K-pop fans have been able to put the online organisational tools they’ve honed for fandom projects to work on political activism
Over the past month or so, it’s been widely reported to much acclaim that K-pop fans are mobilising in social media spaces to help fight injustice. The majority of this was done thanks to K-pop fans’ savvy and long history of mobilising digitally to support their favourite stars, but that’s just the beginning.
For those not in the know, fans of South Korea’s pop music scene, aka K-pop, first went viral in recent days by engaging in a kind of vigilante activism, as fans across the world supported the Black Lives Matters movement. They did this not only through social media and driving immense donations, but also by taking action to foil police operations aimed at identifying BLM protestors – by urging fans to submit their fancam footage to a US police department – and hijacking racist hashtags.
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