I cannot say with 100% certainty that nineteen-year-old Justin Jin is not pulling an elaborate prank on me. In my defense, Jin’s company Giggles — which he describes as “putting a trading app and TikTok together” — started as a joke.

“This was around 2023, when TikTok was rumored to get banned and whatnot, and people were trying to find a new social media platform,” Jin told TechCrunch.

“So I started this meme about an app called Giggles, and it wasn’t real at the time, but it went viral on TikTok.

” The name is a riff on an existing joke — people on TikTok would see someone post a stale meme and reply, “bro got banned from google giggles.

” It’s supposed to be the kind of place where you’d post millennial cringe (like Threads), only it’s not real.

But then Jin made it real.

Jin said he created a landing page for the fake app and a logo that makes it look like it could be a real Google app. The site included a field where people could

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