ironically, its actually both in this case.

The k-pop stuff successfully fooled people and Trump into thinking there would be hundreds of thousands of people there. BUT its not the kind of trick that would have prevented Trump supporters from actually filling up the stadium because Trump fans should have still shown up in enough numbers to at least fill the stadium. If anything it could be argued that it would bolster the numbers if they thought it would be a movement kind of thing.

thats kind of the beauty of it. the whole thing managed to make Trump both look like a total moron and look wildly unpopular.

The K-Pop/Zoomer prank is the reason the expected a larger turnout and kept touting such, but the low turnout does speak for itself. Why it was low us up in the air, could be Corona concerns or it could be simultaneous Candlejack ki