TikTok faces an imminent shutdown in the United States after Congress passed a law last year forcing its Chinses owner ByteDance to either sell the platform or close it by this Sunday. Here is a review of what could happen next for TikTok in the United States.

The looming TikTok ban could force 170 million Americans to find new ways to create and consume short-form video content.

With five days left until the date by which TikTok is to be either sold or banned in the United States, millions of users are reckoning with what happens when one of the internet’s most important media platforms just up and disappears.