His tune changed, to put it mildly. After briefly meeting with Jeff Yass, a billionaire American investor in the app (and major Republican donor), in March 2024, and himself joining TikTok in June 2024, the president-elect urged SCOTUS to pause the looming ban in an amicus brief filed on December 27. It read, in part:

The president-elect said he will issue an executive order, and the app said it will work on a long-term solution with the incoming administration.

The Marvel Comics digital game counts Nuverse as its publisher, which like TikTok is owned by the Chinese conglomerate ByteDance.

Marvel Snap,” a popular mobile card game published by ByteDance’s Nuverse games division, shut down gameplay over the weekend as the U.S. TikTok ban took effect.

Popular mobile game 'Marvel Snap' went offline as a consequence of the TikTok ban. Snap isn't the only popular Marvel game owned by a large Chinese developer.