hi welcome to an episode of k-pop investigations where i basically take a subject and do a little
bit of a deep dive into it and today we are going to be looking into the accusations made towards
irene from red velvet, basically in regards to her bad attitude, fans reactions to this,
sm's reactions to this and finally her own apology to this. also what we can learn in
terms of how we put idols on a pedestal and then get so utterly shocked when things like
this inevitably happen! so if you like these types of videos please don't forget to like
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okay so this whole thing started when a stylist who has been in the industry for 15 years uploaded
an instagram post regarding an unnamed female idol, however despite the fact that the idol was
not named, a lot of people were really quick to point out that it was a member of red velvet and
specifically irene and this is because the stylist actually used the hashtags psycho and monster
and apparently they had also deleted previous posts mentioning irene and seulgi, so this post
in question reads "today on location somewhere in "eul", I was thoroughly stepped on and done
over by one person. even before i met her i heard from others that i needed to be mentally prepared
to meet her, today i was at that brunt of the electric needles shot by her and lost my words i
stood still as if my hands and feet and brain were tied up i became a fool as i could not do anything
in front of someone that was looking at me with such distaste while shuddering, i was hit by the
endless knives she threw at me with her tongue and so i cried i couldn't be bothered with caring
about who i was in front of me and just couldn't contain my tears" and then of course we see the
hashtags "psycho" and "monster" and so a lot of people ended up thinking that it was irene and she
was definitely under a lot of scrutiny for having you know this alleged super bad attitude towards
people that she was working with not only that but apparently even having a history of doing
this, which obviously didn't go over so well with fans but we will get into that later.
so after this post was uploaded, not only do we have the stylist who has been in the industry
for 15 years, we also have other people in the industry who are apparently showing their support
of people are saying you know, if you're going to expose someone just say who their name is,
why do we have to do this type of witch hunt? why can't you just release all of it all at once,
so it seems a little bit more credible. because people are questioning the credibility given
how vague it is, given the fact that no names are mentioned, but i did want to touch on that
very briefly because i feel like it's kind of a trend right? you release information about someone
but you don't say who that someone is, and then fans kind of go into this frenzy trying to find
out who this person is and then they kind of come to that conclusion and i wondered why is that?
why don't people just straight out say, you know, "this person did this" but i think if you're vague
and you don't say who it is right off the bat, hints that were left behind are kind of enough
to get to that conclusion without getting sued for defamatio,n the defamation laws in korea are a lot
different, i've definitely heard that even if you say something that is true about someone, you can
get sued for defamation. so i think not naming someone but giving enough hints so that fans can
come up to the conclusion themselves is definitely smart to avoid a lawsuit, but back on track!
with this information going around the internet and again we still haven't confirmed that it's
irene, but a lot of people are kind of on board that it is irene so with this we see of course
people defending her, people saying that you know "it can't possibly be true because she's
just so nice" and a lot of people obviously clearing searches on twitter, on naver,
all of that jazz. and i did want to touch on that as well because if someone is nice to you
or does nice things for you or buys you things, it doesn't mean that they in that same breath are not
capable of treating you like crap and i'm telling you this to prepare you for the real world,
if someone does nice things for you it does not excuse them treating you poorly that's
an important life lesson but alas after all of this speculation it seems that the rumors
were finally true, as irene herself released an apology over on her instagram "this is irene,
i sincerely apologize for hurting the stylist with my foolish attitude and careless words and actions
i'm regretting and reflecting on the fact that i've hurt many people who have worked with me
up to this point due to immature behavior, looking back on the past because of this i am feeling
ashamed of my lacking behavior actions and words and i have once again realized the importance
of our staff members i will think and act more carefully in the future so this does not happen
again i would like to sincerely apologize to the fans who support me and all the people who have
been concerned about this incident" and it seems that she actually even met up with the stylist to
apologize as sm said in their statement "this is sm entertainment we would like to comment
about the article that was posted by irene by a stylist irene met with the stylist in person
this afternoon and sincerely apologized for the pain she caused the stylist due to her careless
attitude and emotional outbursts and actions we are very sorry for concerning many people with
her immature image we also feel responsible for this and we can't forget the hard work
that all the people and staff we work with put in for both the company and the artist we will make
sure that something like this does not happen again for everyone we work with once again we
would like to apologize for causing concern to many people and that's essentially where this
story ends" however i did want to dive into my own opinions as well as fans reaction to this as well,
so as for me when i first heard about this like, here's the thing i'm not a red velvet stan, like
i'll listen to their music when it comes out, i'll review their music but i'm not like a hardcore fan
or anything but i've heard of irene through you know the quote-unquote backlash she's received
for doing basic things and my friend actually made a video showcasing these things, i'm not gonna lie
because of her resting b*tch face and all of those elements put together, i definitely admired her
because i generally am a person who has a resting b*tch face who kind of seems really rude to people
but really it's just it's kind of the way I am, i don't mean to be rude, but i'm just very blunt
and so yeah of course i've definitely had people paint me as this mean person when really i'm just
apathetic and blunt, not to be a broken record but there is a double standard because if a man had my
same characteristics, no one would bat an eye to that no one would bat an eye to an apathetic man
who was really blunt, so i've definitely admired her and my first thought when this happened was
well maybe it's to sexism? that was my literal first thought so before reading
into it my first thought was just maybe she's just seemingly rude when actually she's not
really rude she's just kind of again apathetic and blunt, which are not bad things to be,
but reading into it more i understood it a little bit better and you know if someone
was hurt by what she did then that's valid, i've definitely been on both ends i've been someone who
was purposefully mean who was having a bad day, who was having a bad mental state which are not
excuses but it was what it was, am i proud of that? absolutely not. so no, we can't just simply
excuse actions because we love someone, but we also don't need to cancel someone,
do you know what I mean? you can hold someone accountable without wanting to see them fall and
i think a lot of people kind of agree with this for this situation which i find super surprising
because usually people are really so quick to jump on that hate train and i asked you guys on my
community tab what you guys thought of this so i'm going to read some of your comments "the stylist
said that there are stories about her attitude and that they didn't judge her prematurely but
were proven that irene is indeed mean this means the situation is not the only one nor the first
you can have bad days but that doesn't give you the right to treat people poorly irene should
have been professional and been polite there's no excuse for tantrum that made a stylist cry
i'm taking the apology as damage control and i hope she matures because the attitude isn't cute"
"the issue is seeing them purely as idols she is a person and every person can have bad days or poor
behavior we have no idea what was happening in her life so yes she should apologize but it shouldn't
loom over her head forever" "I'm done with people who say that it was just a bad day many people
and backup dancers who worked with red velvet supported the tweet and that says a lot" "she's
human idols have bad days too we also don't know what went on behind the scenes maybe the stylist
was doing something irene wasn't comfortable with and she said something about it we shouldn't hate
on her for the attitude especially since we fans also have attitudes" so yeah that is
basically it for this video if you would like to share your thoughts in the comments down below
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