I call absolute Bullshit.
It says people are using translation tools to even use it because the interface is in Chinese.
The number of Americans doing that has to be absolutely miniscule.
Red Note is currently the number one app on the US Apple App store.
It literally only takes a few thousand downloads to top that chart.
ChatGPT is #3, and there sure as hell aren’t millions of people downloading that each day
There are 6 video clip apps in the top 10, and TikTok itself is still at 14th
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I bet they use an algorithm to promote apps and any spike promotes it.
Sorry, are they using an app even more likely to get them spied upon by the PRC and more likely to have Chinese propaganda served at them than they were getting from TikTok out of spite?
Because that’s even stupider than banning TikTok in the first place.
“I would rather stare at a language I can’t understand than to ever use a social media [platform] that Mark Zuckerberg owns,” said one user in a video posted to Xiaohongshu on Sunday.
then why tf did you use tiktok
Here’s a bet that it’s another of those TikTok charades like where they had people make reports on the abortion narc lines or such. Throw enough bullshit out there and it at least frustrates someone and possibly makes a point. In this case just getting enough people to download an alternate app was enough to have someone write a story that might make a few people realize how futile it is to try and block a massively popular app.
