I would watch a TikTok of "F22 shoots down my balloon."

TikTok is like a spy balloon in your own phone (assuming the 100% clipboard-exfiltration-at-all-times and other data harvesting reports are true).

Ironic if people are being spied upon by TikTok whilst watching a spy balloon video.

I would watch an F-22 shoot down my phone.

That's a good point though - people seem more worked up about the data collection balloon than they are about the little data collector in their pockets.

assuming the 100% clipboard-exfiltration-at-all-times and other data harvesting reports are true

Woah! Even on iOS?

Nah. I remember this went viral at a point when the first developer betas of iOS 14 (or was if 13?) came out and IOS started reporting clipboard accesses. For a while during those early betas, it seemed TikTok was accessing the clipboard every few minutes. Apparently it turned out to be innocuous—the app qas checking for TikTok links on the clipboard to show them to the user? Something like that.

Other apps had the same issue (I think Telegram comes to mind?)

Telegram doesn't do that, atleast not for me, since android reports (via toaster popup) clipboard access now too.

Yes, I forgot to mention that this was a transient issue which got fixed by most apps (including tiktok) some time ago.