1. Formerly DAY6’s Jae
When Jae was still a member of DAY6, he had lots of fans not only for the
outstanding talents in music but also for the loving and forbearing personalities.
However, seemingly because he had to take much care of DAY6 by himself
that his mental wellness took a toll, leading to lots of his questionable actions lately.
Many people used to empathize with Jae for all the things he’s been through but seemingly,
they are leaving him all together after witnessing his straight-up insulting Jamie in a livestream.
On January 9, Jae went online and had a really fun talk to fans
until he suddenly brought up Jamie, called her a “thot” and literally burst out laughing.
According to netizens, what got on their nerves even more was that before referring to Jamie,
Jae even emphasized how he “wasn’t in the industry anymore” so he could say such things like that.
While it wasn’t clear what he really meant,
netizens said they interpreted his words as he had been holding onto that thought
about Jamie for ages and just recently spit it out because he was set free from JYP.
Some also pointed out that Jae seemed to be super proud of his words because after that,
he even told the viewers “That’s right, I said it, tell her” and repeated the sentence twice.
After the criticism blew up and Jamie even tweeted about how hurt and disappointed
she was because she used to always be there for Jae in his lowest low,
Jae went on another livestream and apologized to Jamie. However,
the reactions weren’t getting better because Jae even pissed people off more by explaining
that he didn’t know exactly the meaning of the word “thot” and thought it’s similar to “baddie”
According to netizens, Jae was actually making excuses because as a person growing up in the
West, there was no way he didn’t understand the gravity of the word “thot” as he said
in the livestream. Plus, the fact that when someone told Jae “Don’t do it again” and he
replied “I hope not” rather than “I won’t” also made people question his authenticity
and the willingness to own up to his terrible words.
2. VIXX’s Hongbin
Similar to the case of Jae, on the very first day of March back in 2020, Hongbin was also
seen going on a livestream and humbling his peers. However, what’s even worse here was that instead
of being in a good state of mind, he seemed to be extremely drunk, failing to control his words and
targeting all those alleged malicious intentions to not only one, but five famous groups of KPOP.
Basically, Hongbin went on Twitch after having a heavy drink outside
and as drunkenness reveals what soberness conceals, netizens were shook to see how
he straight up put on the Everybody remix stage of SHINee before annoyedly questioning
“Who would mix this type of idol music with the band genre?.”
Though that was already a huge shocker to his viewers, Hongbin still continued humbling EXO
and saying he didn’t like the way all members were strictly managed by SM Entertainment from
the expressions to the moves, while VIXX could carry everything by themselves from A to Z.
He even compared the vampire concept of VIXX to the wolf-figure of EXO,
figuratively downgrading them by telling how from the past to present, from fictions to movies,
werewolves always yielded to vampires so EXO were for sure losers compared to VIXX.
People believed the disturbance then reached its peak when Hongbin sent
the message to EXO as “Try to catch up with us” and ironically mocked the group
“Oh, I forgot no one in the wolf pack could catch up with us ever."
The thing is, since EXO has been outshining VIXX on every front, from the domestic to
foreign market, and from the individual to the group brand value according to many netizens,
it was almost humiliating to see Hongbin try to defend himself in the most pathetic way like that.
However, in a very contrast to everyone’s belief, the beef didn’t end there
and somehow, as an experienced male idol being in the industry for nine years, Hongbin is still
said to neglect all those gentleman manners to drag Red Velvet, a girl group, into the mess.
Commenting about the Red Flavor remix stage of the girls, Hongbin was seen saying the
performance was too “loud,” “too much of the idol-vibe [instead of highlighting
the artistic elements],” “too colorful,” and “clueless of what the audience likes.”
After a rant about SM Entertainment's artists, Hongbin targeted INFINITE, one of the most famous
gen2 boy groups and technically also his seniors. Here, Hongbin complained how the choreography of
INFINITE’s Be Mine was a joke and he would beat the choreographer for failing to do his only job.
Even with his juniors, Hongbin also had something to tell them
and that was apparently nothing positive. Talking about ONF,
he said their concept was way too dated and disappointing because the music wasn’t upbeat.
Still, the action that hit his fans hardest and served as the last straw for their
leaving the fandom was when some noticed his unstable condition, telling him to go sleep
but instead of replying to them friendly, Hongbing just flipped them off,
spitted out a bunch of slurs and continued his live.
Things were so bad that VIXX’s Leo had to speak up right off the bat and apologize for Hongbin’s
actions, for something he never did. Then when Hongbin gained back his consciousness, he went on
the second livestream, crazily apologized for the mess he had caused and blamed it on the alcohol.
Under the pressure, Jellyfish Entertainment initially announced that Hongbin would take
a long hiatus but after the scary reactions piling up on his Twitch
five months after that, Hongbin ended up leaving VIXX for good.
3. NCT’s Lucas
When the “cheating” scandal of Lucas broke out, lots of fans were on his side because
they believed all the accusers were anti-fans ganging up to bring down Lucas, especially when
it was only two days more until his sub-unit debut with Henry. However, as the story proceeded and
more people entered that chat, many were shook to see he was even accused of talking behind the
back of other NCT’s members and while things were actually just some baseless allegations,
loads of fans still left him and even trended the hashtag #Lucas_Out on various platforms.
It all started with the second girl who not only accused Lucas of cheating
but also shading other members, calling them lazy but still managed to grow big thanks to the face
as well as pissing on one boy for stealing his fashion contracts.
Not only that, the girl even accused him of calling a yet-to-debut member of NCT rubbish,
saying that the members never listened to each other, that Taeyong’s words had no gravity and
how much he hated Keep Running for painting him out as a silly clown.
However, the incident became more confusing as on September 10,
Lucas was said to be innocent after fans hired cyber investigators to analyze the case. According
to them, the first self-proclaimed girlfriend wasn’t a South Korean and when the team tracked
down the person’s digital footprint and they found out she was from Indonesia, had been a long-term
K-Pop fan, looking up lots of boy-love fanfictions before coming to the allegations against Lucas.
4. Kawaguchi Yurina
The case of Yurina isn’t completely like she straight out humbled Bahiyyih
but rather, it was like implicitly hating on her through liking for a hate comment on TikTok.
After the appearance on Girls Planet 999, Yurina has garnered lots of attention for
her outstanding talents and, sadly, for failing to make it onto the final line.
Because her dropping out of the top 9 was a huge shocker to fans,
there were countless angry opinions complaining about how rigged the program was
and how Bahiyyih, one of the most hated members of the show, was stealing the spotlight of Yurina.
The thing is, while it could have been just another cancel-culture among certain fans
aiming at Bahiyyih, on January 17, Yurina was reported to like a comment saying her fans were
constantly asking the show to give Yurina the spot of Bahiyyih and some even threatened to kill
Bahiyyih. Though Yurina was reported to un-like that comment shortly, the hate spread to Twitter
swiftly and people were ganging up to trend the hashtag #yurinaapologize to hold her accountable.
So, except for when idols pissed on others on live streams,
do you believe other cases were true or netizens just had too much time to spend?
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