K-pop stans use their power for good, crash several Police App

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Kpop Fans Spam Grand Rapids Police Department With Fancams After Crashing Dallas Police App

Police 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."

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.

Now, Kpop fans are responding to police departments across the U.S. with videos of their favorite singers.

On May 31, Philadelphia Fire Department asked for videos of people setting fires during the protest. On June 1, Kirkland police asked its Twitter followers to use the hashtag #calminkirkland to share information about rioting and looting. Instead, both departments received videos of singers from groups such as BTS and Blackpink.

The fandom's latest target is the Grand Rapids Police Department, which similarly to the Dallas Police Department, set up a portal for the public to submit "video evidence of crime in downtown during protests."

Again, Kpop fans responded with one account saying: "you know the drill! SEND IN ALL OF YOUR FANCAMS!!! CRASH THE WEBSITE!!! MAKE THEM TAKE IT DOWN!!! PROTECT THE PROTESTERS!!!" in a tweet that has more than 111,000 likes and 40,000 shares.

The evidence portal set up by the Grand Rapids police requires users to enter a phone number, and Kpop fans are encouraging each other to enter the numbers of other police departments, as well as the numbers of government buildings and city halls.

Grand Rapid Police's original tweet has now been flooded with videos of Kpop groups, as well as Nicki Minaj lyrics, plus videos that appear to show police instigating violence.

While the Kpop fandom's spamming technique often annoys other Twitter users, this time it seems to be winning people over, as one user said: "I apologize to all the hate I've given Kpop stans. Y'all are comrades" and another said: "For once, Kpop stans spamming videos is a good thing."

Newsweek has contacted the Grand Rapids Police Department for comment.

source: newsweek,

Comments

[volume1995.livejournal.com]

OHHHHHHHHH HELL YEAH!!! thats awesome

[aures.livejournal.com]

wow that's pretty amazing

[honeebs.livejournal.com]

Good job crazies!

Esp these vids of continued police violence.

[tsubaki874.livejournal.com]

[mntsuklaa.livejournal.com]

Lmfao Gimli would

[snowphone.livejournal.com]

askjdfhadshf i loved this meme

[mntsuklaa.livejournal.com]

I saw a post on tumblr that had a video (1h or so) of art and music from black artists, it has a ton of ads and the person who uploaded it said they'll be donating all revenue to charity. Kpop stans in the comments were giving advice on how to stream as effectively as possible. :')

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

do you have a link to that video?

[myrrhcat.livejournal.com]

the police acting like an army, now they're gonna be armys 😳

[lizanka23.livejournal.com]

ewww no. it's giving me flashbacks to that cop who is bts fan with a bts tattoo that looked terrible

[jyusou.livejournal.com]

Never thought I’d see the day KPop Stan Twitter would use their terribleness for good. Well played.

[suggestivepeach.livejournal.com]

K-POP stans using their power for good??? I thought I’d never see the day

[greasetastic-x.livejournal.com]

Maybe they'll fix the rampant anti-blackness within their fandoms next.

[violoncelliste.livejournal.com]

'Y'all are comrades' lol

Saw this going on, it feels absurd but as long as they're useful the enemy of my enemy is my friend

[dior-chic.livejournal.com]

the enemy of my enemy is my friend

This is so accurate lol

[benihime99.livejournal.com]

XD they're now spamming the white lives matter tag so all the racist tweets get burried under fancams

[mntsuklaa.livejournal.com]

I love that there's so much fancams that twitter has labeled the entire tag as kpop lol

[audiograms.livejournal.com]

They also flooded #bluelivesmatter and other racist tags

[chikage-chan.livejournal.com]

I feel this will be the only time in history I’ll appreciate these fancam spams, so thank you to the stans.

[hellicoptajuuce.livejournal.com]

If you told me a year or 2 ago kpop stans would be stanning side by side with BLM i wouldnt believe you 2020 sure is flipping everything over

[premonitioner.livejournal.com]

finally putting their power to use

[ginger-star.livejournal.com]

This is basically the only thing that has brought me any joy for the last several days. YES STAN TWITTER, USE THAT ANNOYING SPAMMY POWER FOR GOOD.

[ashdevilrun23.livejournal.com]

finally using their power for good we love to see it

[sra-interesante.livejournal.com]

hahaha i loved to see twitter reaction to this

who would have guessed that one day all those fancams spam accounts would do something useful lolz 🤣

[croox-shielle.livejournal.com]

the shamelessness of fans promiting their racists faves when asked for groups recommendations though, not surprised but still mad about it, wth.

[greasetastic-x.livejournal.com]

got told not to start a fan war in the blm movement (by a BTS fan no less) because i pointed out anti-blackness across a shit ton of fandoms. Lmao. If you're faves make racist jokes and your fandom constantly targets black fans, you are being a hypocrite and i will joyfully call anyone out on it. You cannot be touting Black Lives Matter while simultaneously hating black fans. Tired of non-black people telling me how i should feel as a black kpop fan.

[aeries-amethyst.livejournal.com]

the day has come where i'm not totally annoyed at kpop fans spamming fancams of their faves. what a time to be alive! 2020 really is something else.

[lizanka23.livejournal.com]

this is actually the perfect time to spam hashtags with unrelated posts. kpop twitter stan skills are finally useful for real life lol. otherwise usually i understand why people find the fancams annoying. also do those fancams even work at attracting new fans? wasn't that the reason people started posting them everywhere in the first place?

[au9042.livejournal.com]

I loved this!

[myungung.livejournal.com]

what a bizarre yet wonderful news to receive. glad this time something is put to good use