The Power of K-Pop Fandoms
And Indonesian Users
This hashtag is very interesting. It gained 1M+ conversations in 3 days, and among the word trending topic for quite long.
Drone Emprit has collected 1,140,662 twits. Here is the result.
The #China_is_Terrorist hashtag was started by Turkish users. Until 19:00 (21 Dec), it went no where. Then K-Pop Fandoms came in and quickly brought it into WTT. Indonesian users extended its live.
During the period of 21-23 December 2019, K-Pop avatars e.g. @btss117 and @min_miso_yoongi, dominated the top influencers of #China_is_Terrorist hashtag.
@R4jaPurwa from Indonesia is among the top 5 influencers world wide.
The post from @btss117 is the most popular one, with 42k retweets, and @min_miso_yoongi with 29k retweets.
These collections of posts shows their narratives.
To get more of their narratives, here are the collections of their most retweeted posts. The main message is, it is about humanity, and you don't need to be a Muslim to feel the pains of Uyghur.
Not all of them are K-Pop fans, but their faces are everywhere. This shows the solidarity of the fandoms for the Uyghurs.
If we look at the most retweeted images, the variations of the memes are not much, considering the hashtag is WTT.
The blue flag with crescent, blue masked face, and Ozil are the top icons of the images.
Initially, the hashtag was started by Turkish users. Most popular posts by @TunahanKaplann, @canayakin, @romantcfilozof, etc.
Memes and cartoon were created, and the most popular icon is a blue masked face.
The social network shows a cluster of Turkish and a cluster international users.
The trend was exploded as of 19:00 (WIB), when K-Pop Fandoms spread the hashtag.
Account @lila_la01 call the army to keep using the tag, and reach all people, organizations, and media in their network.
This social network clearly shows the international network of K-Pop fandoms. Indonesian cluster started to appear.
The K-Pop fandoms continued to spread the awareness. Among the top influencers are @aiesyahxhumaira, @reemnya, @my_btsarmy, etc.
Few memes were repeatedly shared, and the iconic blue masked face is the most popular one.
The Turkish cluster disappeared, the K-Pop fandoms getting bigger, as well as Indonesian cluster.
The K-Pop Fandoms spread further, to other languages than English, called the Armys to use their voices to speak.
Indonesian users @R4jaPurwa and @mas_piyuuu shared popular memes in their cluster.
This social network shows the mighty of the K-Pop Fandoms.
New clusters of Brazilians and Portuguese fans joined.
The K-Pop Fandoms keep spreading their voices: No need to be Muslim but this is a matter of humanity and justice.
Top 5 influencers: @min_miso_yoongi, @prazertom, @aleynaorsdemir, @btss117, and @Reemnya.
The power of the K-Pop Fandoms still can be seen in this network. The Indonesian cluster is getting stronger.
The Hongkong ralliers for Uyghurs just beat by Hkpolice.
The voices from K-Pop Fandoms were slowing down.
Then Indonesian cluster toke the lead. @R4jaPurwa is among the top 5 influencers now.
The Indonesian cluster shows their power when the international K-Pop Fandoms were slowing.
- The #China_is_Terrorist hashtag was initially started by Turkish users.
- The hashtag cannot be an international trending tropic, until the K-Pop Fandoms jump in. They spread their voices to share the awareness of the injustice toward Uyghurs.
- Indonesian users contributed a big cluster in the conversation. They are mostly from the opposition cluster.
- In total, more than 1 million conversations supporting the hashtag, within 3 days.
I will sleep now, for a long journey tomorrow (eh today evening).