What are your predictions on the ramifications of 小红书 tiktok refugees

[Orientalist]

For those who don't know, Tiktok is probably going to be banned in the US on the 19th and now a shit ton of people are migrating to 小红书/Xiaohongshu/Rednote which is basically the main social media in China (I don't know what's wrong with Instagram reels but I guess they need their fix of Chinese app design or some shit) Which is obviously extremely ironic
I had the app for a while as a joke but you open it and it's hood memes + tiktok chads talking about being a "refugee" like they're Ukranian women fleeing the war, and there are hella accounts like this right on the front page:

China has always been slept on as a geomaxing location, but I honestly always felt like a 180 shift in the cultural attitude towards China could always happen. Way too much blatant lies about China being a polluted hellhole and now millions of people are experiencing the power of e-JBW and realizing china is based. As far as Geomaxia goes, my prediction is that this will cause looksflation but also probably make JBW/JBBBC more powerful because half the reason it was only ever a thing is due to exposure/media halo or whatever you want to call it which some people argue has been on Korea for a while, and now China is getting blasted with american brainrot lol. I don't even know if that makes sense though lol it might just be pure looksflation.
Personally I was fine either way if USA and China were always going to propagandize against each other and be enemies or if we're going to combine into a super nation

 

[Orientalist]

Hiphopmaxxing like @AlexBrown84 just became 1000x more legit but there’s still memes of YNs getting called slurs which is classic

 

[AlexBrown84]

Hiphopmaxxing like @AlexBrown84 just became 1000x more legit but there’s still memes of YNs getting called slurs which is classic

 

[Pained4ever]

You could not pay me to care about this low iq nt bullshit

 

[Pained4ever]

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lesbian fit

 

[AlexBrown84]

lesbian fit

 

[Pained4ever]

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fakecel

 

[Orientalist]

You could not pay me to care about this low iq nt bullshit

Yeah both apps are brainrot but it’s like millions of people. Pretty significant to both cultures

 

[Pained4ever]

Yeah both apps are brainrot but it’s like millions of people. Pretty significant to both cultures

i hate NT filth

 

[Orientalist]

i hate NT filth

I’m circumcucked

 

[Pained4ever]

I’m circumcucked

can't relate i have fiveskin

 

[14passport]

the moment western ppl start posting memes against china, they will split the algo/servers like we had with tiktok

 

[kamster]

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smile to dem girls takin ur photos moron jeeeezzz

 

[bittersweet]

the front page is curated I'm pretty sure it'll show you western centric stuff

 

[Rance]

I've been using 小红书 for a few months. It's quite good for interacting with Chinese people and doing some language exchange.

It is not a replacement for TikTok. It is an app made by Chinese for Chinese. Almost all of the content is in Chinese. Even the UI isn't fully translated into English. The "great TikTok migration" is surely a fad, and is probably overstated to begin with.

A few cynical opinions I'd layer on top:

• Most people do not have the patience nor the aptitude to learn Mandarin at all, let alone to the level required to genuinely navigate 小红书 (geomaxxing 101: a strong reason to geomaxx to non-English-speaking countries is because the language acts as an effective barrier to entry against normies)
• The Chinese nationals are welcoming of the foreign influx because it's novel, but surely, it will soon turn to exasperation and xenophobia
• In the event that I am wrong about everything above, the CAC will levy restrictions to prevent Chinese nationals from interacting with foreigners. This would most likely take the form of an application split like TikTok/Douyin

小红书 is fantastic if you are learning Mandarin and have an active interest in China. Otherwise it is fairly useless

 

[Rance]

the moment western ppl start posting memes against china, they will split the algo/servers like we had with tiktok

Good observation. Mark my words: in the next few weeks there will be lots of Asian-Americans protesting the influx of TikTok users. The reason of course being that if the app is split or restricted, they won't be able to talk with their friends and family in China. Social media will spin this into some culture war bullshit like "white people are colonizing Asian spaces" yadda yadda.

You heard it here first!

 

[Orientalist]

Good observation. Mark my words: in the next few weeks there will be lots of Asian-Americans protesting the influx of TikTok users. The reason of course being that if the app is split or restricted, they won't be able to talk with their friends and family in China. Social media will spin this into some culture war bullshit like "white people are colonizing Asian spaces" yadda yadda.

You heard it here first!

• In the event that I am wrong about everything above, the CAC will levy restrictions to prevent Chinese nationals from interacting with foreigners. This would most likely take the form of an application split like TikTok/Douyin

That's what I wondered too. It's literally Chinese people talking in Chinese about China/Chinese culture. Would be extremely strange if hundreds of thousands to millions of Americans just started to unironically use it on the regular and coexist with them with anything less than really insular algorithms to keep them separated.

 

[BiggChungus]

I've been using 小红书 for a few months. It's quite good for interacting with Chinese people and doing some language exchange.

It is not a replacement for TikTok. It is an app made by Chinese for Chinese. Almost all of the content is in Chinese. Even the UI isn't fully translated into English. The "great TikTok migration" is surely a fad, and is probably overstated to begin with.

A few cynical opinions I'd layer on top:

• Most people do not have the patience nor the aptitude to learn Mandarin at all, let alone to the level required to genuinely navigate 小红书 (geomaxxing 101: a strong reason to geomaxx to non-English-speaking countries is because the language acts as an effective barrier to entry against normies)
• The Chinese nationals are welcoming of the foreign influx because it's novel, but surely, it will soon turn to exasperation and xenophobia
• In the event that I am wrong about everything above, the CAC will levy restrictions to prevent Chinese nationals from interacting with foreigners. This would most likely take the form of an application split like TikTok/Douyin

小红书 is fantastic if you are learning Mandarin and have an active interest in China. Otherwise it is fairly useless

how would you even do language exchange on it. isnt it a video platform? surely most people would just ignore dms. also having to look at videos just to message someone sounds annoying

 

[Rance]

how would you even do language exchange on it. isnt it a video platform? surely most people would just ignore dms. also having to look at videos just to message someone sounds annoying

Usually you'd leave a comment on the video, someone will reply to you, you have a little conversation and then DM them afterwards. Or obviously if you decide to be a content creator you'll build a lot of connections that way.

In general it's not that good for language exchange though, you're right

 

[Mid]

once when i was on the MRT i saw this ugly chink girl scrolling on xiaohongshu and 90% of her fyp page was white chadlite+ pretty boys jfl

 

[Pained4ever]

once when i was on the MRT i saw this ugly chink girl scrolling on xiaohongshu and 90% of her fyp page was white chadlite+ pretty boys jfl

every womans social media pages look like that

 

[Mid]

every womans social media pages look like that

i usually just see Asian women scroll makeup and cooking videos