Will TikTok find a way to remain legal in the U.S. under a new ownership structure? A range of possible new owners for TikTok in the U.S. — including MrBeast, Elon Musk and Oracle founder Larry Ellison — have emerged as a federal law banning TikTok in the country went into effect this Sunday,

Jimmy Donaldson — better known online as MrBeast — isn't in the TikTok bidding race just yet, according to a representative for the YouTube star. Donaldson stirred interest in a Jan. 13 post on X saying he’d “buy TikTok so it doesn’t get banned.

Just two days after sharing his thoughts on X, Donaldson took to TikTok with a video announcing his plans to purchase the platform. MrBeast in a video said, “I just got out of a meeting with a bunch of billionaires.

YouTube personality “MrBeast” Jimmy Donaldson and a group of investors tapped Brad Bondi, the brother of President Donald Trump’s pick to run the Justice Department, for legal advice on their bid to buy TikTok.

Donaldson posted a jokey message on X on January 13 that read, "Okay fine, I'll buy Tik Tok so it doesn't get banned." A day later,

TikTok was no longer available in the USA. As no buyer could be found, the ban, which both Republicans and Democrats under former US President Joe Biden had campaigned for, came into effect last Sunday.

YouTuber MrBeast, X owner Elon Musk and Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison are names that have floated around in the past week.

MrBeast joins a long list of interested TikTok buyers including billionaire Elon Musk and Oracle founder Larry Ellison. Billionaire Frank McCourt, who runs the internet advocacy group Project Liberty has also publicly expressed his interest in the opportunity,

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order granting TikTok a 75-day extension to comply with a law banning the app if it is not sold. The social media platform briefly went dark in the US days before Trump took office, after the Supreme Court denied a bid by its Chinese owner ByteDance to overturn the legislation.

TikTok was banned in the US due to national security concerns over its Chinese ownership, prompting federal action requiring ByteDance to divest. As suitors are being lined up, the ByteDance-backed app will remain unavailable in Google and Apple app stores in the US.

Jimmy Donaldson, known as MrBeast, has tweeted about his interest in buying TikTok to prevent its potential ban in the US. With the backing of billion