On Christmas day I woke up to find that my TikTok account (kegs_x) had been permanently banned for breaking community guidelines (as shown in the screenshot). It has been over a week now and this happening has hugely impacted my mental health.

Growing up as a young gay man in Ireland I was faced with a lot of challenges and had to battle my own inner demons and this had a major impact on my own mental health and well being. After coming through all this and discovering who I was as a person I realized that I want to help others who may be in the position I was in and spread positivity and joy whilst doing so, which is the main reason why I started my TikTok account. I get such amazing messages from people stating how Im an inspiration to them and I have helped them in different aspects of their lives.

After working extremely hard on my account, making videos every single day for a number of months I have grown to almost 70k followers and I have realized that I want to make this my career in a way where I can help others and encourage people to love themselves, live happier lives and spread positivity. This account was the beginning of my journey as I want to build my reputation in doing this and essentially turn it into a business.

I am extremely saddened that an organization like TikTok has just taken this away from me on Christmas day of all days without proper reasoning. I have had a lot of people messaging me every day since explaining how they are so disappointed and upset that this has happened as they check my page daily as it brings happiness to their lives.

I feel like this happening can damage my reputation and it is negatively impacting my mental health as I have worked so hard on this and it has all been taken away from me. I have had videos taken down for breaking community guidelines in the past but were put back up after I appealed them as they weren’t even bad. I would never upload anything where I would think it may offend or harm other people. I am currently reading through all of the community guidelines and learning what the regulations are to ensure that this will never happen again but I am begging you to please help me get my account back so I can start living and spreading positivity again.