How activist K-pop fans are trolling QAnon

Activist fans of South Korean pop music have taken the fight to the conspiracy heartland by trolling the trolls.

Fans of K-pop girl group Blackpink are among the activists turning the tactics of QAnon upon itself.

Olivia Carville

Nov 27, 2020 – 9.37am

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Even by the standards of US politics in the accursed year 2020, the wall of thrusting digital crotches was weird. One day in June, barely a week after a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd and ignited nationwide protests, people started tweeting #WhiteLivesMatter so frequently that it became one of Twitter’s most popular hashtags worldwide.

The white supremacist phrase is a call to arms within QAnon, the militant sect that believes God sent President Trump to defeat a shadowy cabal of paedophiles and child traffickers (some conspiracists have claimed the presidential election outcome was part of Trump's plan to smoke out the deep state).

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