As the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the ban on TikTok, Denver-based creators are preparing for the app's imminent demise, sharing their experiences and urging followers to connect with them on other platforms.
The end of TikTok is near for the United States. This morning, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously agreed to uphold the law banning the China-based app, claiming it poses a national security threat. We don't know if it's going to look like a voluntary shut-down or a slow death that comes from a lack of updates — or if President-elect Donald Trump will step in at the last minute and offer a reprieve.
It's been a rollercoaster for TikTok users, but all signs point to TikTok going dark come January 19. In 2022, we wrote about our favorite Denver creators utilizing TikTok to show off their adventures and finds in the Mile High City. We've been following all of them since they landed on our cover three years ago; thankfully, they're all active on Instagram, where most TikTok creators are urging audiences to follow them after the ban. Search anything related to Denver on TikTok and you'll stumble across denverfoodscene, a popular account that shows off the area's best restaurants and other eating opportunities. Its creators have tasted shiny caramel apples and sugar-coated apple-cider doughnuts at. They've eaten gooey, ice cream-covered cinnamon rolls and smothered burritos at Hashtag, and visited favorite Manila Bay Filipino Restaurant time and again. The account has over 651,000 followers and posts high-quality videos almost every day, so you could be forgiven for assuming there's a big team churning out content — but the crew is just Yesenia Chinchilla and her husband, Daniel Perez. They moved to Denver in 2016, and Chinchilla started denverfoodscene on Instagram about a year later as a way to explore the city. When TikTok started to become popular in 2020, she expanded the brand to the video platform. It's Instagram sibling has 653,000 followers. The TikTok site got a big boost in July 2020, when Chinchilla posted a video of different types of tacos with a trending sound that said'These are real tacos, not from Taco Bell.' From there, denverfoodscene has grown into a full-time job for Chinchilla. The site makes money off of restaurants that ask for paid partnerships as well as from its sponsor, Metropolitan State University of Denver, which reached out to Chinchilla in September of 2020. That connection has proved to be a productive one, bringing exposure to the campus, financing to Chinchilla and deals to followers; using the code'Denverfoodscene' even waives the MSU online application fee. 'I really like that it’s now to a point where it’s organically growing,' Chinchilla says of the site and her community of followers, who share their feelings about the food they like and different restaurants. One of the biggest challenges? The negative comments that hate on the restaurants she features.'I feel like with anybody, if you’re on social media a lot, it just mentally is not good for you,' she says.'I constantly have to catch myself how long I’m on these platforms.' While Chinchilla plans to expand and add to her team — denverfoodscene is already active on TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and even Pinterest — she knows this won't last forever.'Eventually people aren’t going to want to see me,' she says.'Right now we’re just taking it day by day and exploring more ideas for what we can do with it.'Like many users, Amanda Bittner connected with TikTok during the early days of the pandemic. She'd follow trends, do dances and post cat videos that now make her cringe. Originally from Pittsburgh, she moved to Denver in November 2021 after living in Raleigh, North Carolina, for nine years. There she'd worked for a company called Offline that would post stories about events and restaurants around town, so she'd often go out and try new places and post about them on social media
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