TikTok refugees
You might remember it as RedNote migration, Xiaohongshu exodus
Several hundred thousand Americans joined a Chinese app on purpose and started talking to the people there.
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2025·The last few years·informative
Several hundred thousand Americans joined a Chinese app on purpose and started talking to the people there.
At a glanceThe facts
- Remembered as
- RedNote migration
- Spread in
- 2025
- Format
- Phenomenon
- Origin
- No single original
- Available
- Plays on the original platform
What this wasThe story
Facing a US TikTok shutdown in January 2025, users moved to Xiaohongshu — RedNote — and found themselves in conversation with Chinese users, who asked them for a 'cat tax' before answering questions.
It is the only recent case of a mass, deliberate, friendly migration between two national internets, and for a few weeks produced the sort of direct contact that platform design normally prevents.
The hashtag carried tens of millions of posts. Coverage on both sides treated it as an accidental diplomatic event.
Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast
Where it came fromWhat we know
This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. The example shown is one surviving copy and is not claimed as the first.
Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.
Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.
Where this survivesStill there
The same thing, held on another platform. Each link says what that copy is; none of them is claimed to be the original, and Share above stays with ViralWorld either way.
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