now as an excommunicated army... like investigation level observant like what
are you doing with your time on Twitter?
hi, welcome to my totally legit news show! my name is Angelina and today we have a lot
of KPOP news to cover, notably how Twitter has taken celebrity dating suspicions to
wild levels with Baesé, or Suzé, Suzé, Baesé... we also have cosmic girls photo
books seemingly plagiarizing BTS, IKON members unfortunate car accident
with a drunk driver and Ateez Hongjoong's backlash over his hairstyle featured in
this teaser photo, so if you only like one of these subjects all of these
subjects are anything in between I have separated this video into super
fancy sections that you can scroll through in the time-bar or watch all of
them so you don't mess with my watch time I'm kidding though that's what the sections
are there for so we're gonna start this video actually with a new segment that I
would like to introduce which is unofficially titled whack-ass things I
found on stan twitter, I'm open to title suggestions by the way so let me know if
you have any suggestion it's basically things that like wouldn't really qualify
his news but still like really interesting to talk about nevertheless
so I have been sent an alarming amount of threads of people on Stan Twitter who
are mad convinced that Rosé, oh I'm sorry Rosie from blackpink and Suzy former
member of Miss A are presumably dating, what? and you know what some of the
evidence that have been gathered is super interesting so though we could
take a look at some of it so they both flew to Paris for Paris Fashion Week or
if you really want to piss off the Anglos, you could say Paris! they've also
worn the same dress we also have instances of them being potentially at
the same aquarium but my favorite evidence out of all of this is this
wonderful photo of Suzy drinking a bottle of Rosé, I mean I don't know
about you but this proof is pretty undeniable what really gets me about
this is how random it is like why Su- well I guess because of all the evidence
but it's it's it's baffling me I don't mind
talking about second-gen idols I mean bad girl, good girl is like an iconic
debut it's just so random to me I don't know the fact that there are so many
threads the fact that people are finding like the most random things to like tie
this all together and new sites are taking this as well because that's
apparently how big it's gotten but I just wanted to point out that I did
think of putting this in my totally legit new show first before those
articles came out but I just take forever to edit so mm-hmm but it is
again like I've mentioned this before how fans are super observant like almost
too observant like investigation level observant like what are you doing with
your time on Twitter? join an organization or something like seriously
your talent is going to waste but it definitely is a testament to how
observant fans are to like notice these things right and how much people are
willing to stretch things to fit their fantasies like I understand that most of
this is all fun and games it's very light-hearted I think it's really funny
but on that note of like shipping idols together I would love to know your
opinions on that I know some people are so strongly against it and some people
don't really care or they obviously enjoy doing it so I would like to know
what your stance is on this I love to know I'd love to know where you stand I
feel like I have a very interesting opinion on this so maybe I should make a
video if you guys are interested like what I genuinely think about shipping
idols together ok so now we're going to move on to wjsn being accused of
plagiarizing BTS now they recently posted this photo to their Instagram
which shows their newest photo books called and this is really interesting
first photo book on and off persona on ego up now as an excommunicated army I
can say that I definitely saw the similarities right off the bat
in fact when this was first sent to me I felt like oh is this like a fan-made
product I was confused not only with the titles which aren't inherently a basis
to really raise suspicions I mean there are plenty of k-pop songs to have the
same title monster monster that's literally the
only example I could think of I should have thought this through... damn a second
gen Stan not being able to make comparisons
second to third gen and fourth gen kpop... what is going? So I'll leave it to you let
me know in the comments down below kpop songs with the same names it
happens all the time so I didn't think that was like too much of a basis
however like the amount of similarities is definitely like it's definitely
curious, but also the font as well and just the colors and everything so it
seems that a lot of fans were on the same wavelength as well in fact a lot of
fans have taken to calling out the company themselves are not having
recognized the similarities and also for bringing this type of negative attention
to the group so the following tweet reads ''starship was this really necessary
our wjsn girls deserve so much better than a photo book that's a little too
similar to bts's album I mean yeah it's fine to use the same words persona and
ego but this whole design is a little too much the girls don't need that kind
of promotion'' so yeah looking at the photos side by side they're definitely a
lot of parallels like title parallels color parallels font parallels so I'd
love to know what you think because as of right now big hit hasn't released a
statement in regards to this and I really wonder if they would I find often
when fans bring up plagiarism it's a lot different compared to in companies
or artists themselves bring up instances of plagiarism because you usually need
to have like a legal basis to do so right but fans, I mean fans can take
anything and run with it so I wonder like is there really a legal basis to
this, ethically it's a different question but legally I wonder if there's really
anything there. okay so now we're gonna touch briefly on the Ikon members Jinhwan
and Junhoe who were recently in a car accident with a drunk driver
now yg has released the following statement ''we've confirmed that a vehicle
of some members of Ikon inside was in an accident under life their team on Route
3 heading from Sacheon to Namhae the injury sustained by driver a as well as
the members of Ikon were minor according to doctors and after receiving emergency
treatment they are currently resting at their dorm our agency feels deep concern
and heavy responsibility regarding the accident which arose despite strict
internal regulations about driving under the
influence we will be carrying out a thorough internal investigation and
taking appropriately severe measures and the driver a will be faithfully
cooperating with police investigations we sincerely apologize'' so it's
definitely interesting to note that they've never really said who driver A
was however a lot of fans are definitely speculating that it is their manager and
definitely through the wording of the statement it seems that that could be
the case I mean we see they're saying that they have an internal regulation
about driving under the influence which I mean that's a whole ass law it's it's
just funny to me that there's an internal regulation about that when like
logistical II legally theoretically it shouldn't have to be an internal
regulation to know that you shouldn't do that so you know I personally cannot
confirm whether or not this is ikons manager it seems a lot of fans have
taken the story and ran with it and it seems that a lot of them are really
upset because it kind of shows a trend on YG's part for just having shitty
managers I mean not too long ago it came to light that Lisa's own manager scammed
her out of a really large sum of money and now we have potentially a manager
who's driving under the influence so either way little PSA for this video
do not drive under the influence, do not get in a car with someone driving under
the influence, if you know you're gonna be drinking have a back-up plan
okay so now let's move on to my fancy little segment called
I forgot what it's called... kpop shenanigans! which is basically fun little things
that have happened in kpop this week now remember, if there's anything that you
guys want me to talk about something that your idol did and you want me to
highlight feel free to send me a DM even if I don't respond I do try to read all
of them so I'm really sorry about that. number one,
Somi has announced her comeback now I'm definitely really excited but just from
the pictures I hope to god they aren't at all in line with like what she's
gonna do, I'm getting ballad vibes from this and I just feel like that's not- I
don't know, that's not what I would expect from her so apparently the song
is called what you waiting for it and it will be released on 20 2007 22 oh wait a
minute, that's soon July 22nd
that's a week from now. it's definitely like ballad vibes and I don't know and
not like I'm not gonna be mad if she does a ballad but I definitely feel
through the teasers of her reality show we were kind of seeing something else so
I don't know we'll see we have Day6's Jae who released his solo song called
Pacman under the name eaJ which is Jae backwards I don't know how one would
pronounce that, all I know is that no matter how I pronounce
something there's always like one or two or 18 people who get really angry and it
baffles me because like other languages that exist in this world aside from
English, people pronounce things differently... but I digress we also have
g'friend who have come back officially with their song called Apple and it
seems a lot of fans are really surprised at the concept change and I was
surprised too I've never seen anything like that from g'friend especially. Ateez
have also released a 16-minute diary film for their next comeback and also
released two teaser photos along with teaser instrumentals for fans to vote on
the title track of their next comeback however this does bring us to our next
story so within one of the teaser photos for the votes on the title song Hongjoong
is seen wearing a hairstyle that many fans have called out as culturally
appropriate of now in response to this a lot of fans have been emailing KQ
entertainment and have been offering templates for others to do so as well
saying that the hairstyle has a lot of historical meaning and also pointing to
the history of black hair being policed now twitter is definitely like a
cesspool for a lot of toxic shit so I've seen it all but I've definitely also
seen a lot of people really trying to Center education over anything else and
really putting an emphasis on the fact that we can hold our idols accountable
without bashing them you know it doesn't- those two things don't need to be
mutually exclusive which is showcased in the following tweet that reads ''for all
the non POC saying that his hairstyle was okay and we're overreacting
please shut up, Hongjoong even said that he will try not to discriminate and there's
literally nothing wrong and educating your faves when stuff like this happens
especially the hairstylist that did it'' and it does seem that KQ was
quite quick with their response so they posted an update on their cafe daum
which states the following ''from the images released on the 14th of July ateez
member Hongjoong's hair in title number 2 image was styled in consideration of
the concept of the song without any particular purposes therefore Ateez and
we, KQ entertainment did not have any intention of commercializing or
depreciating other cultures at all through the issues of the opinions from
our fans we have become fully aware of the concerns and seriousness of the
issue from now on we KQ entertainment will try our best to fully review and
check the historical backgrounds characteristics and the cultures in the
production process we will not create issues that were not intended nor have
expected'' so it's really this part of the statement that a lot of people are
feeling a little bit conflicted about and it is but they say ''therefore based
on the opinions of our fans we will change the hairstyle during the
promotion and broadcasting activities that will take place after the release
of this upcoming album however we ask for your understanding that is not
possible to edit and modify the hair style of the member in this album's
photos music videos and other contents as well as we have completed the
preparation for this album'' so it seems that everything might have already been
printed music videos already have been filmed and a lot of fans are speculating
that because KQ is a smaller company they might not have the funds to just
scrap all that and refilm everything and again I'm always going to say this if
you are offended by something that is valid and if that same breath you're
part of that same community and you're not offended it's still valid but it
doesn't cancel out what other people are feeling and I've definitely said this in
other videos that kpop companies you really need to hire someone or hire a
group of people who are in charge of kind of flagging things if they are
culturally insensitive or culturally appropriative, kind of like movies have
test audiences before they actually bring the movie out for the whole entire
world to see I feel like kpop needs to kind of get on board with something
similar to back to look at the little details to really be able to determine
whether a certain hairstyle or a certain statue or whatever it may be would cause
hurt or discomfort to a community now on that note of the hairstyle if you're one
of the people who are a little bit confused I'm definitely gonna leave some
links down below some articles so yeah the resources will be down below and
I'll also pin them in a comment ok so I'm pretty much losing my voice I'm
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