seanmcdirmid 10 hours ago

In not sure if used traditional characters for some kind of ironic effect or not.

zht 11 hours ago

why write the name in traditional? if you're going to refer to it in another language, why not just write it as 小红书?

  • aleph_minus_one 7 hours ago

    > why not just write it as 小红书?

    seo-speedwagon wrote (emphasis mine):

    "Everyone’s joining 小紅書 and getting fully Xi-pilled."

    This shows that seo-speedwagon is opposed to mainland China. Writing the name in traditional characters, which are used in Taiwan, is another barb of seo-speedwagon against mainland China and its government.

  • icapybara 11 hours ago

    Maybe they use a traditional character keyboard and don't have a simplified character keyboard set up.

  • mvdtnz 11 hours ago

    Better yet why not transliterate it so the rest of us can read the conversation.

    • pinoy420 11 hours ago

      Because it’s hacker news. You are the out crowd. So sucks to be you.

      Absolute insufferable.

      REDNote.

wumeow 11 hours ago

This isn’t exaggeration btw. Gen Z is basically a cooked generation at this point.

  • spencerflem 11 hours ago

    Because we don't like what the US government and their corporate overlords are doing?

    • Trasmatta 10 hours ago

      Gen Z will have a rude awakening if they think the Chinese government is in anyway better

      • samr71 8 hours ago

        We don't think the Chinese government is any better. We trust neither government.

      • spencerflem 10 hours ago

        They do not

        But also I care a lot less about the CCP because they have very little impact on my day to day

        • kjkjadksj 7 hours ago

          Well aside from producing probably 95% of the goods you use day to day. Other than that, very little impact.

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    • wumeow 9 hours ago

      Because that’s all you know! You are so myopically focused on every shitty thing that the US has ever done that you’ll believe anything that disparages the US, even when it comes from a foreign power trying to undermine you. For instance:

      https://x.com/OrganizerMemes/status/1879723864936370347#m Guess what! You also have to pay for an ambulance in China!

      https://x.com/Jingjing_Li/status/1880176802993434698#m Wrong. Americans spend about 12% of their income on groceries and work less than the Chinese on average.

      You are not immune to propaganda.

    • addicted 10 hours ago

      Imagine thinking the U.S. govt and corporate overlords are terrible because they’re banning TikTok and getting back at them by going to a Chinese app. China, the country which has a literal firewall preventing their people from getting information that isn’t vetted, bans nearly every external app because they don’t have control over it, and most ironically, never allowed TikTok, whose banning you think makes the U.S. govt terrible, in China in the first place.

      It’s hilarious that all these Redpillers are going on about how they can now communicate with and learn from the Chinese people they’re meeting on Red Book without ever considering why they couldn’t meet those Chinese people on Tik Tok in the first place and coming to the conclusion that this shows that it was the U.S. govt that was bad…

      Yeah, the lack of logical thinking in this one instance and your response to it only adds to the evidence that your generation is cooked.

      • seo-speedwagon 10 hours ago

        Most people I’ve seen are going on about either

        1) the novelty of talking to entirely new people, which is a relative rarity since the early, heady days of MySpace when social media was new and gardens felt much less walled. For Gen Z, it might actually be a first given their average age; or

        2) how the lives of average people compare to theirs and compare to their prior notions of what they thought life was like

        These seem to go both ways btw, e.g. Chinese people being amazed that we really do need to pay for ambulance rides and that it’s not just govt propaganda. People are going where interesting things are happening, it’s plain and simple.

      • nozzlegear 10 hours ago

        An American and a Chinese citizen are having a discussion on Rednote about freedom in their respective countries. The American proudly says:

        "In America, we have true freedom! I can stand in front of the White House and shout, 'I don’t like the President!' and nothing will happen to me."

        The Chinese citizen thoughtfully replies:

        "We have the same freedom in China. I can stand in front of Tiananmen Square and shout, 'I don’t like the American President!' and nothing will happen to me either."

      • spencerflem 10 hours ago

        Man, u just don't get it.

        It's spite. Obviously. The point isn't that the CCP is better.

      • keybored 7 hours ago

        Three paragraphs of non-sequiturs. Yeah they are taking revenge on their own government because it’s their own government which is governing the country they live in. “But what about China” doesn’t matter since they don’t live in China and they don’t plan to move to China.

        They want to use an app. These geopolitical-ideological fault-lines doesn’t matter.