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TikTok Teens and K-Pop Stans Say They Sank Trump Rally
The New York Times ^ | June 21, 2020 | Taylor Lorenz, Kellen Browning and Sheera Frenkel

Posted on 06/21/2020 10:34:55 AM PDT by lionstar

President Trump’s 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’re at least partially responsible.

Brad Parscale, the chairman of Mr. Trump’s re-election campaign, posted on Twitter on Monday that the campaign had fielded more than one million ticket requests, but reporters at the event noted the attendance was lower than expected. The campaign also canceled planned events outside the rally for an anticipated overflow crowd that did not materialize.

Tim Murtaugh, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, said protesters stopped supporters from entering the rally, held at the BOK Center, which has a 19,000-seat capacity. Reporters present said there were few protests.

TikTok users and fans of Korean pop music groups claimed to have registered potentially hundreds of thousands of tickets for Mr. Trump’s campaign rally as a prank. After the Trump campaign’s official account @TeamTrump posted a tweet 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 — and then not show.

The trend quickly spread on TikTok, where videos with millions of views instructed viewers to do the same, as CNN reported on Tuesday. “Oh no, I signed up for a Trump rally, and I can’t go,” one woman joked, along with a fake cough, in a TikTok posted on June 15.

Thousands of other users posted similar tweets and videos to TikTok that racked up millions of views. Representatives for TikTok did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: internet; rally
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To: Lod881019

Charge $5-10 refundable upon ticket scan on entry to the venue!!!
Problem solved!!


61 posted on 06/21/2020 11:14:30 AM PDT by bantam
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To: lionstar

K Pop??
My money is on the Palo Alto mafia


62 posted on 06/21/2020 11:15:02 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: Caipirabob

AOC is so Happy ,LOL


63 posted on 06/21/2020 11:15:11 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ltc8k6

They identified themselves as a fraud.


64 posted on 06/21/2020 11:15:19 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: lionstar

Track IP addresses of those signing up for tickets.


65 posted on 06/21/2020 11:15:48 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Um....Really?

Time to take America back!


66 posted on 06/21/2020 11:16:10 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: HombreSecreto

Why bother. The bogus information will be purged on the next round of Emails.


67 posted on 06/21/2020 11:17:01 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: mquinn

Whatever folks posted to register is not relevant.

The gold is in the metadata, and the network of contacts and relationships, browsing history, etc


68 posted on 06/21/2020 11:17:40 AM PDT by Steven Tyler
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To: rintintin

Not safe.


69 posted on 06/21/2020 11:19:08 AM PDT by madison10
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To: Biggirl

WE BETTER!!! Otherwise America is finished..vote like your life depends on it because it does


70 posted on 06/21/2020 11:19:54 AM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: mquinn
Do you really think they entered in valid info?

Tracking ip address and other technology tricks are how data collection is done.

I don't think for a minute that my screen name of USS Alaska protects my real identity to anyone with even minimum tech skills.

If you think that data gathering depends on the honesty of the person doing the keyboard driving, you live in a dream world.

In a world where people talk to their devices to start their car, change TV channels, turn up/down heat/lights, there is so little privacy, it is scary.

Think of how little we use real money in today's electronic world, and how that reveals so much about each of us to interested parties.

We are long past 1984, Big Brother is not just watching, he is directing us.

71 posted on 06/21/2020 11:22:04 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB, TERRORISTS, NOW!)
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To: Pride in the USA

ping for a later read.


72 posted on 06/21/2020 11:22:08 AM PDT by Pride in the USA (rew)
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To: chuknchez

The huge media hype days before caused panic in the Democrat party. Good plan. The Left now has to change lanes again and find a VP that is black, a women, and crowd getter.


73 posted on 06/21/2020 11:22:55 AM PDT by cnsmom
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To: Pride in the USA

Ping for a later read.


74 posted on 06/21/2020 11:22:57 AM PDT by Pride in the USA
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To: lionstar

Yeah, well the last laugh is on you TikTok K-Poper guys, gals and whatever, because 4 million watched along from home. 8>)


75 posted on 06/21/2020 11:24:48 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: rintintin

Corona scam is Bullshit and it ended 2 months ago


76 posted on 06/21/2020 11:25:45 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: JudyinCanada
That way, they collect their data, and eliminate a TON of work keeping track of and sending out tickets.

Judy, Judy, Judy, Bless your heart.

That is how they do it.

No one is mailing out paper tickets, good grief.

They don't care if there are 10 million sign ups with 10 million people printing up their own tickets.

It was security and lefty threats, that kept people out, not lack of willing participants.

People couldn't get in.

77 posted on 06/21/2020 11:28:55 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE THE MOOSELIMB, TERRORISTS, NOW!)
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To: lionstar
Sank Trump Rally

Uh, no they didn't.

78 posted on 06/21/2020 11:34:10 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: DoughtyOne

[The process tracks people.

Letting people in anonymously... not a great idea.]


That’s untrue. People are let in anonymously. But they are put through a metal detector. There is also presumably a bomb-sniffing machine. Tickets aren’t required. Those who show up before the arena is full are admitted. The whole ticket thing is a basically a fund-raising opportunity. You are signing up for the opportunity to be spammed endlessly with fund-raising e-mails.

What may be problematic about the Trump campaign announcing huge ticket numbers is that it may suppress turnout. Who wants to line up for hours and hours, only to end up outdoors? Even the people outdoors have to get in line and go through a bomb detector. And then there’s the parking issue. If a million people had actually shown up, parking would have been a nightmare.

Best to keep the numbers close to their chests. I expect that after this left-wing engineered fiasco, combined with what I believe was the campaign’s exhortations to people to sign up to show their support (and provide their e-mail addresses so the campaign could solicit their donations), the Trump campaign will be a little more close-mouthed about future ticket numbers. It costs money to put up these events. To spend big money on infrastructure and have fewer people show up than projected - that was money that could have been spent elsewhere.


79 posted on 06/21/2020 11:35:26 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: lionstar

....and maybe Polls say Biden’s leading cause people tell Pollsters they like Biden when, actually, they’ll vote for Trump. So Dems shouldn’t laugh too hard....


80 posted on 06/21/2020 11:36:20 AM PDT by 4integrity
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