#BlackOutBTS: Race and Self(ie)-Display in Digital Fandom.

Outside commentators frequently use K-pop fan as shorthand to describe any fan of Korean pop music, but fans of different K-pop groups in fact exist in a series of separate, self-differentiated communities. On June 6, 2020, Variety published an exclusive article: K-pop group BTS donate $1 million to Black Lives Matter, becoming the "first in the Koreanpop industry to make [a] public group and label donation after the May 25 death of George Floyd sparked protests of police violence across the country."[1]Variety tweeted the exclusive at 2:47 a.m. (PST), and by 3:19 p.m. (PST), the phrase "ONE MILLION" was trending worldwide on Twitter. 31 Joe Coscarelli, "Why Obsessive K-pop Fans Are Turning toward Political Activism", I New York Times i , June 22, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/arts/music/k-pop-fans-trump-politics.html; Aja Romano, "How K-pop Fans Are Weaponizing the Internet for Black Lives Matter", I Vox i , June 22, 2020, https://www.vox.com/2020/6/8/21279262/k-pop-fans-black-lives-matter-fancams-youtubers-protest-support; Chris Stokel-Walker, "Military Discipline and Weaponized Hashtags: How K-pop Fans Trolled Trump in Tulsa", I The Telegraph i , June 22, 2020, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/artists/military-discipline-weaponised-hashtags-k-pop-fans-trolled-trump/; Matthew Rozsa, "How K-pop Fans and TikTok Users Came Together to Humiliate Trump in Tulsa", I Salon i , June 22, 2020, https://www.salon.com/2020/06/22/how-k-pop-fans-and-tiktok-users-came-together-to-humiliate-trump-in-tulsa/. [Extracted from the article]