American TikTok users are turning to RedNote amidst the platform's uncertain future. CGTN Europe interviewed Dr. Conor McKeown, a Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Stirling, who described it as a form of digital protest. According to him, nothing makes their voices more clear.
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00:00And people are choosing this, I think, because this is a form of digital protest and nothing
00:05makes their voice more clear than signing up to the app that sounds most explicitly
00:13like a Chinese app.
00:14You know, a lot of users are reporting that they have no idea how to use the app.
00:19They're getting help from other people that are bilingual on the app that happened to
00:23be based in America to help them navigate its Chinese user interface.
00:28So I think that it's all about sending a message and they have gone for the little
00:32red book to try and make their voice clear.