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In its mass migration to the Chinese app’s rednote, social media is mocking a joy from the U. S. government.
By Amanda HESS
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As Tiktok prohibited, many thousands of Americans who are provided for a new application to share videos emigrated to Xiaohongshu, a social media platform that affects “Little Red Book”, The American Nickcall for a classic collection of appointments of President Mao . Everything played as a global joke about the US government: threatened with Tiktok’s exile about the considerations of Chinese interference, its users simply displaced another Chinese application, whose call evokes the Chinese communist party.
When I downloaded Xiaohongshu, widely called Rednote, it first classified among the loose programs in the Apple American App Store. (At the time Lemon8, some other Chinese Tiktok choice belonging to Tiktok’s corporate mother, Worttedance. ) I made my phone number, I pointed out my sex and reviewed some of my interests: the care of the bathtub, the calligraphy, the snacks Then, I absorb a variety of the determined algorithmic videos of the application: a woman with a lace veil eating an ice cream along her head; A woman who was preparing at dinner in the back seat of a miniwardrobe bordered through animal toys; An edition of a fan in motion of the appearances in the court of Luigi Mangione.
Soon I started to see videos pitched directly at me — welcome notes created for the American TikTok user who recently arrived on RedNote’s shores.
Within the world of Xiaohongshu, Americans who download the bulk application were labeled as “Tiktok refugees. ” Its existing Chinese users joined as the “new Chinese spies of the Americans, began to administer Mandarin classes, and formed organization chats in the application for” refugees “to configure the land. They warned that they intended to gather a foreign user tax (the price: a symbol of a cat must percentage).
All this is an ironic comment on the repression of the US government opposed to Tiktok, and the relative ease with which users can regenerate a similar revelation on the Chinese platform. Together, the users of the Chinese and the American beginners spontaneously carry out a mocking burlesque of the national security policy.
For Tiktok users, the resolution to ban Tiktok in particular from US phones may seem dumb. In recent years, legislators have blamed the application of everything, since the failure of the failure of the “US values” to the promotion of pro-palestinian content among young Americans. As if social media societies that belong to the United States as a goal had never tried to exploit and exploit delicate data. As if the platforms that belong to the United States as X never justified their algorithms to praise safe political ideas.
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