23 June 2020
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- TikTokers and K-pop Stans are Claiming a Major Victory Against Trump. But Can They Keep it Up?
TikTokers and K-pop Stans are Claiming a Major Victory Against Trump. But Can They Keep it Up?
A couple of weeks before US President Donald Trump was set to give his speech at his first major campaign event in months in Tulsa, TikTok users had apparently begun registering for tickets to the rally with no intention of attending, all with the express aim of seeing a pathetically underfilled arena when Trump took the stage on June 20. “The combination of TikTok users and K-pop’s massive online army can be a formidable foil to the internet trolls. There is no doubt that these are often able to achieve their objectives, with dazzling impacts,” Jennifer Yang Hui, an Associate Research Fellow at Singapore’s RSIS.
CENS / Online
Last updated on 24/06/2020
