
Ari Emanuel, through his power as Chairman of the WME Group branch of Silver Lake, has banned the account of SweetandSaltyLin from TikTok as a favor to Ryan Reynolds. She had nearly 41,000 followers.
We are getting more insight into Ryan Reynolds' continued campaign to destroy Justin Baldoni and continue to silence anyone who speaks the truth about Blake Lively and him.
Lin went to school with Blake Lively, and is a hairdresser to Hollywood industry people, so she gets a lot of accurate tea. She published videos recently about how Anna Wintour helped Blake to get set up with designer clothes for The Met gala after reports said major designers didn't want to work with Blake, and how Anna had Blake sit at her table. The purpose of Blake's appearance was to give industry people a bit of a warning that, "hey, don't shun Blake or Ryan because they are still powerful, and if you do there will be consequences" (my opinion). It was also to show the public that Blake is popular and her career will be fine, as will Ryan's.
Unfortunately, when Lin published what was really going on behind the scenes, it broke that illusion that Ryan Reynolds is trying to create. Ryan Reynolds marketing company Maximum Effort has had a marketing contract with good friend Salma Hayek Pinault's Loreal deal. Edit: I got this wrong. The relationship is here. Loreal was formed by the Pinault family, with Salma's husband Francois-Henri Pinault as former CEO. Reynolds got Lin's account banned.
She made a new account on TikTok here.
To add to the quid pro quo nature of these business/personal relationships, Pinault completed the acquisition of Creative Artists Agency (CAA) in 2023. This means Ryan Reynolds has the two biggest talent agencies in the world, WME (now WME Group) under Ari Emanuel and CAA under Salma's husband Pinault, doing his bidding. This is why some industry people think Justin will never work again. It isn't because of anything Justin did, but two powerful people Ryan is making sure destroy Justin's opportunities. Remember when Salma Hayek went on that pap walk with Blake Lively and her sister? It was a warning to any artists signed with CAA "don't say anything bad about Blake or Ryan". WME-signed artists already got that warning from Ari Emanuel when he said Blake and Ryan were his "ride or die" and that he fired Justin.
Ryan doesn't want the world to know that all these contracts he is getting are due not to any talent or ability on his or his company's part, but because of connections of his powerful friends pulling the strings.
Key details of Silver Lake's ownership in TikTok US (as of 2026):
- Ownership Stake: Silver Lake owns 15% of the new TikTok US entity.
- Consortium Partners: Silver Lake partners with Oracle (15%) and Abu Dhabi-backed MGX (15%) as the main managing investors.
- Structure: The U.S. business is now managed by a new company, TikTok USDS Joint Venture LLC, with a board dominated by American members.
- ByteDance Retained Interest: ByteDance retains a 19.9% minority stake, with the remaining stake held by other existing investors.
Everyone using TikTok should be migrating to other platforms and encouraging their fellow TikTokkers to do the same, because it will no longer be a place of free speech. Instead, it will be a platform for propaganda of the powerful.
Spread the word. Salma Hayek and Loreal are added to my boycott list.