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People on the outside want to get in, people on the inside want to get out.

As we all know, recently there has been an influx of foreigners on Xiaohongshu, who came here after fearing that Tik Tok would be blocked, calling themselves Tik Tok refugees. And the original intention of this reverse alignment is quite pristine, which is to say FUCK to the U.S. government.

Day after day of high-ranking officials advocating that Tik Tok is Chinese spyware has made everyone numb, and many Tik Tok users have grown backbones, preferring to give their data to China rather than X Twitter and Instagram, which wear the same pants as the government, because they’re literally monitoring everyone.

Since the foreigners did not have a domestic cell phone number to register for China’s Jieyin, they mistakenly looked for Xiaohongshu and accidentally found that this app not only recommended accurate algorithms, and the community is very active, and many users are quite friendly to foreigners.

Eventually we see this rather ironic status quo, as the US government, which wanted to block Tik Tok because of its Chinese background, personally forced Americans onto a real Chinese app.

With the help of translation software or a basic knowledge of a foreign language from their school days, the two great powers that have been so hotly contested on the stage have begun an ice-breaking process between the grassroots.

Chinese and Foreign Chat

Just like two strangers who get together by chance, Chinese and foreign netizens need to have something in common to break the awkwardness, and a good choice is to start with some human instincts, such as the cat movies that we all love to watch.

In this regard, in the small red book on the cat film has become the first foreigners can not escape the cat tax, and the local visa officer netizens reasonable to refuse, no cats and dogs, if the birds, fish and insects will basically be accepted in full, and the regular payment of the cat tax to organize the gathering of sucking cats has also become an important hand to maintain the harmony and stability of the community.

Of course, human instinct is certainly not only sucking cats, whether classical or modern, the beauty of the human body has always been an inseparable part of the appreciation of art, many foreign beautiful body photos greatly enriched everyone’s aesthetics, in the comments section blew out a lot of bilingual or embarrassing or greasy earthy love words.

Among the many domestic and foreign play terriers and segments, the foreigners this time to escape the originator of the U.S. government, naturally and logically became the object of domestic netizens flirting with Hey, I’m your Chinese spy, give me your data!

This spy terrier originated from a whole job, in a wave of foreign netizens saying goodbye to TIk Tok, a TIk Tok blogger had solemnly said goodbye to the Chinese spy who was monitoring him, thanking him for the five years of fun he had spent with him on the platform. This caused many bloggers to scramble to imitate, and for a while, saying goodbye to an imaginary spy friend became a way for foreign netizens to summarize their Tik Tok careers.

Soon after, another Chinese-faced Tik Tok blogger gave a heartfelt farewell in the tone of a spy, which also went viral on the extranet. By now, the storyline of me and my Chinese spy friend had been stereotyped as a sort of sympathetic bond. So after foreigners flocked to Xiaohongshu, the first post many of them made was looking for my Chinese spy.

From the wide spread of this storyline on the Internet, it can be seen that foreigners are quite attached to the Tik Tok platform, and they don’t seem to mind that their preferences are known by the recommendation algorithms so much, and some of them even think that it’s a friend that knows them better than they do, and that their favoritism towards the Chinese spies is a product of their empathy for the Tik Tok.

So it’s remarkable that both domestic and foreigners were quite kind to each other during this unexpected exchange, with the foreigners emphasizing the need to be conscious of being a guest and respecting each other’s rules on Xiaohongshu, while the domestic netizens rarely put away their black words and abstract stems, and put out a standard translation accent so that the foreigners’ translation software could recognize them more accurately, making for a harmonious discussion environment on both the Chinese and foreign Internet. Such a harmonious discussion environment is rare on the Internet in China and abroad.

Breaking Prejudice

It is undeniable that due to the long-term segregation on the Internet, netizens at home and abroad have accumulated a lot of stereotypes about each other, and in the course of this exchange, these stereotypes have been broken or strengthened.

In Little Red Book, netizens portrayed China as a magical country where everyone can tell fortunes, where families raise pandas, and where pets help cook and bring up children, and the United States of America does indeed have a gunfight every day, especially Florida, where not only do they ride alligators to work, but also say that the meat tastes like chicken, which surprised even the other American netizens who were onlookers.

With the gradual deepening of exchanges, the two sides concerned about the issue gradually from playing terriers to find fun shifted to how you guys over there, and for this, Chinese and foreign netizens in different languages issued the same sentiment FUCK TMD, this is completely different from what I heard how ah?

Around the housing income and many other issues, domestic and foreign netizens carried out a quite detailed and in-depth reconciliation, and finally came to a conclusion Cows and horses have no borders. In terms of misery, the lives of the grassroots on both sides are more or less the same. On your side, you work 996 for a monthly salary of a few thousand dollars, while on my side, I work two jobs at the same time to pay the rent. Reader 意林 The filters created in the last era were completely shattered, and when the editor-in-chief of the editorial department, Mr. Chai Wang, took these stories and asked real Americans for proof, it was instead the American netizens themselves who broke their defenses first.

It’s not an exaggeration to say that the people of the American Empire in deep water have given us insights from their own experiences, such as working less than eight hours a day to take advantage of the loopholes in the law not to give health insurance to their employees, eating hamburgers and fried chicken every day because pre-prepared dishes and fast food are often cheaper than fresh ingredients, and inmates serving their sentences are required to pay management fees to private prisons. The cyberpunk game of the world of those big corporations in control of everything has been experienced by American netizens first. experience.

While the wall separates the netizens of different countries, the immigration agents and publicists can still use the information gap to tell stories, but when foreigners come, they are left with boomerangs stuck in the back of their heads.

The disappearance of the wall

For a long time in the past, Chinese and foreigners were segregated from each other on the Internet, the most obvious of which was the inability to log in to mainstream foreign websites such as Google Pipeline in China. Nowadays, however, this separation is gradually diminishing, and if you know the links, you can access many foreign-language sites without the help of scientific research. For example, gaming sites such as Kotaku, IGN America, and Eurogamer can be accessed directly from China, although some of them may not be indexed by domestic search engines or may have unstable links, such as the Steam store.

The Internet was originally created for the purpose of information exchange and sharing, and in the early years some optimists believed that it could help mankind to cross the barrier of time and space to turn the world into a global village, such as the BitTorrent protocol or Github open-source repositories also proved that the so-called spirit of the Internet can be how the technology to bring more convenience and innovation. However, if you really go to the other side of the wall to look at, it is not difficult to find that the Internet has brought not only communication and innovation, but also the Internet of the world, and the Internet of the world. However, if you really look on the other side of the wall, it’s not hard to realize that the Internet brings not only communication and progress, but also more problems and troubles. If it only has benefits, then why should Jitterbug and Tik Tok be divided into two versions, one at home and the other abroad.

After all, when you go over the wall, whether or not it is for the bright and honorable goal of academic and cultural exchanges, we all have a clear idea in our hearts.

At present, we are still difficult to solve these problems, and the small red book this time in the international circle is indeed an accident. From the point of view of small red book urgent recruitment of English audit such action, it as a platform side does want to eat this wave of foreign breakthrough traffic, but this does not mean that such a happy situation can be maintained for a long time. On the one hand, if the U.S. can even ban Tik Tok, then banning Xiaohongshu won’t be a problem, and on the other hand, whether the platform can manage a large number of users with complex cultural backgrounds is also an unprecedented challenge.

However, to be able to break the boundaries between countries and languages, and to talk directly to ordinary people on the other side of the world, even if it’s just once, is already a remarkable achievement, especially in this turbulent and complex era full of contradictions, it is even more precious for Chinese and foreign netizens to be able to have such a deep and direct communication and empathy.

At least this time, we witnessed a step forward in the direction of world unity.

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