Mourners” attended a mock funeral for TikTok in New York City on January 17, as the social media platform announced it would possibly be “forced” to shut down on. Video recorded by Ava Kramer shows an inflatable doll dressed in TikTok merchandise inside a casket in Washington Square Park on Friday.

TikTok is reportedly prepared to shut down its app on Sunday, when the ban is scheduled to take effect, though the actual language of the law technically only mandates that the social media platform be taken off of app stores to prevent new users from downloading it.

People are listing phones preloaded with TikTok for tens of thousands of dollars on eBay, Facebook marketplace and other online storefronts.

During his first term as president, Donald Trump led the effort to ban TikTok, the hugely popular video-sharing site he said posed threats to U.S. national security.

Like tens of thousands of content creators who make their living through social media, local creators are in jeopardy of losing their most successful platform if the U.S. government follows through on its ban of the app.

Owned by China’s ByteDance, the app faces a complete U.S. ban on Sunday unless it finds a non-Chinese buyer. The planned shutdown stems from an April law signed by President Joe Biden that will bar new downloads on Apple or Google app stores and prohibit companies from providing services that enable the app.

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Five Massachusetts college students have appeared in court, accused of plotting to lure a man to their campus through the Tinder dating app and then seizing him as part of a “Catch a Predator” trend on TikTok.

The YouTube star has become known for producing a range of content—including big-budget, elaborate stunts and charitable acts.

The company argued that the law, citing potential Chinese threats to the nation’s security, violated its First Amendment rights and those of its 170 million users.

TikTok came back online after Trump paused the ban. While the fate of the app remains to be seen, so-called “finfluencers” are not disappearing.

The experience evoked echoes of its sister venue, Bicester Village, nestled in Oxfordshire, UK: family-friendly yet undeniably luxurious.