K-Pop Stans Are Swarming Platforms Online to Support Black Lives Matter

Starting Tuesday, social media users showed support for the police brutality protests in cities across the country, posting blacked out images and using the hashtag #BlackoutTuesday. It was a small sign of solidarity, though some activists and observers criticized it as ineffective at best and counterproductive at worst. Still, since this is the Internet and the idea that black people shouldn’t be gunned down by cops is triggering for racists, a counter-campaign sprung up by Wednesday: #WhiteoutTuesday.On Instagram and Twitter, people started posting images of completely white squares, along with the hashtag #WhiteoutTuesday and captions like “WHITE LIVES MATTER” and
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