Think TikTok’s Bad? Check Out The Latest Chinese App Driving American Kids Wild

If you thought TikTok was bad, just wait until you hear about RedNote.

As the Supreme Court weighs the future of TikTok, teen girls obsessed with the app aren’t taking any chances. They’ve already begun to migrate to another Chinese psyop, a new social media app endearingly called “RedNote.”

The real name of the app is Xiaohongshu, and it’s widely popular in China with 300 million users. That translates literally to “Little Red Book” — a nod to the pamphlet of Mao Zedong quotes widely distributed during China’s Cultural Revolution — but it was shortened by American teens to simply, “RedNote.”

The app is culturally very Chinese, so it’s no surprise that it never caught on with Americans. But with TikTok’s fate hanging in the balance, US mobile downloads tripled over the past week, CNN reported. That’s more than 700,000 Americans about to get obliterated by Chinese propaganda (to say nothing of the data vulnerability). TikTok at least has a patina of Americanism; RedNote is straight-up, well — Red.

“Our government is out of their minds if they think we’re going to stand for this TikTok ban,” one seemingly American user said in a RedNote video message, which has racked up more than 45,000 likes. “We’re just going to a new Chinese app, and here we are.”

Of course, the numbers could very well be manipulated here. It plays to China’s advantage to make it appear as though American teens have a love affair with China over their own government. So in a mutual show of cultural respect, Chinese users are reportedly helping these “TikTok refugees” learn to navigate the app. One Chinese tech analyst told CNN that the potential TikTok ban “unexpectedly created one of the most organic forms of cultural exchange between the US and China we’ve seen in recent years.”

That’s surely what China would like you to believe, but the truth remains to be seen. However, for any American who simply can’t resist this Chinese entrapment, perhaps they should consider changing their allegiances more permanently. I’ve heard China is lovely this time of year.

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Gage Klipper

Commentary and analysis writer.

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