#red book

[nyabbycat]

[things-are-heating-up]

I think the funniest part about the migration from tiktok to rednote is how americans are like "oh my gosh, our government lied to us, you guys are the same as us!" and chinese are like "holy shit, our government didn't lie to us, you really do live like this, i'm so sorry"

[theywhoshantbenamed]

Red Book update: art community in china tends to call good artists “teacher” “mom/dad” and “boss” and wonder what Americans say to good artists. Americans have expressed that they mainly compliment the art rather than the person, comparing the art to a good meal and joking about eating the art.

Chinese people love this apparently

[doloremiipsum]

If I see one more naive white queer speaking over actual Chinese queers people and proclaiming xiaohongshu/rednote or even China in general is somehow a fucking wonderland incapable of violent bigotry I’m gonna explode

1) a lot of the queer related tags have suddenly become usable again after the great migration

2) the #le tag for lesbians literally comes from the #lesbian and #les tags being banned so to act

3) the welcome you’re receiving by chinese people isn’t what actual Chinese queers have experienced (we experience a bombardment of loud angry homophobes/transphobes every single fucking day) and every single Chinese queer I know has been ranting about this for days. Unfortunately a lot of people are hypocrites who are only nice to the guests in the house

4) not only is this rhetoric of don’t ask don’t tell being the main consensus in China FALSE (I don’t even want to get into the media’s suppression of hate crimes and how many queer activism accounts are being banned left and right), passive queerphobia is still FUCKING QUEERPHOBIA…

The audacity to come into OUR HOUSE and speak over us after 3 days of being pampered on this app just for being western is vile and so fucking demoralising because we’ve been yelling about our condition for so long and you guys would rather not miss out on social media brainrot than to actually apply some nuance for once… you guys wanted to distance from the sinophobic propaganda take of China being unequivocally evil so bad that you’ve swung to the other end

[wizardpotions]

Red book is the most beautiful cultural exchange I’ve ever seen

[lascitasdelashoras]

Carl Jung ~ Illumination from the Red Book 1913-30

[westenraskiss]

Do people not realize that RedNote is a propaganda platform?

Just, it’s a platform that’s designed to only show you good and wholesome content.

It sounds like a great idea, but it also means that you’ll never see the whole picture. You’ll never get those expose-like videos like you did on TikTok. You’ll never get the “this is how you should stand up for your rights” content on there. And you sure as hell won’t get anything less than the standard“China is the greatest country with thousands of years of history” propaganda-y lines in all of the Chinese-based videos you see.

“The internet lied to us about China, they’re so friendly and so welcoming” yeah they are, but it’s also partly because you can’t see anything else. It’s Censorship Central over there on RedNote, and you are getting fed Party-approved content like it’s 1930s Germany.