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TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sunk Trump Rally (nytimes.com)
5 points by tdonia on June 21, 2020 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


brilliant:

> TikTok users and fans of Korean pop music groups claimed to have registered potentially hundreds of thousands of tickets for Trump’s campaign rally as a prank. After @TeamTrump tweeted asking supporters to register for free tickets using their phones on June 11, K-pop fan accounts began sharing the information with followers, encouraging them to register for the rally — and then not show.

> They also reclaimed the #WhiteLivesMatter hashtag in May, by spamming it with endless K- pop videos, in hopes to make it harder for white supremacists and sympathizers to find one another and communicate their messaging.


The kids are alright.


Punked!




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