So... about TikTok's phone number verification

Hi, everyone. This is my first post on this subreddit, and I have a problem. I was filming a video of myself using an interactive filter (u know, those game filters?). All of a sudden, it got sent to the drafts because my phone number needs to be verified. Bro, I have not and I wil never put/verify my phone number just to film and upload videos. What is wrong with the developers ATP?