With the Chinese version of TikTok, Douyin, unavailable on U.S. app stores, self-described "TikTok refugees" are flocking to Rednote, some aiming to build new followings and others seemingly protesting the looming ban.

New users have piled in to Chinese social media app RedNote just days before a proposed U.S. ban on the popular social media app TikTok, as the lesser-known company rushes to capitalize on the sudden influx while walking a delicate line of moderating English-language content,

Xiaohongshu, or RedNote in English, has picked up tens of thousands of TikTok users looking for an alternative