The Kpop industry is all about money.
But getting famous and making a huge income for the company does not guarantee that the
idol will get the treatment they deserve.
At least, that is what most Kpop stans will tell you.
Recently, so many mistreatment cases have been pointed out by fans who believe that
their idols, though are gaining a lot of popularity, still get treated unfairly by their company
Jisoo’s absence in Shut Down’s thumbnail and poor line distribution
First let’s talk about Jisoo’s line distribution, an eternal problem that her fans have been
always whining about There is a fact that Jisoo, despite being
the lead vocalist of BlackPink, has the least line in almost every Blackpink’s song.
From title songs to b-side, Jisoo was said to have taken the last position in the line
distribution so many times.
According to Jisoo's fans, her vocal is not the best but it's very stable and doesn't
show many mistakes, so the fact that YG always gives her the least lines is an act of contempt
for her and her fans.
However, others don’t think so.
They said that yes Jisoo does have the least line out of four members, but it does not
mean that she has no line and the amount of lines that she receives is totally fair for
her, as she is neither the main vocalist nor main rapper of the group and her singing skills
is rather incompetent.
This explanation made Jisoo's fans even madder.
Okay, she's not the main vocalist or main rapper, but everyone knows she's the official
visual of the group, right?
Yet through 6 years active in Blackpink with 13 MVs in total, Jisoo still doesn’t have
any single solo thumbnail for herself.
Needless to say, Jisoo’s fans cannot sit well with this.
As Blackpink has finally made their comeback after 2 years of hiatus, fans have been so
excited to see Jisoo’s first solo thumbnail.
Unfortunately for them, they were let down as this time, Jennie is the main focus of
the title song’s MV “Shut down”, with Lisa and Rosé being out of focus behind her
back and Jisoo being nowhere to be seen.
In response to the outrage of Jisoo's fans about this, many netizens said that YG did
not treat Jisoo unfairly, on the contrary, the company was very fond of her when investing
in the most elaborate costumes for her in Pink Venom and even gave her an impressive
Geomungo-playing scene right in the beginning of the MV.
Thus, many believed that some of Jisoo’s fans should stop victimizing her and getting
irritated with whatever YG does.
However, things didn’t stop there as recently, the company was said to have upset many of
Jisoo's fans when they didn't let her attend and receive her first-ever award as an actress
due to "busy schedules".
Fans pointed out that Jisoo was in Seoul on the day the award ceremony took place, but
still, she did not appear at the event.
As receiving The Best Female Acting SDA 2022 Award is a very important and meaningful achievement
for Jisoo and is also the first payback for her hard work in the acting field, fans were
so outraged saying that it is such a pity that she was not there to receive it and that
YG is not taking her seriously.
After that incident, a lot of Jisoo’s fans took to Twitter and trended the hashtag #JisooDeservesBetter
and named times when she was treated unfairly to urge YG to stop treating her like she’s
not part of BlackPink.
NCT’s Taeil only has 7s of screentime in the 4-minute long MV “2 Baddies”
NCT127 is a crowded group with 10 members.
To be fair, with such a large group, it will be impossible to evenly share line or screentime
distribution for all 10 boys.
But they should at least have 15 seconds of solo screentime for themself, right?
Unfortunately, Taeil was not that well treated as he has been given only 7 seconds of solo
screentime in the latest NCT127’s title song MV “2 Baddies”, and he is seemingly
not happy with that.
These are screenshots of Taeil’s expression during NCT127’s recent reaction video for
“2 Baddies”:
It can be seen that Taeil clearly shows a sad and awkward expression when being forced
to react to the MV that he didn't even appear in for 10 seconds.
While the other members were all excited to watch the MV and call each other handsome
and fancy, Taeil just sat quietly and didn’t even say a word.
He clearly was not happy that he barely appeared in an MV he worked hard for.
It is worth noting that this is not the first time Taeil appears for less than 10 seconds
in an NCT127’s MV.
In fact, in all of NCT’s MVs that Taeil has attended, Firetruck is the only one in
which he was given a 2-digit-number amount of solo screentime.
You may think that this could not get any worse, but, sadly, you are totally wrong.
In the song Regular, Taeil, despite having around 20 seconds of singing, only had less
than ONE second of solo screentime, which is 00,89s.
Not only did Taeil receive so little screentime, he also did not get many lines in “2 Baddies”.
Taeil sings less than 20 seconds in the newest song of NCT127, and more than half of that
is adlib which he sings at the back of either the chorus or other members’ part.
This is really confusing for fans because, as the main vocalist of the group, Taeil should
have sung at least one chorus of the song yet he did not get the part.
Needless to say, Taeil’s fans are furious with this as they don’t even understand
what SM is doing and wonder if the company really considers Taeil to exist.
It can be said that Taeil’s disappointed expression in the reaction video is the last
straw that breaks fans’ patience with how SM is treating him, so they aggressively trended
the hashtag #TaeilDeservesBetter on Twitter to tell SM to give Taeil more screentime and
treat him properly otherwise he won’t be able to put up with their nonsense anymore
and decide to leave
EXO Sehun did not attend the SMTOWN concert despite having no other schedule.
On August 20th, the SMTOWN concert was held in Suwon, Korea and as expected, all active
EXO members except Sehun had performed there.
This was the first time since 2019 that EXO-L can see EXO appear together on stage.
However, many just could not be happy about the fact that Sehun was completely absent
from the concert.
The displeasure would probably not be so intense if SM had given a reasonable explanation for
Sehun's absence.
Instead, fans only received Sehun's apology on Bubble for not attending and wished that
he could have had.
Again, no explanation was given, making fans angrier as they think Sehun actually wanted
to perform at the concert but was denied by SM and told to apologize as if it was his
fault.
They said that SM should be the one apologizing, not Sehun himself.
This is not the only complaint from fans about the way SM managed Sehun, they even pointed
out that during the first two-thirds of 2022, Sehun did not go to any fashion week outside
Korea despite receiving an invitation.
It is reasonable for fans to be disappointed with Sehun’s absence at the fashion week
considering how much attention and influence he has already gained by only posting the
invitation letter.
In fact, Sehun is the 3rd most influential figure of the Paris fashion week despite not
even showing up at the event himself.
Still, fans believe that by not attending, the male idol may have missed a huge opportunity
to push his model career to another level, so they keep demanding SM to stop holding
back Sehun’s chances like that with the hashtag #SMwhereIsSehun trending all over
Twitter.
Hanni’s fans accused Bazaar of picking “ugly” photos of her in their magazine
As the “monster” rookie Newjeans has rocked Kpop with one of the most successful debuts
of 2022 and they did not limit their influence in music only, the girls will have their second
magazine appearance in Harper's Bazaar Korea magazine for October 2022.
A few days ago, the first images of Newjeans taken for this magazine have already been
released.
Although 99% of the reactions from netizens are very positive and the girls were praised
for their flawless visuals and professional model vibe, there were some fans who expressed
their dissatisfaction with one particular Hanni photo.
According to them, the angle and lighting of this picture were “defaming” because
it creates too many shadows on her face, makes her nose look bigger and disproportionates
her other features.
Meanwhile, the other members all got clear, bright and radiant photos, perfectly showing
off their sharp facial features and fresh aura.
As Hanni is a Vietnamese-Australian idol, a large part of her fanbase comes from her
homeland Vietnam, and here are some of the complaints from Vietnamese fans about the
photo:
“I don’t understand why they always choose weird photos of her.
Why don’t they just show her entire face instead of hiding it?”
“Why choose this angle among all better choices?
Are they trying to hide her beauty?”
“It looks like a behind-the-scenes photo instead of an official one”
Although this photo is not appealing to the majority of Hanni's fans, a few still think
that the little girl still looks cute in this photo despite the boring angle.
They also said that fans shouldn’t be too strict because it's just a photo and just
because it's not pretty doesn't mean Hanni was treated badly or discriminated against.
So, which of the above cases do you think is really mistreatment and which is just an
exaggeration of some over-sensitive fans?