What is happening:
Due to massive grassroots backlash to the looming TikTok ban in the US, millions of users are currently creating accounts on Xiaohongshu aka “Little Red Book”. It is currently the top trending app in the Apple App Store.
Why it is special:
This is truly an unprecedented development. Never have regular American and Chinese netizens had the ability to mingle so freely. Even more unprecedented is the fact that most of this early conversation will be regarding backlash to the US itself. This presents us with an opportunity to appeal to a large swath of (mostly young) Americans at the same time.
What the goal is:
We have recently had several chats on this site about how to actually turn posting/effortposting into something positive. Several ideas have been floated regarding Agitprop and how to encourage the creation of engaging content, and many people agreed on the idea of Agitprop contests. That is what we will be trying to do here for the first time ever.
The contest/rules are quite loose here and definitely open to change, so feel free to give your input:
‼️In an effort to help shepard the rapidly growing disgruntled and pliable new English speaking audience on Xiaohongshu, the leftist post or comment for English speakers on Xiaohongshu that garners the most interactions before January 19th at 5PM GMT will be featured on c/agitprop.‼️
Simply submit by linking the post or comment in the replies of this post. Please try to include some kind of watermark that identifies it as a Hexbear user. Ideally if you can link back here we can foster a few new users as well. Good luck my fellow posters
As of now there are no submissions, so if you’d like to participate just comment a link to your post! Of course, feel free to reuse your own Hexbear posts, and if you want to use somebody else’s post reach out and ask permission first.
Ambulance is not free in mainland China, but (relatively speaking) cheap enough subject to regional differences. Average is probably 120-150 yuan for a 3km ride. Private hospitals can cost even higher because they only care about profits. Hong Kong, on the other hand, has had free ambulance service since the 1980s.
Police and firefighters are free though.
Obviously an ambulance shouldn’t really cost anything but fuck I’ll take $15 instead of $1500
It won’t bankrupt you like in America but spending 100 bucks is still a hole in the pocket unless you’re rich.
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120 yuan for a fast casual meal? What kind of fast casual meal are we talking about?
An average casual lunch is like 15-20 yuan, maybe a bit more expensive in some cities. Average Uber (Didi) fee is like 15-20 yuan for a few km. 150 yuan could probably get you a 5-course dinner in a restaurant already (per person).
Just because it converts to $16 doesn't mean it's $16 of purchasing power. It's way, way more in China.
Hell, $50-$100 of USD equivalent purchasing power is still crazy cheap. That's like one long Uber ride on a shitty night.
Yeah it's not bad at all, but I'd probably want it to be a little cheaper because I imagine there's gotta be a pretty big number of people for whom a $100USD emergency might ruin their month.
Something similar in Croatia. We kept it from good old never forgotten Yugoslavia.