‘This is me’: China RedNote users share actor Eddie Peng photos to welcome TikTok refugees


Amid a mass migration by overseas internet users to the Chinese social media app RedNote, many mainland people are using a photograph of a famous Taiwan actor in the biographies. -- Photo: SCMP composite/Reuters/Xiaohongshu

SHANGHAI (SCMP): Ahead of an expected ban on TikTok, so-called internet refugees from the United States are being warmly greeted by Chinese counterparts on the alternative RedNote platform posing as a famous Taiwan-born actor.

On RedNote, a leading social media app dubbed China’s Instagram, many Chinese users introduce themselves as the actor Eddie Peng Yuyan, by posting a picture of him.

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