March 6, 2025 • 15 mins
🎙️ Kingly Discussions Podcast | Power Session 🎙️
📢 The Value of TikTok: Control & Exploitation vs. Opportunity & Freedom
Is TikTok just another social media app, or is there a deeper conversation to be had? In this Power Session, we break down The Value of TikTok—exploring how it's used for control and exploitation, but also how it provides opportunities for freedom and expression.
🔹 The unseen dangers & influences of TikTok
🔹 How the platform can be leveraged for positive impact
🔹 What Psalm 12:8 reveals about the current digital landscape
Stay tuned until the end as we highlight Psalm 12:8 and reflect on its relevance in today's world. Let’s engage, think critically, and continue to be the BEST Kingdom Citizens we can be!
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📢 The Value of TikTok: Control & Exploitation vs. Opportunity & Freedom
Is TikTok just another social media app, or is there a deeper conversation to be had? In this Power Session, we break down The Value of TikTok—exploring how it's used for control and exploitation, but also how it provides opportunities for freedom and expression.
🔹 The unseen dangers & influences of TikTok
🔹 How the platform can be leveraged for positive impact
🔹 What Psalm 12:8 reveals about the current digital landscape
Stay tuned until the end as we highlight Psalm 12:8 and reflect on its relevance in today's world. Let’s engage, think critically, and continue to be the BEST Kingdom Citizens we can be!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Yo, what's going on everybody? How y'all doing out there?
Here we are on the King Lee Discussions podcast with
your hosts, none other than yours truly, Jared Lewis aka
King J. Lou aka King J Lewis coming at you
with another power session here. I'm so glad, I'm so
(00:23):
thankful that you here. But the moment that this thing happened,
I wanted to say something about it then, but y'all
know me. I would like to respond to days rather
than react to it. But it's just been all my
heart to talk about this day. I don't know why
I waited so long, but I kind of do because
I know how I am and I know how I operate.
I don't operate in messy stuff, even though the way
(00:46):
that things are going is still messy, and I probably
I probably know why it took me this long to
come up with my complete thoughts, to come up with
my complete feeling and complete discussion as to how I
wanted to present this to you guys, because I honestly
(01:08):
truly believed that this affected everyone. My hell, oh my god,
my children were old TikTok. They were old TikTok before
I was on TikTok. And whenever I've gotten to TikTok,
I was like, okay, all right, So this kind of
TikTok was was more than what everybody else looked at
(01:30):
it towards as to the scope and lins that I
looked at it. TikTok, Man, TikTok was the gateway for
me doing all of my content of it was the push,
It was the drive get TikTok was the push for
me to be a content creator. And if you don't
(01:51):
believe me, I'm just gonna be straight up with you.
You need to hashtag King J. Lou or hashtag King J.
Lewis and you will see exactly what I'm talking about.
TikTok started that trend for me. That hashtag or TikTok
did that for me. And I was like, man, so
(02:11):
this is the basis of everything. This is the basis
of content creation. To be able to say, oh my god,
if I hashtag my you know, you know this, this
is what it is. And I was like, oh my god,
they took TikTok. You know. I was like, they took TikTok.
(02:31):
Now I know what everybody says, you know, well, it's
just content creation. It's just this is just that. Yeah,
I understand that, but you took TikTok. I don't think
people understand about TikTok that you can actually there's actually
a section on TikTok that's educational for STEM. But you
(02:54):
take TikTok. You know what I'm saying, Like, of all
the things that you know that we need done in
our country, as far as the poor, as far as
the veterans, as far as our educational system that they're
trying to take away for some reason, the plethora of things,
(03:14):
the social security that I might not have as a
thirty five year old old gentleman right now, you take
tiktop That just baffled me. Baffles me. It amazes me
how you know we could choose and zero into one
(03:36):
thing and try to take it away even though it's
an ounce of freedom, because that's all content creation is.
Content creation has a lot to do with freedom, and
as a child, that's one of the discrepancy things. One
of the fallacies in my childhood that I wish I
could change was the fact that I didn't feel like
I had a voice. So I had to build myself
(03:56):
up to this grown thirty five year old black man
that now able to uh, you know, freely talk. You
got to realize when I was in high school, we
had to be built tough. I had an English teacher
that straight up told me straight out, hey man, you
you you you can't write. I did a research paper
for her. She was like, yeah, you can't write. You
(04:16):
do you? You don't worry about it. And look at me.
I'm doing all these things in the Kingdom of God.
I have a podcast that I plan my content. I
write out lives, I write notes, I write all these things.
You know. I had to build myself to get where
I am today. And you know, TikTok was a resource,
was a social media resource that helped me make to
(04:38):
make quick videos to make uh you know, you know,
content creation and all this other stuff. Cap cut cap
cut is also a part of content creation too from TikTok.
And you took TikTok, you know, and my mom felt
the same way too, which was kind of weird. So
I was like, Okay, I know, I ain't crazy. This
(04:59):
thing is real, you know what I'm saying. I was like, yeah,
this thing is for real, for real, Like you take TikTok,
why would you take TikTok. Of all things to take,
why I take TikTok? So I'm just sitting in here
just thinking, like, why take TikTok? What? What's the purpose
of taking TikTok? What does that mean for you? To
take TikTok? What does that mean? So as one day
(05:21):
as we and me and my mom were talking, we
were having conversation, you know, she came up with this
Bible verse, and you know, it just amazed me that
as a in that that how even in the Old Testament,
how things are unfolding right now for us, right even
(05:42):
with the Old Testament. I'm a New Testament believer. I
believe solely totally in the New Testament. When I teach,
when I do these things, when I minister, I do
all these things in the New Testament. But the Old
Testament has some really good things in there. And Mama
had brought up songs twelve and eight, and I was like, what,
(06:07):
And because I heard songs twelve and eight, but I
didn't hear songs twelve and eight to the depiction of
how did it have to do? What did it have
to do necessarily with TikTok? So in songs twelve and
eight it says, the wicked walk on every side, right,
the wicked walk on every side when the violenst of
(06:30):
men are exalted. The wicked walk on every side, while
the violence of men are exalted. And what does that
have to do with TikTok? The violenst of men, the
violence of men, the evilest of men, the evilist of people,
are right in our Congress and in our American government,
(06:58):
and people are praising it. That is weird. I don't look. Look,
I don't care about anybody else, personals views, I don't
care about political affiliations. I don't care about any of
that stuff. The one thing I care about and I
will not back away from, is the word. Because the
(07:22):
things that some of these people are doing are vile. Here,
what I'm saying, evil who would want to take away
social security? Of all the taxes that we pay, who
wants to take away social security? I'm talking about evil?
(07:44):
Who want to get rid of affordable health care? I'm
talking about evil. Okay, I'm talking about vile right. And
it's just amazing to me, it's appalling to me. I
just don't understand. But you go after chicktok, which is
(08:07):
a stream of income, a place where people can actually
learn something. Right, we take, We weigh millions of dollars
and thousands and hundreds of dollars on getting rid of TikTok.
(08:28):
It amazes me. The wicked walk on each side when
the violence of men are exalted. They walk on each side.
It don't matter if they're democratic, it don't matter if
they're republican. The evilest of men, the violencet of men.
(08:57):
All right there, So what's the purpose? What's the purpose?
Why does TikTok mean so much? What is the value
of TikTok? Hmm? It's on by China, okay, owned by China.
(09:18):
Somebody who you can't control, owned by China, someone who
has infiltrated us, owned by China. You know, there's a
lot of things on by China that we export and
import through and with. But why TikTok? Psalms twelve and eight.
(09:39):
I think is a good verse to use for us
to understand why they took TikTok? The wicked walk on
every side when the violence of men are exalted. Do
you know that when people are persistently doing bad things,
(10:05):
they become accustomed to doing those bad things. Then the
people that are around them do not believe in anything
else other than the bad things that they're doing. So
(10:27):
if you take away TikTok, you're not just taking away
social media. When you're taking on away TikTok, you're taking
away freedom. You're taking away a freedom that says you
have the right to voice your opinion. Now, somebody told
(10:52):
me that opinions are like buttholes because everybody got one.
So far, what we have come to figure out is
that everybody has one of those. Everybody got one of those.
So that's fine, that's perfectly fine. But understand that when
(11:15):
you take things like this that provides streams of income.
Whenever you take things like TikTok, you're talking about identifying
yourself and learning and growing. Whenever you take things like TikTok,
you have to be careful because you can actually accomplish
something that is more evil and vile than what you
(11:40):
even thought that you were trying to accomplish. What you're
trying to do if you're not careful is bring people
back into slavery. Slavery never left, in my opinion, Slavery
(12:02):
never left. In my opinion, I think that slavery because
everybody needs to read the Willing Lynch Letter. Everybody, everybody,
white folks, black folks. I don't care what kind of
folks you are. Everybody need to read the Willing Lynch
Letter because I believe that slavery is vile and people
(12:29):
didn't know it was vile until the freedoms started being
taken away. Hit me out. It starts with TikTok, y'all.
(12:49):
The status quo is to keep your mind focused on
what they want your mind to be focused on. So
what do we do? Where do we go from here?
Continue to be yourself, don't give up, be persistent, be consistent,
(13:13):
continue to be the best version of yourself, and allow
yourself to grace to be able to do the things
that you need to do. If you use TikTok, fine,
If you don't use TikTok, fine too. But just remember
the value of TikTok because it's greater than the social
(13:37):
media platform. Oh you reaching, You're reaching? You reaching, na player,
na no no see, because if you paid attention, you
will understand that things that promote freedom are at higher
value than paper money. Don't let them take your freedom away.
(14:04):
Don't let them take your freedom away. I think that's
why them taking away TikTok meant so much to me.
And of course right now it's back. It's back in
the app stores. Well, I don't know if it's back
on Android. I know it's back on Apple. I think
that's why it bothered me so much and why it
(14:25):
took me so long to respond, because I want everyone
to be aware of your freedom and how much it
costs and what the value is of it. Don't forget that.
Don't forget how valuable you are as a person. Don't
forget how valuable you valuable you are as an individual.
(14:45):
Don't ever forget that even though people don't agree with
your opinions, you're still allowed to have it, you still
are allowed a voice. And don't ever ever forget that.
That's all the time we got on this power session.
I thank you so much. I appreciate you. I'll catch
you in the next Power session. And again, don't ever
(15:08):
forget this, don't ever ever ever forget this. Always remember
to be the best Kingdom citizen that you can be
and exercise your right as a kingdom citizen. God bless,
I love you, Pace
Yo, what's going on everybody? How y'all doing out there?
Here we are on the King Lee Discussions podcast with
your hosts, none other than yours truly, Jared Lewis aka
King J. Lou aka King J Lewis coming at you
with another power session here. I'm so glad, I'm so
(00:23):
thankful that you here. But the moment that this thing happened,
I wanted to say something about it then, but y'all
know me. I would like to respond to days rather
than react to it. But it's just been all my
heart to talk about this day. I don't know why
I waited so long, but I kind of do because
I know how I am and I know how I operate.
I don't operate in messy stuff, even though the way
(00:46):
that things are going is still messy, and I probably
I probably know why it took me this long to
come up with my complete thoughts, to come up with
my complete feeling and complete discussion as to how I
wanted to present this to you guys, because I honestly
(01:08):
truly believed that this affected everyone. My hell, oh my god,
my children were old TikTok. They were old TikTok before
I was on TikTok. And whenever I've gotten to TikTok,
I was like, okay, all right, So this kind of
TikTok was was more than what everybody else looked at
(01:30):
it towards as to the scope and lins that I
looked at it. TikTok, Man, TikTok was the gateway for
me doing all of my content of it was the push,
It was the drive get TikTok was the push for
me to be a content creator. And if you don't
(01:51):
believe me, I'm just gonna be straight up with you.
You need to hashtag King J. Lou or hashtag King J.
Lewis and you will see exactly what I'm talking about.
TikTok started that trend for me. That hashtag or TikTok
did that for me. And I was like, man, so
(02:11):
this is the basis of everything. This is the basis
of content creation. To be able to say, oh my god,
if I hashtag my you know, you know this, this
is what it is. And I was like, oh my god,
they took TikTok. You know. I was like, they took TikTok.
(02:31):
Now I know what everybody says, you know, well, it's
just content creation. It's just this is just that. Yeah,
I understand that, but you took TikTok. I don't think
people understand about TikTok that you can actually there's actually
a section on TikTok that's educational for STEM. But you
(02:54):
take TikTok. You know what I'm saying, Like, of all
the things that you know that we need done in
our country, as far as the poor, as far as
the veterans, as far as our educational system that they're
trying to take away for some reason, the plethora of things,
(03:14):
the social security that I might not have as a
thirty five year old old gentleman right now, you take
tiktop That just baffled me. Baffles me. It amazes me
how you know we could choose and zero into one
(03:36):
thing and try to take it away even though it's
an ounce of freedom, because that's all content creation is.
Content creation has a lot to do with freedom, and
as a child, that's one of the discrepancy things. One
of the fallacies in my childhood that I wish I
could change was the fact that I didn't feel like
I had a voice. So I had to build myself
(03:56):
up to this grown thirty five year old black man
that now able to uh, you know, freely talk. You
got to realize when I was in high school, we
had to be built tough. I had an English teacher
that straight up told me straight out, hey man, you
you you you can't write. I did a research paper
for her. She was like, yeah, you can't write. You
(04:16):
do you? You don't worry about it. And look at me.
I'm doing all these things in the Kingdom of God.
I have a podcast that I plan my content. I
write out lives, I write notes, I write all these things.
You know. I had to build myself to get where
I am today. And you know, TikTok was a resource,
was a social media resource that helped me make to
(04:38):
make quick videos to make uh you know, you know,
content creation and all this other stuff. Cap cut cap
cut is also a part of content creation too from TikTok.
And you took TikTok, you know, and my mom felt
the same way too, which was kind of weird. So
I was like, Okay, I know, I ain't crazy. This
(04:59):
thing is real, you know what I'm saying. I was like, yeah,
this thing is for real, for real, Like you take TikTok,
why would you take TikTok. Of all things to take,
why I take TikTok? So I'm just sitting in here
just thinking, like, why take TikTok? What? What's the purpose
of taking TikTok? What does that mean for you? To
take TikTok? What does that mean? So as one day
(05:21):
as we and me and my mom were talking, we
were having conversation, you know, she came up with this
Bible verse, and you know, it just amazed me that
as a in that that how even in the Old Testament,
how things are unfolding right now for us, right even
(05:42):
with the Old Testament. I'm a New Testament believer. I
believe solely totally in the New Testament. When I teach,
when I do these things, when I minister, I do
all these things in the New Testament. But the Old
Testament has some really good things in there. And Mama
had brought up songs twelve and eight, and I was like, what,
(06:07):
And because I heard songs twelve and eight, but I
didn't hear songs twelve and eight to the depiction of
how did it have to do? What did it have
to do necessarily with TikTok? So in songs twelve and
eight it says, the wicked walk on every side, right,
the wicked walk on every side when the violenst of
(06:30):
men are exalted. The wicked walk on every side, while
the violence of men are exalted. And what does that
have to do with TikTok? The violenst of men, the
violence of men, the evilest of men, the evilist of people,
are right in our Congress and in our American government,
(06:58):
and people are praising it. That is weird. I don't look. Look,
I don't care about anybody else, personals views, I don't
care about political affiliations. I don't care about any of
that stuff. The one thing I care about and I
will not back away from, is the word. Because the
(07:22):
things that some of these people are doing are vile. Here,
what I'm saying, evil who would want to take away
social security? Of all the taxes that we pay, who
wants to take away social security? I'm talking about evil?
(07:44):
Who want to get rid of affordable health care? I'm
talking about evil. Okay, I'm talking about vile right. And
it's just amazing to me, it's appalling to me. I
just don't understand. But you go after chicktok, which is
(08:07):
a stream of income, a place where people can actually
learn something. Right, we take, We weigh millions of dollars
and thousands and hundreds of dollars on getting rid of TikTok.
(08:28):
It amazes me. The wicked walk on each side when
the violence of men are exalted. They walk on each side.
It don't matter if they're democratic, it don't matter if
they're republican. The evilest of men, the violencet of men.
(08:57):
All right there, So what's the purpose? What's the purpose?
Why does TikTok mean so much? What is the value
of TikTok? Hmm? It's on by China, okay, owned by China.
(09:18):
Somebody who you can't control, owned by China, someone who
has infiltrated us, owned by China. You know, there's a
lot of things on by China that we export and
import through and with. But why TikTok? Psalms twelve and eight.
(09:39):
I think is a good verse to use for us
to understand why they took TikTok? The wicked walk on
every side when the violence of men are exalted. Do
you know that when people are persistently doing bad things,
(10:05):
they become accustomed to doing those bad things. Then the
people that are around them do not believe in anything
else other than the bad things that they're doing. So
(10:27):
if you take away TikTok, you're not just taking away
social media. When you're taking on away TikTok, you're taking
away freedom. You're taking away a freedom that says you
have the right to voice your opinion. Now, somebody told
(10:52):
me that opinions are like buttholes because everybody got one.
So far, what we have come to figure out is
that everybody has one of those. Everybody got one of those.
So that's fine, that's perfectly fine. But understand that when
(11:15):
you take things like this that provides streams of income.
Whenever you take things like TikTok, you're talking about identifying
yourself and learning and growing. Whenever you take things like TikTok,
you have to be careful because you can actually accomplish
something that is more evil and vile than what you
(11:40):
even thought that you were trying to accomplish. What you're
trying to do if you're not careful is bring people
back into slavery. Slavery never left, in my opinion, Slavery
(12:02):
never left. In my opinion, I think that slavery because
everybody needs to read the Willing Lynch Letter. Everybody, everybody,
white folks, black folks. I don't care what kind of
folks you are. Everybody need to read the Willing Lynch
Letter because I believe that slavery is vile and people
(12:29):
didn't know it was vile until the freedoms started being
taken away. Hit me out. It starts with TikTok, y'all.
(12:49):
The status quo is to keep your mind focused on
what they want your mind to be focused on. So
what do we do? Where do we go from here?
Continue to be yourself, don't give up, be persistent, be consistent,
(13:13):
continue to be the best version of yourself, and allow
yourself to grace to be able to do the things
that you need to do. If you use TikTok, fine,
If you don't use TikTok, fine too. But just remember
the value of TikTok because it's greater than the social
(13:37):
media platform. Oh you reaching, You're reaching? You reaching, na player,
na no no see, because if you paid attention, you
will understand that things that promote freedom are at higher
value than paper money. Don't let them take your freedom away.
(14:04):
Don't let them take your freedom away. I think that's
why them taking away TikTok meant so much to me.
And of course right now it's back. It's back in
the app stores. Well, I don't know if it's back
on Android. I know it's back on Apple. I think
that's why it bothered me so much and why it
(14:25):
took me so long to respond, because I want everyone
to be aware of your freedom and how much it
costs and what the value is of it. Don't forget that.
Don't forget how valuable you are as a person. Don't
forget how valuable you valuable you are as an individual.
(14:45):
Don't ever forget that even though people don't agree with
your opinions, you're still allowed to have it, you still
are allowed a voice. And don't ever ever forget that.
That's all the time we got on this power session.
I thank you so much. I appreciate you. I'll catch
you in the next Power session. And again, don't ever
(15:08):
forget this, don't ever ever ever forget this. Always remember
to be the best Kingdom citizen that you can be
and exercise your right as a kingdom citizen. God bless,
I love you, Pace
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