For all the people claiming users jumped to RedNote to stick it to the US government, here is proof why that was never true.
this post was submitted on 24 Jan 2025
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Uh, what? People were obviously using RedNote as a protest against the TikTok ban. They got what they wanted, so they went back. That seems like they successfully stuck it to the US government to me.
I wish we lived in a world where banning a brainrot app wasn't the thing that US citizens cared about enough to stand up to the government, but that's not the world we live in.
People jumped on rednote because influencers early on latched on to it. The average tiktoker isn't using these platforms to prove a point, if they were, they would be posting about why exactly they are using it. I never saw any traction on any post specifically saying they were on rednote because they wanted to support a non-US platform.
Uh, yeah, obviously. They chose RedNote because it was going to piss the people who banned TikTok off even more then TikTok did. There was never any other reason. I never saw anybody claim there was another reason. It was a giant middle finger to the people who took away their crappy app. They stuck it to the people who took away their favorite thing to do while taking 30 minutes in the bathroom, and then they went on with their lives when they got what they wanted. That is the thing that happened.
If, at the time of this measurement, there was still half the peak US traffic then that's still 16m Americans slightly less naive. If that number continues to decline by ~half every week, we still have (imagining) two million Americans who are less likely to support a president who decides to add Cuba back to the list of State Sponsors of Terrorism.
This isn't a windfall, but it is not insignificant.
So 46% stayed after lifting the ban? Thats still a massive boost no?
How do the numbers now compare to before the ban?
IDK, there's fewer Americans on rednote now, but it's still sizable.
I really hate being American.