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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

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[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 1 points 1 hour ago

I'm still trying to figure out exactly what the prohibition against discussing politics means exactly.

Discussing that people are evading US government media control by being on Xiaohongshu is fine, as is discussing healthcare costs in the US, Luigi, I've seen Chinese users post Aaron Bushnell stuff even.

I know in the US people use the term "politics" to mean "certain things I personally realize are political" and don't include other things that are definitely political, and it seems this is the case also on XHS, but I don't know where those lines actually are.

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

The terms and conditions link when you sign up are in Chinese and I can't copy past for translation. It would help if they had english translations to legally required forums. I do give them credit that they seem to be pretty straight forward in the initial pop up.

Languages are very difficult for me. Especially non latin characters.

Error messges are also Chinese, which I can not read.

Anyone know what this means?

[–] DootDoot@hexbear.net 1 points 2 hours ago

"Incorrect username or password"

[–] iie@hexbear.net 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

~~Biggest thing would be an infographic or short explaining how to make an account without knowing Chinese~~

*edit it's way easier in the mobile app than in a web browser

[–] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Trend on Xiaohongshu: Americans have to pay a "cat tax" by showing photos of cats, which is then inspected by Chinese users who then allow entry.

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 17 points 11 hours ago

Wildly based conversations

[–] companero@hexbear.net 18 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

I appreciate the Lenin/Stalin/Mao stuff but I feel like the algorithm is trying to both-sides me by showing me literal Nazi shit as well disgost

[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 7 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Not 100% sure but it seems like at least one of the accounts that posts historical Soviet pictures also posts Nazi ones too. Although I also saw some of a user dressing up in Nazi stuffkombucha-disgust

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 6 points 8 hours ago

Jesus havent seen anything like that yet that’s crazy

It’s all communism, animals, and the occasional thirst trap for me

[–] real@hexbear.net 7 points 10 hours ago

Mine's like that too right now but my TikTok was originally like that too. I think it'll all come around.

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 13 points 11 hours ago

Got the same, I think they’re like “oh you like revolution era Russia, I bet you feel the same way about the third Reich”

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 19 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Someone said that the Chinese users of that app are kinda on the well-off yuppie side. Anyone know if that’s true?

[–] viva_la_juche@hexbear.net 7 points 8 hours ago

Seems to be but tbf it didn’t take long at all for me to start seeing communist and pro-worker stuff in my feed for what it’s worth

[–] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 20 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

More reactionary/lib than communist for sure.

Welcome to the amazing diversity of China. We’re not all brainwashed communists lol. We have plenty of libs too.

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 9 points 12 hours ago

Haha of course, I didn’t believe le oriental hivemind existed. But I was wondering if it’s a sort of even mix, or a representative proportion of the population, or skews one way or another on there

[–] companero@hexbear.net 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I mean that's kinda par for the course, no?

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I know plenty of broke people on western social media

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 15 points 15 hours ago (2 children)

This is for Chinese people abroad, so the user base will likely consist more of those with the resources to travel

[–] CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn@hexbear.net 6 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Wait are all the Chinese folks on Little Red Book living outside or currently outside China?

[–] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 8 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Certainly not; I just believe I read that its initial purpose was to be a hub for Chinese citizens living abroad

[–] glimmer_twin@hexbear.net 10 points 15 hours ago

I see I see

[–] niph@hexbear.net 11 points 15 hours ago

I’ve generally refused to download any Chinese apps for opsec reasons because I have family living and working there. Does anyone know anything about the data privacy of XHS? I’m not concerned about stuff I post on there but about access to the rest of my phone’s data.

[–] BioWarfarePosadist@hexbear.net 16 points 16 hours ago

When I get off work. I plan on moving a fair amount of my TikTok content over. Still Miss Posadas if anyone wants to follow me on RedNote.

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 9 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Also good to raise awareness on TikTok side of things like this guy: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT218penQ/

[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 6 points 14 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Jabril@hexbear.net 6 points 13 hours ago

Here's a TikTok boba lib talking about going to xiaohongshu to promote Taiwan independence: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT212Edxd/

[–] Aquilae@hexbear.net 25 points 19 hours ago

This is actually so wholesome omg
Image of a Rednote video about an American not understanding what the buttons do, with an overlay of live comments of English speakers finding out about this feature

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