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On Saturday the Dallas Police Department asked citizens to turn in videos of people performing “illegal” activities through their app during the protests against police brutality.
If you have video of illegal activity from the protests and are trying to share it with @DallasPD, you can download it to our iWatch Dallas app. You can remain anonymous. @ChiefHallDPD @CityOfDallas
— Dallas Police Dept (@DallasPD) May 31, 2020
Of course, asking people to snitch during protests against the police didn’t sit well with those on the Internet.
THATS WHY YALL NEED TO COVER THEIR FACES PLEASE COVER THEIR FACES FCKING PIGS WILL USE ANYTHING pic.twitter.com/YBXyFGwNi1
— ash⁷ 🇵🇸 (@telepathyfor7) May 31, 2020
Korean Pop (K-pop) twitter fans, who have a large fanbase on the social media app, asked members to flood the app with “fancam” videos. For those who don’t know, fancam videos are fan-shot clips of Korean popstars or groups performing live.
Hey, kpop stans? I need a favor. How many fancams y'all got?
Save a life by uploading fancams to the iWatch Dallas app.
Make sure to leave an honest review too! 💙
Android: https://t.co/PdzzBO4o64
iOS: https://t.co/y3w4W3kAXI pic.twitter.com/5YnvFN5pv9
— Rammy ✨ (@RammyTTV) May 31, 2020
The K-pop fans eventually sent in so many videos that they crashed the app.
Due to technical difficulties iWatch Dallas app will be down temporarily. pic.twitter.com/zksA1hkVhV
— Dallas Police Dept (@DallasPD) May 31, 2020
https://twitter.com/revfestivaI/status/1267237546758672389
https://twitter.com/Loganchance/status/1267245070249410560
https://twitter.com/literalfenty/status/1267245619904761856
not Kpop stans having the Dallas police department app crash by spamming it with fancams lmfaooo
— HOOD VOGUE is tired of poverty (@keyon) June 1, 2020
the dallas police made an app asking people to upload videos of protesters to identify and arrest and kpop stans spammed it with fancams now the app has crashed lmaooooo
— Paula🦋 (@syjungies) June 1, 2020
Kpop community weaponized their fancams to overwhelm the server bandwidth of a Dallas PD snitch app they tried to launch😂💃🕺 https://t.co/aW0UqxbrWl
— Jon📷 (@DunrobinOntario) June 1, 2020
LMFAO THE KPOP GIRLS TOOK DOWN THE IWATCH DALLAS POLICE APP WITH THEIR FANCAMS pic.twitter.com/U9qLFbJKl5
— ᴋᴇʟᴇʟᴀ’ꜱ ʙᴜᴅᴍᴀɴ (@soberthots_) June 1, 2020