Physical Address
304 North Cardinal St.
Dorchester Center, MA 02124
Shanghai, China – Chinese App Rednote has been at the top of us app download tables after so-called “Tiktok refugees” fled the platform for an expected ban at the end of this week.
Users flock to another Chinese app, Rednote, before a potential American ban on Tiktok at the end of this week. © Imago/SOPA images
Social media app Xiaohongshu, which translates to “Little Red Book” and is known in the United States as Rednote, is a short-shaped video app inspired by Tiktok And based in Shanghai.
Although it is only available in simplified Chinese and has no translation function, US users have joined their thousands. The sudden migration has reportedly been a “surprise” for the start -up, which previously had no plans to target us.
Rednote employees told Financial times They are now working hard to take advantage of the traffic wave and ensure that the app does not crash and that new content review mechanisms are introduced.
American users on the platform have quickly become known as “Tiktok refugees” when moving away from a platform that can be banned as Early as Sunday.
Bythadance, Tiktok’s parent company, has taken its case all the way to the Supreme Court, but justice is expected to maintain the prohibitionIn spite of presidential election Donald Trump requires a break in the procedure.
If the appeal does not succeed, the law that prohibits Tiktok will come into force on Sunday, January 19, just one day before Trump’s inauguration.
At the same time, those who jump the ship to Rednote have noted the ironic consequences of Congress’s obsession with China that probably “spy” on and manipulates American users through TikTok.
The translated name of the app has also become a source of hilarity, with “Little Red Book” a reference to the Communist Revolutionary Mao Zedong’s extremely popular book of the same name.
Screenshots published on X show Chinese users who announce newcomers, sarcastically introducing themselves as “Chinese spies” or requires their “data.”
