Teenagers hollowed out Trump’s Tulsa rally by reserving tickets en masse.

Evidence

A few days later, on June 10, President Trump announced his decision to host a rally for his 2020 re-election campaign in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in what would be his first major campaign event since the pandemic’s outbreak in the country in March 2020 (flouting official public health advice for social distancing). In a matter of days, a call for sabotaging the event went viral on Instagram and TikTok. Hundreds of teenagers swiftly reserved tickets for the event with the express aim of never showing up. On June 20, the day of the event, when the president took the stage, the arena looked spectacularly empty—according to reports, about 6,200 supporters were present in a venue with space for 19,000. Much to the surprise of the Trump campaign, the media, and all those watching, it soon transpired that the majority of tickets had been reserved by TikTok saboteurs. — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 302

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