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Asia Romano is a culture reporter for Vox.com who writes about the Internet.

And a few weeks ago, Asia noticed something interesting was going on on

Twitter something that involved the Dallas Police Department and an app.

So during the first week of the national protests over George Floyd

near the end of May the Dallas Police Department put out a tweet slash

announcement on social media asking for people to send them videos of illegal

activity from the protests and they wanted people to use a special app that they created named the Iwatch Dallas app which basically

allows people in the area to upload videos and other media of things in their

area that they think are suspicious and the police can sort of monitor

these videos that people are uploading through the app.

So fancams are sort of notorious, especially on Twitter, because they often are used to completely derail threads.

So say if you post a thread about your cat here dog and it goes viral, you may find your

thread spammed with K-pop fans being like, check out my favorite idol, check out my favorite

group.

So they've gotten to be sort of a notorious thing on social media.

But in this specific case, the K-Popop fandom responded to this call by the Dallas police

by spamming the app, the I Watch Dallas app with fancams, to the extent that the app actually

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