The digital exodus has created a new cultural bridge between Chinese and American users, even as cybersecurity experts warn of heightened data privacy risks.

Chinese social media app RedNote, known in China as Xiaohongshu, gained nearly 3 million U.S. users in one day earlier this week as a flood of self-proclaimed "TikTok Refugees" joined, according to new data from analytics firm Similarweb.

In their mass migration to the Chinese app RedNote, social media users make a gleeful mockery of the American government.