Truth nuke on RedNote

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It’s important to remember that RedNote is a lifestyle app and targeted at folks of a certain economic class anyway. That said, yeah, I think it’s good for a lot of Americans to see that our way of life is pretty bonkers to most similarly privileged people on the other side of the world. I will say like? Living abroad and coming back, I’ve been saying a lot of this for years and my European friends have also said it. So it’s a little baffling to me that it’s taken RedNote for it to break through.

As an immigrant from a 3rd world country that still has better tech and healthcare than the US, I was never convinced! To be fair, the "better tech" all comes from China anyways.

Keep in mind that China's is a huge country and as of now the HDI index is similar to Mexico, which is to say, far from an impoverished country but definitely not up to par with first world nations yet. A lot of the stuff you see on RedNote are equivalent to if someone was showing Beverly Hills and making you convinced that all of the US looks like that.

Will it develop further? Sure, And it makes sense that some of the places has some of the best infrastructure around because all of it was built very recently, vs infrastructure in developed nations that has been around for a while.

And before anyone say anything, I was born in China, and my family is from there. It's far from a dystopia like some media paints it but it's also definitely not the utopia some people seems to think it is nowadays. As with almost everything in life, the truth is far more nuanced.

I'm pretty that majority of chinese demographic who post on rednote/xiaohongshu are young females who are of middle/upper class. Rednote focuses on life inspiration, food, travel, tips, product marketing, etc. It only focuses on positive things. It does not focus on negative things and it does not focus on the life of ordinary chinese people.

I often see chinese forums with chinese people themselves discussing about why people on xiaohongshu seem so wealthy while they don't have the money or the time to do or afford those things. Based on the chinese forums i have seen, they have come to the conclusion that most of them are young people who come from well-off families and most are from the big cities. Why are there so many, you may ask? Well, because of China's huge population of 1.4 billion+ people. With a total population like that, there are bound to be A LOT of wealthy people, but also millions of poor people who make up majority. Also many say on the chinese forums that there are a few people who pretend to be wealthy on rednote too. Many of these ordinary chinese people say that they're kinda envious by what they see on rednote/xiaohongshu and wish they could afford nice things, saying that ordinary chinese like themselves usually don't post.

I don't think rednote is propaganda as it was only made for chinese and overseas chinese. It wasn't made for non-chinese people. It was only made for inspirations and marketing, so why would people post negative stuff on there? Sorta like how pinterest was made for inspirations. Nobody said it was to show the life of ordinary chinese, just inspiration for cute, fun, cool, and nice things. It's just the foreigners who think that this is what ordinary chinese live like.

For example, in the USA, we got instagram influencers who seem to live the "perfect" life. They are not to represent the average american however. So please, stop basing your opinion of chinese life on literal INFLUENCERS.

By the way, Rednote is the chinese version of Instagram.

Also, I think chinese people know themselves that it's best to not post anything negative about China, because CCP will most likely censor their post and ban their account if they do that.

The average income per year of average chinese in China is 106,837 Yuan. Converted to USD, that is $14,604.60
Almost half the popuation in china earn less than 1,000 yuan per month. That is around $136.72

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Well, just to be fair, RedNote Netizens are mostly middle class Chinese.

if you are the bottom 50% of the U.S socioeconomic class, it's not really comparable.

Did you see that vid of the Chinese warehouse worker who got run over by the forklift he was driving?

Or that video of the machine shop worker who got both his arms chopped off by a press?

i heard someone say recently that ‘the US is not a country, its a corporation and we’re all just employees’. this seems about accurate to me.

My friend, you fell for the chinese propaganda way too quickly LOL

Remember that what you see in the app is not the reality of everyone please, and that RedNote is mostly used by middle class chinese.