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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #151725 on: June 03, 2020, 05:07:38 am »

Smart move. Harvesting the rebark is very profitable.
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« Reply #151726 on: June 03, 2020, 05:20:28 am »

dumbfucks.... ... ... I dont even.
They ether burnt or buried all their trash then buried the remains, I guess needles didn't go in the burn pile but instead went in the straight into the dirt pile.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #151727 on: June 03, 2020, 08:58:30 am »

The fuck is wrong with kpop? Is it a bunch of ignoramuses with no filter who regurgitate every single worthless thought that they have?


Exhibit A
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« Reply #151728 on: June 03, 2020, 09:03:37 am »

Korean Pop?
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« Reply #151729 on: June 03, 2020, 09:13:45 am »

Looks more like Ku-Klux pop to me
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #151730 on: June 03, 2020, 09:16:07 am »

The Ku-Klux-Klassics of the (18)60's! Now that's what I call racism!
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« Reply #151731 on: June 03, 2020, 10:20:15 am »

The fuck is wrong with kpop? Is it a bunch of ignoramuses with no filter who regurgitate every single worthless thought that they have?


Exhibit A

I googled it, the actual story here is that kpop fans are spamming tags like WhiteLivesMatters and MAGA with memes and pics of Korean pop singers.

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/k-pop-fans-twitter-whitelivesmatter-hashtag-racist-a9546866.html

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K-Pop fans have helped drown out a racist hashtag on Twitter by flooding it with clips of their favourite artists.

As protests continue across the US in the wake of the death of George Floyd, the K-Pop community took it upon itself to ensure that the #whitelivesmatter hashtag wouldn’t be used to amplify the racist messages that typically accompany it.

To that end, K-Pop fans have been using the hashtag and attaching it to videos of artists performing on stage.

Specifically, many have been sharing fancams, ie close-up footage of a member of a specific band during a show.

Some have accompanied the videos with messages such as “We don’t stan racism” or “Say no to racism, say yes to fancam”.

More stuff in this one, but for other hashtags:
https://www.theverge.com/2020/6/3/21278950/k-pop-stans-social-media-flooding-hashtags-bluelivesmatter-maga

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K-pop stans have a fearsome reputation online, able to mobilize in vast numbers in support of their chosen cause. Usually that just means spreading the gospel of K-pop, but as protests have erupted across America in response to the police killing of George Floyd, and President Trump has threatened to send in the military against those on the streets, fans have found a new cause: flooding right-wing hashtags like #MAGA and #BlueLivesMatter with memes, GIFs, and videos of their favorite K-pop artists.

This recent political activation seems to have started after the Dallas Police Department asked the public on Sunday to submit videos of “illegal activity from the protests” via a dedicated app. Stans responded by submitting K-pop content including fancams (short, fan-recorded clips of artists) and Dallas PD were eventually forced to take down the app.

Now it seems the stans are turning their attention on right-wing hashtags more generally. Browsing Twitter or Instagram for hashtags like #MAGA and #BlueLivesMatter shows that the most recent posts are full of K-pop fancams and memes that mock these causes. Other stan groups like the Barbz, who support Nicki Minaj, are also getting involved. (Although the top posts, those that are most engaged with, still usually come from sincere supporters.)
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« Reply #151732 on: June 03, 2020, 10:34:34 am »

Any good results from that are likely coincidental seeing as they've also flooded hashtags raising awareness of various forms of abuse in the past. I doubt they've suddenly acquired self-awareness.
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« Reply #151733 on: June 03, 2020, 10:38:07 am »

Yeah, but there's a problem with that logic. Those "hashtags raising awareness of various forms of abuse" may have had a limited audience and would be mostly preaching to the choir, in general.

Spamming a tag with nonsense would probably do more to raise awareness of that topic in general due to causing it to trend, than the regular posts ever did.

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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #151734 on: June 03, 2020, 10:42:43 am »

I will never and refuse to understand people's need to use tags

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« Reply #151735 on: June 03, 2020, 11:34:32 am »

What is a stan?
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #151736 on: June 03, 2020, 11:34:58 am »

What is a stan?
Tireless supporter/fan, basically.
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #151737 on: June 03, 2020, 11:40:36 am »

For Stan from American Dad?
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« Reply #151738 on: June 03, 2020, 11:41:18 am »

All I'm thinking of is the eminem song where his fan Stan kills his girlfriend
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Re: Things that made you go "WTF?" today o_O
« Reply #151739 on: June 03, 2020, 11:51:34 am »

All I'm thinking of is the eminem song where his fan Stan kills his girlfriend
Congrats, that's the orgin of the term!
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