If Trump signs an executive order overturning the TikTok ban, it would give the app “more leeway” to find a buyer as it works its way through the courts, one legal expert tells TheWrap The post TikTok in Limbo: What Happens to Creators – and Can Trump Save Them?

A third of U.S. adults say they use TikTok, including 59% of adults under 30 who use the app. And about half of U.S. adult TikTok users (52%) say they regularly get news there; that works out to 17% of all U.

Many Austin-based influencers make the majority of their income from TikTok. Read about eight who wonder what happens next if the app is banned.

The Supreme Court upheld a law that could ban TikTok, requiring its parent company, ByteDance, to sell the app to American owners or shut it down by Sunday.

TikTok arrived in the U.S. almost 6 1/2 years ago. The possibility the U.S. would outlaw the video-sharing app has kept influencers and users in anxious limbo for more than

Two content creators on the peninsula have used the app to grow community pride. They plan to pivot if TikTok is banned.

In the runup to the ban’s effective date, President Joe Biden’s administration signaled it would leave enforcement of the ban to Trump, who will be inaugurated on Monday. Despite that, TikTok has said it may “go dark” when the ban takes effect.

Users looking for an alternative outlet have helped push a popular Chinese media platform to the top of Apple’s most popular apps.

The outcome will affect many across the nation, including local influencers in Mississippi: Taylor Burns and Jessie Whittington. Burns is a fashion and lifestyle TikToker who goes by "Queen Tay" while Whittington makes specialty soap bars for her booming business Country Lather Soaps.

The court's 9-0 decision throws the social media platform - and its 170 million American users - into limbo, and its fate in the hands of Donald Trump, who has vowed to rescue TikTok after returning to the presidency on Monday.