If even .01% of the Americans joking about learning Chinese actually dip a toe into the language, culture, and (god forbid) history… mega self own from the us state
this post was submitted on 14 Jan 2025
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As the redditors pissed about this love to cite... It's the Streisand Effect.
Redditors are pissed about this? Oh god I need to see this, I need to taste their tears.
I finally started getting my verification codes. Like, hours later. It's an improvement.
Still haven't gotten any
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Whole lotta folks are gonna find out they have more in common with the FOREIGN ADVERSARY™'s citizens than with their own government
Most Americans will just go to instagram/facebook/twitter unfortunately
The great Satan won this round I’m afraid. Still though, I’m really curious to see some metrics (if those are even available anywhere)
One very funny statistic for now
Is Lemon8 the app for organizing lemon parties
It's ByteDance's image based app, for people who don't want to doomscroll short form videos and just doomscroll still images/landscapes/image macros instead.
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like another commentor said, any amount of americans being exposed to chinese culture is a positive.
I have a Chinese buddy who studied in America and now lives in Hong Kong. He tried to teach me how to pronounce stuff in Mandarin and oh my god its so hard.
"how hard can it be if babies do it" is usually my mantra when I try learning languages
Babies have special brain shit going on the helps them learn super fast. My ancient and decaying brain matter is no match.
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Oh i bet the chinese users are stoooookkkeeddd about a bunch of yanks polluting their space
It's the internet, if regular people from different groups, especially Americans and Chinese, the former of whom's government and media has been fomenting a cold war and racist propaganda for decades, can get together and have regular interactions I see that as an absolute win.
Luxemburg emphasized: “There can be no socialism outside the international solidarity of the proletariat.”
just saw this comment
I love how comments there can have pictures in them, unlike TikTok. Someone posts dog and they get a dog tax paid stamp in reply
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They don't care, and I'm have a feeling that the app will not put up with nonsense from foreigners. This is not a Meta subsidiary, don't forget.
As an example (as others have mentioned on here) that your country (or province, if inside the PRC) is shown on your profile cause of all the trolling from the Taiwanese.
If they need to ban Americans I'm sure they would, but why do that when you can just moderate them? At least give it a try...
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Found something a bit weird, on profiles it looks like it shows users’ “IP Address”? But also that’s not long enough to be an IP address, and it’s not even made up of numbers? Can someone who knows Chinese clarify what this is?
All major social media platforms in China were ordered by law to reveal IP location (just the cities) of their users since April 2022 because a lot of anti-Russia comments were made by Taiwanese trolls when the war in Ukraine started.
Most Chinese people are Russia simps and the social media fights got really ugly flamed by trolls, so they decided to just reveal the IP location of the users instead.
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that says "Beijing" so I'm assuming it's saying the IP is from beijing.
i can't help because the verification doesn't wori for me, but it's really cool to see
One of the first things I was served upon opening the app was a Frieran meme. China really pointed at me and said "weeb".
Is there a trick to creating an account? I get errors whichever means of verification I try.
Servers are slammed. It might be a bit
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I tried to make an account months ago to practice Chinese, but it didn't work because of the verification texts. Let me know if someone has strats to make it more likely to go thru.
I just tried every hour or so and eventually got one
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Mark my words, if the Supreme Court finds out about this, they're overturning the Tiktok ban immediately.
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It would be so fucking funny if this backfired so spectacularly that it resulted in the total collapse of the "China bad" narrative in the US.
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What happened?
TinkTonk banned, users decided to use Chinese insta instead
Lmao based.
It would be very funny if the US had to ban RedNote too
In two years when the law catches up, by then it will be too late. 🤞
If this law is upheld and TikTok is banned, they can use it to ban Xiǎohóngshū. But that’ll take years, it’s not like it happens automatically.
us is banning tiktok so people are migrating to 小红书 which is a chinese social media. chinese and american netizens are interacting so much, it's incredible
Cool to see!
I downloaded the app but the UI is in Chinese
to change it to english to have to click the bottom left option on the home page, then click on the gear which takes you to settings, then the other gear, then the top option and then you can select english
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