Youngmi Mayer, a comedian, is the author of the memoir “I’m Laughing Because I’m Crying.”

While TikTok has been restored for millions of American users after going dark, the app still isn't available on Apple's App Store or Google Play.

The video shows O'Brien sitting on the top deck of a tour bus in San Francisco while visiting the city with someone who had never been there before. "I had been to SF [San Francisco] and I wanted to show them around the city. Bus tours are a great way to efficiently get the layout of any city," the poster told Newsweek.

TikTok is “in the process of restoring service” after going dark Saturday evening, the company announced Sunday. In a statement to a TikTok X account,

The Supreme Court upheld a law today that could ban the wildly popular social media app TikTok in the U.S. starting on Sunday, unless its Chinese owner agrees to sell it before then. The justices unanimously rejected TikTok’s First Amendment challenge and argued that Congress was entitled to effectively outlaw the app for national security reasons.

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.

The winter storm has brought significant snowfall to NYC, which some are saying is as a welcome sight.

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.

On Saturday night, for the first time in five years, millions of American TikTok users who logged on for a late-night scroll were met with an unwelcome notice that their beloved app had been banned and shut down.

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.

What started as “the dance app” spawned countless memes, launched lucrative careers and shaped entire industries. Here’s how it got here.

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.