On Sunday, after the Dallas Police Department asked people to send in "video of illegal activity from the [Black Lives Matter] protests" via the city's iWatch Dallas app, K-pop fans instead flooded the app with pictures and videos of their favorite artists — and within hours, the DPD said the app was down "due to technical difficulties."
@7soulsmap @cuntnini I’m in 👁👁
Well, as of last night, K-pop fans were back at it, once again mobilizing to support the Black Lives Matter movement.
#WhiteLivesMatter Me sleeping peacefully knowing kpop stans took care of this hashtag
Following #BlackoutTuesday, two racist hashtags — #WhiteoutWednesday and #WhiteLivesMatter — began to trend on Twitter overnight, prompting K-pop fans once again to spring into action.
kpop stans ruining every white supremacist hashtag. i truly love to see it. #whiteoutwednesday
Co-opting the hashtags, the fans flooded them with anti-racist tweets and K-pop fancam videos, effectively burying the messages from white supremacists.
Tf is this #WhiteLivesMatter ??? XD Stan jungkook for clear skin enjoy this fancam 🤭😉
#WhiteLivesMatters anyway one of my fav fancams from tour to spam this stupid hastag
People also used the hashtags to imagine the reaction of racists on Twitter to the K-pop fans' response.
white supremacists punching the air rn bc we've taking over #WhiteLivesMatters #whitelivesmatter with beautiful k-pop pictures and videos :
racists seeing racists after #WhiteLivesMatter realizing it’s all trending kpop fancams
Racist after seeing why #WhiteLivesMatter is trending
how i was how i am ready to fight after seeing whoever kpop stans trended doing god's #WhiteLivesMatter work
And people were glad to see that, in most cases, the hashtags led not to racist tweets, but messages of support from the K-pop fandom.
me when I saw #whitelivesmatter trending but then realizing kpop stans just fucking shat all over the hashtag
#WhiteLivesMatter LMAO I WAS READY TO INSULT THE SHIT OUT OF EVERYONE, THEN I SAW THAT K-POP STANS ARE DESTROYING THE# DAMN NEVER THOUGHT I'D BE THAT HAPPY SEEING K-POP FANCAM 😂😂😂😂
me clicking #WhiteLivesMatter and seeing that kpop stans took it over. they’re doing gods work
According to a Variety article posted early this morning, "At least for a period of time, the posts completely buried nearly all actual racist messages using the hashtag."
Kpop stans ready to take over another hashtag #WhiteLivesMatter
So, K-pop fans, hats off to you!
me hyping up and dancing to kpop music after finding out they took over the #WhiteLivesMatter