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Tree-Hugger

(3,369 posts)
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 10:22 AM Jun 2020

Racists attempt to trend on Twitter and fail

Racists attempted to counter the blackouttuesday trend with a hashtag of their own - whiteoutwednesday.

The hashtag is currently trending, but not for it's intended reason. Fans of K-Pop (Korean Pop - it's apparently super popupar) have co-opted the hashtag and have been spreading K-Pop videos, gifs (with a hard G), and memes as a counter to the attempts by racists to get their bigoted message out.

I just scrolled through and you see the occasional racist MAGAt, but it's primarily K-Pop mixed with images of actual White Out.

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Racists attempt to trend on Twitter and fail (Original Post) Tree-Hugger Jun 2020 OP
Report the white supremacists' trends as abusive or harmful meow2u3 Jun 2020 #1

meow2u3

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1. Report the white supremacists' trends as abusive or harmful
Wed Jun 3, 2020, 10:29 AM
Jun 2020

Twitter should be able to deal with it. If not, just refresh the page and the racist trend(s) will be hidden from view.

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