TikTok Users Shared Funny Reactions as U.S. Ban Took Effect [Video]

Well, it’s over (for now).

TikTok officially went dark for American users late on Saturday, January 18 — hours before the official ban of the video app took effect in the U.S. Millions of users were affected by the ban as 59% of American adults under 30 use the app, according to the Pew Research Center. The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law requiring TikTok’s Chinese parent company ByteDance to sell the app or be banned in the U.S. The unanimous decision backed up the Biden administration’s “national security concerns regarding TikTok’s data collection practices and relationship with a foreign adversary.”

Users were met with two pop-up messages on Saturday night; the first was a simple warning that a U.S. law banning TikTok will render “our services temporarily unavailable.” Shortly after, the app sent another message that named President-Elect Donald Trump specifically.

“A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately that means you can’t use …