In recent news a TikTok artist named Tyler Shaw was complaining at a conference about not making a dime from TickTock after his post got 2.5 billion views. A spokes person for TikTok Canada quickly chimed in explaining that TikTok pays the rights holders of all content being seen on the platform and Shaw’s reinterpretation of artist Gayles smash hit ‘ABCDEFU’ went viral generating payment to the label and publisher of the original song.