Title: Perez Hilton Was Banned From TikTok. Why? - The New York Times
Headings: Perez Hilton vs. the Fan Armies
Perez Hilton vs. the Fan Armies
The celebrity blogger was banned from TikTok on Saturday in a move he said was influenced by the app’s biggest stars.

Content: In 2012, a New York Times reporter noted that Mr. Hilton had “toned down his malicious rhetoric considerably, in keeping with a new culture of nice online that has accompanied the rise of social media.”) Influencers are a new class of celebrity, though. They wield powerful fan armies who can shape public narratives through advocacy. Influencer fans would mass report all of Mr. Hilton’s videos, he said, which resulted in many being removed. “Not only do they ban together and mass report your account, they mass report your comments so you’re banned from commenting for several days or a week,” Mr. Hilton said of his TikTok adversaries. “ I was getting death threats daily.” Mr. Hilton believes it was pressure from TikTok’s biggest stars that led to his ban, though the company disputed this. “We are deeply committed to maintaining a welcoming and supportive community environment. Our Community Guidelines apply to everyone and everything shared on TikTok, and we remove accounts that repeatedly violate our policies,” a TikTok spokesperson wrote in an email statement. Still, the ban set off alarm bells because influencer fans had been pushing for it — and young creators celebrated it. “