Former Washington Post employee Taylor Lorenz and millions of others have migrated from TikTok to Xiaohongshu, another Chinese-owned app, as users await a Supreme Court ruling on TikTok’s legality in the United States.
Xiaohongshu, which means “little red book” in Mandarin, climbed to the top spot on Apple’s App Store rankings Monday, coinciding with the court’s upcoming decision on whether TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, must sell the platform to continue U.S. operations.
“Long live China,” Lorenz wrote in Mandarin.
中国万岁
— Taylor Lorenz (@TaylorLorenz) January 13, 2025
The app, whose title is an apparent reference to Mao Zedong’s “Little Red Book,” is widely referred to as “RedNote” among English-speaking users. Like TikTok, Xiaohongshu features lifestyle, comedy and educational content, as well as an e-commerce platform — though it is primarily designed for and populated by