TikTok influencer ignites huge feud between Philippines and Korea, starting the #CancelKorea move

[milotic2]

Facebook postBella Poarch, a Filipino TikTok celebrity with 27 million followers, uploaded a dance video on the platform, in said video, a tattoo of the rising sun can be seen on her forearm, immediately prompting Korean users to unleash a barrage of hate towards her, with many of Bella’s countrymen defending her. The incident escalated in such

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[doriiansz]

A fucking app so powerful it's been banned in the US and now ignites a dispute between citizens of two Asian countries/

27 million followers/

I hate this timeline so much...

[iznanassi]

It literally almost became a diplomatic incident, it was insane. And now there are conspiracy theorists/sinophobes who think the people who were fanning flames on the korean side are actually chinese bots out to ruin SK's reputation. It's wild.

[euraylie]

I thought I saw where this girl had no real social media presence until March this year (that she’s older than she says and has been in the military) and her email was registered to a company who proclaims to create viral issues

[slaygalthessily]

It’s not banned, tho. A deal was worked out the day it was supposed to.

[manu19]

I thought China was like NOPE

[slaygalthessily]

I went to check in the App Store and it was supposed to be gone from there last Sunday and it’s still there. I don’t remember the details but tiktok sent me a notification about it.

[dorawa]

Oracle and Walmart promised to "secure their servers" so hey, now it's not China monitoring you, but America! And that was good enough to keep it open! Go USA!

[senshicalico]

I was wondering, because the day came and went without a peep about it.

[slaygalthessily]

From what I know, a deal was in place but was pending approval from trump or something. Obviously it was approved cuz you can still download it. I don’t remember the details.