So I don't know what cointelegraph is basing on.
The original articles pointed to sensortower, which is pretty accurate
https://sensortower.com/ios/rankings/top/iphone/us/all-categories?date=2021-04-16But, what it tracks is daily popularity, not the global amount to date as TikTok is 10 times bigger than the two combined by March statistics alone and the stats are only for the US, so it's more like a quarter of the story is right. Of course, downloads don't mean users and users don't mean actual trading but that's already going too far into details.
One possible conclusion is that folks are now more interested in swapping crypto and financial assets than they are in interacting on various social media platforms
As I explained previously the title is a bit false and besides that, it will never happen, first is because 80% of the world's population can't afford the $ to invest in the first place, then trading is not for everybody. There are still millions out there for whom creating a youtube account is a challenge, you won't see them even trying to understand what trading is about.
You won't see people ditching fail or snake bite videos for trading en masse.
And if that happens it means it's 1929 all over again.