The U.S. TikTok ban creates unexpected results as games like Marvel Snap now find themselves blocked in the U.S.

It's okay, Ben Brode, my eyebrow went up too.

[NOTE: This article has been updated on Jan 19th at 11:37PM EST to reflect the temporary end of the ban]

Well well well, who would have thought that a hastily rushed attempt to shut down a form of communication the U.S. couldn't effectively monitor would have had unintentional consequences.

Apparently, the U.S. did not expect TikTok to uphold what they said they were going to do and didn't actually plan out how to properly disable TikTok and TikTok alone as many found out today when citizens of the United States got on their phones today and found they didn't have access to several of their games, including mobile giant Marvel Snap.

When they plan to block the social media app on U.S. grounds went through they blocked EVERYTHING associated with the Chinese company ByteDance which includes subsidiaries of ByteDance with nothing to do with TikTok with companies owned by ByteDance also being effected.

One such company is game creator Nuverse. Nuverse is a fairly popular mobile game company that is responsible for the most recent One Piece game, the Ragnarok and Warhammer games, the honestly kind of clever Figure Story about toys coming to life and battling, and, oh yeah, Marvel Snap, one of the biggest mobile games of the last several years.

What U.S. players see when they log into Marvel Snap

Marvel Snap has become such a wildly successful game in the TCG circuit that it actually made Nintendo and Game Freak, who are HUGE stickler's for tradition, rethink how the Pokemon trading card game is played when they launched Pokemon TCGP, turning it into a fast paced, three takedowns to win, mobile game.

So now the PAFACA act is costing American jobs, as a slew of people who entered politics before the MySpace era struggle to pretend to understand how the internet works.

Here's to see what happens in the next few weeks as these sort of problems get pushed over to the guy who destroyed Twitter and the only person in history to bankrupt a casino. 2025 is gonna be wild, y'all.

[UPDATE: Jan 19th, 2025 - 11:38PM EST: After a few hours it was revealed that this may have been mostly a political stunt to help Donald Trump as the app came back thanking "President Trump" despite the fact that Trump is not president yet and holds no executive power.]