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  • 2020-06-01 (xsd:date)
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  • Did Dallas Police Tweet About ‘Technical Difficulties’ After Kpop... (en)
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  • Did Dallas Police Tweet About ‘Technical Difficulties’ After Kpop Stans ‘Spammed’ Their ‘Snitch App’? Claim The Dallas Police Department requested anonymous tips about illegal activity during protests over the killing of George Floyd, but after Kpop fans organized mass spamming, the police account said that their app had technical difficulties. Rating True Like this fact check? Reporting On May 31 2020, the following tweet offered a story in 4 acts — Dallas Police requesting recordings of purported illegal activity during protests over the death of George Floyd, two tweets from fans of the popular musical genre Kpop encouraging others to send their fancams to the app to jam it, and a fourth tweet in which @DallasPD admitted their iWatch app was experiencing technical difficulties: A story in 4 acts 💕shout out to stan Twitter mobilizing for chaotic good we love this song ✨ pic.twitter.com/rqqRdxk8f8 — Comorienne 🇰🇲 (@_ShamGod) June 1, 2020 The Story The story spread quickly, in part as commentary on the general odd constellations of activity in the year 2020: 2020 really making us put the most wild words together like kpop twitter smashed a dallas snitch app with fancams https://t.co/0avQEjKFAx Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die — CASKET RHYTHM 🔥 BLM (@HYENABLOOD) June 1, 2020 What Is Kpop? Korean pop music and popular culture . What are ‘stans’? Stans are overzealous fans of any given thing, the name coming from the Eminem song Stan (a dark track about an obsessive fan). What are fancams? Now we’re getting a little more arcane. Fancams are closely associated with the very emphatic and enthusiastic Kpop fan base: Basically, a fancam is footage focusing on a single member of a band, usually while the group is performing. It can also be used for solo artists, because different fans will capture different points of view of the same event. Any fan’s footage can be a fancam, though many die-hards like to follow fansites for more professional footage of their favorite member. Fansites are websites run by one or multiple fans who are dedicated to one specific idol or group. How Did It All Go Down? In the early hours of May 31 2020, @DallasPD asked via Twitter for anyone with recordings, footage, audio, or images of illegal activity to anonymously submit it to the Dallas Police Department via an app called iWatch: If you have video of illegal activity from the protests and are trying to share it with @DallasPD , you can download it to our iWatch Dallas app. You can remain anonymous. @ChiefHallDPD @CityOfDallas — Dallas Police Dept (@DallasPD) May 31, 2020 At some point after that, in a deleted but widely shared tweet, a Twitter user asked her followers to download the app and send fancams and other content to the app — effectively preventing police from identifying protesters. Links to the tweet lived on in retweets : SEND AS MANY FANCAMS, SMUT, P0RN, AND EDITS AS YOU CAN PLEASEEE https://t.co/bzp1Iuc2uh — i must defend kim jennie on the internet (@jentlebi) May 31, 2020 Although that person later deleted the tweet, it was not because she intended to discourage the action. She later retweeted and tweeted about possible identification of participants through tracking data and app permissions: every phone has an imei so they can track you even if you're sending videos anonymously, if there's a site you can use for that i suggest you to do it from a computer with vpn instead https://t.co/6lyX0uBfPP — ale | rosé solo (prod. suga) (@mygrosie) May 31, 2020 it's been brought to my attention that the dallas app is allowed to get all ur personal info nd stuff when you download it. i tweeted saying for people to download the app, and i'll be deleting that tweet because obv p0l!ce getting ur info is not good. i am so sorry. don't do it — j (@ngelwy) June 1, 2020 It isn’t exactly clear when the initial tweets by Kpop stans began. But the send as many fancams tweet above was published at 6:38 PM on May 31 2020. As of 7:26 PM, the Dallas Police Department indicated their iWatch app (called a snitch app by people involved in the discourse) was down temporarily owing to technical difficulties: Due to technical difficulties iWatch Dallas app will be down temporarily. pic.twitter.com/zksA1hkVhV — Dallas Police Dept (@DallasPD) May 31, 2020 So, Did K-Pop Stans Thwart @DallasPD’s iWatch ‘Snitch App’? It is true that not long after K-Pop stans banded together to flood Dallas Police’s iWatch app with fancams, @DallasPD took the app down and reported technical difficulties. It’s possible that mass action involving a flood of unwanted, irrelevant content led to the app being taken offline, or that related spamming of the app frustrated the department. It is also true that Kpop stans responded to the call, and true that the app was subsequently taken down. The order of events as provided is correct, even if the exact reasons @DallasPD took the app down remained unknown. Posted in Fact Checks , Viral Content Tagged black lives matter , dallas iwatch , dallas police , dallaspd , direct action , George Floyd , kpop , kpop stans , stans , viral facebook posts , viral tweets (en)
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