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K-Pop Stans are Good Now
https://www.newsweek.com/kpop-spamming-fancams-grand-rapids-police-department-protest-evidence-1508043Police are attempting to use apps and online portals to collect footage of protesters, but Kpop fans are flooding them with fancams instead.
Kpop fans are known for flooding Twitter hashtags with "fancams"—videos of their favorite singers performing—and they typically target other celebrities. But now they are coming together to take on the police, amid nationwide protests following George Floyd's death.
It began on Saturday when the Dallas Police Department said on Twitter: "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."
Kpop BTS group
A Kpop fan account shared the police's tweet and said: "guys download the app and f****** FLOOD that s*** with fancams make it SO HARD for them to find anything besides our faves dancing."
Soon after, the Dallas Police Department said on Twitter that "due to technical difficulties" the app would be down temporarily...
Kpop fans are known for flooding Twitter hashtags with "fancams"—videos of their favorite singers performing—and they typically target other celebrities. But now they are coming together to take on the police, amid nationwide protests following George Floyd's death.
It began on Saturday when the Dallas Police Department said on Twitter: "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."
Kpop BTS group
A Kpop fan account shared the police's tweet and said: "guys download the app and f****** FLOOD that s*** with fancams make it SO HARD for them to find anything besides our faves dancing."
Soon after, the Dallas Police Department said on Twitter that "due to technical difficulties" the app would be down temporarily...
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