#the app is called rednote

[the-writing-trash-panda]

Americans right now: you want to ban tiktok? Okay. Well just go to a Chinese owned social media app.

[poseidonsworst]

..........who's gonna tell the og rednote users about active shooter/lockdown drills in schools?

[2000swootie]

on the one hand im glad the tiktok goblins are going to rednote bc that means the tiktok antis arent coming here, but at the same time i feel so bad for the chinese users there who are inevitably going to be harassed by a bunch of shitty american children, bc antis are extremely racist.

[flying-cat]

people are calling xhs the cn version of tiktok... guys that's douyin 😭 xiaohongshu is a DIFFERENT APP WITH DIFFERENT FUNCTIONS

[bibleofficial]

i love learning mandarin

[chronicartifacts]

Guys where are yall going after TikTok is banned? 😭

[her-ladyship-ariadne]

it’s so insane to see all the red note posts? like you realize this app is owned by fascists right. you realize that you’re on an authoritarian government’s state owned propaganda machine.

[hotvampireadjacent]

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/15/duolingo-sees-216-spike-in-u-s-users-learning-chinese-amid-tiktok-ban-and-move-to-rednote/

LMFAO

[zvaigzdelasas]

15 Jan 25

[aquah-tofawna]

So some of you may or may not have heard that Americans have decided in a show of pettiness and solidarity, to move directly to a Chinese social media app called Rednote (which is like TikTok) as a sort of "fuck you" to meta and the US government.

The Chinese people are not only hilarious and welcoming but they are very perceptive.

Someone asked the Chinese opinion on what's wrong with Murica from their perspective and they and other non Americans dragged our asses for absolute FILTH 💀

[s3znl-gr3znl]

For those not in the know, the tiktok ban in the US is nigh imminent and very likely to pass. As a result, larg swathes of american tiktok users are switching to an app called xiaohongshu (rednote, an app run and controlled by china) in protest. This has confused of a lot of chinese users who have responded by welcoming the americans and posting mandarin lessons and explaining how the app works to all the newcomers.

[ausefulblogforputtingthingsin]

They're already making it so accounts with ip addresses outside China can't interact with accounts from inside China. Which really sucks for Chinese people living abroad who want to keep up with friends, lifestyle news, and trends from China, and keep those connections alive. That's who used to use Little Red Book outside of China. No one else had even heard of it until it just appeared in the TikTok algorithm and everyone jumped over to it. This wasn't organic - this was ByteDance being shit stirrers

Also imagine if there was a German shopping and lifestyle app called Mein Kampf 😂

This would actually be sad, if it wasn't so fucking funny. You did this to yourselves. Though the borderline cultural collapse happening in China because of degenerate behavior and e-thots is a nice does of karma for the algorithm they weaponized against us.

[marigoldendragon]

The situation over on tiktok is WILD right now, so I thought I'd summarise it for those who don't have accounts.

Tiktok was 'taking away' users from the meta platforms and twitter, so mark zuckerfuck and elon muskrat lobbied the US congress to get it banned. And due to the information sharing and community-building nature of the app, a lot of people were getting very political savvy, getting up to date info on the outside world and organising various movements. Which the US politicians did not like because it meant they weren't controlling the narrative.

So they used the excuse that tiktok was a Chinese controlled app (it's not) and was a national security risk, they then passed a bill that allowed them to ban foreign controlled apps/media if those companies didn't sell to an american one.

BUT. The people on tiktok are very aware of what's going on, and they are very angry. And, this is the funny part, FULL of spite. People are not just uninstalling instagram and twitter, they are going out of thier way to fully delete thier meta and twitter accounts. AND they flooding RedNote, the actually Chinese owned and operated main social media platform. Which by the way are arms open wide accepting what they are calling 'tiktok refugees'. RedNote has within the span of a few days gone to the top downloaded app in the app store. Americans are learning Mandarin. Rednote has been scrambling to put english into thier app. The cross culture sharing happening is a beautiful thing to see.

And the sheer irony of the situation is beyond hilarious.

Oh and Bluesky is also seeing MASSIVE jumps in it's userbase. Like millions of people.

[fellthemarvelous]

I can't stop fucking laughing at the absolute IRONY of the American government choosing to ban TikTok at the behest of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg and some other blood-sucking parasitic billionaires and calling it "protecting our data from China" and acted like it wasn't a complete violation of our freedom of speech, so in response to the TikTok ban, something like millions and millions of Americans went and joined Rednote, an app owned by China.

American content creators on TikTok are roasting the absolute shit out of the American government right now.

If you wanna look at it from a fandom perspective, this is what happens when a masked vigilante reveals the true face of the enemy to everyone.

Corporate America are Scooby Doo villains.

"I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids!"

[patchesthegreat]

reading that American TikTok users have been signing up en masse for a Chinese app called Xiaohongshu/Rednote in anticipation of the new ban

[andthelaw]

Something I find really refreshing is visiting different fandom spaces. Obviously people have conflicts everywhere all the time no exceptions and that's fine and all but sometimes it is just exhausting to need to be hiding/lurking or defending yourself all the time from antis and stuff. Tumblr is better than Twitter at least but it still gets to you from time to time.

Cancel culture and calling things "problematic" is not just a thing humans do and puritanism comes mostly from the western societies in my personal experience since I'm not a native speaker although this might be a controversial opinion. But I thought I'll point this out anyway because it might help someone make a shift in perspective and stop thinking there's something wrong with them or the way they enjoy fandoms. When I was younger and didn't speak English no one around me cared about shipping weird ships. Like my close friend liked an incest ship and a different friend liked age gap another one was into cannibalism or something.

It was not a big deal and we were having so much fun it honestly makes me sad that some people deprive themselves of just this freedom to like anything when it comes to fandoms.

And like also most places are not Twitter. Twitter is designed specifically to promote hot takes and shove opposing views in your face. And I think TikTok is too...

There are many places you can go to if you want to take a lil' break. These are in a different language but you don't really need to know it just to get a good understanding of how the UI works.

For example Japanese speaking spaces like Pixiv allow for a big variety of topics you can explore provided you use appropriate tags for those who need the warning. You can find lots of anime fanart there and some fanfiction but uh it's well in Japanese.

There's also Rednote a Chinese Tikotok-like app? I really like their algorithm because I constantly feel good when I go to look for content there and it's just nice overall. Has a built-in translator for comments.

Telegram is for if you know Russian because it was made by a Russian guy so lots of Russian people use it. Although there are eng speaking channels I don't find them all that often. Great for if you want to find new artists although the search feature might be a bit tricky so it's best to look for new channels to follow using channels you already follow because they often reblog other artists' work. There's also useful tags like #PortfolioDay and various one-time-only ones for events and challenges.

I also have Lofter which is Chinese and I personally wasn't able to make an account but you can still use it to look at beautiful fanart. They also use tags for ships and fandoms you just need to figure out which ones are yours obviously.

Feel free to recommend other places you can visit in the reblogs!

I also hope this is tag appropriate? Like that I can tag this #proship since this is the target audience? I just don't wanna be spamming with unrelated things so maybe I should use different tags I donno haha