It’s official — TikTok has been banned from the United States, leaving many lovers of the Chinese-based video app confused and uncertain.
As Americans, or those who created their account while in America, tried to log on to the social media platform, one message popped up, approximately two and a half hours before it was initially set to go dark at the stroke of midnight on January 19.
After detailing that TikTok was temporarily unavailable, it read, “A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the U.S. Unfortunately, that means you can’t use TikTok for now.