Anti-Millay Swift fan group posts “Millay = Trump”
The performance on the 9th… Opposition posters will be put up outside the concert venue.
Vice-presidential candidate Villarruel’s past disparaging remarks about BTS were also controversial.
Ahead of the Argentine presidential runoff election on the 19th, presidential candidate Javier Millay and vice-presidential candidate Victoria Villarruel from the far-right Liberty Forward Party are receiving criticism from the Taylor Swift fandom and the BTS fandom.
According to the New York Times (NYT) on the 4th (local time), the ‘Swifties Against Freedom Advances’ group, made up of fans of American pop star Taylor Swift, posted on social media (SNS) ‘Millay = Trump’. ‘I posted a post that said,
The group, made up of 10 of Swift’s Argentine fans, issued a press release urging other fans to vote against Millay. They said they were inspired by Swift’s past efforts to stand up to right-wing politicians in the United States.
“We have heard and seen Swift giving everything she has to prevent the right from winning in America,” the group said. “We have no choice but to fight,” he said. “As he says, we have to be on the right side of history.”
The organization said that the statement received 1.5 million views on ‘X’ (formerly Twitter) before the account was suspended without further explanation.
Millay placed second in Argentina’s elections last month and advanced to the runoff election on the 19th. Regarding the opposition group made up of Swift fans, Millais said on a radio broadcast, “I’m not from the extreme right,” and “They can express what they want.”
Taylor Swift will continue her ‘Dieras Tour’ in Buenos Aires on the 9th. He has not commented publicly on the Argentine election.
Macarena, one of the members of the ‘Swifties Against the Liberty Forward Party’, said she runs a WhatsApp group of 140 fans in Buenos Aires and plans to put up posters opposing Millais outside Swift’s concert venue.
His running mate, vice presidential candidate Victoria Villarruel, is being criticized by BTS’s Army, another large fandom.
A social media post he wrote in 2020 in which he compared the name BTS to a sexually transmitted disease became controversial again last week. He also made comments mocking the dyed hair color of some members, such as “I hate Koreans with pink hair.”
BTS fans said that Villarruel’s comments served to strengthen their dislike of Millay.
Villarruel recently defended himself against criticism from the BTS fandom, saying, “It was part of a fun chat from 1,000 years ago.”
BTS members have also never mentioned the Argentine presidential election. However, the NYT reported that the BTS fandom has enough political power to reserve seats and not show up at the 2020 Trump rally held in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, contributing to lower attendance.
Source: Donga
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