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Social media app Lemon8 has been in the spotlight as a potential US ban hangs over TikTok.
The threat to ban TikTok stems from a law signed last year by President Biden that seeks to ban the popular platform in the US on Jan. 19 if ByteDance doesn’t make a difference. Oral arguments in the case focused on the possible ban were presented Friday in the Supreme Court.
Both social media apps are owned by the Chinese company ByteDance.
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Lemon8 has been around for over four years. It also lives in many countries, including Japan, where it originally appeared, and the US, where it debuted in early 2023.
Lemon8 application to download from the Apple App Store on a smartphone organized in the Brooklyn area of New York City on Friday, March 31, 2023. (Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
The app allows users to “discover and share useful content related to beauty, fashion, travel, and more,” according to a recent TikTok report.
It includes “creative tools, collages, filters, effects, stickers, and text templates” that users can use when creating posts on the site, the release said.
It has integration with TikTok, allowing users to have a single account for both apps. That capability became available in November.
Some of Lemon8’s interface seems to have similarities to Instagram and Pinterest.
The Lemon8 smartphone app is scheduled in the Brooklyn area of New York City on Friday, March 31, 2023. (Gabby Jones/Bloomberg via Getty Images/Getty Images)
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FOX Business has reached out to ByteDance for comment on whether Lemon8 could be affected by the rule that is said to be weighed by the Supreme Court. It targets websites and apps “used, directly or indirectly” by ByteDance, TikTok and its subsidiaries, according to its filing.
Lemon8 appears in both the Apple app store and Google Play in the US, where it had 4.5 star and 3.8 star ratings, respectively.
CapCut, Lark and Mobile Legends: Bang Bang are among the apps ByteDance has in addition to TikTok and Lemon8. In the US, more than 170 million people use its TikTok app.
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ByteDance was founded in 2012.
The ByteDance logo is seen at the company’s headquarters on Jan. 6, 2022 in Shanghai. (Image via VCG/VCG via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Its founders, Zhang Yiming and Liango Rubo, are both billionaires, worth $45.6 billion and $2.2 billion, respectively, according to Forbes.
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