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K-Pop fans are trolling Qanon and white supremacists on Twitter, ruining their hashtags.
https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/qanon-followers-melt-down-after-k-pop-fans-take-over-their-hashtagOn Sunday, K-pop stan Twitter rallied in support of the Black Lives Matter movement by spamming a request from the Dallas Police Department for “video of illegal activity from the protests” with videos known as “fancams,” or short clips of K-pop performers. The Dallas PD shut down its iWatch Dallas app soon after.
Following the success of “#BlackLivesMatter” and “#BlackoutTuesday” hashtags on Twitter, 4chan users set out to get their own hashtags -- “#WhiteLivesMatter” and “#WhiteoutWednesday” -- trending on Twitter the following morning to spread white supremacist propaganda and cause confusion about protests over the police killing of George Floyd. While those hashtags did trend, people who clicked on them were more likely to end up with a screen full of K-pop videos than racist tweets about “replacement migration.”
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For some reason, K-Pop fans decided to start tweeting popular QAnon hashtags like “#QAnon” and “#WWG1WGA,” shorthand for the conspiracy theory’s slogan “Where we go one, we go all.” Understandably, this was more than a little frustrating for the Q-obsessed conspiracy theorists. Hilariously, this resulted in even more conspiracy theories involving George Soros and antifa to explain the surge in K-pop tweets including the QAnon hashtags.
Following the success of “#BlackLivesMatter” and “#BlackoutTuesday” hashtags on Twitter, 4chan users set out to get their own hashtags -- “#WhiteLivesMatter” and “#WhiteoutWednesday” -- trending on Twitter the following morning to spread white supremacist propaganda and cause confusion about protests over the police killing of George Floyd. While those hashtags did trend, people who clicked on them were more likely to end up with a screen full of K-pop videos than racist tweets about “replacement migration.”
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For some reason, K-Pop fans decided to start tweeting popular QAnon hashtags like “#QAnon” and “#WWG1WGA,” shorthand for the conspiracy theory’s slogan “Where we go one, we go all.” Understandably, this was more than a little frustrating for the Q-obsessed conspiracy theorists. Hilariously, this resulted in even more conspiracy theories involving George Soros and antifa to explain the surge in K-pop tweets including the QAnon hashtags.
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