https://ckarnes.com/tags/culture/ Recent content in Culture on Chris Karnes | Tacoma, WA Hugo en-us Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://ckarnes.com/post/happy-year-of-the-snake/ Tue, 28 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://ckarnes.com/post/happy-year-of-the-snake/ I would like to wish my friends in China on the other side of the world a Happy New Year and happy year of the snake. I hope that this year brings you all good health, prosperity and new possibilities. If you live in the West and haven’t noticed, a quiet revolution has been taking shape on a Chinese social media app called Xiaohongshu or RedNote. In the lead up to this revolution, the US federal government enacted a draconian law meant to coerce, censor and align content filtration on the short-form social media app Tiktok with the incoming Administration.