Shortly after it was revealed that BTS_twt and BigHitEnt had pledged $1 million to Black Lives Matter, the BTS ARMY vowed to match the donation -- which they did within 24 hours.
ARMY, as the group’s legion of followers are known, assembled and vowed to match the donation — which it did within 24 hours., drowning out white-supremacist messages with nonsensical or anti-racist posts, and also flooded the Dallas Police Department’s iWatch Dallas app with K-pop content in place of footage of protestors.
The moves demonstrated fans’ formidable social-media power and was met with wide approval online early Wednesday morning.match the groups $1 million donation was accomplished within a day of the news, hitting $1,026,531 with 35,609 donors. The donation project was set up by One In an Army, a group of volunteers who have come together to help organizations across the globe uniting in their love of BTS.
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