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"It's fascinating how the Chinese have endeared themselves to us so quickly on Xiahongshu. People can't help but notice how pleasant they are to interact with: how friendly they are, their familiar sense of humor, their aesthetic tastes."
"On women-targeted platforms like Xiaohongshu almost all attention goes onto the 1691 men (such a crazy chroniclish number). Basically, women are freaking out. Someone screenshotted the sex vedios and making face-collage grids like "which of these guys is your gym coach, exboyfriend or fiancé?""
"You basically plug into a completely different internet stack: Xiaohongshu for Instagram, Dianping for Yelp, Taobao for Amazon, WeChat for Facebook/WhatsApp/Venmo on steroids"
"During the Cold War the Soviet Union served as a sort of counter weight to western society. The western powers that be not only had to beat the Soviet Union on an international scale but also convince its citizens that capitalism was the superior system. The great firewall has, like the iron curtain"