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.

After tweeting about his interest in purchasing TikTok before it gets banned in the United States, mega popular YouTuber MrBeast has revealed that he's spoken with multiple billionaires interested in getting involved.

On Monday, the 26-year-old Donaldson wrote on X, “OK fine, I’ll buy TikTok so it doesn’t get banned.” It received 37 million views. The following day, he added “Unironically I’ve had so many billionaires reach out to me since I tweeted this,