YouTube and TikTok start MrBeast is looking to buy TikTok as part of a group of investors, as a 75-day time limit ticks down for the social media company to find a non-Chinese owner or risk being permanently banned.

MrBeast, the internet’s most-followed and highest-earning content creator, has joined a new bid to buy TikTok.

It’s not clear if TikTok’s owner ByteDance has seriously considered the offer, Bloomberg reported. Others floated as potential buyers include Elon Musk, Amazon, Oracle, and a syndicate headed by billionaire Frank McCourt.

One of the world's highest earning influencers, MrBeast, has confirmed his bid to buy TikTok, teaming up with the founder of employer.com

The YouTube star MrBeast has joined an investor group who are vying to buy the US side of TikTok before a possible ban could be put in place.

TikTok went dark Saturday night ahead of a nationwide ban. It came back online about 12 hours later after President Donald Trump announced a 75-day delay on the ban. During that time, TikTok needs to find a non-China-based owner to buy it or face a permanent shutdown in the U.S.

After Elon Musk and Shark Tank investor Kevin O'Leary, YouTuber MrBeast has also joined the bid to buy TikTok in the US.According to CNN, after the new US President Donald Trump granted the video-sharing social media platform an extension of

YouTube and TikTok star MrBeast, whose real name is Jimmy Donaldson, announced his intention to purchase TikTok's US business amid concerns of a possible ban. He is part of an investor group led by Jesse Tinsley,

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,