Donald Trump hoped to breathe new life into his campaign for the presidential race with his meeting in Tulsa (central United States). But the crowd hoped for by the Republicans was not there this Saturday. While he had announced nearly a million registrations, the American president finally could not even fill the hall of his meeting, the Bok Center, which had about 20,000 seats.
On social networks, teenagers fans of K-pop [Korean pop music] claim to have sabotaged the Donald Trump meeting by reserving, without intending to go there, thousands of places at the Bok Center. As of the opening of registrations to attend the political rally, they would have encouraged their subscribers on TikTok to register for the meeting and not to attend.
So my teen daughter, who has Snapchat and TikTok accounts, walked in and said to me "So did it work? Did the teens get all the tickets to the Trump rally?" She's known about this ALL WEEK and I just learned this an hour ago ... https://t.co/lcsB50zzoR
- Roberto Quinlan (@r_quinla) June 21, 2020"Ridiculed by teens and K-Pop fans"
Many videos sharing this instruction have indeed been published on TikTok since last week, noted CNN. Some from the K-pop fan community, attracting very many subscribers, others from simple network users, simply wanting to sabotage the organization of the Donald Trump meeting. " Oh no ! I signed up for the Trump meeting, and I can't go! ", Would have quipped a surfer, pretending to be a cough, in a video published on TikTok on Monday June 15.
My daughter has been telling me about this all week. https://t.co/7FcwwcD7L7
- Jeff Jensen (@EWDocJensen) June 20, 2020On Twitter, the elected democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez addressed the director of campaign of Donald Trump, Brad Parscale, who designated as responsible for the failure of this meeting, the "radical demonstrators" and "a week of media coverage apocalyptic ”. "In reality, teenagers on Tik Tok played you by flooding Trump's campaign with false ticket reservations to make you believe that a million people wanted to see your white supremacist, and force you to reserve a stadium during the Covid, ”tweeted Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. "We appreciate your help in our fight for justice, our K-Pop allies," she added.
Actually you just got ROCKED by teens on TikTok who flooded the Trump campaign w / fake ticket reservations & tricked you into believing a million people wanted your white supremacist open mic enough to pack an arena during COVID
Shout out to Zoomers. Y'all make me so proud. ☺️ https://t.co/jGrp5bSZ9T
It is however very complicated today to prove the impact of this coordinated operation on TikTok on the attendance of the meeting, without an analysis of the registrations which could only be carried out by the campaign team of Donald Trump. But this hypothesis has reacted a lot on social networks and in the American media since Saturday evening.
Very committed communities alongside "Black Lives Matter"
Since the beginning of the protest in the United States against police violence, K-pop fans have mobilized to support the "Black Lives Matter" movement on social networks.
They have already distinguished themselves in recent weeks by political and civic positions, for example launching large fundraisers to support the movement. A pot launched at the beginning of the month by fans of the K-pop group BTS thus made it possible to collect in 24 hours, nearly a million dollars.
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