TikTok users flock to Chinese app RedNote before US ban

"Little Red Book" / Rednote leans wealthy (and fancy ecommerce), unlike douyin (actual PRC tiktok) which is for filthy masses. It's cosmopolitan "cool" which I think actually meshes with some western cohorts well. Curation/vibes kind of a turn off TBH, I personally like my woodworking tutorials mixed with uncles trying to sell barrels of glycerine.

Wow it really doesn&#x27;t take much to fill people&#x27;s needs, they are switching to an app that&#x27;s not even translated yet and the majority of the content is in mandarin as well.<p>The comments in the play store are pretty wild.

This is a weird development no one seemed to see coming. Wonder if it will get traction or just a overreaction from the TikTokers

If any of these people would bother to read the law, they might see that it also applies to Xiaohongshu.<p>&gt; RedNote&#x27;s Chinese name, Xiaohongshu, translates to Little Red Book, but the app says it is not a reference to Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong&#x27;s book of quotations with the same name.<p>uh huh

This is just an extension of a long lived trend of kids trolling boomers. For example, someone will make a corny fan cam video of a Chinese government leader, with communist flags and symbols waving as an overlay, and the Chinese anthem playing, then the description text will be something like &quot;What Fox News thinks everyone&#x27;s FYP is like&quot;.<p>Signing up for RedNote is the same thing. Kids are making videos claiming that they are putting their social security number and personal info on RedNote. It&#x27;s mostly just bait for boomers and US media to eat up. Some people are absolutely signing up for RedNote, but it doesn&#x27;t seem to be out of legitimate interest, more as a protest meme that they then post about back on TikTok.