Lots of interesting conversation happening over there

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Edit: there’s also a lot of jokes about TikTok refugees trying to connect with their “Chinese spy”

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  • quarrk [he/him]
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    2 days ago

    Hard to say. I have my TikTok feed set up pretty nicely; TikTok is far worse with a blank-slate algorithm than it could be with some tuning.

    Right now there is a ton of English content on RedNote which might not last past the initial wave. The UI is very similar but not exactly the same. I’ve also noticed a few videos that would never fly on TikTok. For example, I would never see casual transphobia on my TikTok feed, but I just saw a video that

    CW transphobia

    made fun of a trans man who said he was gay, saying “isn’t that just being straight?”

    so it actually makes me appreciate some of the rare social progress that American social media culture does embody. But on a better note, I’ve seen a lot of funny videos, a lot of super welcoming Chinese, and a lot of Chinese lesson videos. Oh and various thirst traps but what’s new lol.

    Looking forward to US news media reactions to the trend!

    • khizuo [ze/zir]M
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      2 days ago

      Yeah, xhs does have some problems when it comes to casual bigotry and unchallenged reactionary biases. I actually hope that the leftist stuff on American social media like being against casual colorism and fatphobia bleeds over.

      Edit: removed “cultural left” and the quotes because that implies that the issues of fatphobia and colorism don’t materially harm people, which they do on a daily basis. I shouldn’t have trivialized the issues like that.

      Edit 2: I don’t want to imply that Chinese social media is uniquely bad about any of those issues, transphobia/colorism/fatphobia are rampant on Western social media and also I tend to find that Chinese social media is a lot… nicer? Like people generally won’t go onto a post just to post something transphobic like they might on Instagram, and you don’t have open fascists running around propagandizing.

      • quarrk [he/him]
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        2 days ago

        Makes me wonder if in fact China is prepared for this level of cultural intrusion by Western audiences. So much of the focus has been on how China is allegedly trying to propagandize the West, yet Westerners are very much invading a Chinese space — and are being welcomed, but still.

        • khizuo [ze/zir]M
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          2 days ago

          I think it will be fine, I highly doubt Chinese posters will just roll over and let Westerners take over the app and completely change it. Things are pretty hectic rn but I’ll wait to see how things settle down.