DAY6 dungeoned by JYP While JYP Entertainment has been well-known,
or notorious to be exact, about how badly they mismanage boy groups, the company has
literally pushed the extreme in everything when it comes to DAY6.
Following the massive successes of BTS’s meal at McDonald’s, JYP Entertainment has
also started to extend onto the Food n Beverage industry by spending a bunch of money to open
a pop-up cafe called “JYP JAPAN POPUP CAFE 2021.”
In this event, JYP launched drinks and desserts that are designed specially to represent each
group in the company: 2PM, TWICE, Stray Kids, ITZY and NiziU.
You notice something? Well, it’s the fact that DAY6 was nowhere to be seen on the menu
while Mr.Park even has one signature dish himself.
Of course it’s not that big a deal if this is the first time JYP “forgets” about
DAY6 but according to the group’s fans - MYDAYs, the whole cafe thing is just the last straw
because the company has never taken DAY6 seriously.
For ages, though MYDAYs have multiple times expressed their discontent about how JYP has
been super frugal when it came to promoting DAY6 and also never let them attend variety
or reality shows, the company still acted like things were fine and never bothered to
take action.
Witnessing the blatant discriminating of Day6 in the broad daylight, not only fans of DAY6
but netizens also threw hands at the company. When a netizen tried to take an objective
stance, she admitted that DAY6 was dungeoned by JYP Entertainment.
As this person said, obviously the group has never been the cash cow like TWICE but this
sad reality mostly has never come down to DAY6 themselves; instead, it was how JYP put
zero effort into pushing the coverage of DAY6 and literally debuted the group for fun.
We agree that the group debuted as an indie boy band and thus, they must grow relying
solely on their talents but how could they be completely ignored even when they still
sold out albums, tickets and merchandise? Does that even make sense at all?
Oh, and do you know why MYDAYs said this was the last straw and they wouldn’t believe
a thing even when JYP announced some real sensible excuses like they couldn’t put
up DAY6’s name since their contract in Japan expired? That was because in June 2020, which
was exactly just one year ago, Jae had had so much that he eventually took his discontent
to Twitter and vented out publicly.
Firstly, Jae said he had to put an end to his Youtube channel“jeasix,” which you
couldn't find now as it was deleted, just because the staff had the feeling he would
worsen the image of the company. He also complained about how bad the management of JYP Entertainment
was when the official Twitter account of DAY6 only updated about Young K and completely
ignored his activities.
If you think this was a mistake then based on his schedules, it didn’t seem so because
Jae has done quite a handful of activities, like: his podcast HWAITING on Facebook, his
collaboration with 88rising, and of course, his appearance at Dive Studios before Young
K. And do you know what was the plot twist of
this story? Well, Jae then issued an apology, saying that his piled up anger was just a
small misunderstanding between him and JYP, and fans shouldn’t worry about them too
much.
NU’EST dungeoned by Pledis Earlier this year, LOAEs together started
to trend a hashtag #PledisStopNUESTMistreatment to show how discontent they have been with
the way Pledis completely dungeoned NU’EST.
If you’ve been a KPOP fan since gen2, you’ll surely know how NU’EST had one of the most
successful debuts of all KPOP acts with Face, but just shortly after that, their reputation
took a nosedive because Pledis simply ignored their strongest domestic fanbase, sent the
group offshore for the longest time ever until their fandom became so small that NU’EST
was on the verge of disbanding. That’s when the whole group, except for
Aron due to his health reasons, decided to join Produce 101 Season 2 to seek the last
chance of going forward.
Their hard work paid off and they not only got the public recognition but also gained
back tons of fans after the show. However, for some reason, the company continued to
dungeon them.
Many people in the industry have questioned the reason Pledis Entertainment not responding
to them when they invited NU'EST, and this thing would never be known by the public if
the MC duo Kim Sook and Lee Youngja of K-BOB STAR hadn’t called out the company for ignoring
their calls.
Pledis was so determined with their efforts to drown NU’EST that it was not until the
LOAEs trended hashtags and mass-mailed the agency that they let the group appear at K-BOB
STAR.
In fact, it’s not actually the company’s decision because JR revealed that he had to
ask them to let the group go on the show.
Oh, and can you believe the company even turned blind eyes on the invitation of the governor
of Gangwondo, who wanted JR to be the ambassador of the province? With such a huge opportunity
was intentionally missed out on, if Pledis wasn’t trying to boycott NU’EST then what
should that be called?
Plus, their latest promotion I’m In Trouble only lasted for two weeks with no social media
promotions. Everyone knows how important the role of social media is in building a group’s
reputation but still, here we had Pledis not posting anything about NU’EST’s comeback
on their Facebook and Instagram accounts.
Along with trending that hashtag, LOAEs even made a list clearly stating the demands they
wanted Pledis to do, because obviously those were what NU’EST deserved, but no one can
say for sure if the company bothered to care let alone fulfilling the list.
CLC dungeoned by Cube While there is currently nothing controversial
about the girls like things with DAY6, fans of CLC have never been happy with the way
Cube Entertainment treated the group ever since the debut day. As what was gathered
by one of CLC’s fans on Reddit, she believed the act has been completely ignored by the
agency since they couldn’t blow up as big as 4Minutes.
Firstly, the girls must always use their pocket money to promote overseas and one of the greatest
hits - ME, was still not put on US iTunes for the lack of support from Cube.
Even when Hobgoblin was not welcomed by domestic audiences but passionately embraced by international
fans, the company still ignored that sign and put minimum effort into promoting the
group.
And you know what’s worse? Although they debuted in 2015, which means six years have
passed, they still had no official color, no lightsticks, no full-length albums, no
nothing. A netizen also pointed out that the promotion
span of CLC was super short and even though CLC members have multiple times expressed
that they wanted to have some merch, nothing came out.
Oh, and you remember the whole “La vie en rose” situation where Cube sold the song
to CJ E&M even when CLC members had all finished recording and even spoiled some parts to Chesires
through live streaming? That was a whole mess.
As if treating CLC bad for their whole career wasn’t bad enough, Cube even claimed that
they would no longer support CLC’s development after the February 2020 and though the claim
didn’t explicitly mentioned about disbandment, everyone could understand their saying as:
“Okay, because I’ll be burnt to ashes by Chesires if I let CLC disband so let’s
find another way of saying I want to get rid of this group.”
This vague future also accounted for the reason Elkie requested to terminate her contract
with Cube beforehand and if you follow CLC, you’ll know how problematic this lawsuit
was at that time.
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