China panicked about American users corrupting their youth via TikTok alternative RedNote

The tables have turned, and now China is worried about the US corrupting their youth via social media.Chinese-owned video sharing app RedNote is reportedly considering quarantining American users over concerns they are a poor influence on their own young people.Ahead of TikTok being banned and “going dark” on Sunday – which eventually only lasted 14 hours after new President Donald Trump intervened – millions of Americans downloaded the alternative Chinese-owned video sharing platform, sending it to the number one spot on the US App Store.Three million Americans joined RedNote in just a single day last week, some calling themselves “TikTok refugees” – and instantly caused a culture clash. Americans descended on Chinese influencers’ comments sections with sexualized messages. “How do you say mommy in Chinese? Like in a horny way,” one American user commented on a Chinese female fitness influencer’s video.Another Chinese woman received a comment reading, “I’ll teach you English fine sh-t,” from an American user.Meanwhile, Chinese users have been drooling over provocative videos of attractive American RedNoters, like one commenter who originally wrote in Mandarin, “After seeing foreign girls, I’m no longer interested in domestic ones.”“American women on RedNote [are] already triggering a gender war in China,” one X user responded.Americans are also helping Chinese teens cheat on their English homework by commenting the answers in their posts.Such cross-cultural interactions don’t happen on TikTok, because the company which owns it, ByteDance – who are strongly linked to the Communist Party – runs an entirely separate app, Douyin, for Chinese users. Douyin adheres to the Chinese communist government’s strict rules and censorship banning political criticism, sexualized content and many other things it deems bad for its citizens. RedNote, called Xiaohongshu in Chinese – which literally translates as Little Red B...