Thread by @BW

The BTS Army and K-pop stans are beating QAnon and MAGA supporters at their own game trib.al/NIBCCdm

In the past few months, K-pop stans have regularly hijacked QAnon and MAGA social media hashtags. They’ve led get-out-the-vote efforts against the president. And many were among the online pranksters who boasted about helping derail a Trump rally in Tulsa trib.al/NIBCCdm

This spring, Daezy Agbakoba was the first to tweet the hashtag #MatchAMillion, imploring her fellow stans to add another $1 million to BTS’s Black Lives Matter donation.

They did so in a little over 24 hours trib.al/NIBCCdm

ARMY has also pushed its avatars to take a more active role in the U.S. protest movement. Jiye Kim, a 26-year-old high school teacher who runs one of the biggest BTS fan accounts, felt pressure from fellow stans to speak out against George Floyd’s murder trib.al/NIBCCdm

One fascinating figure from this story: South Korea’s culture ministry estimates that BTS's hit single Dynamite will contribute $1.4 billion to the nation’s economy trib.al/NIBCCdm

BTS stans built the trolling blueprint for 4chan types, and they’ve proven they can disrupt it. Read the full story here: trib.al/NIBCCdm