After the tension between TikTok and Russia towards the end of 2020, Russia released its own TikTok, Yappy. Yappy has a similar interface and the same functionality as TikTok.
The most popular social media application today. TikTok, hosts millions of users every day. TikTok, which has now become the center of many movements, has started to cause concern in some countries. one of these countries Russia takes action against TikTok passed.
Russia has developed its own domestic application to reduce the dominance of TikTok, which is part of China-based ByteDance. ‘Yappy‘, this application was launched in Russia, where there are 40 million TikTok users. In the development process of the application, names close to the government played a role.
It has the same functionality as TikTok:
Yappy is basically an app almost completely different from TikTok. Users, just like TikTok up to 60 seconds long can share videos. The interface of the application is also very similar to TikTok.
The daughter of Russian President Putin played a role in the development process:
The app is a subsidiary of state-owned gas giant Gazprom. by Gazprom Media was developed. But in the development process, the President of Russia one of Vladimir Putin’s daughters Katerina Tikhonova also indirectly helped.
From the Innopraktika Foundation, an organization led by Katerina Tikhonova during the development of the application support received.
Russia first put forward the idea of developing a local application to rival TikTok towards the end of 2020. What got things started was TikTok’s rejection of the Russian government’s request to delete posts encouraging him to join unauthorized street protests in support of government critic Alexei Navalny.