ByteDance has until January 19th to sell TikTok to a non-Chinese owner, or see the app banned in America. As the chances of a ban have grown, following the Supreme Court’s decision on January 17th to uphold a sell-or-ban law passed last year,

In the days before a ban on the popular app TikTok is set to take effect in the United States, other Chinese social media platforms have seen a spike in downloads among American users. But whether any of these Mandarin apps will actually replace TikTok,

As TikTok’s days appear to dwindle in the United States, a chunk of the platform’s audience is flocking to the Chinese social media app, Xiaohongshu, known in English as RedNote. The migration has pushed the platform to the top of U.S. app download charts.

As the threat of a TikTok ban looms, some U.S. TikTok users are flocking to Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu – making it the top downloaded app in the U.S.

Experts break down whether users will be able to use a VPN to access TikTok, and whether Trump will intervene.

RedNote has been thrust into the limelight after more than half a million TikTok users recently joined the platform in protest against a likely imminent ban on the short video app in the United States.

Analysts are predicting that a recent surge of Americans flocking to the Chinese social media platform RedNote - also known as Xiaohongshu - could be short-lived, as users soon find its content regulations differ sharply from those on TikTok US.

TikTok users are reportedly ditching the Chinese-owned app in droves as a possible US ban approaches, many jumping onto the "Goodbye to my Chinese spy" meme in the process. But the kicker is that many of them are choosing to jump onto RedNote. Yup, RedNote is Chinese, too.

TikTok user allaboutthatcar says goodbye to TikTok while joking he is a Chinese spy — a commentary on how TikTok is owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance.

The ban results from an April law signed by President Joe Biden and is the first time the United States has attempted to shut down access to an app with such a large user base - roughly 170 million domestic users.

In reaction to—or protest over—the impending U.S. TikTok ban, which will take effect on Sunday if the app is not sold or if the Supreme Court doesn’t intervene, thousands of people in the country have joined RedNote.