Update: Supreme Court upholds law that could ban TikTok in the U.S. Read more.  With less than a week until TikTok could go dark for American users, a YouTube celebrity may be throwing his hat into the ring to purchase the platform.

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

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.

The YouTube sensation has proposed buying TikTok as a unique solution to stop the social platform from being banned in the U.S.

MrBeast is putting his name in the hat of billionaires fighting to buy TikTok before it’s U.S. death day. Just two days after he tweeted that he would buy the Chinese-owned company, the content-creator said that he had a meeting with billionaires looking to cut a check for platform.

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