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.

MrBeast is part of a growing list of individuals and businesses that have expressed interesting in purchasing TikTok.

As a result, President Joe Biden signed a law last year which demanded that ByteDance sell, or TikTok would be shut down in the US. The deadline to sell falls on 19 January - just one day before Donald Trump is set to be sworn in as the new president.

The YouTube sensation has proposed buying TikTok as a unique solution to stop the social platform from being banned in the U.S.

MrBeast stated he's willing to buy TikTok so it's not banned in the United States. The YouTuber, real name James Stephen "Jimmy" Donaldson, took to X formerly Twitter to make that declaration on Monday,