The 17 best TikToks of all time to watch before the potential ban

Caroline Darney

16 January 2025 at 1:26 pm·2-min read

(FILES) This photograph taken on April 19, 2024 shows a man holding a smartphone displaying the logo of Chinese social media platform Tiktok in an office in Paris. 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 January 19, 2025. The US Supreme Court is expected to rule this week on TikTok's challenge to the law. (Photo by Antonin UTZ / AFP) (Photo by ANTONIN UTZ/AFP via Getty Images) ORIG FILE ID: 2193347746

Come January 19, it's possible the United States will be without one of the most popular social media platforms as a nationwide ban of TikTok could go into effect. Launched in September of 2016, TikTok has become a place for viral videos, influencers, dance trends, cooking tutorials, movie reviews and really anything you can think of.

Unless someone intervenes on the governmental level, it looks like it could be the end of TikTok in the United States. While the concerns around misinformation and data security are fair, it was also a site that provided endless hours of entertainment and laughs.

Here are some of our all-time favorite TikTok videos that will carry on post-ban.

WARNING: Some of the videos might include some language that is NSFW.

A perfect compilation

Pyramid construction

LGBTQ+ support

This one NEVER gets old 😭 pic.twitter.com/5aX4TbSyRE https://t.co/9s2GV394Zy
— reporting for duty. (@TheGreatIsNate) January 14, 2025

A short story on sisterhood

this is actually my favourite tiktok of all time pic.twitter.com/SU86hgJkPu https://t.co/Ja7H8h4iwj
— farah࿔ (@pieceoffarah) January 14, 2025

When you're that fan at a Beyoncé concert

NOBODY is coming close to this TikTok icon. https://t.co/QpJlAXsgjC pic.twitter.com/9ou41qxIML
— Tenille Clarke (@tenilleclarke1) January 12, 2025

IKEA employee

A series of unfortunate events

Goated https://t.co/ToqXewASTB pic.twitter.com/O14WTCjFho
— Will 🥯 (@TillWhompson) September 20, 2023

The Law & Order: SVU theme creation

Bill Withers in studio

Beethoven's latest banger

The purest song reactions

The art of lip syncing

You can’t tell me lip synching isn’t an art after watching this from Ben Fensome 😂 pic.twitter.com/MyqQjU6Mjm
— Kate Lister (@k8_lister) January 11, 2024

Country Roads

Animal Crossing art IRL

that guy that travelled the world just to see the artworks from animal crossing in real life pic.twitter.com/utsi6tHBcR https://t.co/9EUBCNkFAj
— May 🏝 (@mayplaystv) January 12, 2025

Meatier?

GoldenEye pause music

TikTok duets

More TikTok!

This fake TikTok funeral program is perfect

5 sports team owners who should totally buy TikTok

The possible TikTok ban and Supreme Court debate, explained

This article originally appeared on For The Win: The 17 best TikToks of all time to watch before the potential ban

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