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I know everyone loves to give credit to the teens and yes they did make this a big trend on TikTok for a week. But this “prank” was also shared widely on Insta, snap, Kpop twitter, and #resistance FB too. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/20/us/politics/tulsa-trump-rally.html
It was also of course covered by the incomporable @donie and others last week, which further stoked the “prank” and encouraged even more ppl online to participate https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/16/politics/tiktok-trump-tulsa-rally-trnd/index.html
Anyway this trend/prank whatever u want to call it undoubtedly inflated expectations for a rally that totally bombed on its own https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/style/tiktok-trump-rally-tulsa.html
Did the whole rally bomb because of this prank? No of course not. But this “prank” did succeed in getting the campaign to promote bogus numbers that undoubtedly shifted public expectations of the rally, which made its dismal attendance look even worse https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/style/tiktok-trump-rally-tulsa.html
As Parker notes, that’s on Brad Parscale. https://twitter.com/parkermolloy/status/1274696472903254018?s=21 https://twitter.com/parkermolloy/status/1274696472903254018
NYT has many stories on this rally’s turnout and live coverage. This prank is on my beat which is why I covered it. Stop acting like this was the only story NYT did on the rally, we hit it from all angles, this tiny slice of things is just my wheelhouse https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/style/tiktok-trump-rally-tulsa.html
