K-pop followers sabotage uribista “hashtags” to “delegitimize social protest”

The mobilizations within the framework of the national strike did not only take place in the streets. Social networks, in addition to being used to make visible the days of demonstrations, as well as cases of police violence and vandalism, have also become a scene for expressing non-conformities.

The last days, calls on strike days, for the resignation of Minister Alberto Carrasquilla, were promoted by hashtags. Against this background, on May 3, there was a curious trend that caught attention on Twitter.

The hashtag # UribeTieneLaRazon, which began to be used by supporters of the leader of the former President of the Republic and leader of the Democratic Center, to support him, ended up being a trend K-pop. Because? It turns out that thousands of users have started to sabotage it.

According to K-pop fans, They went to download content related to this popular musical genre in South Korea to prevent Álvaro Uribe and his supporters from delegitimizing social protest. This was stated by user @brightellie.

What this Twitter user has to offer those who support the national strike or are against Uribe’s hashtag comments # UribeTieneLaRazon denounce them for spam.

But the sabotage applies not only to the hashtag in question, but to others such as #YoApoyoAlEsmad Yes # YoApoyoALaFuerzaP Pública, which, although trending tonight, is accompanied by content related to K-pop. Thus, the words of Uribe’s supporters lose their meaning.

This way of sabotaging those who users believe seek to undermine the legitimacy of social protest started with the hashtag #LaVozDeUribeWe are all, used by the followers of the former president and former senator in rejection of the trill that Twitter eliminated him for having glorified violence.

The comment shared by Uribe, rejected by mayors like Daniel Quintero, and to which many attribute the abuse of the public force attested by NGOs such as Tremors Yes Human Rights Watch, was the following:

“Support the right of soldiers and police to use their weapons to defend their integrity and to defend people and property against the criminal action of terrorism of vandalism,” wrote the former senator.

“To prevent third parties from being inspired to commit acts of violence, we have asked the account owner (Álvaro Uribe) to delete the tweet”said the social network. But, before that, the boycott of K-pop fans had already started.

So much so that on May 2 user @ LeonardoBorCua1 posted: “To my K-pop friends, I bring you a new mission (…) as they sabotaged the hashtag #LaVozDeUribeSomosTodos, I invite you to sabotage #YaDesbloquearon “.

On Twitter, there were those who took advantage of the trend to make their favorite artists visible, such as user @yesungcontrol, who shared: “I take the opportunity to promote this beautiful being who is coming out today. 4th solo album, They will not regret it because it is better to be a fan of a Korean than a Uribista ”.

What Twitter explained to eliminate Uribe’s trill is that it has attempted to tackle the violation of policies related to glorifying violence, which is violated by glorifying, praising, tolerating or celebrating. cases such as:

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