Taipei, Taiwan – Tiktok users who are interested in a potential ban is to find condolences in a strange place.
Days before the Supreme Court’s decision, which can determine whether the famous short short application closes on Sunday, it seems that a number of users turn into an application called Rednote-more common for its Chinese majority fans in his name, Xiaohongshu.
It is an amazing option because Xiaohongshu is owned by China, and these relationships are the reason that American lawmakers moved to Ban Tiktok in the United States, citing privacy and national security.
Also, the Chinese language dominates Xiaohongshu, and its content is subject to censorship by Chinese government officials, which is strange to most American users.
But by adopting the Chinese social media application and lifestyle similar to Instagram, some Tiktok users in the United States say they are protesting what they think will be an unfair ban everywhere.
“I think America is trying to bully China for sale to an American owner. Many of us do not want to surrender to them,” said Samantha Manasero, a 39 -year -old nurse in Los Angeles, who downloaded Xiaohongshu on Sunday night after watching creators on Tiktok as a comparable doctor. “I think some of them literally just Peetines.”
Last year, Congress approved a draft law that requires the owner of Tiktok, bytedance, the sale of the application to an accredited owner of the United States or a ban on the country level. Once on Wednesday, the Supreme Court is expected to support the legitimacy of the ban.
It was not clear whether Xiaohongshu, who started in 2013, would become an applicable alternative to Tiktok or if the last deportation to the Chinese statute represents a large share of 170 million TIKTOK users.
But an increase in new users has made Xiaohongshu the best free download on the Apple App Store this week. No. 2 on the plans was another application on social media that was developed by Bytedance, Lemon8. It is unclear whether any of the applications will be subject to the same scrutiny in the American government as TIKTOK.
It is also difficult to determine the number of TIKTOK users in the United States exactly on the accounts of Xiaohongshu or their number will remain on it. While many ordinary Xiaohongshu welcomed the influx of Americans who suffer from themselves as “TIKTOK refugees”, the application interface is largely in Chinese, making it difficult to move in non -original loudspeakers.
Chinese applications are subject to strict monitoring on discussions that the Chinese government considers politically sensitive. These topics can include illegal activities, LGBTQ+ and Winnie The Poh rights, whose pictures were used to ridicule Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The Chinese version of Tiktok, called Douyin, has different restrictions on the content and is only available to download the mobile phone in China. He argued by bytedance that Tiktok, which is used by the rest of the world, is a separate entity from Douyin, not the debtor of the Chinese Communist Party.
This did not prevent President -elect Donald Trump from suggesting the ban on Tijook in 2020, or President Biden from signing the law in 2024.
The law of this ban has been interrogated several times. Last month, in a face position, Trump, who has 14.8 million followers on Tiktok, presented a legal summary requesting to maintain the ban so that he can negotiate an agreement once he takes office.
While Tiktok faces an uncertain future, the latest arrival Xiaohongshu was keen to experience the new application despite its foreign nature.
Manasiro, who publishes videos about health care and energy uploading to about 7,000 followers on Tiktok, has a much larger audience than 26,000 on Instagram. However, it was enthusiastic about creating an account on Xiaohongshu partially due to the frustration of the US government’s design on Outlaw Tiktok.
“I don’t know what to do, I don’t know what to read, I just click on the buttons,” Manasiro said at her first video posts. The next morning, she received her account 5,000 views and 3500 new followers. By Tuesday, the “#Tiktok Luggee” retail has received more than 90 million views and 2 million comments.
Tiktokers sought to get each other with introductions, follow requests and shared advice on how to move in Chinese jobs for the application. On Monday, more than 190,000 viewers joined a live chat called TIKTOK for refugees, and they discussed English about what Tiktok’s ban and future plans for social media content means. In the comments, the new expatriate users received and raised that they could not understand each other.
“Maybe you can learn how to speak the tray,” a user wrote in English.
“Where is the translator?” Another user request in Chinese.
On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Chinese officials had discussed the possibility of selling Tijook to a non -Chinese party such as Elon Musk, who already owns the social media platform X. However, analysts said that bytedance is unlikely to agree to sell the basic algorithm that plays the application, which means that the platform can look different from a study point of view.
Manassero and other Tiktokers expressed his distinction from the possibility of deportation to American technology platforms such as Instagram or X that can benefit from the flow of users in case of stopping Tiktok.
“We don’t want to wrap and make a group of billionaires richer,” said Manaciro. “I would like the application being closed frankly instead of being owned by Elon Musk.”
Although she is still trying to know how to use Xiaohongshu and re -send people, Manassero said it may remain on the Chinese lifestyle app regard to whether the Tiktok ban is going through.
“The response was very friendly and gentle. It’s good energy,” she said. “This looks like early Tiktok days: more organic, so they are fun.”