RedWizard [he/him, comrade/them] @hexbear.net

6mo ago

REDnote is wild right now.

Everyone just shows up in the same feed. USians are making posts in English alongside all the posts in Chinese. I've seen Chinese users making jokes like "Give me your data!" or "Welcome, I'm your new Chinese spy". I saw one comment on a post that read, "They better start posting in English soon." which, was getting heavily flamed. Lots of Luigi posting, it would seem. I also keep getting Chinese accounts posting a lot of really cool Socialist Realism art/propaganda posters, old and new. Lots of cringe USians making posts about being "refugees" on the app.

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I love that app already
Caption: The "two-state solution" proposed by Mexican netizens
- but i don't wanna live in kkklanada!!!
  
  You vill live with ze moose, you vill drink ze maple zyrup und you vill be happy
- Lots of Canadians in Florida already - cede it to them.
- do we have to keep canada?
- it's... it's so beautiful
- 我想是墨西哥人🙏
  
  我想{当|dang}墨西哥人/我想{成为|chengwei}墨西哥人 ---> I want to be Mexican/I want to become Mexican
  当 here means 'to be' in the sense of 'act in the capacity of' and by extension 'be'
  是 as a verb is closer to 'is' in the sense of 'equals' and isn't directly substitutable with the English word 'is' or 'are' 100% of the time. For example someone can ask "你昨晚来的吧' 'You arrived last night?' and you can reply '是/是的' for 'yes'. It's affirming the statement as correct in a polite way. It's a bit of a learning curve but not insurmountable.
- Better idea: URSAL
Just saw a post by an American asking to see photos of Chinese cities and Chinese ppl in the comments were sending photos. Super fun!
- I need to go in there and tell those brave patriots not to be tricked by Chinese sorcery that makes their cities look modern it's actually a hologram programmed by project blue beam.
  
  based
This is also really cool:
Original post text:
弦歌不辍，薪火相传思政课作业
这些人物信仰马克思列宁主义，具有革命思想，从事革命工作，并做出了重大贡献。这些人物通过他们的理论、实践和领导，为世界社会主义民主独立运动作出了伟大贡献，他们的思想和精神至今仍激励着人们为革命和进步事业奋斗。
作品旨在传承红色基因，弘扬民族精神。也是对未来发展之路的美好憧憬，激励每一代人接力奋斗，薪火相传，生生不息。
#画说马克思主义#思政课作业#主旋律#马克思#毛泽东#马克思主义发展史#恩格斯#列宁#斯大林#板绘
Google Translation: The strings and songs are endless, and the firepower is passed down from generation to generation. Ideological and political coursework
These figures believed in Marxism-Leninism, had revolutionary ideas, engaged in revolutionary work, and made significant contributions. Through their theories, practices and leadership, these figures made great contributions to the world socialist democratic independence movement. Their thoughts and spirits still inspire people to fight for the cause of revolution and progress.
The work aims to inherit the red gene and promote the national spirit. It is also a beautiful vision for the future development, inspiring each generation to work hard and pass on the fire from generation to generation.
#花说Marxism#ideological and political coursework#main theme#Marx#Mao Zedong#Marxism development history#Engels#Lenin#Stalin#plate painting
- Do you know who's the original artist? This drawing is incredible
- Wow. I'm hanging this one on my wall.
  
  It's really dope.
- Reminder that I need to get caught up to the Capital reading group...still on Chapter 1. In my defense, the introduction to the newest edition is hella long
Found this really sweet.
- Framing it in the way the colonial mind can understand, good.
- This one I found.
Holy shit, the trans content on this app is wholesome af. Tons of supportive Chinese users too. Really heartening to see this kind of international coming-together.
I’m so used to browsing trans TikToks and inevitably seeing transphobic shit posted by chuds in the comments, but I see only kind words here.
- But lib media told me that all Chinese are anti-LGBT+?!
  
  I literally saw someone on tiktok today saying “you can’t post trans stuff on xiaohongshu” and I was like well what’ve I been seeing then?
- Any recs? I need to get me on TransBook
Unintended consequences lmao.
It's like reassuring to know that China behind the USA censorship are dirtbag shitposters like the rest of us.
Someone asked why they like Luigi so much, this was the top response:
中国是一个倾向于集体主义的国家，如果有一个人为了集体去奉献自己，那他会得到大家的尊重。中国甚至有奖项专门去表彰和宣传那些舍己为人的好人[害羞R]我们这个民族延续至今也是因为有很多像他那样的人，为了公共利益不顾自己的生命[害羞R]
Google translate:
China is a country that tends to be collectivist. If a person dedicates himself to the collective, he will be respected by everyone. China even has awards to recognize and promote good people who sacrifice themselves for others [shy R] Our nation continues to this day because there are many people like him who risk their own lives for the public good [shy R]
Also saw this one:
还有一个，sorry我忘记他名字了，自焚在以色列大使馆前面的那个美国军人，我忘记他是否退役了。中华文化里，推崇为民请愿和为正义发声的人。
Google translate:
There is another one, sorry I forgot his name, the American soldier who set himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy. I forgot whether he was retired. In Chinese culture, people who petition for the people and speak out for justice are highly respected.
Response to that one:
Aaron, another hero[哭惹R][哭惹R][哭惹R]
Loving this app.
EDIT: This also came up pretty quickly:
- I saw a reply to that question that just said, "Look up the first line of our national anthem"
  :::spoiler spoiler
  起来！不愿做奴隶的人们！
  Stand up! Those who are unwilling to become slaves!
  
  Is that line from "L'internationale"? Looks quite a lot like "Debut! Le Damné de la Terre" (pardon my spelling, im writing french from memory)
- After "big" events (at least as american reporting) I like to see what chinese commenters think about them, I might have to get the app just for that. I remember like a day or 2 after "the Adjuster" there were some comments confused about why Brian Thompson/CEO was killed and shouldn't the killer be going after shareholders which I thought was funny but also has its own insight from being further from the situation (pretty sure Brian was a big shareholder anyways)
It took roughly 3 minutes of scrolling before I got a socialist art account ran by an account with a Stalin pfp. I felt right at home
lmao
RedNote, or Xiaohongshu as it's known in China, is the number one free app on the Apple app store as of Monday, followed by TikTok's photo-sharing Lemon8 app and OpenAI's ChatGPT.
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/business/money-report/as-tiktok-faces-potential-u-s-ban-chinas-rednote-tops-apple-app-store/6105394/
- When I checked earlier number 3 was an app for tracking the wildfires in California 💀
- Imagine people downloading chatgpt to translate rednote (what I am doing rn)
  
  your phone should have a translate screen function. it should be more convenient to use than copy and pasting into chatgpt
finally installed xiaohongshu even though i'm australian and we haven't banned it yet, and literally the first thing i saw was luigi latte art
now this is posting
- All it took was a single swipe and boom Luigi
- luigi latte art
  omg I need this
  
  Probably this one: http://xhslink.com/a/VqY52MhcmxG3
This poster goes hard! The translated post title / description was:
Soviet propaganda poster [Unbreakable World Vanguard! 】 “The Unbreakable Vanguard of the World!”, Soviet propaganda poster, 1950
- The people want Hexbear moderation
  Dear President Xi,
  I’m a 9 year old American girl Emma. Our internet platforms are filled with liberals who are promoted by our government. My people yearn for freedom, please send DF-41 intercontinental ballistic missile.
  
  For self defense to send to the local state legislature
- I’m pleasantly surprised at the moderation myself, reported a few racist and unfriendly comments and most of them were taken down, plus I even got a message from XHS thanking me for reporting comments lol
been browsing it for an hour or so, front page is full of goofing on Biden and US gov lol, and a lot of Luigi stuff too as others mentioned, someone said that they plan to add a translate feature for comments, I'll probably stick around for the Chinese language learning stuff at the very least, never used tiktok or ig
- we dont hate americans
  Lib
- never used tiktok
  you didnt use an app your goverment passed bypartisan laws to ban and erase ? Your extremly good behaved . A model Citizen basiclly.
  
  +1000 FICO credit
  
  look at me go
  but also I was afraid of getting sucked into a new timesink
- You love to see it
Protip: US posters have 美国by their names. There are some people pretending to be from China on there pretending to be oppressed Chinese
- Yeah lol I saw some people from American and Canada trying to pass themselves off as Chinese and being racist. Actually ridiculous. Thankfully the comments I reported got taken down.
- No not true I saw somebody with 美国 presenting very real symptoms of Havana Syndrome.
  Concerning.
  !!
- Hello my name is Yuanyuan, five years old Chinese girl. Jinping Xi genocided my family this morning. Please send aerial bombardments, my people yearn for freedom
- it would be funny as fuck if they got CIA or Israeli bot tags
I'm not getting my phone code.
- it took me a while to get a code, I had to resend maybe 3 or 4 times before I got one.
  
  I'll keep trying!
  
  edit: I have exceeded today's SMS limit.
- It took me like a minute for it to arrive, idk why
  
  I just finally got one, but it was expired. I'll try again tomorrow morning when the US is asleep.
  
  Servers are slammed right now. What I wouldn't give to be a fly on the wall in the c-suite right now
- Yeah me either. I could sign in with Google which I really hate doing which let me watch videos but I can't comment until I get the phone verified
  They're probably hitting some quota they never thought they would on international texts
Tear down this wall Mister Gorbachev
- Keep the wall up, Mr Xi Jinping
  
  At this point, the great firewall is protecting the anglosphere internet from a flood of people who would make it unusable to the anglos by being correct and not believing in insane conspiracy theories
Ahahahha this is fucking bonkers
So many videos of things happening in China, so many Chinese people and they’re normal
Because of course they are, no shit. Hope there is some dialogue about this on TikTok right now
The refugee shit is a little cring, but the genuine conversations are very cool. The political/historical posting is extremely good, I didn’t realize they were still doing Polandball though
Using this opportunity that we are having an agitprop contest here on Hexbear! Whatever leftist/hexbear related post a Hexbear user makes on Xiaohongshu and accumulates the most interactions will be featured in the agitprop community on the 19th (day TikTok is set to be banned in the US)
More details here!
The "Usian and their Chinese spy meeting each other" memes are so funny. I've had an account for a while but dont usually use video-based social media. This is too good to miss though.
Based cultural hegemony
- China needs to make another Genshin Impact. They've been struggling to win League of Legends championships ever since the koreans stopped being hopelessly addicted to gacha-games.
some wishful bloomer-posting: the final Blowback season will be about the tik-tok ban, including it's lead up and the U.S. escalation with China.
it won't be as grim as the others, more light hearted and internet-brained. but for the final closing season it will be appropriate. it will close the entire book of a series that is basically about the consequences of the U.S. war on communism.
The first positive feel-good ep of Blowback, for it tells the story of the U.S. anti-communist op that actually blows back on capitalism and U.S. empire itself
Imagine making a social media app for the Chinese diaspora and literally calling it Little Red Book only for millions of westerners to flood it because their governments don't want their citizens indoctrinated with Maoism
The app's algorithm is now serving me a lot of queer content.

It's amazing (and also quite annoying) seeing Westerners be so surprised by any of it. On a video I saw in which two Chinese guys were being in love with each other, I saw a Westerner comment: "don't you get stoned for this??", and a Chinese user replied: "of course not, we have gay bars in China, don't believe all that nonsense"
Can I use it on a desktop browser? I was trying to load it, but I couldn't get it to either show in English or translate correctly. I didn't see a login/signup button either, are those mobile only?
- I'm having the same issue. I made an account via my phone and set my language to English, but I can't seem to log in to the website.
  
  The website has a thing to login with a phone number, but the number only allows numbers from China (+86). Not clear if it allows account creation either. This was just a popup when I loaded the website.
What is rednote?
- Apparently a Chinese social media app that has exploded in popularity in the west due to Tiktok's imminent ban.
- its Redbook.
  
  I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
  yewtu.be
  inv.nadeko.net
  yt.artemislena.eu
  piped.video
Ive been unable to make an account - either i dont get the 6 digit code to my phone or get an error message when i try to use google. I imagine its just overloaded right now
- i was having issues making an account with my phone number but using my apple account worked
- I got in but my wife is having trouble with delayed verification texts. Possibly a timing issue, probably easier when the rest of America is asleep.
- i was able to use google signin from australia, but i initially tried the normal phone number method and i didn't receive the sms at all
- Using WeChat to sign in worked for me instantly. Maybe try that?
  
  Don't you need another WeChat user to help you make a WeChat account if you're not Chinese? Assuming OP doesnt already have one.
- Easiest bet, if on android, is to hold your center phone button and tap "search screen", then click "translate." It'll take a temporary screenshot and translate the contents
- I use android, if I hold down the home button it let's translate my screen.
I've made an account (not American) and my first picks was some cat, Luigi Mangione fanart and those Chinese hyperrealistic fursuits. They've got me nailed down from the start
guys did i not say that we should move to a Chinese/Russian (or any country the CIA/Israel) doesn't like platform?!
the good thing about interacting with other westerners on xiaohongshu is that you can debunk CIA/Israeli propaganda and bots cant flood you with bullshit and they cant ban you for going against their narrative
- Tiktok used to have more chinese content before they moved their servers to Texas
- I think the server that sends codes is overloaded. It took me 20min to get one.
i haven't used 小红书 in a few years but i can imagine the average user being really tired of this sudden invasion of USians. imagine trying to use your normal social media app that you use for normal shit and suddenly it's full of clueless anglos posting bullshit in their bullshit language and refusing to use your language, and a normal post about normal shit suddenly has 25 comments like "huh what's this lol" "i don't speak thingumajig, speak american lol" "haha your chinese dances are funny lol" "wooow i wanna eat chinese noodles, i love pad thai"
i get that exposing anglos to normal shit outside of iowa is enriching and good for the low percentage of people that are actually curious and willing to learn but damn, can't imagine being a normal user on the normal app right now

i guess it'll blow over very soon
- imagine trying to use your normal social media app that you use for normal shit and suddenly it’s full of clueless anglos posting bullshit in their bullshit language and refusing to use your language, and a normal post about normal shit suddenly has 25 comments like “huh what’s this lol” “i don’t speak thingumajig, speak american lol” “haha your chinese dances are funny lol” “wooow i wanna eat chinese noodles, i love pad thai”
  Chinese people on average are actually very very welcoming to foreigners. on my feed there was a white guy just asking about what Chinese ppl put in their hot pot and it was all very wholesome.
I can't get it to send me a text. Not even sure if I'm signing up right.
- I think the service that sends the text is overloaded. I had to try for 20min. I eventually got one. I got 2 more several hours later lol.
- I think it's just whatever server runs the verification stuff is getting hit too hard. I had to resend the code a few times, but it eventually went through.
  
  Yeah for sure. Probably Twilio or something. I actually got in a little while ago. I never went on TikTok so I'm new to the format and may not stick around. Definitely interested in the phenomena though, and the opportunity to peek into some Chinese internet culture.
first thing in my recommendations after making an account was sprunki ecchi. 10/10 experience
i replied to a post asking an american history phd about the difference between israel and the US regarding the greater israel project and manifest destiny and it was removed. dunno if OP can delete replies or not or only moderation can do it
- I'm not sure, I haven't made any posts that resulted in comments, so I can't say. I have seen comments from Chinese IP addresses saying that talking about politics on the app isn't something they do. I don't believe that's a "rule" of the platform, but more of a social rule.

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