Amongst devoted TikTokers on the Data’s Creator Financial system Summit, a far-off storm cloud looms: What if TikTok actually does get banned within the U.S.?

Whereas TikTok has touted its Project Texas plan to additional separate the American firm’s operations from its Chinese language dad or mum ByteDance, the U.S. authorities additionally proposed making ByteDance sell TikTok to an American firm.

Marc D’Amelio, the daddy of TikTok superstars Dixie and Charli D’Amelio, stated that he thought-about shopping for TikTok. In March, he tweeted, “I’m placing collectively a bunch of buyers to pursue the acquisition of TikTok.”

The D’Amelios have created a media empire with their very own retail manufacturers and venture capital firm, but it surely’s a daring assertion to suggest shopping for a platform estimated to be price at least $60 billion. As a complete, ByteDance is price round $220 billion.

When the Data reporter Kaya Yurieff requested about this proposal onstage on the Summit, D’Amelio stated that it’s not fairly on the desk anymore. That’s not a shock — it’s onerous to simply casually elevate billions of {dollars}, and even when it have been doable, China reminded the U.S. that it may’t really pressure a sale. However when the patriarch of TikTok’s “first household” was pressed on this proposal, he revealed that he did legitimately take into account the thought.

“It’s very costly,” D’Amelio conceded to Yurieff. However the concept went a bit additional than a random tweet. “We’ve raised some huge cash for D’Amelio Manufacturers, and now we have the connections to do it,” he stated. In the end, although, D’Amelio thinks the very best final result is for the U.S. to not observe by on any kind of laws banning TikTok.

D’Amelio Manufacturers launched in September with $6 million in seed funding, which falls only a bit wanting the worth of TikTok. Maybe the corporate has raised extra capital that it hasn’t introduced but, however not sufficient to noticeably pursue that buy, which is why D’Amelio seemed for different buyers.

So, whereas Charli D’Amelio is likely to be the queen of TikTok, it doesn’t appear her household can actually purchase the app.