On the heels of TikTok's looming shutdown on January 19 over its ownership in the U.S. (unless the Supreme Court intervenes), it looks like another American users are flocking to a Chinese app called Xiaohongshu as people become less optimistic that TikTok can overturn U.

As TikTok moves closer to being kicked out of the U.S., two Chinese apps — Xiaohongshu and Lemon8, which shares parent company ByteDance with TikTok — have blitzed to the top of the Apple App Store. As of Tuesday morning,

Americans who have joined RedNote — which is all in Mandarin — have gathered under the hashtag #TikTokrefugee in an apparent rebuke of the U.S. government's stated national security concerns about TikTok’s Chinese ownership.