This is from a fresh install. Now, I’ve used Red Book before, but the influx of new users and the sheer amount of pro-China, anti-Western content is undeniable.
I cannot see how Red Book will escape censorship when there is such an overwhelming level of bias. At least TikTok is somewhat more diluted when it comes to propaganda.
Just scrolling through posts, you can see these poor American teenagers’ scepticism of America being reinforced by people who fundamentally oppose their values.
Teenagers are seriously missing the point of why TikTok is even scrutinised. They still insist on viewing everything through an American lens, as though it’s simply impossible for a government to have direct influence over social media—because social media in the USA supposedly doesn’t.
But now they’re going on a platform that is essentially Douyin Instagram. Regardless of any desire to avoid politics, they’re just being fed pro-China, anti-Western rubbish.
American tiktokers who migrate to Rednote as an FU to the US goverment in the same way as rebellious teenagers who are pissed at their parents so they throw in their lots with pimps, drug dealers and gangs who have even less interest in their well being.
Cringe af, the American posts stick out like a sore thumb and are ruining the feed, can’t wait for them to split the app into a separate domestic version and another version for the international audience like they did with Douyin/Tiktok when it took off, and you know they will because there is no way they’re letting Chinese netizens communicate with the rest of the world.
It could be that the young people’s bad habit of viewing things through an American lens has led them to believe their government shouldn’t be banning media platforms and restricting people’s free expression and association.
The reason of China-US antagonism is not only the lack of understanding of each other, while it’s true for the majority of the peoples, at the other end of the spectrum, there are people who understand too much and too deeply of both sides and therefore decide to go against the other side.
This rush of new users into China territory is only speedrunning the “getting to know you” part.
They were just like those Americans who immigrated to USSR in the 60`s and expected themselves to be in a place with better labor protection and much equalization. Soon they would find out their false imagination about China because they were protected so well in America and any unwanted voice in China censored by the Chinese government. Thanks to the advanced Internet, they don’t have to be in China in person and end up digging potatoes or picking up cotton somewhere in China.
Hahaha, the Chinese internet is the most hateful place I have ever seen. People just hate each other; men hate women, women hate men, Cis people hate trans people, straight people hate gay people, HAN Chinese hate minorities, and Native Chinese hate black immigrants……