I am sincerely glad your daughter is having fun, but I have several female friend who are trapped in the toxic spiral of rednote and cannot quit.
From what I read on the Chinese internet, they have a tendency to serve wholesome content to people at first, then switch to toxic content to encourage consumption. As many westerners don’t know, rednote is a shopping-guide app, and they make money from it.
I hope they don’t do it to non-Chinese people and I really hope people like your daughter can continue to have fun wherever they are.
I am not sure, and I didn’t mean to imply that is the cause. I don’t have a lot of male Chinese friend, so I don’t have any data in that department.
However, to be completely frank, I sometimes feel that now Chinese female are subject to much higher social expectation, which are likely to be reflect on social media, thus amplifying their anxiety.
But I certainly have plenty of female friends that doesn’t use rednote, and they are doing fine. (except one on twiter, and she also says that she is pretty anxious about it 🤣
Noted. I know about the shopping guide thing. I’m curious on how the developers will handle this influx. Foreigners are quite limited on the app as of now, they can’t start lives cause you need Chinese legal info, can’t make money & I’m fairly sure you can’t shop. Who knows if those will open up to foreigners as well or be kept China only. I’ve seen Americans complain that their accounts were shadowbanned for no reason but what all of their accounts had in common was that the posts did not fit the local “aesthetic”. I personally think Rednote will not allow the app to be taken over by foreigners.
I am sincerely glad your daughter is having fun, but I have several female friend who are trapped in the toxic spiral of rednote and cannot quit.
From what I read on the Chinese internet, they have a tendency to serve wholesome content to people at first, then switch to toxic content to encourage consumption. As many westerners don’t know, rednote is a shopping-guide app, and they make money from it.
I hope they don’t do it to non-Chinese people and I really hope people like your daughter can continue to have fun wherever they are.
because theyre female ? (😂
I am not sure, and I didn’t mean to imply that is the cause. I don’t have a lot of male Chinese friend, so I don’t have any data in that department.
However, to be completely frank, I sometimes feel that now Chinese female are subject to much higher social expectation, which are likely to be reflect on social media, thus amplifying their anxiety.
But I certainly have plenty of female friends that doesn’t use rednote, and they are doing fine. (except one on twiter, and she also says that she is pretty anxious about it 🤣
Noted. I know about the shopping guide thing. I’m curious on how the developers will handle this influx. Foreigners are quite limited on the app as of now, they can’t start lives cause you need Chinese legal info, can’t make money & I’m fairly sure you can’t shop. Who knows if those will open up to foreigners as well or be kept China only. I’ve seen Americans complain that their accounts were shadowbanned for no reason but what all of their accounts had in common was that the posts did not fit the local “aesthetic”. I personally think Rednote will not allow the app to be taken over by foreigners.