What’s happening on RedNote? A media scholar explains the app TikTok users are fleeing to – and the cultural moment unfolding there

TikTok refugees fled by the millions^[1] to RedNote, a Chinese app, in response to the TikTok ban^[2], which went into effect Jan. 19, 2025. The company shut down the app^[3] shortly before midnight on Jan. 18.

Through cat memes, shared jokes about the ban

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