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.
How can we get as many eyes as possible on James Rehwald's stuff? I think it's probably as good as it's gonna get and there's already a good library of content there covering a broad range of topics. Anyone know of a way to contact him to see if he wants to put his stuff up himself or give permission for someone else to reupload?
I doubt he personally goes to the platform considering his line of work in marketing so reposting his videos will probably be the way to get eyes on it there. They’re always so good. I wonder how they’d do feedback-wise with a mixed American and Chinese audience.
Frankly, assuming he is a principled leftist of some sort, I don’t think he’d have a problem with just openly reposting it until he has a presence on the app (if he even chooses to) since he is likely not just chasing clout
Alright well I'm not on the app and I've more or less sworn off social media outside of this place so hopefully someone cooler than me can do that!
Understandable, social media sucks