K-pop enthusiasts are very passionate about everything they do for their idols: from buying billboards to wish their idols a happy birthday, to “fan actions” like printing banners so that the entire audience of a concert can endure.
Carats (fans of boy band Seventeen) who saw their idols last Thursday (October 13) at their Be The Sun concert at Singapore’s indoor stadium stepped up and took their determination and organizational skills to the next level, creating a spreadsheet to track Covid-19 infections.
On Saturday night, enthusiasts began sharing their positive effects of the immediate antigen test (ART) on Twitter, indicating which segment they were sitting in and their tail numbers, to warn others.
With the imminent risk of XBB’s Omicron subvariant of Covid-19, Carats took no chances.
A Twitter user named Mia compiling the tweets into a singles Twitter feed.
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The enthusiasts then went a step further by compiling the data into a comprehensive spreadsheet called Be The Sun SG Covid Tracker. It’s organized into 12 tabs that add the other available seat categories and status tickets, and further down into other seating sections within the category. .
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Fans indexed the effects of their ART tests, the symptoms they were experiencing and also noted “your whereabouts and what you were wearing, so others would know if they were near you” in a comment column.
Fans meticulously noted what time they arrived, where they went for lunch and which teams of fans they interacted with, while leaving positive notes and apologies to those they contacted.
A TikTok user named Xuanlai shared the spreadsheet in a video captioning, “Another bites the dust,” but later commented that “internet trolls got hold of the link. “
The trolls allegedly manipulated the spreadsheet and deleted the entries.
It doesn’t matter, because the Carats, undeterred, took what they could and created a Google way to verify valid answers before adding them to the new spreadsheet.
The Tracker 2. 0 is now a read-only spreadsheet that, at the time of writing, has only about two hundred responses.
There were positive vibes everywhere, no pun intended, like enthusiasts to stay hydrated and even controlled to inject humor into their situation.
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