As social justice protests continue in cities across the United States and around the world, a grassroots movement for a #BlackoutTuesday created a massive social media movement to show solidarity with the black community. White supremacists, however, were offended and decided to run their own #whitelivesmatter grassroots campaign on social media. The K-pop community was not going to let that slide.
K-pop stans flooded social media with posts with the #whitelivesmatter hashtag and other racist hashtags. Instead of racist content, the fans offered confused racists K-pop memes and videos of popular K-pop bands like BTS, GOT7, BLACKPINK, Monsta X, and NCT. Hopefully, some of the individuals who came for racist content got caught up in the positive message of K-pop.
You just don’t mess with the K-pop community. Their fans number in the tens of thousands on social media and are highly coordinated. Last yet, K-pop stans posted more than six billion, yes BILLION, tweets. That’s about 3% of total tweets worldwide in 2019.
By Wednesday, #whitelivesmatter and other racist hashtags were trending in the top 10 hashtags on Twitter, but the content was decidedly not racist content. Instead people looking for racist posts got a whole lot of K-pop goodness.
#WhiteLivesMatter oH ? were you here to be racist? no thanks, anyways, good try. pic.twitter.com/EqZSbckZhG
— 𝖇𝖊𝘬𝖆𝖍⁷ {𝙰𝙶𝚄𝚂𝚃 𝙳²} (@minfiresd2) June 4, 2020
Dont be racist stan ateez and bts 8 makes 1 team just like all of us make the world #whitelivesmatter pic.twitter.com/L3gXl62aR0
— The Light In Our Lives (@TheLightInOurL1) June 4, 2020
Hi racist idiots❤️❤️❤️ this is Oh Sehun #WhiteLivesMatter pic.twitter.com/Z2BniQsrNi
— Actually_a_kpop_stan (@actually_kpop) June 5, 2020
K-pop super group BTS got in on the action tweeting: “We stand against racial discrimination. We condemn violence. You, I and we all have the right to be respected. We will stand together. #BlackLivesMatter”
우리는 인종차별에 반대합니다.
우리는 폭력에 반대합니다.
나, 당신, 우리 모두는 존중받을 권리가 있습니다. 함께 하겠습니다.We stand against racial discrimination.
We condemn violence.
You, I and we all have the right to be respected. We will stand together.#BlackLivesMatter— 방탄소년단 (@BTS_twt) June 4, 2020
Rapper Jay Park also tweeted his support for Black Lives Matter. He even announced a donation of $10,000 to the Black Lives Matter campaign.
https://t.co/2dUvNk6ZAp just donated 10k… Pray to God the truth prevails 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
— JAY BUM PARK (@JAYBUMAOM) May 28, 2020
K-pop stans even went as far to spam the Dallas Police Department’s app for reporting on protests. The police app went down as thousands of K-pop fans flooded it with fancams. Then K-pop stans started flooding the Dallas Police Department’s Twitter page with even more K-pop content.
here’s a video, i’ll dm you some more💕pic.twitter.com/VihMsrI81M
— sterre 生 ✿ (@marvelous70s) May 31, 2020
