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Yeah, well, and like China is frantically trying to get English censors, basically. Yes, I mean, I can't imagine that the red note situation is going to keep going for much longer. I think it'll end up being essentially one of those like flash in the pan kind of things, like when everybody's like, well, let's go to Threads or Blue Sky or whatever. You mean those aren't the happening place to be? No, but I don't think it's going to like long term be happening.
something that's sustainable especially because if so many Americans are on there then the CCP is going to force what is with tick-tock is which is like there was going to be an American version of red notes so they can Segregate all the Chinese people so they cannot see the truth of what it is like in America now Shelley Aren't you being unfair to red note? I saw a piece in the Financial Times saying even calling it a
The Little Red Book? Connecting it to Mao's Little Red Book? It's inaccurate. Oh, no, they said it was a conspiracy theory. A conspiracy. You're spreading conspiracy theories. Yeah, so the Financial Times published an article on Little Red Book, Xiaohongshu Red Note, that claimed that the founder of Red Note was
named it the Little Red Book in Chinese Xiao Hongshu because she was thinking about she was like she had gone to Stanford and had worked at Bain Capital. Stanford whose colors is red. And then you know Bain Capital so like these are both like very American capitalistic things and so there's a conspiracy going around that Xiao Hongshu refers to Mao's Little Red Book and that's not true at all.
And there's also been a lot of stuff going on where people are like, well, people don't even call it Xiaohongshu in Chinese. Like people don't call Mao's little red book Xiaohongshu. They call it, you know, something else. You know, they call it the Hongbaoshu, which means the treasured red book, or they call it, you know, an abbreviation of the full name of the book, which is quotations from Chairman Mao. Yeah.
So he was like, oh, yeah, people in China wouldn't even think about xiaohongshu related to Little Red Book. And I was like, am I crazy? Like, I was like, I'm pretty sure my parents referred to it. You know, so then I texted my aunt because I was like,
What do they call you know somebody who was she through the Cultural Revolution during the Cultural Revolution? I was like what did they call Mal's little red book in China and she was like yeah for the little book they called it a hongshu and You know then she gave me the full name and then she was like if there's this other book that was like a different book and then there was like a whole series of four books from now that had a different name and I was like so they definitely called
One version of it. So I was like, they definitely called the little book the Little Red Book. Because I was explaining to her how people online are saying they didn't call it the Little Red Book. She was like, yeah, they also called it the Treasured Red Book. That was like the more respectful name. But if you refer to the Little Red Book, everybody knew you were talking about
That book. Mal's Little Red Book. You were talking about Mal's Little Red Book. Like, there was no, like, people called it that. So I was just like, there's this, like, this supreme gaslighting going on. Right. Well, where part of the statement is true and part of it's false, right? The true thing is that there were other names. But the false thing is that no one called it Little Red Book when, in fact, people absolutely did call it that. And it's like, why would the Financial Times do this? What motivated this article? I don't know. I mean...
If only we could get the true information on TikTok. I mean, is it possible that people within the Financial Times have some sort of financial ties to China? Yeah, I mean, or else they're just like, oh, well, you know. Too smart for their own good? They just believed what the person said as a... Oh, whatever, like, Chinese agent they're talking to. No, I mean, it's like they're talking to, like, one of the people who invented Little Red Book, right? And...
I don't know. I think that that's... I do believe that many younger Chinese people don't think of Mao's Little Red Book first, right? That there wouldn't be this association that all the older people would definitely have. Right, because people don't really talk about the Cultural Revolution now. Yeah, but I think my guess, this is my educated guess about this, is that
Because hong also means popular in Chinese. It means like what's trendy, what's like, you know, popular. So it's a pun, like a different character. Yes. No, it's the same character. Hong red means popular because red is like, you know, it's a... Like blood, vibrant, vibrant.
So red in China is definitely associated with the CCP, but also it's associated with like lucky, prosperous things, Chinese New Year, whatever. So like I think it is a pun in a way on like little popular book, like, you know. Oh, okay. So, but also it's like a little winky, like...
It is like a little winky like nod to the Little Red Book. Not as good as a wink to a blind butt. Hey, you know what I mean? What the hell? Is this the time for Monty Python? Yes. Okay.
Anyway, so what I was saying, Chris, is that, yeah, so I think there is an element of like they were trying to say that this is going to be like popular, like this is the popular social media app. But it's, I think it's kind of naive for the Financial Times or people to be like, oh, no, you know, we call it the Little Red Book in English. But, you know, nobody. What you're saying is Financial Times did like a silly walk. Uh-huh.
Yeah.
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