James "Jimmy" Donaldson, known as MrBeast on YouTube, made an offhand comment to X this week, saying he'd buy TikTok so it doesn't get banned.

TiKTok has locked users in the United States out as a ban takes effect — but incoming president Donald Trump has signalled he could offer a "reprieve".

The Supreme Court ruled on Friday, Jan. 17, to uphold a law that would ban the app for the 170 million people who use the app in the U.S. The ruling lines up with decisions other courts have made and sets up the ban to go into effect on Sunday, Jan. 19.

TikTok's app was removed from prominent app stores in the US - just before a federal law that would have banned the popular social media platform was scheduled to go into effect.

At the time, India was TikTok’s biggest foreign market outside of China, with 200 million users. (For comparison, the U.S. currently has over 170 million TikTok users.) Following military clashes along the disputed border between India and China,

Once the law goes into effect Sunday, TikTok will not be available to download in app stores. Should the app go dark Sunday, users have the ability to download their favorite content — both photos and videos — before the ban takes place.

The platform is in need of saving in the United States, where approximately 170 million people have TikTok accounts. On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld a federal law that will ban the platform on Jan. 19 unless TikTok’s China-based owner ByteDance divests its U.S. operations.

A law that could ban TikTok in the U.S. is set to take effect on Jan. 19. Here's what that would mean for users of the social media platform.

In a surprise turn of events, American TikTok users could not reload their apps roughly two hours before the U.S. ban was set to take effect.

After the Supreme Court and Biden administration decline to step in, TikTok shuts down its app on Saturday night. Trump has not said exactly what he plans to do when he takes office.

TikTok’s app was removed from prominent app stores on Saturday just before a federal law that would have banned the popular social media platform was scheduled to go into effect.