Kpop stans take '#WhiteoutWednesday' away from the neoNazis

[cepheus42]

I noticed it was happening to the “bluelivesmatter” hashtags as well earlier today. Great job, Kpop fans!

[Mercenary_Garage]

Brilliant!!

Well done!

[ProseAndKahn]

I have never seen a more perfect example of chaotic good in practice.

[thomasta]

@anon33176345

So anyone searching (or following) the whiteout hashtag gets overloaded with kpop videos? Is that right?

So will Kpop welcome a legion of new, white supremacist fans?

[anon33176345]

@thomasta

will Kpop welcome a legion of new, white supremacist fans

@hyesaw explained that

@hyesaw

Any racists looking for tweets actually relevant to the hashtag will only come across kpop videos and any attempts to voice opinions will be flooded away the same way, therefore silencing them completely and ruining the entire point of the hashtag

Kpop’s legions – I salute you

[hotdogprincess]

What should I call myself if I am not a fan of K-Pop but I am fan of K-Pop fans?

[Melizmatic]

Well, rock on then; we appreciate the support.

[GulliverFoyle]

And welcome to the community.

[anon94804983]

Brilliant!

Saw them on their last-ever tour in 86. One of the best shows I’ve seen, which is actually saying a lot.

[Wanderfound]

@cannibalpeas

What I don’t get is the connection with kpop fans. Are they just spamming to disrupt or does the hashtag hold some significance?

For the last year or so, Kpop stans have been an omnipresent irritation on Twitter. Twitter comments autoplay videos, and Kpop fandom has a tradition of promoting their favourite artists by artificially inflating the view counts of their fancam videos. Korean pop markets keep track of video views, and artists with high view counts are more likely to get contracts and media promotion.

So, the stans made a habit of bombing every trending Twitter thread with comments that embed videos of their favourite artists. This is frequently annoying as all hell, as they have a tendency to do it absolutely everywhere, including inappropriate places such as memorial threads after tragedies.

However, the last week has turned them from almost-universally devised despised Twitterers into unlikely heroes.

[GulliverFoyle]

@Wanderfound

devised Twitterers

Typo is new industrial punk band name.

[anon94804983]

[anon61221983]

I’m sure it doesn’t help the internet hating on them that they are often teen girls.

[Melizmatic]

Even MORE power to them, then.

I don’t care that they annoy the Twitterverse in general, if they decide to use their massive numbers to do some good, which they have in this case. The revolution isn’t being ‘televised’, because it’s streaming now.

(Also it made me curious enough to check out what music is hot in that genre right now, I wasn’t mad at what I heard.)

[Wanderfound]

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[Nightflyer]

[phuzz]

One question. What does the ‘stan’ bit mean in “kpop stans”?

[alwayslurking]

Eminem reference, I believe.

[Wanderfound]

Loosely, “be a committed fan of”.

Implications that you don’t just like whatever you’re stanning, but that you also publicly promote and defend it.

[anon73430903]

@Wanderfound

Implications that you don’t just like whatever you’re stanning, but that you also publicly promote and defend it.

I think that the original implication was that they were obsessed to an unhealthy level, like Stan in the song, but that seems to have become less prominent over time.