So right after I made that last blog post, TikTok has apparently been revived in the US already:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/tiktok-ban-trump-executive-order-jan-19-what-you-need-to-know

See, this is why I tend to avoid referencing current events in my animations and Movie Portal submissions. Animation takes forever, but the world just moves too dang fast--the ban did not even last 12 hours! This does not change the fact that I personally think short-form video content is shrinking our brains (at least our attention spans) and I will not magically decide to get a TikTok account or any of the alternatives (RedNote, Instagram Reels) either way, though this does kind of discourage me from putting more effort into my YouTube Shorts--it is a bit of extra work making a separate "YouTube Shorts" version of my horizontal animations that would be better spent just moving on to the next animation project, and it's not like my animations are (currently) long enough to necessitate making a clip for YT Shorts or TikTok, anyway.