1. As mentioned by the OP, tickets to the event were unlimited and that entry to the arena would be first come, first served provided you had a ticket to gain entrance in the first place. So no one from the tik-tok/K-pop plot essentially prevented anyone from gaining entry to the event.
2. The campaign boasted that ~1 million tickets had been allocated to the event (we don't know exactly how realistic this was), forcing an additional outdoor stage for attendance overflow to be created that would hold twice the (capacity) crowd inside, with speeches being made from the outdoor stage inc. one from Drumpf.
3. The rumours/hype built up by this "one million" figure ensured that some deplorables camped outside the arena up to 48 hours before Drumpf's speech was due, so they could have some of the best seats in the house to hear & see their master.
Result? One of three things happened (a) the campaign team knew that the ticket reservations were being deliberately sabotaged/inflated, but hadn't the heart/courage to tell the gobshite in chief lest he fired them to protect his vision of hundreds of thousands being desperate to be at the rally, or (b) the campaign team again knew that the ticket reservations were inflated, but tried to use such figures to present a picture that such a mass gathering would encourage even more people to attend, which would help offset some of the "ghost" reservations otherwise, or (c) the campaign team genuinely thought that the ~1 million ticket reservations were largely genuine, and didn't suspect anything, or thought that such a campaign to sabotage the hype would have no measurable effect.
And the fallout?
The organisers, whom talked up these numbers, only ended up with ~0.6% of the bodies in attendance at the event, not even filling the venue up to a third of capacity. Major fail already.
There was money also wasted on building the overflow stage that in the eventual event was never required. More money was also wasted on security for a much higher number of attendees that were expected. Another fail.
The Drumpf cultists that spent up to two nights before camping outside the arena to get prime viewing seats fell for the hype, and they won't be sure whom to blame. The confidence that many of them have in Drumpfler won't at this stage likely have totally fallen, but it'll certainly have been shaken. Chalk up another "fail".
There would have been great potential in building up the database of those whom made ticket reservations for the event to be an important calling list. We don't know exactly how many of these entries were spoilers - I seriously doubt it was around half a million or so involved in this massive bit of trolling - but there's likely to be enough data in that database that was filled with fake or disposable info to make it close to useless for the Drumpf campaign team to use to be able to filter out the genuine support from fake. Major fail right there.
And finally, there is Drumpfler himself. Even if he had been warned in advance that the one million figure was grossly exaggerated (which given all tales leaked from the WH would seem unlikely), to speak to a 20k capacity arena that is not even a third full will have a major blow on his ego. He will be asking how did this happen? Can he trust members of his reelection team to be open/honest to him (almost certainly not the case as it is)? Is he wondering does his "authority" stemming from his massive self-confidence no longer resonate with the GOP electorate? Not too long ago at a packed campaign rally, all Drumpf would have to shout was "jump!" and most in attendance would have yelled back "how high?" yet last night was as dull as any he has had, with only being able to drink a cup of water with one hand and then chucking it away rousing the deplorables. It can all be summed up by how he got off the plane back at the WH after the event. That folks is an EPIC fail!
And that is before we're even get down to how so few people showed up to actually attend the rally, regardless of just how many ticket reservations were.
This was a 4chan-esque style trolling/sabotage of a Trump campaign rally - this time the tables had somewhat turned. You can bet your backside that had the asshole central known as /pol/ did this with a Democrat candidate, they'd all be exhausted from all the dry-humping of their anime waifu's done in celebration to "wrecking" the Dem's night. This time, their own tactics were used on their "daddy" to good effect.
So, yeah, this tik-tok/K-pop ticket sabotage plan was not the be all and end all of last night's GOP humiliation, but it certainly helped. And if the organisers had known what the real numbers attending would have been, they might have made their excuses to postpone or cancel the rally to try and save face. Instead, they got exposed.
If you want the current sh*t gibbon out of the WH, don't be dissing what Gen-Z have done here. They have done a massive service in opening up and exposing the current Drumpf reelection campaign that may not have been visible otherwise by getting the campaign team to (likely) believe in their own hype.
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