Elon Musk recently conducted a poll on X, asking whether federal employees should report their accomplishments weekly, which received over 70% support from voters. Subsequently, the U.S. Office of Personnel Management sent emails to federal workers demanding a list of five accomplishments, with Musk warning that failure to respond would be interpreted as resignation. This directive has prompted a wave of online resistance, with users on various social media platforms planning to spam the email address with nonsensical responses, reflecting a history of such tactics against controversial requests.
Consistent with [President Donald Trump's] instructions, all federal employees will shortly receive an email requesting to understand what they got done last week. Failure to respond will be taken as a resignation.
This online vigilantism sometimes coalesces within particular communities, like the K-pop fandom. In 2020, Dallas police requested that people send them videos of illegal activity taking place during protests following the police killing of George Floyd; instead, fans of Korean superstars like BTS spammed the police department's app with nonsensical fancam videos.
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