The American and Chinese flags, TikTok logo and gavel can be seen in this illustration taken on January 8, 2025.
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Chinese social media app RedNote has surged to the top of the charts Apple’s App stores, highlighting concerns that TikTok could soon be effectively banned in the U.S.
RedNote, or Little Red Book as it’s known in China, is the number one free app on the web apple The app will be available in app stores starting Monday, followed by TikTok’s photo-sharing Lemon8 app and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Many TikTok creators are rushing to find alternatives to continue posting videos while waiting to see what happens with TikTok, which could face a January 19 ban in the United States. laid the foundation.
Lawyers representing TikTok and its creators argue that the law violates free speech protections for millions of U.S. users.
If the Supreme Court upholds the law, third-party service providers such as apple and Google would be punished for supporting TikTok, effectively banning the app in the United States.
Some TikTok creators are making contingency plans by migrating to RedNote.
A content creator with the username allieusyaps said in a post postal On Monday, he and other TikTok creators “will not be returning to Instagram and Facebook” as they join RedNote, although it “doesn’t matter” that TikTok is banned in the United States.
“Listen, I might not have a job next week, but we’re going to learn Mandarin baby!” the user wrote.
Another TikTok creator named Krystan Walmsley release A short video that teaches people how to set up and decorate their RedNote account.
“The app is really cute and a lot of fun so far,” Walmsley said.
Headquartered in Shanghai and founded in 2013, RedNote is increasingly facing challenges Alibaba Douyin (ByteDance’s version of TikTok in China) is used in e-commerce and social media. It has about 300 million monthly active users as of July 2024, according to one company Report Reported by South China Morning Post.
RedNote was valued at $17 billion after raising money in July from investors including Boyu Capital and Sequoia Capital Group, the former Chinese investment arm of Sequoia Capital, according to PitchBook data. PitchBook said the company has raised more than $900 million in funding and has more than 2,000 employees.
Representatives for RedNote and TikTok did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
watch: TikTok is regarded as “Chinese eyes and ears in Western society.”
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