K-pop fans and TikTok users take credit for Donald Trump's weekend rally getting an embarrassingly low turnout
But Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 30-year-old leftist congresswoman from New York, clapped back: "You just got ROCKED by teens on TikTok."'Socially conscious' fans
Just in the past month, fans of the globally dominant pop genre – which was born approximately 25 years ago in South Korea – co-opted the hashtag #WhiteLivesMatter by flooding it with K-pop-related imagery to drown out racist tweets. "K-pop fans in general are outward-looking, socially conscious people and K-pop in the United States is very heavily supported by people of colour, by people who identify as being LGBTQ," she told.
Though adorers would often send gifts to their favorite performers, many stars ask support be sent to charities instead.
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