I'm a graduate student who's been studying the topic of cross-cultural communication between the US and CN. Mind take 3 minutes to answer my questions?

Not a while ago, there's an app called Rednote has gone popular among netizens, which has caught my attention, to me figuring out the impact of this phenonmenon can mean alot. Here's what I'm curious about:

1. Why does tiktok refugees use the #cat tax method to communicate with Chinese people on Rednote?

2. Also, what is the impact of this communication method on Tiktok refugees themseleves? What is the impact on the Rednote platform? (e.g. impact on your mood / if you have a pet is there any difference it would make onto your relationship with them / ...)

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Tapir_Tazuli•about 1 year ago•1

#cat tax is a joke, works sorta like an ice breaker. When the TikTok refugees had their first arrival at Rednote, they didn't know what's going on and what to do. Chinese welcomed them by a seemingly bureaucracy-inspired requirement: just like how you pay tariff when importing goods, you pay cat tax when entering Rednote. Which means you'll post photo of cats. In this way people of different origin established a common ground.

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The ban isn't really about privacy concerns

Why exactly? You and me know why America is banning tiktok... They can't control the narrative their like they do with Facebook or Instagram YouTube. etc The genocide in Gaza was being shown in its full without any kind of censorship... And daddy israel doesn't like that so the AIPAC who's holding the American politicians by the balls... Forced them into banning the app.... It's not about privacy or any of that.... Remember edward Snowden.? I rest my case.

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