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[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 days ago (11 children)

Palestine is one example. A lot of the TikTok crowd are gungho free palestiners and that is not the general vibe on xhs

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 days ago (6 children)

that is not the general vibe on xhs

what's xhs?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Lazy American can’t type xiaohongshu

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago

typing the first letter of characters for an abbreviation isn't american laziness, Chinese speakers frequently do it too, and it's an easy way of typing common words with Pinyin input, for e.g. typing XHS brings up a list of words including tomato (xihongshi), vibrant red (xian hongse) and Xinhua news agency (xinhua she)

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