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.
that is so funny. when I was growing up in the 90s, nobody was thinking about the internet like that. but we had the same story told to us.
sometimes it was some kind of "book" kept by the school. your "permanent record". other times, it was just the memory of the teacher. I remember a teacher telling us that a former student of hers was trying to get some really prestigious job, and as part of a background check the potential employer came to ask her how was he like as an 11 year old. it was of course many years later so all she could remember was that he hit another kid once. so, sadly, he didn't get the job.
I had thought that with the internet, you maybe couldn't get such a stupid story by kids. like I always thought it probably wasn't true but it was hard to be sure because I had no source of adult information that didn't have a vested interest in keeping me in line. but I guess the internet didn't help things.
What a fucking snitch.
Idk would you really consider a teacher a snitch? to my mind (as a child) she is an authority figure who is structurally in opposition to one's interests. not so much a snitch a class enemy. "snitch " is a term applied to an equal.