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TikTok is old news now. Everyone’s joining 小紅書 and getting fully Xi-pilled.

by seo-speedwagon 2y ago

zht 2y ago
why write the name in traditional? if you're going to refer to it in another language, why not just write it as 小红书？
- icapybara 2y ago
  Maybe they use a traditional character keyboard and don't have a simplified character keyboard set up.
- mvdtnz 2y ago
  Better yet why not transliterate it so the rest of us can read the conversation.
  - pinoy420 2y ago
    Because it’s hacker news. You are the out crowd. So sucks to be you. Absolute insufferable. REDNote.
  - icapybara 2y ago
    "Little red book" aka rednote
- wetpaws 2y ago
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- aleph_minus_one 2y ago
  > why not just write it as 小红书？ seo-speedwagon wrote (emphasis mine): "Everyone’s joining 小紅書 and getting fully Xi-pilled." This shows that seo-speedwagon is opposed to mainland China. Writing the name in traditional characters, which are used in Taiwan, is another barb of seo-speedwagon against mainland China and its government.
wumeow 2y ago
This isn’t exaggeration btw. Gen Z is basically a cooked generation at this point.
- spencerflem 2y ago
  Because we don't like what the US government and their corporate overlords are doing?
  - addicted 2y ago
    Imagine thinking the U.S. govt and corporate overlords are terrible because they’re banning TikTok and getting back at them by going to a Chinese app. China, the country which has a literal firewall preventing their people from getting information that isn’t vetted, bans nearly every external app because they don’t have control over it, and most ironically, never allowed TikTok, whose banning you think makes the U.S. govt terrible, in China in the first place. It’s hilarious that all these Redpillers are going on about how they can now communicate with and learn from the Chinese people they’re meeting on Red Book without ever considering why they couldn’t meet those Chinese people on Tik Tok in the first place and coming to the conclusion that this shows that it was the U.S. govt that was bad… Yeah, the lack of logical thinking in this one instance and your response to it only adds to the evidence that your generation is cooked.
    - spencerflem 2y ago
      Man, u just don't get it. It's spite. Obviously. The point isn't that the CCP is better.
    - seo-speedwagon 2y ago
      Most people I’ve seen are going on about either 1) the novelty of talking to entirely new people, which is a relative rarity since the early, heady days of MySpace when social media was new and gardens felt much less walled. For Gen Z, it might actually be a first given their average age; or 2) how the lives of average people compare to theirs and compare to their prior notions of what they thought life was like These seem to go both ways btw, e.g. Chinese people being amazed that we really do need to pay for ambulance rides and that it’s not just govt propaganda. People are going where interesting things are happening, it’s plain and simple.
seanmcdirmid 2y ago
In not sure if used traditional characters for some kind of ironic effect or not.

TikTok is old news now. Everyone’s joining 小紅書 and getting fully Xi-pilled.

zht 2y ago

why write the name in traditional? if you're going to refer to it in another language, why not just write it as 小红书？

icapybara 2y ago
Maybe they use a traditional character keyboard and don't have a simplified character keyboard set up.
mvdtnz 2y ago
Better yet why not transliterate it so the rest of us can read the conversation.
- pinoy420 2y ago
  Because it’s hacker news. You are the out crowd. So sucks to be you. Absolute insufferable. REDNote.
- icapybara 2y ago
  "Little red book" aka rednote
wetpaws 2y ago
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aleph_minus_one 2y ago
> why not just write it as 小红书？ seo-speedwagon wrote (emphasis mine): "Everyone’s joining 小紅書 and getting fully Xi-pilled." This shows that seo-speedwagon is opposed to mainland China. Writing the name in traditional characters, which are used in Taiwan, is another barb of seo-speedwagon against mainland China and its government.

wumeow 2y ago

This isn’t exaggeration btw. Gen Z is basically a cooked generation at this point.

spencerflem 2y ago
Because we don't like what the US government and their corporate overlords are doing?
- addicted 2y ago
  Imagine thinking the U.S. govt and corporate overlords are terrible because they’re banning TikTok and getting back at them by going to a Chinese app. China, the country which has a literal firewall preventing their people from getting information that isn’t vetted, bans nearly every external app because they don’t have control over it, and most ironically, never allowed TikTok, whose banning you think makes the U.S. govt terrible, in China in the first place. It’s hilarious that all these Redpillers are going on about how they can now communicate with and learn from the Chinese people they’re meeting on Red Book without ever considering why they couldn’t meet those Chinese people on Tik Tok in the first place and coming to the conclusion that this shows that it was the U.S. govt that was bad… Yeah, the lack of logical thinking in this one instance and your response to it only adds to the evidence that your generation is cooked.
  - spencerflem 2y ago
    Man, u just don't get it. It's spite. Obviously. The point isn't that the CCP is better.
  - seo-speedwagon 2y ago
    Most people I’ve seen are going on about either 1) the novelty of talking to entirely new people, which is a relative rarity since the early, heady days of MySpace when social media was new and gardens felt much less walled. For Gen Z, it might actually be a first given their average age; or 2) how the lives of average people compare to theirs and compare to their prior notions of what they thought life was like These seem to go both ways btw, e.g. Chinese people being amazed that we really do need to pay for ambulance rides and that it’s not just govt propaganda. People are going where interesting things are happening, it’s plain and simple.

seanmcdirmid 2y ago

In not sure if used traditional characters for some kind of ironic effect or not.