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.
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Charge $5-10 refundable upon ticket scan on entry to the venue!!!
Problem solved!!
K Pop??
My money is on the Palo Alto mafia
AOC is so Happy ,LOL
They identified themselves as a fraud.
Track IP addresses of those signing up for tickets.
Um....Really?
Time to take America back!
Why bother. The bogus information will be purged on the next round of Emails.
Whatever folks posted to register is not relevant.
The gold is in the metadata, and the network of contacts and relationships, browsing history, etc
Not safe.
WE BETTER!!! Otherwise America is finished..vote like your life depends on it because it does
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.
ping for a later read.
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.
Ping for a later read.
Yeah, well the last laugh is on you TikTok K-Poper guys, gals and whatever, because 4 million watched along from home. 8>)
Corona scam is Bullshit and it ended 2 months ago
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.
Uh, no they didn't.
[The process tracks people.
Letting people in anonymously... not a great idea.]
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.
....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....
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