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Write What You Know, part 14
Jun. 21st, 2020 12:10 am#271: "It's not a stupid idea, but it won't work."
Jun. 21st, 2020
So, by now most people know that a bunch of teens on TikTok, mostly in K-pop Stan groups, royally punked the president by reserving tickets to his rally in Oklahoma. There's been a lot of information and misinformation and speculation about the event, so let me add my own:
- Reserving the tickets did not prevent anyone from getting into the rally. There was no limit on the number of tickets reserved. Which means those 6,000 people who did get in were the only 6,000 people who wanted in.
- 800,000 tickets were reserved, for a venue that seats 19,000, with an overflow space capable of handling another 5,000. Only an idiot would think that this meant 800,000 people were actually planning on showing up. Only a complete moron would think this meant "over a million" people were planning on going.
So what did they accomplish?
- It made the trump campaign look silly when they claimed "over a million" people were attending, and magnified the humiliation of having such a low turnout on this, his first rally after months of not holding them.
- It pollutes the database. A lot. A database full of people who are gullible enough to support trump is worth a lot of money to other candidates and marketers in general. The trump campaign sells to a lot of spammers. Those kids are going to be getting a lot of email selling viagra and testosterone cream to the burner accounts they used to reserve their tickets. The trump campaign is going to have a much harder time selling a list of 800,000 people when it's known that over 99% of them are fake accounts used by k-pop stans not actual trump supporters.
- It apparently royally pissed of the idiot clown puppet himself, who was angry at seeing all the empty seats, and, when he's looking for someone to blame, all he can come up with are internet-savvy teens which is going to be hilarious when he tries to lash out at them for it.
- Reserving the tickets did not prevent anyone from getting into the rally. There was no limit on the number of tickets reserved. Which means those 6,000 people who did get in were the only 6,000 people who wanted in.
- 800,000 tickets were reserved, for a venue that seats 19,000, with an overflow space capable of handling another 5,000. Only an idiot would think that this meant 800,000 people were actually planning on showing up. Only a complete moron would think this meant "over a million" people were planning on going.
So what did they accomplish?
- It made the trump campaign look silly when they claimed "over a million" people were attending, and magnified the humiliation of having such a low turnout on this, his first rally after months of not holding them.
- It pollutes the database. A lot. A database full of people who are gullible enough to support trump is worth a lot of money to other candidates and marketers in general. The trump campaign sells to a lot of spammers. Those kids are going to be getting a lot of email selling viagra and testosterone cream to the burner accounts they used to reserve their tickets. The trump campaign is going to have a much harder time selling a list of 800,000 people when it's known that over 99% of them are fake accounts used by k-pop stans not actual trump supporters.
- It apparently royally pissed of the idiot clown puppet himself, who was angry at seeing all the empty seats, and, when he's looking for someone to blame, all he can come up with are internet-savvy teens which is going to be hilarious when he tries to lash out at them for it.