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.

YouTube and TikTok star MrBeast is looking to buy TikTok as part of a group of investors, as time ticks down for the social media company to find a new owner or risk being banned in the United States.

James "Jimmy" Donaldson, known as MrBeast on YouTube, made an offhand comment to X this week, saying he'd buy TikTok so it doesn't get banned.

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

MrBeast has taken to TikTok to tease that he might become the company's new CEO, and that he's about to put in his 'final offer' for the app.

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,