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Gamer-focused Tilted social app raises $1.3M to save TikTok’s creator economy

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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TikTok might be going away soon in the U.S., but Tilted hopes to launch a gamer-focused social app on iOS to help save the creator economy. Tilted aims to launch its app on January 31.

TikTok could be outlawed in the U.S. as soon as January 19 over concerns about its Chinese ownership, as it hasn’t gotten a reprieve from the Supreme Court. The Trump administration will likely decide its fate, or Beijing-based parent company ByteDance could choose to comply with a federal law forcing it to sell its stake in the app. TikTokers have been scrambling for another platform, migrating to platforms like RedNote, but the Chinese government wants Americans separated from the Chinese audience and the U.S. TikTokers may just get banned there.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.