On Sunday, after the Dallas Police Division requested of us to ship in “video of illegal say from the [Black Lives Matter] protests” thru town’s iWatch Dallas app, K-pop fans as an alternative flooded the app with photography and videos of their well-liked artists — and inside of hours, the DPD said the app used to be down “due to this of technical difficulties.”
Properly, as of ultimate night, K-pop fans were inspire at it, once extra mobilizing to enhance the Murky Lives Topic circulate.
Following #BlackoutTuesday, two racist hashtags — #WhiteoutWednesday and #WhiteLivesMatter — began to model on Twitter overnight, prompting K-pop fans once extra to spring into action.
kpop stans ruining every white supremacist hashtag. i really grab to see it. #whiteoutwednesday
Co-opting the hashtags, the fans flooded them with anti-racist tweets and K-pop fancam videos, effectively burying the messages from white supremacists.
Folks furthermore archaic the hashtags to think regarding the response of racists on Twitter to the K-pop fans’ response.
white supremacists punching the air rn bc we now indulge in taking on #WhiteLivesMatters #whitelivesmatter with dazzling okay-pop photography and videos :
racists seeing racists after
#WhiteLivesMatter realizing it’s all
trending kpop fancams
how i was how i’m
ready to fight after seeing
whoever kpop stans
trended doing god’s
#WhiteLivesMatter work
And of us were chuffed to see that, in most conditions, the hashtags led not to racist tweets, but messages of improve from the K-pop fandom.
me once I observed #whitelivesmatter trending but then realizing kpop stans correct fucking shat all the intention in which thru the hashtag
#WhiteLivesMatter LMAO I WAS READY TO INSULT THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYONE, THEN I SAW THAT K-POP STANS ARE DESTROYING THE# DAMN NEVER THOUGHT I’D BE THAT HAPPY SEEING K-POP FANCAM ????
me clicking #WhiteLivesMatter and seeing that kpop stans took it over. they’re doing gods work
Per a Variety article posted early this morning, “As a minimal for a length of time, the posts completely buried practically all right racist messages utilizing the hashtag.”
So, K-pop fans, hats off to you!
me hyping up and dancing to kpop music after finding out they took over the #WhiteLivesMatter
