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Elizabeth Urban

Horny Americans Fleeing TikTok Take Over Chinese Social Media App, Teach Innocent Chinese Users How to Be Thirsty

Horny Americans are fleeing to TikTok to the Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, known to many as RedNote, where they are teaching users already there how to be thirsty. (Credit: AFP via Getty Images; Twitter)

Horny Americans are fleeing to TikTok to the Chinese social media app Xiaohongshu, known to many as RedNote, where they are teaching users already there how to be thirsty.

On TikTok, users creating videos showing off their looks are often referred to as "thirst traps," and leaving suggestive and flirty comments under those videos to convey that users are attracted to them are common. Now, former TikTok users are bringing that behavior with them to RedNote.

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