The living standards of Chinese people presented on Xiaohongshu are exaggerated (This is not a question, but it's very helpful for TTrefugees to understand this Chinese app)

Thank you for your explanation.

That's kind of the essence of social media, isn't it? Scroll through American instagram and the lifestyles being presented really don't reflect the average reality. If you just judged America based on Instagram you'd think everyone was a model or influencer on vacation all the time.

I don’t quite get the intention of this post. Does it make you look more knowledgeable about Red Note to get more upvotes? Sure Red Note is the place where people like to show their better side of life, but it’s just ignorant to label it as what you portrayed as “fake”. Tons of people share their real life there and obviously there are not that many middle class people among them. Also I don’t get how your “truth” will help facilitate the communication. People connect with others for the same interests, why do you take it that seriously?

As I have commented in this sub before, the "typical" image of XHS users are college and graduate students, urban educated women, and some Chinese students studying abroad (well, more and more men have been joining the platform of course).

XHS is originally a UGC app where these typical users posting life-tips, make-up skills, pretty clothes, foods, selfies, tourist-tips, study-tips, or even artwork created by themselves. It is more like Instagram mixed with Pinterest. You can expect what you will probably see on such an app, rather than on something like Twitter or Reddit.

So it is a generally younger, friendlier, more middle-class community, with less radical or aggressive trolls.

China, with its sheer scale of territory, population and economy, is still a developing country by the standards of the UN and World Bank (with similar GDP per capita like Mexico but higher purchasing power and better public infrastructure especially in urbanized areas). It is NOT some utopia, but it IS rapidly changing and developing, and very diverse while generally safe.

The CIA is working overtime to tell people “don’t believe your lying eyes.”

After looking through your past posts, I'm quite curious. What is your source of income in Ukraine? Why do you spend so much time smearing China?

People on both side access REDnote are on same social class. They compare to each other more. It is Americans are giving shock about China lifestyle. Medical, food, debts......etc. They directing communicate to each other. Don't need to read this kind of message in Reddit.

Are you sure that people aren't being banned because of low quality content rather than because they show their normal lives? I feel like we need proof of this happening before we make a judgement. Everyone's homepage is different too, so just outright telling everyone that people on xiaohongshu live unreal lives sounds like you're trying to stir the pot here.

Xiaohongshu was made for young women to show their lifestyles, beauty and jst basically show aesthetics. Then Americans started coming onto the app, and chinese people are showing them how much groceries cost. They're showing them the rail networks in China, what things look like, how much going out to eat costs etc.

In my eyes, none of this is far from the average Chinese person's experience in a big city.

I don't really know what your point is here or what your REDnote app is showing you, but I'm not seeing anything too luxury on my end. I'm seeing regular chinese people live ordinary lives, showing them go camping with their friends and go out for BBQ. This is literally regular life.

Sometimes your worst enemy is your own people.

not surprising as Rednote is a lifestyle app equivalent to Pinterest in US. so likely middle-class city dwellers are the main population there .

of course , it’s a part of china in rednote, but in the rest parts of china also has the same attitude, welcome new friends, curious about new friends, talk to new friends, sending family pictures to each other