“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.”

The potential prohibition of the Chinese social media giant has sent users in search of other options. But some are based in China too.

ByteDance's Lemon8 gains traction amid TikTok ban threat as creators push the app - Hearing a lot about Lemon8 lately

As a potential TikTok ban looms, millions of U.S. users are left wondering what could happen to both their app and accounts if the ban takes effect in just a few days. The ban law,

Lemon8 surged to No. 1 on the Apple app store charts as some users consider it to be a possible TikTok alternative, but the ByteDance-developed platform could be banned by the same law that threatens to ban TikTok.

Xiaohongshu and Lemon8 have jumped to the top of Apple's App Store as TikTok moves closer to being kicked out of the U.S.

Lemon8 is a social media app that is like a cross between Instagram and Pinterest, and is the sister app of TikTok. Both apps were developed by the China-based company ByteDance, who also own the video editing app, CapCut, and the photo/art editing app, Hypic.