Being a Kpop idol could be listed as one of the most stressful jobs ever because once
they make a mistake or even a minor one, netizens won’t hesitate to turn their backs on them
right away.
There would be nothing worth discussing if some netizens didn’t go too far when exaggerating
the situation and making things out of control by throwing hate comments whose seriousness
is beyond imagination.
In this video, we will name 3 idols who are the victims of this recently.
1.
Jang Wonyoung receiving hate comments for using Seollal, aka “Lunar New Year”, instead
of Chinese New Year
So in honor of the Lunar New Year, also known as Seollal in Korea and by Koreans, K-pop
idols have been posting joyful festive images on their social media accounts.
Likewise, Wonyoung also wished her fans a luck-filled 2023 via an Instagram post where
we see her posing in a hanbok, and referred to the holiday as either Seollal or Lunar
New Year.
However, despite Wonyoung’s good intentions, she was unable to appease the ire of Chinese
supporters who insisted on calling Seolla the Chinese New Year.
Since then, Wonyoung has received malicious comments from netizens who are presumed to
be Chinese.
They took collective activities to vent their rage, such as demanding Wonyoung to correct
her “mistake” as it has to be Chinese New Year, cursing her to die soon and leaving
tons of vomiting emojis.
Even worse, there were comments denigrating hanbok as Korean-Chinese clothing.
It can be said that efforts by Chinese social media users to force the use of the term "Chinese
New Year" were not limited to Korean celebrities, because even the British Museum also receiving
a deluge of backlash for publishing an article named “Celebrating Seollal” and introducing
it as the "Korean Lunar New Year."
As tons of criticism and even curses were thrown at the post, the museum’s Twitter
account had to delete it soon after that.
Amid such indiscriminate malicious comments and criticism from Chinese netizens aim at
Wonyoung and others, Korean fans tried to leave positive and encouraging comments under
the female idol’s posts, claiming that Chinese netizens don’t have any clue demonstrating
that Seollal is Chinese New Year, so they can’t force others to use this term.
Plus, it’s so ridiculous and pathetic of them assuming everything Asian is theirs.
2.
Fromis_9‘s Chaeyoung being shocked at malicious comments during a recent livestream
On January 17, fromis_9’ Lee Chaeyoung had a live broadcast via Weverse.
Initially, the broadcast was going well, but suddenly one netizen started spewing disgusting
comments of body-shaming and sexual harassment towards the female idol.
Those comments are not even the worst as later a bunch of malicious comments included personal
attacks on fromis_9’s members and abusive language toward the members’ parents and
siblings were thrown at Chaeyoung.
You guys wouldn’t believe the way the commentators used “dad” and “mom” are derogatory
forms of those words.
Specifically, some people curse her family to get into a car accident and die soon while
another even inhumanely said that her sister has been earning money by being a prostitute.
It is well-known that this netizen has previously left tons of derogatory comments about her
on many livestreams.
Along with the remarks mentioned above, the detractors also threatened the female idol,
saying they would continue to annoy her even if the group disbanded and she herself decided
to become a non-celebrity.
Although Chaeyoung tried her best to ignore all those malicious words, eventually, she
was brought to tears and ended her livestream.
As a result, HYBE and Pledis Entertainment came under fire from FLOVER (fromis9’s fandom)
for not doing enough to safeguard their artists.
They began spreading messages on social media requiring HYBE to stop overlooking this issue
as they think that people who are so comfortable saying disgusting things like this behind
a username could probably do what they said and that’s really dangerous.
Since another fromis_9 member, Baek Jiheon had to halt all her activities for more than
four months due to anxiety last year, fans are taking this issue even more seriously
at the moment.
3.
T.O.P getting bashed out of nowhere after being followed by V on Instagram
You guys must remember the incident that not long ago V hit following Jennie on Instagram
by mistake, which put the female idol under harsh criticism from his fans.
Well, the same situation is now happening to TOP when V’s fans notice that besides
7 followings of V, including BTS’s official accounts and 6 other members’, TOP is the
next one who was followed by their idol on Instagram.
Though V had realized that and immediately unfollowed TOP right on the morning of November
15, the BigBang’s former member couldn’t avoid being attacked on social platforms by
V’s fans, especially his sasaeng fans.
To be more specific, normally, an instagram post of TOP will receive from 1000 to 2000
comments, but after the incident, TOP's latest post received a shocking number of nearly
17,000 comments and still tends to increase.
Well, as you guys can predict, most of them are negative comments aimed at criticizing
the former rapper of BIGBANG.
Aside from Instagram, the poor guy is also under fire on other social platforms like
Twitter and Facebook.
Most of the comments under TOP’s posts are criticism from malicious fans who unreasonably
ask him why he is followed by V and why he gets that “privilege”.
As we know, TOP was caught up in a really shocking controversy in the past related to
drugs, that’s why V’s fans are all displeased when their idol follows him.
Some netizens even left skull or vomiting emojis, as well as commented that TOP is totally
not on the same page as V to be followed by him.
What’s more, they didn’t hesitate to call BigBang a criminal group, and hoped that everyone
would protect V from these “gangsters”.
However, there are still many encouraging comments from other netizens to TOP, saying
that he doesn't need to care about these clowns and should just continue to enjoy his life.
They also asked V’s fans to stop overreacting to a small incident and exaggerating everything
while TOP literally didn’t do any harm to their idol and he is actually the one who
needs protection when being cursed for no reason.
So, why do you think hate comments toward idols are getting out of hand?
And why isn't anyone standing up to solve this, including these idols’ agencies?