Petition updateChange TikTok's Community Guidelines AlgorithmLaura Winehouse's Story (a singer and makeup artist with 2k followers)
Rose MontoyaLos Angeles, CA, United States
Dec 20, 2020

So basically for the 8 or so weeks leading up to Halloween I practice my SFX make-up, post it on my social media platforms and some lives showing how I do it etc. I've had a constant battle with Tiktok removing videos for violations because my make-up was "promoting violence, self-harm and suicide." I decided to go live and show people my transformation to Jack Sparrow as people had asked about it and I had kept my content mild, small SFX cuts and bruises and had gone live putting make-up on to cover my eye as if I had lost it. That Live received a warning pop-up which is another reason I decided this day to do Jack for everyone. After I had finished my make-up, I had asked people what they wanted to see next as we had a few day's left till Halloween and they asked to see some of the things I had done before so I popped the image seen in this video with my message and it was on the greenscreen for maybe 3 or 4 seconds and I was booted and permanently banned from live streaming for promoting suicide and self-harm, No appeal available. I have tried to contact Tiktok through email, Twitter, Facebook and also tagging them in several videos but after nearly 10 weeks have heard nothing back, not even an automated response.  The video also "violated Community guidelines" as did several others after this, some of which I appealed and they were reinstated but a few were not so lucky. These violations along with my ban resulted in a huge drop in my views and reach. tiktok is the only platform I have experienced this with and  other than the warning pop up i received on my other live i had no violations on any video's or lives before this point. 

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