Police all around the United States are now coming down hard on people protesting over the unjust murder of George Floyd by the hands of the police. With that, police departments across the U.S. are trying to use apps and other various means online to get footage of protesters and rioters, but have come up short against a formidable foe.
K-pop stans.
Yes, that’s right, K-pop stans around the world have united, be it BTS, Big Bang, Monsta X, LOONA, or any number of k-pop groups. Many are now taking to Twitter and police apps to flood their feeds with videos of their favourite performances against various anti-protest hashtags and police databases rather than actual footage of protesters.
One of the very first instances of K-pop stans using their fancams for good, was against the Dallas Police Department who tweeted out the below:
If you have video of illegal activity from the protests and are trying to share it with @DallasPD, you can download it to our iWatch Dallas app. You can remain anonymous. @ChiefHallDPD @CityOfDallas
— Dallas Police Dept (@DallasPD) May 31, 2020
Which in turn resulted in a Kpop fan account quote tweeting the above tweet saying;
“guys download the app and f****** FLOOOD that s*** with fancams make it SO HARD for them to find anything besides our faves dancing.”
Which resulted in this:
Due to technical difficulties iWatch Dallas app will be down temporarily. pic.twitter.com/zksA1hkVhV
— Dallas Police Dept (@DallasPD) May 31, 2020
K-pop stans literally flooded the app until it was down due to “technical difficulties” which is just too ridiculous for me to comprehend. Not only that, but even hashtags that are predominantly used against the protesters to mention “#bluelivesmatter” in reference to the police, or even Donald Trump’s very own “#MAGA”. Take a look at what I mean below:
https://twitter.com/boongles454/status/1267968109668904962?s=20
https://twitter.com/wenshyun/status/1267999136818724864?s=20
guys lets spam these ugly hashtags #BlueLivesMatter #MAGA pic.twitter.com/30FdOTJKuG
— sals housewife (@tojinator) June 3, 2020
I don’t know what to think right now, honestly. It’s a matter of silencing those who propagate racist and harmful agendas which is a good thing, but I never thought I’d ever be on the same page as K-pop stans. Not because of anything other than me not being a fan of k-pop personally. All I know is, 2020 is going to be a confusing time 30 years from now when kids are reading about it in the history books.
K-pop VS Trump and the police. Could you imagine?
