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Personally, I suspect the bigger problem for their platform will be handling the contrasting values of Western social media norms against their own.
Even sinophobic reactionaries have been pointing out for years that "[Douyin] Chinese TikTok is Wholesome, American TikTok is Corrupting our Youths!" with product influencers/grifters, rampant sexualization up to and including pornography, etc., albeit the reactionaries are interpreting the difference from a conspiratorial moral-panic viewpoint claiming it's weaponization by The Chinese Government to corrode Western society, rather than the difference being that the US TikTok is social media with liberalist freedoms combined with the capitalist pursuit of profit above society, and is in line with the content on Xitter, reddit and other familiar social media.
The point being, that people rise to the top of TikTok through sexual suggestion, flashing symbols of wealth and other normalized habits which I've heard are banned on Lil'RedBook (which sounds like a great decision!).