⁍ Since July, TikTok users have braced for a threatened ban of the ultra-popular short-form video app in the United States.

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⁍ On Friday Reuters broke the news that the U.S. government was preparing to block new users from downloading the Chinese-owned app from American app stores by Sept. 20.

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⁍ As the news filtered through their social media, teens greeted it wearily but without the tears and the emotional outpouring expected of TikTok’s 100 million, mostly young fans.

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– President Trump’s threat to ban TikTok has come and gone, but the popular video-sharing app will be blocked in the US by the end of the month, the Justice Department says. The department says it has notified the Chinese company that owns TikTok—which has 100 million users in the US—that it has 30 days to remove content that is deemed a threat to national security, the New York Times reports. If it doesn’t, the US will block new downloads of the app from American app stores on Sept. 20. Reuters reports that many TikTok users have already opened accounts on rival apps in anticipation of a ban, but that hasn’t been the case. “A lot of TikTok-ers are not super worked-up about this,” says a 15-year-old TikTok user from Nebraska. “It’s kind of like the boy who cried wolf,'” says a 17-year-old TikTok user from Georgia with 2.4 million followers. “Because TikTok is not gone, I feel like people don’t feel the need to download (rival apps),” she says. The chief executive of an agency that works with brands and social media influencers says TikTok users are “a bit confused and bored by all this drama. They say that until something happens, let’s continue.”