It started with a whisper late Saturday night.
By Sunday morning, thousands of Nigerian creators woke up to a nightmare: TikTok had silently killed their late-night LIVE streams. No warning, no public statement, just a cold message saying the feature was “temporarily restricted for safety reasons” between 11 PM and 5 AM.
Word spread like wildfire. The trigger, according to multiple sources inside the creator community, was chilling: a northern bandit allegedly went LIVE while holding victims, broadcasting the crime in real time before moderators could react.
TikTok refuses to confirm the exact incident, but the timing matches the platform’s escalating war on dangerous Nigerian LIVE content. In the last quarter alone, they banned nearly 50,000 local streams, many for explicit acts, scams, and worse.
For creators, the curfew feels like a death sentence. “Night LIVE is where the real money drops,” one top beauty vlogger cried on X. Gifts rain hardest after midnight, especially now in Detty December when diaspora fans flood streams with diamonds. Some say they’ve already lost half their monthly income in 24 hours.
Comedian Peller raged in a viral video, magician wand in hand: “How do I do magic at 8 PM? Nigerians are awake at 2 AM!”
VPN sellers are smiling, prices jumped overnight as creators scramble to fake foreign locations. TikTok is watching, quietly suspending accounts caught cheating the geo-block.
Behind the scenes, the platform is under pressure from regulators and child-safety NGOs who’ve long complained that late-night streams turn into unregulated clubs.
For now, the ban stays. Creators are begging, threatening, praying. One thing is clear: December just got a lot less detty for Nigeria’s TikTok stars.
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