Yes. Equally/more likely that Instagram/YouTube are embarrassed and mad at how swiftly TikTok came in and made a much better and more popular product.
Every attempt to ban the copycat app on Google store by the French was useless, since a new copycat app would pop up the next second.
So it's not like tiktok is some new innovation. What they did is still amazing, but malevolent, but credit where credit is due.
Mindie failed because they got attacked by copyright claims by the big US tech, which obviously the chinese copycat was immune to, since China.
https://techcrunch.com/2014/01/16/from-a-failing-product-to-...