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Protests continue in the United States (and in other parts of the world) over the murder of George Floyd, an African-American man who died at the hands of a police officer for the simple fact of being black. Just a few hours ago, social networks were filled with black images and backgrounds to show support for the black community around the world. Today what floods Twitter and Instagram are photos and videos of k-Pop artists. This is the reason.
Some Kpop fans are posting a huge amount of videos, images and memes related to their favorite Kpop artists and groups. Although these users constantly upload content on different social networks in order to support their favorite artists, in this case the publications focus on two hashtags. MAGA and BlueLivesMatter. These two hashtags are used on Twitter or Instagram to support the Trump government and the right in general (which is against the demands of the black community). As well as the US police in Kirkland (Washington), they request videos and photos of users creating "riots or looting", under the hashtag calminkirkland.
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Uploading videos and images of K-pop artists: the answer to "hiding" those who are against the protests
Considering that many racist and anti-black rights users may misuse the hashtag, different fan communities have agreed to fill these tags with videos and images of BTS, BlackPink among other bands and artists In this way, when the police or users want to see the publications of these hashtags, they will find videos and more videos related to K-Pop. Plus some memes. And the publications against the demonstrations will go to the background.
Fans of this music genre too got an application created by the Dallas Police Department removed The end of this app was for users to post photos and videos of people who commit altercations in protests, to facilitate the work and thus be able to stop them. However, the app was flooded with K-pop video posts and had to be removed.
If you go to Twitter or Instagram and look for the hashtags, you can see that most of the posts are about K-pop. They already have millions of publications and some have been trending for hours.
