The Controversial Green Book is Getting Shops BANNED with NO Warning!

TikTok is, in my opinion, doing some shady shit and going after some shops for promoting The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies—not everyone, apparently, because I still see people doing LIVES promoting this controversial book every day. The first week of June hundreds of TikTok Shop accounts were permanently banned without warning, and it has been confirmed that it was because of the green book, as it's being called now, even saying the name might get you into trouble. All of their appeals were denied and all of their commissions frozen. It is unclear whether or not they will get paid—hundreds of thousands of dollars that, what, TikTok will keep?

TikTok allowed The Lost Book of Herbal Remedies and the companion book, The Holistic Guide to Wellness, both by Nicole Apelian, Ph.D., to be on the marketplace for affiliates to promote. Someone please explain to me why they would allow them to be sold in the first place? If these books are soooo bad and so controversial and violate your precious community guidelines, why even let them on the platform to being with? Make it make fucking sense. Hundreds of creators are out of business, some with 100K plus followers and now must decide whether or not they want to start all over again in what is fast becoming an over saturated space. TikTok is being taken over by crappy, cheap, fast made products and is walking a fine line of quantity over quality for that almighty dollar. Nobody wants to see another ad for a cheap tumbler, shower scrubber or hair waver. But I digress.   

TikTok is not a friendly space anymore for businesses promoting health and wellness in a natural, herbal, holistic way. I have seen many herbalism accounts that I follow disappear recently for simply giving people a natural alternative to toxic OTC and Big Pharma meds. Let me ask you a thought provoking question. Why would a Chinese owned app want to silence creators that are teaching about the healing properties of plants and herbs when their culture is rooted in such practices? 

I am currently sitting through my third temporary account suspension, three days of no selling, for making a video—in code because I knew it would get flagged—about wild yam cream boosting my libido. I never said libido. I never said sex or sex drive. All I said was after using it for six months, and suffering from a "desire disorder," that something is different. BOOM, almost instantly got a violation. Explain to me how other creators can say more explicit things and not get the same treatment? It's maddening. If this keeps up, the future of TikTok is bleak. 

Oh, and I took down all of my videos of the green book.