TikTok was largely unknown to the American public until [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]] name-dropped the platform while bragging online about TikTok being used to largely cut into attendance at a Donald Trump rally in [[Tulsa]] during the [[2020 presidential election]] campaign via fake ticket registrations by teenage anti-Trump TikTok users (some of which she also identified as fans of Korean pop music, or "K-Pop") who would then no-show the event, done with the intent of sabotaging the rally by preventing legitimate attendance by Trump supporters (who were also slandered by Ocasio-Cortez as "white supremacists").<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-gloats-that-trumps-tulsa-turnout-was-sabotaged-by-teens-on-tiktok AOC gloats that Trump’s Tulsa turnout was sabotaged by ‘teens on TikTok’] at Fox News</ref> | TikTok was largely unknown to the American public until [[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez]] name-dropped the platform while bragging online about TikTok being used to largely cut into attendance at a Donald Trump rally in [[Tulsa]] during the [[2020 presidential election]] campaign via fake ticket registrations by teenage anti-Trump TikTok users (some of which she also identified as fans of Korean pop music, or "K-Pop") who would then no-show the event, done with the intent of sabotaging the rally by preventing legitimate attendance by Trump supporters (who were also slandered by Ocasio-Cortez as "white supremacists").<ref>[https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-gloats-that-trumps-tulsa-turnout-was-sabotaged-by-teens-on-tiktok AOC gloats that Trump’s Tulsa turnout was sabotaged by ‘teens on TikTok’] at Fox News</ref> |