Sorry, are they using an app even more likely to get them spied upon by the PRC and more likely to have Chinese propaganda served at them than they were getting from TikTok out of spite?

Because that’s even stupider than banning TikTok in the first place.

“I would rather stare at a language I can’t understand than to ever use a social media [platform] that Mark Zuckerberg owns,” said one user in a video posted to Xiaohongshu on Sunday.

then why tf did you use tiktok

Here’s a bet that it’s another of those TikTok charades like where they had people make reports on the abortion narc lines or such. Throw enough bullshit out there and it at least frustrates someone and possibly makes a point. In this case just getting enough people to download an alternate app was enough to have someone write a story that might make a few people realize how futile it is to try and block a massively popular app.