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Digitally-savvy and passionate, K-pop fans' Trump activism should come as no surprise

K-pop fans have been able to put the online organisational tools they’ve honed for fandom projects to work on political activism
Empty seats are visible in the upper level at a campaign rally for Donald Trump in Tulsa on Saturday, after K-pop fans and TikTok users requested tickets to inflate expected numbers. Photograph: Matt Barnard/AP

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 – and

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