Is TikTok about to pull off a heist on the music industry?

Picture it.

You click on the video of viral TikTok star Nathan Apodaca skating down the freeway with his bottle of Ocean Spray. Yet instead of hearing Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams – which Apodaca’s feelgood video famously turned into a TikTok megahit in 2020 – all you hear is the sound of his wheels on the tarmac… because the song has been permanently muted by the ByteDance-owned video giant.