SNSD’s Taeyeon If you've been a KPOP fan since the early
days, you’ll know for sure how the wave of hatred of criticism was coming like a storm
at Taeyeon all the time. Even until 2019, there still was an antifan ran a darn long
rant about her ‘issues’ with Taeyeon and concluded by saying that she still hated Taeyeon
though she was obviously a good singer and none of the bad rumors about her were validated
Even when you take an objective view, you’ll see the most popular reasons for anti-fans
to attack her was that she was extremely successful and she couldn't clarify all the rumours surrounding
her since the early days. After her vocal capabilities got more and
more recognition, she joined the sub-unit of SNSD and soon enough, the hate started
to grow since people heard of the grapevine that she was the one to push Jessica out of
the lineup and pick Seohyun at the last minute. Things were so bad that at one point when
she attended a fanmeeting as a member of Taetiseo, an antifan had really put in tons of effort
just to come there to make her cry. While it remained unclear what the person
told her that day, all that we know was that she cried for a whole minute despite Tiffany’s
effort to cheer her up.
After that Taetiseo story, the number of antifans coming at her was even worse after she got
caught up in a rumor of being in a relationship with Baekhyun. On social media, people kept
referring to her as a “sly fox” and always tried to appear innocent.
Even when she tried to save everything by breaking up with Baekhyun, some still came
to her IG, calling her out for being an “attention whore”. One hater even went overboard to
wish that someone should end Taeyeon’s life because she simply
didn’t have the right to date Baekhyun.
Red Velvet’s Yeri While it’s often to see the maknae of a
group being the most favorite member, things were of total contrast in the case of Red
Velvet’s Yeri.
Because she joined the group when all the previous members already had an established
fanbase, many people just couldn’t accept the fact that the favorite act was no longer
OT4.
And you know what’s even worse? While this wave of hatred seemed to only last for a while,
this actually became the root for all the hate she later received.
As Red Velvet was already a package group
with Wendy being the vocal goddess, Seulgi a dance machine, Irene being a visual queen
and Joy famous as a persona of variety show, expectation for Yeri started to build up tremendously
as people believe that she must have been so extraordinary that SM Entertainment couldn’t
let Red Velvet alone without Yeri’s presence.
And you know what happened when people demanded a six-teen-year-old girl to excel at every
aspect that the four members of Red Velvet were already famous for? Of course, she failed,
and antifans took that as a perfect excuse to throw hands at her.
First, they picked up on her vocals, calling Yeri a “Pikachu tonedeaf self” and then
criticizing her dancing skills, saying that she could only dance half as good as the group
and was dragging the whole Red Velvet down because of her existence.
On top of that, Yeri was also believed to put off many people for her attitudes and
unnecessary scandals surrounding her despite being the youngest member of the group.
Not over yet, for literally her whole time with Red Velvet, Yeri has been referred to
as a fatty, a box, nasty chunky money with a pinched face and many many more worse nicknames
just because of her natural body shape.
EXO’s Chanyeol While he’s one of the most well-rounded
members of EXO when checking all the boxes of an ideal idol: singing, dancing, composing,
playing multiple musical instruments... he still topped the chart called “Which member
do you not like the most?” where more than 24% of 386 people voted for him.
While you’re probably twisting your brain to think of some reasons to hate him, anti-fans
can already find a pool of them with many reasons that you may have never heard about.
The first and most mentioned reason for this hate came down to his often making fun of
people. Actually, it’s not really people that he made fun of since he just joked that
Kai’s skin had the color of black coffee.
If you’re a boy, I bet you know for sure how you and your friends always pick up on
and that’s a normal thing between guys; however, some people just don’t buy it.
Ironically enough, when Chanyeol tried to build a friendlier image, some immediately
called him out for being so cap and inauthentic. On top of that, because he’s quite loud
and outspoken on variety shows, some also deemed this as a sign of arrogance and criticized
him for that.
aespa’s Karina While a soon exposure will often help a pre-debut
star gain more fans, like the way Nayeon appeared with Jinyoung (GOT7), things didn’t go that
way for Karina.
The amount of hate was so great that, different from any idols on the list, she was already
hated on before officially debuting as a member of aespa and there was even a thread about
how she became the most hated trainee in Kpop history.
Things all started after someone leaked the texts between Karina and her friends where
she was said to call BTS’s RM and Jimin ugly, complain about SM Entertainment and
reveal insider information about aespa. Then, the hate just kept building up after
she was caught up in more scandals like bullying, got biased by SM, and finally was how the
video of Kai and her dancing together was still posted despite the hate she threw at
EXO.
As a result of all these things, comments calling Karina a snake flooded her individual
photo teaser on Instagram and Facebook. Any picture with her face received a massive amount
of humiliating reactions like the laughing and angry ones.
As the hype about Karina’s being a dance machine had already been so great before her
official debut, expectations about her talents in dancing also built up because SM promoted
her like crazy in this aspect. And guess what? Similar to the case of Yeri,
people were let down because of their unrealistic hopes, and they ended up criticizing Karina
for her capabilities.
A thread on Reddit calling her out for being a bad dancer of SM but received too much promotion
compared to other members got up to 305 upvotes and labeled as a “too popular” opinion
on the platform. Of course, the comment section was filled
with criticism and at one point, Winter's name was also brought to the conversation
to compare with Karina. Obviously, someone was trying to ignite an
unnecessary war between Karina and Winter’s fans by using Winter to downgrade Karina.
(G)-IDLE’s Soyeon Similar to EXO’s Chanyeol, Soyeon is also
among the most well-rounded idols of KPOP but going hand in hand with that title is,
of course, a lot of hate (unnecessary hate to be exact)
The first and most popular reasons accounting for this hate pointed at how greedy a leader
Soyeon has been because instead of letting all the girls get involved in the production
process, she has been doing it solo for ages and only gave the final product, which nothing
can be changed or rearranged, to everyone. On top of that, as she has been in charge
of most songs of (G)-IDLE, the fact that she frequently got the most line and screen time
distribution also got on the nerves of many people because they believed she was trying
to steal all the spotlight.
As a Kpop fan, you probably see how (G)-IDLE has built their name with a fair amount of
hits produced by Soyeon. Even with all those achievements, the producing ability of Soyeon
was still criticized since some believed that all the songs she composed were repetitive,
lame and was literally written on the same old beat with just some changes to the lyrics.
And can you believe how a candidate for Unpretty Rapstar was dissed and called out for not
being able to rap? Yes, that’s exactly what happened to Soyeon and until now, she’s
even said to have a rap flow as ugly as her visuals.
Basically, whatever Soyeon excels at will be brought up and labled “bad” and “overrated”.
In the eyes of antifans, Soyeon’s bad vibe was so huge that even when HyunA had reggae
hair, it was still Soyeon’s fault.
Taking an objective view, do you find any of these reasons justifiable for the immense
amount of hate that these idols receive? Comment down below to share your thoughts with us.
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