Social media app TikTok, which is owned by China's ByteDance, will be banned in the United States on Sunday unless a deal comes together to sell it to a U.S. investor or the U.S. Supreme Court intervenes.

Roughly 170 million TikTok users in the U.S. could lose access to the app altogether at the end of this week if the company chooses to take the app dark, or they may end up scroll

And whatever happens to TikTok, who stands to benefit from the uncertainty clouding its future? The most likely way the US would ban TikTok is to order app stores, such as the Google Play Store and Apple's App Store,