"I love kpop fans" said no one ever except for literally everyone this past week!
Hi, welcome to my totally legit news show. my name is Angelina and I'm your host
and today we're gonna talk about BTS and big hits 1 million dollar donation we're
also going to be talking about k-pop idols and k-pop fans response to the
black lives matter movement we're also going to touch on twice being accused of
manipulating charts and of course BOMs face because it's not like I haven't
been sick of this stuff for over 10 years now actually I'm gonna stop you right
there to remind you to subscribe to this channel and click that bell to be
notified before I get too good at this and dispatch gets their hands on me so
we're actually gonna start off with k-pop idols and their fans response to
the black lives matter movement as we all know or we should know there have
been a lot of protests going on in the US and actually just a little tidbit I'm
not from America I don't live in America but I was driving down the road and I
saw this one singular man on the one main road of my rural town protesting by
himself with the sign that said "black lives matter" mind you this is not like
an english-speaking town and I'm telling you this story because it's really going
to touch on some arguments that I've seen for it later on in this video but
keep on watching, but again it just goes to show you that you know you could be
from anywhere and you know the black lives matter movement is still very much
relevant but anyways I really wanted to take a minute again to tell you guys
that if you have the money donate it if you have the time donate your time if
you have the privilege use that for something good so again I will have some
links in the description box as well as the pinned comment and I will also link to
some accounts whose voices you should be amplifying so yeah in light of the
protests that have been going on in America, which by the way let me get my
phone, ACLU of Minnesota recently tweeted that Minneapolis, Minneapolis City
Council members have announced their intent to disband the Minneapolis Police
Department and invest in community led Public Safety! that is like honestly such
amazing news if you're curious about what a police
free future looks like I will again leave some resources in the comments
below, no in the description. I just wanted to share that information but
anyways back to this story so in light of the protests that we have seen in the
u.s. we have also seen such a global response and notably a lot of k-pop
idols speaking out we even had to CL who wrote in an Instagram post that "some of
the biggest inspirations for 21 were Destiny's Child and TLC" and went on to
say that "artists directors writers dancers designers producers and stylists
in the kpop industry are all inspired by black culture whether they acknowledge
it or not" and then she also went on to encourage kpop fans to give back and on
that note I did want to highlight how k-pop fans have been responding to a lot
of things recently as well because a lot of this stuff is really impressive
finally using their fan cams and spam-like natures to do something good! we saw in
the news that kpop fans have taken down a police app, so basically the Dallas
Police Department were asking people to send in videos or pictures of protesters
so that they could be identified and so legal action could be taken against them
and in an act of solidarity we started seeing Kpop fans encouraging other
kpop fans to send the app FANCAMS! and I thought I could highlight some of
the tweets I found so I found this and it says "guys download the app and flood
it with fancams, make it so hard for them to find anything besides our faves
dancing" and we also have this tweet that says "time to spam the Dallas PD with the
Junhee make it nasty fan cam let's go" and then of course this tweet that says "I
hope you'll enjoy San's fan cam" and their efforts absolutely did not go
unnoticed as Dallas PD announced that the app was down due to technical
difficulties though I believe in my heart they're probably just sick of
seeing fancy fan cams but honestly that's just hearsay. we've also seen
k-pop fans take over entire hashtags such as the "white lives matter" hashtag
so that any problematic discourse could essentially be drowned out and I
actually went to this hashtag to see for myself and surprisingly or not
surprisingly it was just selected with jungkook from BTS home, I saw some Seonghwa from Ateez
here and there and because of this we saw an influx of praise from the locals I
mean I even saw in Chris Kleimens' story that he was saying that he loved kpop fans,
that never happens! I also saw this tweet that says "kpop
stans infiltrating the white lives matter hashtag and spamming the Dallas
PD app until it crashed was the most unexpected effort for black lives matter
but all I can say is I will never scoff at a fancam ever again
bless you all" and it just makes me happy because maybe you're not in a position
to donate maybe you don't have the financial resources and that is totally
understandable that is totally ok but to use like the internet and to use fan
cams and kpop as such like a driving force to drown out problematic discourse
to essentially have an app taken down that is used to prosecute people that's
just honestly amazing which brings us to our second story but it kind of still
it's kind of still in the same wavelength, now I'm not sure if you
remember but BTS were recently under fire for not having spoken out about the
black lives matter movement especially with everything going on in the u.s. now
a lot of fans are really upset a lot of fans are wondering you know will they
ever talk about this, which honestly brought up a lot of very important
questions when it comes to k-pop idols and the black lives matter movement you
know a lot of people started asking "should k-pop idols really be expected to
say something?" because it's important to also note that BTS were not the only
ones who had been staying silent at that point I mean we also have my faves like
Ateez and blackpink which Ateez have since shown their support now again we
have plenty of idols using their platforms to show solidarity with the
black lives matter movement from Tiffany young to Minzy to even Jessi and Zelo
both Korean Americans and Koreans alike and this is important to note because
when it came to the discussion of whether or not idols should be speaking
out about this a lot of arguments went on to say that well if they're not
American, then they really shouldn't be speaking about American issues that was
a major argument among others such as their companies are holding them back
now for the American argument I did want to touch on this really quickly because
you know even CL said kpop is heavily inspired by black
culture whether people like to acknowledge it or not, this isn't an
American issue, black lives matter is very relevant globally and if we take it
back to that story that I said of that one singular guy who was protesting on
the streets of a non American town in non-english speaking town still
protesting black lives matter because it is still an issue in so many countries
not just America, you know so many of us benefit from black culture without even
acknowledging it whether it's certain styles or even the words that we use are
so many words you know that have been innovated by the black community so many
phrases that have been innovated by the black community you know if we use
African American vernacular English for an example that is so terribly misused a
lot of the time because people fail to recognize that it is not a bad English.
just a friendly reminder that African American vernacular English is in and of
itself a perfectly valid structured variety of English and just because it
doesn't fit your notion of prescriptive grammar doesn't mean a damn thing oh my
it seems I've got a socio-linguistic rant, much of which I probably
cut out ok so anyway BTS received in particular a lot of backlash because
they do have such a large platform because they have a campaign with UNICEF
that has a goal to end violence however since then
BTS have voiced their support and have also donated 1 million dollars to the
black lives matter website according to an article by Variety the managing
director for black lives matter Kaylee scales expressed "black people all over
the world are in pain at this moment from the trauma of centuries of
oppression we are moved by the generosity of BTS and allies all over
the world who stand in solidarity in the fight for black lives" and actually since
their donation fans have started a BTS army project called match the million to
essentially match the million by BTS donated and as I'm filming right now
they have actually reached the million so do you know what I mean a lot of
people are saying like, "no if you're not American you shouldn't speak about this"
da-da-da-da, but then you see that if you have such a large platform
there's so much change that you in sight moving on to twice so twice
have recently released their album more and more and people have been accusing
them of chart manipulation or this lovely word in Koreans "Sajaegi"
essentially according to NPR org it is unethically and or illegally boosting a
chart ranking for example entertainment agencies bulk buying their own CDs or
probably more likely in the digital era using box or computer farms to
repeatedly stream songs and hike up chart numbers now many artists have been
accused of this notably BTS, especially in 2015 because they out sold BIGBANG and
a lot of people were really hesitant to believe that BTS you know coming from
such a small company could outsell BIGBANG and big hits responses literally
like "yeah exactly we are a small company we don't have the resources to
do tha"t I'm paraphrasing obviously but alas being accused of chart manipulation
is a pretty big deal because it is illegal in South Korea though from
articles I've read there's kind of an underground market for it so according
to reports twice as more and more albums sold a hundred thousand copies within
the span of one hour which to a lot of people seemed a little bit fishy but
Hanteo released a statement saying that there was there's nothing fishy going on
and fans consequently are super livid at the accusations themselves as they claim
twice have been gone for a really long time in this comeback has been hyped up
so much and that they are fully capable of selling a hundred thousand copies
within one hour now when it comes to charts it's actually a super interesting
topic to get into and I actually saw a video by gzb Karma where she expresses
you know how different charts calculate album sales so if you want to
learn more about that I definitely suggest watching that video it's in
French but if you don't speak French there are
subtitles as wel!l okay now let's talk about Bom's face now I have been sick
and tired of hearing this for the past 11 years I'm sick of hearing people talk
shit about her face you know when it comes to bringing up how her face seems
to have changed, they seem to always bring up her body at the same time like
"Oh her face has changed..." I don't even want to say the words out
loud because I'm just disgusted so what I will say is leave her alone and I
don't think it's fair at all to be stigmatizing weight fluctuations I don't
think it's fair at all to even be bringing up people's bodies especially
in news articles and I know their job is to report on the news but you are the
media you are directly contributing to people you know believing that a summer
body exists or that believing that someone gaining weight is like so so so
important that you have to read an article about it, I remember
consuming the media as a young child and it messed me up for life because I
believed these things, I believed the articles about celebrities gaining
weight you know oh my god it's it's such a big deal
it's actually not! gaining or losing weight is the least interesting thing
that you could do in this life trust me there are a lot of things that you can
do that are so much more interesting and this kind of comes from a place where
you know I'm just kind of really triggered and sick of idols constantly
mentioning their diets and just kind of promoting that to their audience which
is incredibly irresponsible and there are a lot of idols who kind of
go along with this way of thinking that "skinny is so much better" but you have to
understand that you cannot tell someone's health by their weight and
even if you could when did health become such a driving factor on whether or not
you would treat someone with respect? that's ableist, health is an access issue
and it really makes me angry! there's so many fat phobic undertones to these articles
like "not only has her face changed but her body as well" like yeah that's what
happens to bodies they change if you want more of my thoughts on body shaming
in kpop I actually have a whole video about it as for me this is the end
of this video if you made it this far you might as well click on another one
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