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.

Chinese social media app RedNote is at the top of Apple’s app store, underscoring concerns that TikTok will soon be effectively banned in the U.S.

With days to go before TikTok may be banned in the US, users have sent a little-known app to the top of the app store charts. Xiaohongshu, also known as RedNote, may not be a household name here but it has millions of users in China,