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.

MrBeast is part of a growing list of individuals and businesses that have expressed interesting in purchasing TikTok.

With TikTok planning to shut off its US operations on Sunday, YouTube star Jimmy "MrBeast" claimed he is considering purchasing the social media giant's app for American users.

Could owning TikTok be next? On Monday, the 26-year-old Donaldson wrote on X, “OK fine, I’ll buy Tik Tok 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,

TikTok is about to be banned in the United States after the government set new rules for the app's operation in the country, measures that the Chinese company ByteDance did not comply with. O post MrBeast offers to buy TikTok to prevent the app’s ban in the US apareceu primeiro em TechBreak.