,' he told the Daily Mail. 'This merely underscores Congress's disconnect in making decisions they already don't comprehend.'

Palmadessa was also at the White House event last week and has over 100,000 followers on Threads and 16,000 followers on Instagram.

'Rather than attempting to ban a platform that uplifts young Americans: Congress should be focused on pursuing an agenda that supports young people, too,' he said.

News of the House passing the TikTok bill fueled protest on the popular video app from political content creators.

TikTok creators expressed their anger at Democrats and Biden for supporting the bill that would ban the app

'I think this legislation and others like it - especially around AI which is also coming up - is where Leftists and Conservatives are going to find common ground,' V. Spehar, who posts on the handle @underthedesknews told the DailyMail.com.

Spehar posted a protest video on his account right after the House passed the bill to address TikTok with a bipartisan 352-65 vote.

Spehar pointed to Republicans like Reps. Dan Bishop (R-NC) and Thomas Massie (R-KY) as having the right concerns about the legislation and ridiculed Rep. Nancy Pelosi for her comment that it would make TikTok, 'Tic-Tac-Toe. A winner.'

'I think Nancy Pelosi failed in her attempt to persuade voters that “as a grandmother” she gets it,' Spehar said. 

TikTok user @probably_n0t_chris vented in a video about Biden's hypocrisy 

TikTok user @probably_n0t_chris vented in a video on TikTok, calling out Biden's hypocrisy for using TikTok influencers to promote his State of the Union speech before endorsing a ban of the app less than 24 hours later.

'If this is not proof that these politicians will use you and cast you aside the moment that they get what they want? I don't know what is?' he said. 'To the 70 influencers that went, if you feel half as stupid as you should, you will remember this decision for the rest of your f****g life. What did you expect? This guy brought you on to promote your own unemployment. I hope you feel f*****g dumb, this is Joe Biden we are talking about.'

The Biden campaign created a TikTok account in February to engage with young people and share exclusive videos from the president. 

President Biden greets digital content creators at the White House

TikTok's creators are marching from the US Capitol to the White House, demanding that President Biden keep TikTok, during a rally in Washington DC, USA,

TikTok user Gabrielle Judge revealed in a TikTok video she was invited by the White House to attend the State of the Union address but was 'on the fence' about the idea, as her content was not necessarily political.

She indicated she was repulsed after she saw Biden said he would sign the bill banning TikTok if Congress put it on his desk.

'After Biden has used TikTok to campaign certain things recently, anyways I was like you're full of c***,' she said in a video.

Judge revealed the agency recruiting influencers for the State of the Union address sent her concept briefs, approved talking points for posts and videos about the event, an hour before the event took place.

Judge said she about 400,000 followers across different platforms.

'If you think about my size of following, I was invited to this to basically boost Joe Biden and his voice,' she said.

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) taunted Biden on social media after the White House reiterated the president's support for the bill.

'Maybe the President could lead by example and cancel his TikTok account,' he wrote on X.