The deliberate choice to seek refuge on another app of Chinese origin says what TikTok’s users think of the plan to ban it in five days’ time.

With ByteDance-owned TikTok facing imminent ban in the US this week, users in America are switching to another Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu or RedNote which has seen a surge in downloads over

As the threat of a TikTok ban looms in the United States, users there are flocking to the Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu - making it the top

“The ones benefiting from traffic from the TikTok ban are still Chinese apps,” GSR Ventures managing director Allen Zhu wrote on WeChat, posting a screenshot of the US App Store download chart. A stream of new English-language content and users showed up on Xiaohongshu this week, and the #tiktokrefugee hashtag garnered more than 25 million views.

The social media app Xiaohongshu, literally “Little Red Book” but often called RedNote, has seen a sudden influx in American users as a TikTok ban looms.

A commonly used app in China and Hong Kong, Xiaohonshu – which translates to “little red book” in English – welcomed troves of new American arrivals on Monday. TikTok users began to flee the ByteDance-owned social platform ahead of a crucial Supreme Court decision on its future.

As the threat of a TikTok ban looms, some U.S. TikTok users are flocking to Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu – making it the top downloaded app in the U.S. The self-described “TikTok refugees” lan

American TikTok users have flocked to the RedNote app as a TikTok ban looms. Now they're helping Chinese users with their English homework.

With TikTok's US ban looming, Xiaohongshu, or RedNote, has become the top free app in the Apple App Store. The app, a Chinese alternative to Instagram, has over 300 million monthly users and aims for significant profits while leveraging influencer marketing strategies.