TikTok said it will be “forced to go dark” on Sunday, Jan. 19, unless it receives a “definitive statement” from the outgoing Biden administration that the app’s tech partners won’t be penalized under the divest-or-ban bill.

TikTok plans to keep paying U.S. employees even if the Supreme Court does not overturn a law that would force the sale of the short-video app in the U.S. or ban it, the company's leadership said in an internal memo reviewed by Reuters on Tuesday.

Several influencers have taken to the platform to voice their intentions: "If the government bans TikTok, I'm not gonna pay my taxes. TikTok is my job, alright. I get money from t

The Supreme Court rejected TikTok's appeal to halt a law banning the app in the U.S. unless Chinese parent ByteDance sells its stake by Jan. 19.

As the clock ticks down to a TikTok ban on Sunday (January 19), content creators, like Dustin Tyler, Derick Castenholz and Hayden Rankin, are sharing their anxieties and frustration over losing a platform that has become their primary or additional source of income.