Emmanuel Macron used the social network TikTok for the first time on Tuesday to congratulate the new graduates after an "extraordinary" year, in a short video in one hour already collected 52,000 "likes" and earned him 103,000 subscribers. "If you have just graduated from high school, this message is for you, first of all to say congratulations, congratulations, it is the fruit of your work," said the head of state, filmed standing in the gardens. of the Elysée, a few hours after the publication of the results of the examination.
"You are this generation of the world after"
"But you are this generation that is sometimes called the world after," he continues, using the expression he has used since confinement. "You lived an extraordinary year, that of the epidemic, weeks and weeks spent at home, where you were deprived of going with your friends and studying normally," he said to the high school students, whose tests on the table have been replaced by continuous monitoring.
"Your generation has before it a world to invent, stronger, more united, more ecological. I will do everything, where I am, so that the government works, so that this world is better and that we find these foundations there" . "But it is not I who will decide your future, it will be you. So today enjoy, celebrate the baccalaureate and after, good luck," he concludes.
16,000 subscribers in one hour
Emmanuel Macron is used to communicating on social networks, whether it be Twitter, Facebook, Youtube or even the professional Linkedin network he used to address SMEs. Within an hour, he was already followed on TikTok by 16,000 subscribers.
TikTok, owned by the Chinese group ByteDance, acclaimed by the youngest thanks to its videos around humor, dance and music, had 800 million users in January worldwide (according to DataReportal). The platform has often had to defend itself from its links with China, where its parent company has a similar application, under another name. TikTok has just suspended its application in Hong Kong because of the recent security law imposed by China.