00:00As I sit here and record this video with everyone staring at me, it's okay, because I'm one
00:05of the TikTok refugees, and I'm used to this.
00:07I just want to thank you for welcoming us to this app.
00:11If we do anything wrong, just let us know.
00:14Because we're used to making videos where we dance and do stupid stuff, or the OGs are.
00:19The new TikTok people, they're not really used to that.
00:22They're just used to pushing sales to the TikTok shop.
00:25So just tell us, and we will correct it.
00:28Just let us know, and hopefully within two weeks, we're bilingual.
00:33I mean, that's my goal in life.
00:35It would help us everywhere.
00:37But yeah, also, anything.
00:41Just let us know.
00:42Say, listen, you need to stop that.
00:44And we will do whatever you need us to do, because it doesn't look like we're going anywhere.
00:48Looks like that ban is going into effect, and I'm probably going to lose my three cents
00:52per video.
00:53But you know what?
00:54That's okay.
00:55I like you guys.
00:56You guys are awesome.
00:57So thanks.
01:01I moved because I really believe the ban is happening, where a lot of people don't believe
01:05it is, and they're still over there.
01:08But I went to Red Note because one of my friends referred me to it, and I just think it's great.
01:16I love us.
01:17I'll be honest with you.
01:18On any given day, I vacillate wildly between loving us and just hating us all.
01:26But today, today I love us.
01:27I love us especially today, because the government said we're taking away TikTok because the
01:32Chinese government having our data is a threat, to which hundreds of thousands of millennial
01:39Gen Z and Gen X Americans went, and we, myself included, downloaded an even more Chinese
01:49Chinese app and went, here's our data.
01:52Now give us the dancing cats.
01:55It's Red Note.
01:56Xiao Hong Xue.
01:57Confident I didn't say that right.
01:59But so many of us downloaded it.
02:01We crashed out their system.
02:02It can't verify users right now.
02:04It's so overwhelmed by Americans just flocking to it.
02:08I love us.
02:09Somebody asked Duolingo how many people switched to Mandarin in the last couple of days.
02:12I need to know.
02:13We, as an American public, feel so very silenced and ignored that this right here is our opportunity
02:20to really just shove a middle finger up in the air and go, no, no.
02:26We don't like this.
02:27You didn't listen to us.
02:28And if it were a problem, then Red Note would also not be available in the app stores.
02:32Timu, Sheen, all of these other apps that are directly tied to American dollars leaving
02:38American soil and being invested in the Chinese economy, all of that is sort of tied into
02:45we're sort of sick of being told what to think and how to think, but we feel rather powerless
02:52as to do anything because when we call our reps, we get ignored.
02:56When we try to vote in a way that's meaningful and impactful, we somehow end up on the wrong
03:01side.
03:02Like there's so many factors involved in downloading Red Note feels more like a quiet, passive
03:12revolt more than a, I'm going to, this is going to be my new primary platform.
03:18It's probably not.
03:19It probably isn't.
03:23I've heard about Red Note, Neptune, Blue Ski, things like that.
03:31I'm not fully sure yet.
03:35I'm not fully convinced that TikTok is getting banned yet.
03:39It's like hard to believe almost.
03:41But if it does, like all I can do is to keep doing what I'm doing, you know, I'll hop on
03:46the other apps, of course.
03:47I will keep writing, keep singing and doing what I'm doing and just going forth with that.
03:56That's all that I can really do.
03:57I just, I want to be the best that I can be.
03:59And I want to keep going no matter whether it's on TikTok or not.
04:03It'll just be like we wake up on the 20th and it either doesn't work or it still does.
04:21It's probably better for my productivity because I use it a lot.
04:25But also I know a lot of people rely on the app like influencers and a lot of brands do
04:31a lot of marketing through TikTok.
04:32And I definitely hear about a lot of like restaurants, cafes, products through TikTok.
04:38So I'm curious to see kind of what the impact would be on a lot of people that rely on that
04:43for their primary source of marketing.
04:46I use it a lot, but I use it for cooking and stuff like that, so I really like it.
04:51But besides that, I'm like, it's not really going to affect me too much.
04:55But I will be sad because I use it for everything, cleaning, cooking, how to get places,
05:00you know, that kind of stuff.
05:03I'm honestly really excited for it because I'm 24 and I feel like I kind of grew up with
05:07Instagram, TikTok, whatever.
05:08But I know it's a TikTok. There's like such a decrease in like people's kind of mental
05:12capabilities. I just saw something recently where someone was like, oh, you know, they
05:17asked like a China gen alpha person, like someone asked them how old they were.
05:20And like, I'm 25, like, oh, you're so old.
05:22And like, let's ban TikTok then because it's like such a completely accelerating brain
05:25rot. So I'm excited to see it banned, honestly.
06:00But yeah, I'm really excited for it because I feel like it's going to be a lot of fun.
06:03I'm really excited for it because I feel like it's going to be a lot of fun.
06:06I'm really excited for it because I feel like it's going to be a lot of fun.
06:08I'm really excited for it because I feel like it's going to be a lot of fun.
06:10I'm really excited for it because I feel like it's going to be a lot of fun.
06:12I'm really excited for it because I feel like it's going to be a lot of fun.
06:14I'm really excited for it because I feel like it's going to be a lot of fun.
06:16I'm really excited for it because I feel like it's going to be a lot of fun.
06:18I'm really excited for it because I feel like it's going to be a lot of fun.
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