K-Pop Fans Take Over #whitelivesmatter Hashtag, Drown Out Racist Posts

It is safe to say that the BTS fandom is listening to Stay Gold on loop. The beautiful song marks the Bangtan Boys' Japanese comeback.

Of all the many unexpected things that have happened in 2020, I think K-pop fans forming a major movement of political activism is one of the more enjoyable.Having banded together for various online actions in support of Black Lives Matter in recent weeks – including drowning out racist hashtags with videos of their favourite K-pop stars – this weekend they left Donald Trump embarrassed.

the New York Times reporting that the discrepancy of ticket requests to attendees likely came from an undercover campaign by K-Pop fans to sabotage the event.But Trump’s campaign manager Brad Parscale has now hit out at the claims, and said in a statement: “Leftists and online trolls doing a victory lap, thinking they somehow impacted rally attendance, don’t know what they’re talking about or how rallies work”.He went on to describe reports of Trump’s first re-election rally as “unprofessional”

What was touted as a massive campaign rally for Donald Trump with a million ticket requests for the event turned out to be a bit of a bust. Instead, the president's gathering at the BOK Center in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday (June 20) was attended by a little more than 6,200 people in a 19,200-seat stadium, according toForbes.

Donald Trump’s first campaign rally in three months on Saturday in Tulsa, Oklahoma, these tech-savvy groups opposing the president mobilized to reserve tickets for an event they had no intention of attending. While it’s unlikely they were responsible for the low turnout, their antics may have inflated the campaign’s expectations for attendance numbers that led to Saturday's disappointing show.

US President Donald Trump recently attended a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma only to find only a limited number of people there. The stadium with a capacity of almost 19,000 people was a witness to numerous empty seats, something that has caught everyone’s attention now.

Jordan Moreau K-Pop fans and TikTok users may have been behind all the empty seats at President Trump’s rally on Saturday.The chairman of Trump’s re-election campaign, Brad Parscale, tweeted that the Tulsa, Okla., rally had more than a million ticket requests, but The New York Times and many reporters noted that attendance was significantly lower.The Times reports that a plan to register for free tickets but not show up to the rally was organized by users on the app TikTok and social media

Forbes.All the empty sets in the upper level, the cancellation of president and vice president's outdoor speeches to "overflow" attendees, and general low turnout may be in part thanks to fans of K-pop and TikTok users, according to multiple reports.Per The New York Times, after the Trump campaign announced on TikTok that supporters can get free tickets to the rally by registering via their phones, K-pop fans shared the information and urged others to sign up and be no-shows.In a TikTok video

Donald Trump rally in Oklahoma this weekend.Trump held a gathering in Tulsa yesterday (June 20), reporting before the event that a million people had registered for tickets.The event was poorly attended, though, and as the New York Times report, the discrepancy of ticket requests to attendees likely came from an undercover campaign by K-Pop fans to sabotage the event.kpop stans really ruined trumps rally… i LOVE this song pic.twitter.com/sZXYUO5EtM— lily⁷ (@lilynotlilly) June 21, 2020The report

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorEven with Garth Brooks as the honoree, the National Music Publishers Association’s annual meeting wasn’t the splashy presentation-then-dinner-and-drinks confab that the industry has grown accustomed to — but in 2020, what is? Led by president and CEO David Israelite, the organization powered through its first-ever virtual annual meeting, with interviews with songwriter Ross Golan, RIAA chief Mitch Glazier, Nielsen’s David Bakula, Mechanical Licensing Collective CEO

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorPaul McCartney fiercely criticized the Italian live-music industry over its refund policy for his canceled 2020 concerts in a Facebook post that has apparently been deleted. McCartney was scheduled to perform in the Italian cities of Naples and Lucca this week but canceled the shows early last month due to the coronavirus pandemic.

BTS said it opposes racial discrimination and violence and announced a $1 million donation to Black Lives Matter. Fans quickly followed suit with the hashtag #MatchAMillion on Twitter, matching the donation after 24 hours according to “One “One In An ARMY,” a global fundraising team made up of BTS fans.Even so, political activism isn’t exactly associated with K-pop fans.

SEOUL, South Korea -- As American protesters took to the streets to mourn the death of George Floyd, they found an unexpected ally: K-pop fans. Floyd died May 25 after a police officer pressed his knee into his neck for several minutes even after he stopped moving.

K-pop stans showed the world why they're such a loyal, hardworking fanbase with their recent gesture on Twitter to help smoothen the process of the Black Lives Matter movement. With Twitter hashtags like #BlueLivesMatter and #WhiteLivesMatter trying to steer the wheel to different propaganda, K-pop stans flooded these hashtags with fan cams of their idols and hence proved a worthwhile point. During this process, BTS member V became a viral sensation within the non K-pop fans, once again.

On Wednesday morning, #WhiteLivesMatter was trending on Twitter — but not for the reason many first assumed.

K-Pop fans are drowning out the hate with love for their favorite artists!

K-pop fans, assemble!