No one’s saying that this is going to bring about communism.
Yeah but they certainly behave like it. There's this strange euphoria going on right now (which I believe will die down relatively soon) that rednote will "bring about class consciousness" etc. etc.
Most likely, XHS will be banned in the US, making your entire post moot.
Yeah I think this is what will most likely happen. That and/or the Chinese userbase will be walled off from the western one by the CPC for various reasons.
I’m quoting actual data instead of just vague hand-waving. 1 million users leaving (actually deleting their accounts) and more simply not using the app anymore is not nothing. DAU is down, revenue is down, … people leaving matters.
You didn't cite anything specifically or provide a source, but I'll assume you're right. But you overlooked the total userbase of twitter, which is around 400 million (https://www.statista.com/topics/737/twitter/#topicOverview). So what does a 1 million user deletion actually mean? I mentioned that in my initial response to you but you failed to engage with it. It seems like you're the one doing the hand-waving my friend.
Nobody thought buying twitter was gonna hurt him politically
People absolutely thought this. Remember when he initially backed out and then was forced to continue the purchase deal? All sorts of talk about how this was bad for him. That and other things, like how he handled twitter at the beginning of his reign. There are plenty of articles, etc. on this and they're not hard to find.
is pretty indicative of American “fuck you” culture. One of the strongest narratives that is threaded through American culture is that of the rebel. When this rebellious nature is coupled with a lack of principals, well, you get this. People hear “We don’t want you to be on the China App”, and go “Well, I’m just going to do it harder to spite you!”.
I don't really buy this kind of Streisand Effect thing. If that were true, why didn't people rebel when Netflix banned password sharing? (Seems like Netflix is still alive and well). Or during the whole Gamestop/RobinHood stock thing? (they immediately folded). There are countless other examples where people said "oh yeah! we'll rebel/leave/find another platform" and nothing came of it. Also, this "rebel" culture thing is weirdly associated with patriotic socialism and maga communism. I don't know, I don't think it's an appropriate analysis.
The platform has lost over 1 million users and global active users has gone down.
I dunno ppl have been saying that for a while now and honestly it sounds like cope to me. And 1 million users lost? Out of how many? Hundreds of millions? Are you joking or being serious?
Yeah the mods themselves. There was sticked a post about a Red Note agitprop contest. And other mods didn't take it down, so it was tacitly approved. And I know for a fact that they have said multiple times that "this is just a shitposting website, not a place for real organization" etc etc.
As if Call of Duty isn't a US military asset?
Hexbears leaning into imperialist chauvinism when the empire goes after a country they don’t like?
I mean to be fair often those are their true colors lol.
"I'm an anti-imperialist socialist! Oh except for when the target of imperialism is a country I don't like"
For fucks sake is this the state of western leftist discourse now? Honestly it's not too far from the "I want to support Gaza, but the Moooozlims there are anti-LGBT so yeah...." shit that liberals say.
I know from ppl who are living there first hand that there are still a lot of issues. I've also experienced some of these myself first hand.
One being the youth unemployment crisis. It's not just the west hyping it up, it's real. So many college students dread what will happen when they graduate.
Also the 996 thing is still SUPER common (fyi 996 = 9am-9pm 6 days a week). There also aren't things like age discrimination laws, so postings for jobs will explicitly tell you whether you're too old/young for the job. This isn't just for jobs, but even uni's will have age limits for undergrads, grads, phds, etc. That's one of the holdovers from the Confucian shit I'm afraid.
Unfornately racism is still a thing, with "white worship" still being pretty prevalent. A lot of Chinese ppl want to date "foreigners" but what that means is (white) foreigners. A lot of the immigrants from Africa/South Asia are kind of looked down upon. I know someone who was talking to recruiters for jobs in China and the recruiter straight up told the person that even tho their qualifications matched the job posting, they wouldn't get it because the job was for a white person (despite the job posting not mentioning such a thing).
There's also the gender gap due to the one child policy. There are soo many more men of marriageable age than women, and it's not gonna be good to have a bunch of lonely guys who are susceptible of going down the incel pipeline. There are literally marriage markets where parents desperately try to find a wife for their son. Unless something changes, it's not gonna be pretty.
Also there's also a lot of Chinese ppl that have an irrational hatred of pretty much anything related to Japan, including Japanese ppl. And it's not the Japanese empire from the past, but actually hating on Japanese ppl of today. Like yeah the Japanese did do heinous shit back in the day and the current gov is still western aligned, but your ordinary Japanese citizen is just like most ppl in the world (trying to scrape by).
And a whole bunch of other issues that I can't remember at the moment.
So yeah, while I think China is heading in the right direction, there are still many issues that need to be addressed.
Looks like I may have been right about rednote being overhyped.