45's Coronavirus Festival Flops

[itsalanisbitch]

Teenage TikTok users and K-pop fans claimed to have registered potentially hundreds of thousands of tickets for President Trump's campaign rally as a prank to ruin the event. https://t.co/ARPZ0BNaIu
- The New York Times (@nytimes) June 21, 2020
Donal Trump returned to the campaign trail yesterday to spread his lies and coronavirus in Tulsa, Oklahoma

Comments

[maclou]

This made me so happy but at the same time I'm trying not to be too gleeful cos u know he'll come right back and win the election... but it's so hard.

Oh and it's so annoying to see ppl falling over themselves to give kpop stans credit for what exactly? For requesting free tickets? When this is something people have been doing the whole time. That's not what stopped him from having a full arena... ppl are out there like YOU SAVED LIVES, lmao no?

[tsarinakate1]

It is really annoying honestly. People have been doing this for his rallies for the last few years. It doesn't give you a real ticket, it doesn't stop his real fans from going there and getting in, and allows his campaign to say rhey had big numbers if people who wanted to be there. There's no actual evidence this prevented him from filling the place. This is credit for a relatively empty gesture

[maclou]

Exactly! I mean the only thing it gave us was that MAYBE for a bit his campaign people truly believed they'd have many more people, them putting the outdoor stage out only to have to take it down cos there were no one out there to speak to was pretty hilarious but realistically the campaign was going to lie about how many supporters were coming/were there anyway...

[gumby]

Can you explain this? I'm sure some hardcore fans will always go, but if I'm trying to register for a ticket, and I can't, I'm going to assume there are no more spaces and that's going to deter me from going. Not disagreeing with you, I just don't understand how this whole thing works.

[tsarinakate1]

Yeah they use those regustrations for planning purposes not actual tickets to get into the event, everyone who clicked thats link and said they were coming got a virtual ticket. They didn't stop giving 'tickets' away after they met the cqpacity of the venue - they were going to let the firat 19000 people who were there and in line in the venue no matter what.

So this just allows the Trump campaign to both say they got 1 million people who wanted to come, AND also alllows him and the mainstream media to blame poor attendance on 'kids'instead of what the potential real reasons were (COVID and lack of interest)

[tube_fiend]

Trump rallies have typically not required any form of ticket. They did so this time because it included a waiver of liability for contracting COVID. And they used it as a form of data mining to get phone numbers of potential supporters

[skyler_white_yo]

If 19,000 MAGA hats wanted to be there, they would have been there. I think it’s funny that so many people trolled by requesting tickets, and the campaign was completely unaware that it was happening. But I don’t think the Kpop/TikTok Trolling would have kept people from showing up, people didn’t show up because they knew it wasn’t safe or his popularity is waning.

[maclou]

Oh yeah it's funny that all the requests helped the campaign believe their own hype and that maybe they actually thought he was going to have a huge overflow based off of them!

[war_machine_rox]

Sorry, but who is in your icon?

[maclou]

It's Matsumura Tomoya from SUPER DRAGON haha

[sandstorm]

Right, I'm not here to shit on kids but filling out fake info did not stop anyone who wanted to be there.

[invisiblegirlx]

I guess the point is they succeeded in getting the campaign to make fools of themselves planning for hundreds of thousands instead of cancelling the event to avoid embarrassment.

[tsarinakate1]

Yeah but its being reported as they stopped so many people showing up and thats why attendance was down, but there's no actual evidence for that

[goldenhera]

Yes, and that's the hilarious part! I just wish that was being said and not this ~Kpop stans saved lives~ narrative which is goofy and wrong. The people who requested tickets thoroughly embarrassed the Trump campaign who probably thought that--despite Trump taking a drubbing in polls--this Tulsa rally would show that his base is still as strong as ever. Again, I think it's hilarious--the campaign set up an overflow stage because they truly thought tons of people would come hahahaha--but let's be real about what actually happened.

[wormsinthedirt]

It annoys me too. Like the reality is better, which is that not enough people wanted to go. Not sure what this made up narrative accomplishes.

[aiyaiyai]

i feel like most people just think it's an amusing anecdote about gen z or savoring the idea of 45 being one step closer to a fatal stroke because of the humiliating media coverage. within days brad parscale had tweeted about receiving requests for 300,000 then 800,000 tickets and the "epic" turnout they were expecting, presumably based on the tiktok and kpop teens artificially inflating the appearance of high demand with bogus signups. I think 45 and his campaign honestly did expect more people to show up based on the online signups, assumed they would easily fill a 19,000 seat arena, and hyped the rally nonstop because of it. like hell even a 0.1% turnout would have been better than...what transpired yesterday. but yeah at the end of the day this temporary blow to his ego is meaningless.