{"id":19940,"date":"2025-01-14T12:09:30","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T13:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19940"},"modified":"2025-01-14T13:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T13:32:12","slug":"why-tiktok-users-are-downloading-red-note-the-chinese-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=19940","title":{"rendered":"Why TikTok Users Are Downloading \u2018Red Note,\u2019 the Chinese App"},"content":{"rendered":"

To show how little they care about TikTok\u2019s ties to Beijing, people in the United States are downloading one of China\u2019s most popular apps.<\/p>\n

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TikTok users like Manimatana Lee of Wisconsin are encouraging their followers to find each other on \u2018Red Note,\u2019 a similar Chinese app. TikTok\u2019s future in the United States is up in the air with the Supreme Court expected to rule soon on a law that could force a ban of the app.<\/span>Manimatana Lee via TikTok<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Manimatana Lee spent the past five years building one of the hottest commodities on the internet: a group of people who reliably watch her videos on TikTok.<\/p>\n

She built an audience of nearly 10,000 followers with videos of herself vacuuming her house in Wisconsin while her youngest daughter napped in a carrier on her back. A video of Ms. Lee dancing and doing the dishes \u2014 while wearing her sleeping baby \u2014 has been watched more than one million times since November.<\/p>\n

Now, with the Supreme Court soon to rule in a case<\/a> that could determine whether TikTok could be banned in the United States over national security concerns, Ms. Lee and other Americans looking for alternatives<\/a> are downloading Xiaohongshu, a social media app that is popular in China and little known outside the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow funny would it be if they ban TikTok and we all just move over to this Chinese app,\u201d Ms. Lee wrote on Monday on TikTok encouraging her followers to join her.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Xiaohongshu was the most downloaded free app in the U.S. Apple store on Tuesday. Over 300 million people, mostly in China, use the app, where they share short videos as well as still, text-based posts. People flocking to it said, in interviews and on the app, that they wanted to show they do not share Washington\u2019s concerns about TikTok\u2019s ties to China.<\/p>\n

TikTok, which is available in more than 150 countries but not China, is owned by the Chinese internet company ByteDance. American creators who post videos on TikTok say the app has been a source of connection, entertainment and information since it became a sensation during the Covid-19 pandemic. Its secret sauce is its proprietary algorithm, technology that recommends a constant stream of short videos targeted to keep people scrolling.<\/p>\n

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To show how little they care about TikTok\u2019s ties to Beijing, people in the United States are downloading one of China\u2019s most popular apps.TikTok users like Manimatana Lee of Wisconsin are encouraging their followers to find each other on \u2018Red Note,\u2019 a similar Chinese app. TikTok\u2019s future in the United States is up in the air with the Supreme Court expected to rule soon on a law that could force a ban of the app.Manimatana Lee via TikTokManimatana Lee spent the past five years building one of the hottest commodities on the internet: a group of people who reliably watch her videos on TikTok.She built an audience of nearly 10,000 followers with videos of herself vacuuming her house in Wisconsin while her youngest daughter napped in a carrier on her back. A video of Ms. Lee dancing and doing the dishes \u2014 while wearing her sleeping baby \u2014 has been watched more than one million times since November.Now, with the Supreme Court soon to rule in a case that could determine whether TikTok could be banned in the United States over national security concerns, Ms. Lee and other Americans looking for alternatives are downloading Xiaohongshu, a social media app that is popular in China and little known outside the country.\u201cHow funny would it be if they ban TikTok and we all just move over to this Chinese app,\u201d Ms. Lee wrote on Monday on TikTok encouraging her followers to join her.Xiaohongshu was the most downloaded free app in the U.S. Apple store on Tuesday. Over 300 million people, mostly in China, use the app, where they share short videos as well as still, text-based posts. People flocking to it said, in interviews and on the app, that they wanted to show they do not share Washington\u2019s concerns about TikTok\u2019s ties to China.TikTok, which is available in more than 150 countries but not China, is owned by the Chinese internet company ByteDance. American creators who post videos on TikTok say the app has been a source of connection, entertainment and information since it became a sensation during the Covid-19 pandemic. Its secret sauce is its proprietary algorithm, technology that recommends a constant stream of short videos targeted to keep people scrolling.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19942,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19940"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19943,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19940\/revisions\/19943"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}