美國時間20日，美國總統(tǒng)特朗普在俄克拉荷馬州塔爾薩市舉行競選集會。這可是數(shù)月來特朗普團隊舉辦的首場競選活動，然而沒想到現(xiàn)場的“火熱”程度卻出乎他們的意料。
圖源：美聯(lián)社網(wǎng)站 拍攝于美國時間21日周日早的白宮南草坪，特朗普結(jié)束競選集會返回華盛頓
當天的集會活動，能容納近19000人的體育場留下了大片空席。而在此前，特朗普曾宣稱該活動的預(yù)訂人數(shù)大約在100萬！
Ahead of his Saturday night rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma, U.S. President Donald Trump bragged that he had about 1 million RSVPs. But when the arena didn't even reach its 19,000-person capacity,
特朗普發(fā)表演講時，場內(nèi)約有三分之一的座位是空著的。
塔爾薩市政府官員原本預(yù)測會有10萬人或更多人聚集到市中心。不過，在集會開始前幾小時，到場民眾數(shù)量低于預(yù)期，集會舉辦方取消了一旦人數(shù)過多而移至戶外舉行的備案。
根據(jù)當?shù)叵啦块T的統(tǒng)計，入場觀眾大約有6200人。
The Tulsa Fire Department tallied the crowd at about 6,200 people.
圖源：CNN網(wǎng)站
這場競選集會原定在6月19日美國“六月節(jié)”（ “六月節(jié)”又稱自由日或解放日，一般認為是標志美國奴隸制終結(jié)的日子）舉行，但因引發(fā)爭議延后一天。舉辦地塔爾薩曾于1921年發(fā)生白人攻擊黑人事件并引發(fā)騷亂，為美國歷史上最嚴重的種族暴力事件之一。
Trump initially was scheduled to hold the rally last Friday, which would have fallen on Juneteenth and in Tulsa — the site of one of the worst incidents of racial violence in US history — was met with widespread criticism amid nationwide protests about police brutality and racial inequality. The campaign eventually moved it one day later.
那么，這100萬的預(yù)訂和現(xiàn)場人數(shù)的巨大反差，是如何形成的？CNN給出了答案：網(wǎng)友！
圖源：CNN網(wǎng)站
在集會前，社交媒體上的網(wǎng)友們，呼吁大家去注冊預(yù)訂特朗普的競選活動，但最后上并不出席。
Prior to the rally, people on social media platforms encouraged people to register to attend Trump's event — and not attend.
據(jù)CNN報道，瑪麗·喬·勞普可以算是本次活動的發(fā)起人之一。她發(fā)布視頻，還打上了“TikTok Grandma,”的標簽，點贊超過70萬。
CNN had reported that a TikTok video posted by Mary Jo Laupp, who uses the hashtag #TikTokGrandma, was helping lead the charge. The video now has more than 700,000 likes.
“所有那些想看到這個1.9萬人的場館空空如也的人，現(xiàn)在就去預(yù)定門票，然后把他（特朗普）一個人留在臺上”，她在視頻中說。。
"All of those of us that want to see this 19,000 seat auditorium barely filled or completely empty go reserve tickets now and leave him standing alone there on the stage," she said in the video.
受到啟發(fā)的網(wǎng)友們紛紛發(fā)布類似視頻，在Instagram上或者在推特上，都能收獲成千上萬的點贊。
Inspired users began posting videos showing they registered for the event — similar posts on Instagram and Twitter clocked up thousands of likes.
在無數(shù)網(wǎng)友中，CNN則認為這次事件的中堅力量是他們：韓流粉絲。
其中就有有一條視頻的觀看量超過了30萬次，該視頻呼吁“韓流”粉絲都參與進來。CNN指出，社交媒體上的“韓流”粉絲已經(jīng)是一股不可忽視的力量——僅去年一年他們的推文數(shù)量就超過了60億。
One video, with more than 300,000 views, called on fans of South Korean pop music in particular to join the trolling campaign. Fans of the music, which is known as K-pop, are a force on social media — they posted over six billion tweets last year alone.
數(shù)月來，“韓流”粉絲利用自己在社交網(wǎng)絡(luò)上的巨大聲量，實現(xiàn)了改變。6月初，“韓流”粉絲也參與到了“黑人的命也是命”的運動中，直接淹沒包括“白人的命也是命”等反非洲裔標簽推文。
In the past month alone, K-pop fans have used their vast social media networks to effect change. Earlier this month K-pop fans rallied around the Black Lives Matter movement, drowning out "White Lives Matter" and other anti-black hashtags.
此外，達拉斯的警察部門曾號召推特網(wǎng)友提供“抗議活動中不法行為”，并發(fā)送給IWatch Dallas應(yīng)用，隨后“韓流”粉絲上傳海量明星片段，導(dǎo)致該應(yīng)用崩潰。
After the Dallas Police Department asked people on Twitter to submit video of "illegal activity from the protests" to its IWatch Dallas app, K-pop fans flooded the app with fancams — or clips of K-pop idols — prompting the app to crash.
不過，特朗普團隊則否認海外抖音用戶及“韓流”粉絲影響了其集會活動。團隊負責(zé)人表示，“虛假訂票從沒在我們考慮范圍內(nèi)”，因為活動參與者的機會，都是先到先得。
Trump's re-election team has rejected claims that a social media campaign by TikTok users and K-Pop fans was behind the lower-than-expected turnout for Saturday night's Oklahoma rally. The team's campaign director said in a statement that "phony ticket requests never factor into our thinking" as entry to rallies is on a first-come first-served basis.
CNN報道則指出，目前尚不清楚“韓流”粉絲是否大量預(yù)訂了特朗普該次集會的門票。
It is not clear if K-Pop fans have registered for the Trump Tulsa rally in big numbers.
美國總統(tǒng)選舉四年一度，2020年總統(tǒng)選舉定于11月3日舉行。屆時，特朗普將與已鎖定民主黨總統(tǒng)候選人提名的美國前副總統(tǒng)拜登角逐下屆總統(tǒng)。
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