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"Do you come from a land down under
Where women glow and men plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover"

Well this was unexpected- TikTok’s ban didn’t end in a whimper in fact they migrated deeper into the Chinese internet. Now being the westerner I am, it was my patriotic duty to plant my flag in places it really really doesn’t belong in the first place. I made an account, and I decided to gauge their “cunniculture”…

There isn’t any cunniculture…

Ok, I need to preface this. There is no cunny culture as we westerners perceive it, because there was no need to have such a culture in the first place. That’s right, anti’s don’t exist in Chinese culture. Loli is soo normalized that to my knowledge it isn’t even tagged! That’s not just me saying this by the way, that’s straight from their incredibly friendly and welcoming mouths.

Have- have I found my people… and yet- why can’t I find them???

That’s right, we are in the EVIL FUCKED UP TIMELINE!!! While loli and even shota are normalized and even embraced by the Chinese community you’d be hard pressed to find it. Now, here are my personal theories as to why this is.

Theory #1: Its soo normalized that looking for loli would be like looking for specifically goth dommy mommys in cartoons. Try to find goth cartoon characters in your feed on Bluesky or Twitter without directly mentioning a specific character, you’re gonna get a whole lot of noise before getting what you want.

Theory #2: They just use a different word for it (duh). Yeah- I mean when we westerners look for loli we don’t look up ロリ, WE SPEAK AMERICAN AND SAY LOLI/CUNNY LIKE OUR FOUNDING FATHERS INTENDED!!! As of yet, I haven’t figured out what their magic word is for loli- The inability to open tags on Rednote posts is really harming my investigation efforts.

Theory #2.1 What is the magic word?

• 萝莉 Is the phonetic translation of loli- maybe they use the same???
• They could be using “lolita” 洛丽塔 instead
• It could be some other word entirely-
• Update: Its this apparently- loli is 萝莉，shota is 正太

Theory #3: Because it is normalized, there has been no reason for Chinese loli the community to separate itself from the broader anime enjoying community. This means no common group identifier, no common culture, AND NO TAG!!!

Generally, I give this platform a 8/10 for lolicon viability as I have found a niche yet INCREDIBLY hard to find loli/shota community that won’t judge you for posting cute and funny on main. Personally, I saw a Chinese account posting loli… can you guess how the westerners reacted, I’ll give you a spoiler: they assumed the Chinese person was either gross or a pedophile (this was 100% sfw mind you) I think this goes to show the complete contrast in attitudes the Chinese have when it comes to cute and funny. I have yet to see a single person jump to conclusion, hell talk about NSFW loli has been encouraged and liked the original poster on numerous occasion. This isn’t to say this place is 100% approving of lolicon, but its certainly a lot better than tiktok and twitter (which don’t even let you look up loli in the first place)

So- to you brave, brave pioneers. Tell the Chinese about our greatest cultural export… 2D CARTOON CHILDREN!!! I KNOW I’M ALREADY DOING MY PART!!!

Fear & Delight’s Guide to Rednote

I would like to dedicate the rest of this article to making it as easy as possible to integrate into the Rednote community! YOU GOT YOUR CULTURAL APPRECIATING PANTS ON??? BECAUSE WERE GONNA DO A LOT OF APPRECIATING!!!

How do I view/download the website/app???

For mobile, you can simply find it as “Red Note” on your local appstore.

Now, if you are a frequent viewer of YapDollar; you’ll already know the website, XiaoHongShu! Now- you’ll notice none of this is translated. That is because at the time of writing you can’t log in or create a US account on desktop.

The important rules translated and abridged!

I got the rules from here, translated of course.

Here’s the important bits.

• Don’t be a greedy bitch! Some of us have mouths to feed.
• No misinformation, or lies about science, THAT MEANS YOU TOO GRANDMA
• NO PORN, NO SPREADING GAMBLING, NO SPREADING VIOLENCE & NO INCITING CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, NO DRUGS!!!
• DON’T BE A DICK-HEAD!!!
• DON’T CLICKBAIT OR EXAGGERATE (fuck I’m out of the job then)

So- what is prohibited exactly when it comes to “No Porn”

• I better not see cunny or this shit ain’t gonna be cute and funny.
• If you suggest or imply getting dicked out you’ll be decked out!
• Listen here you little shit if you think you can get past me with that “finger over my pussy” loophole I’ll hit you with four more because you’re account is now victim to my five finger discount.
• VOYEURISM AND EXHIBITIONISM BTFO!!!
• No NTR, I think??? This is such a weirdly specific rule. “Content promoting one-night stands, wife swapping, sexual abuse, etc.”
• “Erotic cartoons, novels.” sorry lolicons 🙁

By the by, there is a “banned” word list. I believe the article summarizes it better than me soo-

Rednote / Chinese Etiquette

Here are the do’s and dont’s of Rednote

Do!

• Provide some form of translation if able (update: don’t do this unless its a video, there is a translate button now!)
• Post pictures of your pets to pay the mandatory “pet tax” or else the CCP will send a targeted drone strike to your location.

Dont!

1. Label yourself as proship (or any other “western specific” ideological label)
   Think of it like this: The Chinese are seemingly proship by default, this would be like saying “I’m alive!!! Dead people DNI!!!” in your bio.
2. Post about My Hero Academia (Seriously)
   This is like the cultural equivalent of nonchalantly posting pictures of the holocaust.

Weird Quirks of Rednote Explained

Ok, so theres some weird quirks I need to explain otherwise you’re gonna look like a bit of a goober.

You get an automatic DM every time someone follows you (always in Chinese)

This isn’t a person trying to open your dms this is just an automatic thing that happens every time you get a follow. So- don’t be like me and try to provide an awkward translation to an obvious American.

This button, this button will show up on videos. This is the tiktok/twitter version of reposting. However, this will not actually show up on your profile, instead it will recommend the video to your followers! Keep this in mind, as following people may change what your feed looks like!

OK, thats all I think! Go make some Chinese friends! BTW… PLEASE GOD SOMEONE EXPORT CLIPS OF SKIBIDI TOILET OVERSEAS!!! IF WE HAD TO DEAL WITH IT HERE THEY GOTTA DEAL WITH IT TOO!!! IT’LL BE FUNNY TRUST TRUST!!! COME ON, DO IT FOR THE VINE!!!!

I’m making a quick blog post to update you all on why all the art blog posts are missing. To better organize and catalog my art I’ve decided to forgo making individual blog posts for each image. Instead…

You can find an archive of all my art ever on https://fearanddelight.work/gallery/

Welcome to a segment I’m gonna do half out of shits and giggles, and half because well where else am I gonna go??? You tell someone you like cute characters in anime and they’re completely fine with it, but the moment you tell someone you like lolis they instantly call every school in a five mile radius and treat you like you’re the next Jeffrey Epstein! That’s not very cute or funny-

Trying to find community here is not recommended for the following reasons

For some reason the loli tags are censored but the shota tags are fair game.
What did bytedance mean by this???

There’s a lot of minors here dawg.
(Yeah yeah yeah I can hear it now from the antis, “pffft the lolicon isn’t cool with minors???”) Idk about you but i don’t feel like getting harassed by a swarm of minors. Plus I’m not into kids 💀

Discovery is nigh impossible
Getting your videos found by others is dependent on random luck, and when you do get lucky enough to escape 200 viewers per video tik tok handicaps you to try to coax money out of you with advertising.

The search is horrible.
You want to see posts that aren’t from two or three years ago??? You can’t do that on pc. Search gives you Top, Users, Videos, and Live. Guess what- Videos just give you Top but worse. You will rarely get something posted recently. If you want recent posts you need to go on the mobile app, go to videos, and only there will you have the filter options.

Tiktok tries to share your account with your contacts and connected facebook accounts.
Soo uhh- unless you want to prove your mom right when she leaves the door open when you hang out with your sister go to settings and turn that off.

So with all this in mind getting into the community itself is a hassle because of the DREADED ALGORITHM. When you make a tiktok account tiktok will desperately scramble to shove you into a box, and considering the box you’re trying to get here has been burnt to a crisp and shipped to Hong Kong this is easier said than done. So what were going to do is ignore the FYP for now and instead look up variations of the banned loli tags. From there its time to mass follow loli lovers, spam like loli posts, and follow the same people loli lovers follow. I can’t stress this enough, spam interaction. Hell keep a video on loop for a bit so tiktok gets it through its thick skull that you WANT to be here.

If you really NEED to use the FYP wait a day between checking and IMMEDIATELY stop when you get something unrelated. The FYP is a fickle thing, if you look at a video of a cat for a second tiktok will immediately assume you’re a cat fanatic and undo all your hard earned progress. After enough time your FYP and “find friends” page yield plenty of loli lovers.

Now I need to address the elephant in the room. Private accounts. I have to admit, i was very curious what would be hiding in a private account, why?? because on tiktok you can set your videos to followers only, which in theory means you could post practically anything so long as you vet your followers. the reality however- is a little odd. 

Private accounts from my experience have been one of the following.

• Just users who want a private account
• People with really dodgy reposts and likes
• Honest to god pedophiles

Its genuinely confusing to me, because why not just use a regular account? The pro contact MAPs and other assorted creeps are already out in the open. Side tangent by the by, who the fuck advertises their [insert sketchy ass “encrypted” platform] on tiktok of all places???

Now, with all of this out if the way lets tell you what to expect from lolicon tiktok…

It kind sucks

No seriously, all i find are lolis dancing, generic slideshows where the joke is always “im gonna fuck this loli 😎😎😎”, and tiktok edits of lolis. maybe you’ll find better content in the proship side of tiktok, but from my experience it’s filled with minors (so im not touching that part of tiktok). Besides from what little i’ve seen its 50% defending proship, 50% shipping pairings.

You’d expect there to be more memes and variation in posts, but i guess when tiktok themselves heavily suppress loli/proship there isn’t much innovation. After all, a core feature of tiktok is the user generated audio and using them to make new variations of the same content. On art tiktok specifically if you aren’t grinding out challenge content you are left in the dust. i believe this is the reason for tiktoks subdued and stagnant lolicon community. unable to interact with the wider community due to tiktoks restrictions and rabid harassment from minor antis lead to a very isolated community.

There isn’t much room for growth in an isolated community.

Addendum —

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/business/media/tiktok-ban-court-decision.html

What a time to be alive, tiktok is actually going down in the US. So, I’m going to go even harder here to document the whimper of what little I could find of the lolicon community. We have until January 19th after all.

You want my honest prediction? Either nothing of note will happen or there will be a flood of horrible shit everywhere. Why not go out with a bang? I’m sure that’s whats going through the mind of many during this whole thing.