About

Big Time Socialists is the nickname given to South Korean K-Pop group BTS by Florida congressional candidate KW Miller on Twitter in July 2020. In the tweet, Miller explains a conspiracy theory that AOC conspired with "K-Pop Agents" to "sabotage the President's rally, referring to Donald Trump's June 2020 Tulsa Rally. The tweet was widely mocked on Twitter and "Big Time Socialists" was reclaimed by K-Pop stans.

Origin

On July 7th, 2020, KW Miller^[1] tweeted, "Last month @AOC worked with KPOP agents via the app TikTok to sabotage the President's rally. KPOP is foreign propaganda. Why was AOC conspiring with Koreans such as Junkook and BTS (Big Time Socialists) to undermine our President? TikTok is Chinese owned. Kim Jong Un knew?" (shown below). The tweet gained over 26,500 retweets and 14,700 likes in a day.

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On July 7th, 2020, Twitter users began responded to the tweet explaining that K-Pop is South Korean. Twitter user @Yasouwildforbts^[2] tweeted, "Boy internet is free Kim Jong US is North Korean not Chinese. And KpOP is SOUTH KOREAN . And king JK is south korean too" to which @candybutternubb responded with a reaction image captioned, "the fact that he said bts stands for big time socialists has me howling" (shown below, left). That same day, Twitter account @People4Bernie^[3] tweeted, "You mean we could have been posting Big Time Socialists memes all cycle and getting KPOP phonebankers?" (shown below, right). The tweet received over 1,300 likes and 263 retweets in a day.

Twitter user @vantesos^[4] responded with images of BTS members captioned, "big time socialists the og comrades" and accumulated over 2,300 likes and 490 retweets in a day (shown below).

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