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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsK-pop stans on TicTok plus the trumpers march 11/14/20 plus pancakes
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Bloomberg article
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-10-28/bts-k-pop-stans-are-fighting-qanon-and-maga-on-social-media
snip-"In the past few months, Trump supporters have started to understand how those radio producers feel. K-pop stans have regularly hijacked QAnon and MAGA social media hashtags. Theyve led get-out-the-vote efforts against the president. And many were among the online pranksters who boasted about helping derail a Trump rally in Tulsa where hed said 1 million people planned to show up, and barely 6,000 did. Its tough to know how many of the 13,000 unused seats were meant for stans whod asked for tickets with no intention of going, but the emptyish stadium infuriated Trump and came to be seen as a turning point in the presidential campaign. While K-pop stans probably wont swing the election, their trolling is enough of a cultural force that political consultants have taken notice."
snip-"A few days before ARMY hijacked #WhiteLivesMatter on Twitter, the Dallas Police Department unveiled a surveillance app called iWatch and asked citizens to send it videos of illegal activity during city protests against police brutality. Instead, stans crashed the app by flooding it with close-up clips of K-pop idols winking at the camera, a flex the cops attributed to technical difficulties. And ARMY members who took credit online for ruining Trumps Tulsa rally posted videos of themselves doing the Macarena in front of their tickets or joking that they couldnt go because they were walking their plants or feeding their pet rocks."
snip-"Of course, QAnon and similar groups arent about to disappear after Nov. 3. If Joe Biden wins the presidency, ARMYs political engagement could be all the more valuable in countering a fresh wave of revanchist conspiracy theorists, including Trump. If Trump wins reelection, his more paranoid supporters will likely plow additional resources into the strategies that have put QAnon followers on the ballot in several states. Either way, K-pop stans are the only other online crowdsourced group that has the same kind of amplification power across social media networks, Khaled says. Theres definitely no other group that can go up against QAnon.
more at longer Bloomberg article.
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K-pop stans on TicTok plus the trumpers march 11/14/20 plus pancakes (Original Post)
irisblue
Nov 2020
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Stallion
(6,474 posts)1. Pictures of Delicious Pancakes are Breaking out all over Twitter as well
irisblue
(32,950 posts)2. The K-Popstans got them by the red caps and breakfast foods.
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Ferrets are Cool
(21,105 posts)3. I love it.
irisblue
(32,950 posts)4. Not a fan of the music style, admire the skill though
Ferrets are Cool
(21,105 posts)5. Exactly
When it comes to Asian music, I either like Traditional Japanese Drums OR this:
Some of the very best musicians on either side of the Pacific!
irisblue
(32,950 posts)6. Pancakes plus maga march