{"id":176418,"date":"2020-06-21T18:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T23:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/21\/epic-ownage\/"},"modified":"2020-06-21T18:14:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T23:14:00","slug":"epic-ownage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2020\/06\/21\/epic-ownage\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Ownage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 330px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"180\" scrolling=\"auto\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/players\/L5tMeI6S-arm2rsg2.html\" width=\"320\"><\/iframe><br \/><i>John Oliver Explains<\/i><\/div>\n<p>It appears that K-Pop fans <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/21\/style\/tiktok-trump-rally-tulsa.html\">may have sabotaged the attendance predictions for the Trump rally in Tulsa<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">President Trump\u2019s campaign promised huge crowds at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/21\/us\/politics\/trump-rally-supporters.html\">his rally in Tulsa, Okla<\/a>., on Saturday, but it failed to deliver. Hundreds of teenage TikTok users and K-pop fans say they\u2019re at least partially responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Brad Parscale, the chairman of Mr. Trump\u2019s re-election campaign, posted on Twitter on Monday that the campaign had fielded <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/parscale\/status\/1272543199647666176?s=20\">more than a million<\/a> ticket requests, but <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AsteadWesley\/status\/1274465912951844866?s=20\">reporters at the event noted<\/a> the attendance was lower than expected. The campaign also canceled planned events outside the rally for an anticipated overflow crowd that did not materialize.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Murtaugh, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cmsub\/status\/1274473814211125249\/photo\/1\">said protesters<\/a> stopped supporters from entering the rally, held at the BOK Center, which has a 19,000-seat capacity.<\/p>\n<p>But reporters present said there <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/06\/20\/us\/trump-rally-tulsa.html#link-60a18f83\">were few protests<\/a>. According to a spokesman for the Tulsa Fire Department on Sunday, the fire marshal counted 6,200 scanned tickets of attendees. (That number would not include staff, media or those in box suites.)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Reports are that attendance after removing Trump&#8217;s entourage are included in the total so the real number was even lower.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">TikTok users and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/12\/11\/smarter-living\/the-edit-k-pop.html\">fans of Korean pop music groups<\/a> claimed to have registered potentially hundreds of thousands of tickets for Mr. Trump\u2019s campaign rally as a prank. After the Trump campaign\u2019s official account @TeamTrump posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamTrump\/status\/1271205174611259393\">tweet<\/a> asking supporters to register for free tickets using their phones on June 11, K-pop fan accounts began sharing the information with followers, encouraging them to register for the rally \u2014 and then not show.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was impressed:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Actually you just got ROCKED by teens on TikTok who flooded the Trump campaign w\/ fake ticket reservations &amp; tricked you into believing a million people wanted your white supremacist open mic enough to pack an arena during COVID<\/p>\n<p>Shout out to Zoomers. Y\u2019all make me so proud. \u263a\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jGrp5bSZ9T\">https:\/\/t.co\/jGrp5bSZ9T<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1274499021625794565?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 21, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Behold the power of K-Pop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Oliver Explains It appears that K-Pop fans may have sabotaged the attendance predictions for the Trump rally in Tulsa: President Trump\u2019s campaign promised huge crowds at his rally in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday, but it failed to deliver. Hundreds of teenage TikTok users and K-pop fans say they\u2019re at least partially responsible. Brad Parscale, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[573,588,374,405,486],"class_list":["post-176418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-donald-trump","tag-fail","tag-politics","tag-presidential-campaign","tag-schadenfreude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176418"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176418\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}