“Even if the U.S. bans TikTok specifically, Bytedance — the parent company — is already migrating users to a competing very similar app that it also owns called Lemon8,” Josh Constine of the venture capital firm SignalFire told CNN. “And so it wouldn’t solve the problem unless we basically ban all of ByteDance’s apps.”

With TikTok's potential US ban nears, users are scrambling for new apps like RedNote and Clapper, hoping to replace the beloved short-form video platform.