Spend a few minutes on TikTok right now and you'll see that it's filled with goodbyes, heartfelt thank-yous, considerable anger at US politicians, and a lot of chatter about something called Red Note.

With that sword dangling over TikTok's head, thousands of the app's American users have been downloading a potential alternative: Xiaohongshu, also called "Red Note," a social app that lets users ...

TikTok has said they will not do that, thus the app could shut down on January 19th. Many TikTok users have migrated to Xiaohongshu (Red Note), another Chinese social media app, unrelated to TikTok.