Mr Beast Considering Buying TikTok Company Starts Talks With Investors Popular YouTuber Misty Whisper (Jimmy Donaldson) has made a buyout offer to prevent TikTok from being banned in the US. In a recent post on social media, he revealed that he is in contact with billionaire investors to buy TikTok.
Misty Whisper has started this effort to prevent TikTok from being banned as TikTok’s US future looks uncertain. He, who has over 300 million YouTube subscribers, wrote on X, “Okay, I’ll buy TikTok so it doesn’t get banned.” A few hours later, he wrote again, “This is serious, I’ve talked to a lot of billionaires about this. Let’s see what we can do.”
TikTok will be shut down in the US from next Sunday if Chinese company ByteDance does not sell TikTok to an American company. It has also been reported that China is in secret talks to sell TikTok to Tesla billionaire Elon Musk.
As the US ban on TikTok approaches, China is looking for alternatives. That’s why there are rumours that China is in secret talks to sell TikTok to Tesla CEO Elon Musk. If Musk buys TikTok’s US operations, it will provide his social network X (formerly Twitter) with a large user base and data.
US President Joe Biden in April last year ordered TikTok’s Chinese company ByteDance to sell its assets by January 19, 2025. Otherwise, he decided to impose a nationwide ban.
TikTok has argued that the ban violates the right to freedom of expression of American citizens. However, the Supreme Court is likely to uphold the ban due to national security concerns.
President-elect Donald Trump, who takes office on January 20, has said that the TikTok ban should be extended. This suggests that Musk’s potential acquisition of TikTok could give a new twist to relations between the US and China.
