At the point when the Indian government prohibited TikTok on June 29, a huge number of Indian content makers had the mat pulled free from their feet.

The quantity of Indian TikTok influencers—those with in excess of a thousand adherents on the short-structure video stage—was just second to those from the US, as per a July 11 report by web based life investigation firm HypeAuditor.

Of the over 3.1 million TikTok influencers that HypeAuditor dissected, more than 241,000 hailed from India.

Distribution of TikTok influencers by country

Over 12% of Indian influencers had as much as 100,000 supporters on TikTok, which implies they could team up with brands and get paid for publicizing.

“The application is a wellspring of job for some clients from dissimilar financial foundations,” HypeAuditor’s report noted.

TikTok influencers in India by number of followers

An Indian influencer supposedly charged upwards of Rs2 lakh ($2,661) for a 15-second video, storing up an attractive month to month pay.

“On the maker side, the effect will be increasingly generous and decimating,” said Ankit Agarwal, originator of influencer showcasing firm Do Your Thng. “While most makers are sufficiently adroit to differentiate to different stages, there will be rare sorts of people who remain to lose their whole group of work.”

The Bytedance-claimed video-sharing application had as much as 200 million clients in India. In any case, even past the quality in numbers, its most noteworthy resource was that it figured out how to keep clients in the nation snared. The commitment pace of Indian TikTok influencers was 6% higher than the normal overall commitment rate, HypeAuditor found.

Faithful Indian influencers are as yet holding out trust in TikTok’s arrival. The Beijing-headquartered firm, alongside the 58 different applications restricted by the Indian government, has been given a rundown of 79 inquiries. In the event that they don’t answer by July 22, this boycott may get lasting, the Indian specialists have cautioned.

In the mean time, a string of homegrown applications are attempting to gorilla the uncontrollably well known application to supplant it—however with little karma.