While couples who recently announced their upcoming marriage received lots of good wishes
from fans, there are still several unfortunate ones that couldn’t even date in peace just
because of the nonsense strictness of netizens.
The strangest thing is, with all the ridiculous reasons from “they are too young to date,”
to “their age gap is too large,” people could still seek ways to split these lovebirds.
1.
HyunA - Dawn
The most recent and probably most infamous couple out of the whole list is HyunA and
Dawn, who have just announced their engagement on February 2 this year.
While fans sent the couple lots of good wishes when the news first broke out, things quickly
took a turn for the worse as according to Knets, HyunA and Dawn had never deserved anything
good considering how they started their relationship.
On Pann, there was a post with 530 upvotes tilted “I FIND HYUNA AND DAWN’S CASE QUITE
INTERESTING,” saying that the engagement of the couple should have been considered
as terrible as premarital pregnancy in the idol world but somehow, because of the small
number of PENTAGON’s fangirls and HyunA’s recognitions, they both had the guts to brag
about their relationships everywhere with the muggles’ shielding them.
According to netizens, HyunA and Dawn didn’t deserve to be happy because their relationship
was built on the downfall of PENTAGON and to a certain extent, the falling of Cube Entertainment.
Particularly, Dawn was said to be a traitor running away with HyunA when PENTAGON was
at their peak reputation and because the group had struggled a lot to get to where they were,
his action was like a slap to the members’ face.
Many fans also left the fandom because according to them, the fact that he shamelessly announced
his relationship with HyunA, ignored the company’s efforts in hiding the love story by making
Hui join HyunA and Dawn to have a sub-unit, and secretly contacted the journalists to
publish the relationship, he deserved all the worst from the public.
According to Universe, lots of fans had exited the fandom, demanded refunds for their pre-ordered
membership and even didn’t come to the very first fanclub inauguration ceremony.
Not only that, some also noticed how Dawn still used the scandal that pushed PENTAGON
down for clout, frequently posted something odd on Instagram whenever the group came back
and even added his solo music on the post.
What ticked them off even more was how he turned the reputation of PENTAGON into ashes
and then acted as if he never did harm to anyone.
In fact, people said Dawn not only betrayed his members but also bit back at his fans,
aka those who save him from not being dropped out of PENTAGON due to his incompetency, because
after the dating news broke out, his self-written line in Purple went as “Kids who listen
to this song won’t understand.
Oh well, I don’t care, really, I don’t care,” was said to make fun of his fans
for not knowing he was dating the one who was performing that song with him.
Apparently besides the harsh criticism from Knets, there were also opinions defending
the couple, saying that all this mess came down to how people are so upset over Pentagon's
unpopularity (which has nothing to do with Dawn and HyunA), and were being passive aggressive
to the couple.
Moreover, as dating has always been the private life of artists and fans were never the judge
of the artists’ life, it was also ridiculous to throw shade on HyunA and Dawn just because
they loved each other.
2.
Jennie - Kai
The beginning of 2019 indeed started in the most unexpected way ever with K-Pop fans and
especially with BLINKs as well as EXO-Ls, this new year hit them hard with lots of bittersweet
emotions.
As part of the tradition that Dispatch has established for long, the outlet would publish
the dating news of one famous couple in the industry at the beginning of each year.
Back in 2019, the attention was drawn to the Jennie - Kai couple but unfortunately for
them, because both BLACKPINK and EXO were at their peak reputation and Jennie had been
caught up in lots of controversies at the time, netizens decided to bring them down
with the most malicious words and even demanded Jennie to leave BLACKPINK for the sake of
the group’s image.
On many forums, Jennie and Kai’s dating was also heatedly discussed and according
to a netizen, even adding more objective views into the story, she still couldn’t support
the couple because of several reasons.
Firstly, as YG Entertainment had a seven-year-contract restricting the artists from dating, counting
from the day they passed the audition, Jennie had apparently violated the contract.
Of course dating is still a private matter but considering how Jennie signed that contract
just to break it, this girl believes that was unacceptably irresponsible of her.
Moreover, BLACKPINK at the time was yet to be a strongly established group in South Korea
at that time, didn’t have any full-length albums as other top acts and YG had just poured
a bunch of money to her newly established solo career, the fact that Jennie risked everything
to date Kai actually was said to be a selfish act, further consolidating all the rumors
about her bad behaviors and the reckless persona that only cared about self-satisfaction at
the expense of BLACKPINK and YG Entertainment.
Another reason people, especially fans, triggered over their dating was that Jennie and Kai
had a handful of Lovestagram and according to them, posting caring captions appeared
to be about fans but turning about to hint at each other was a huge disrespect.
As some fans said, had the couple used their personal accounts for such flirty things,
things would have been okay.
However, because both Jennie and Kai decided to use their public account to exchange secret
love messages while still making money based on the love of fans, they found such actions
nothing more than a humiliation and an implicit message that fans were so foolish that they
would never find out about the truth behind.
Severals EXO-Ls and BLINKs even said that they would stop supporting Kai and Jennie
after this because firstly, they failed to be the idols as good as expected and secondly,
they could no longer put up with the alleged arrogant attitude of Jennie and the ways she
just did whatever she wanted despite earning money from the love of fans.
Under the fierce pressure of the public, Jennie and Kai ended up parting ways not fully a
month after that.
On January 25, their entertainment company also confirmed the couple’s breakup, ending
another love story due to public criticism.
3.
Taeyeon - Baekhyun
Though the “scandal” had already been a thing of the past for taking place in 2014,
Taeyeon and Baekhyun are still often brought up until now because when Taeyeon released
What Do I Call You in December, 2020, netizens still believed that the song was a message
of her to Baekhyun though they splitted up six years ago.
While exposing new couples is often done at the beginning of the year by Dispatch, they
actually also released dating news several times throughout the year and back at the
middle of 2014, the outlet got everyone shook after publishing photos of Taeyeon and Baekhyun
dating the other night.
In the released photos, not only the face of the couple but what they did that night,
including exchanging a kiss, were shown clearly.
According to Dispatch, Taeyeon picked Baekhyun up at his dorm at 2a.m and then parked the
car on a side road to enjoy some time together.
Then within three hours after the news broke out, SM Entertainment confirmed the four-month
relationship and as you can expect, the situation only got worse from then on.
As EXO was at their prime time back then, lots of fans couldn’t bear the news and
launched a petition online, demanding either Baekhyun leave the group or they would no
longer support EXO.
Though the whole thing was apparently ridiculous, this petition still somehow got up to 1,800
signatures before being deleted by the website.
As reported by an article, these people wanted him to be out of the group in the belief that
Baekhyun had been mocking his fans.
The anger grew so big that Baekhyun was even asked to step down from the Inkigayo host
position at the time and because the program ignored such a nonsense request, some even
chanted “betrayer” toward the end of the show.
Then both Baekhyun and Taeyeon had to apologize just for dating each other and in the letters,
they both said sorry for the “disappointment and pain” caused to fans.
Even when antifans flocked into Taeyeon’s Instagram, she still apologized as if she
indeed tortured them or something.
4.
Momo - Heechul
Though Momo and Heechul received more support than other couples, they were actually hated
a lot when dating because according to many people, their age gap made the relationship
odd and abnormal.
After the couple was confirmed to be dating in January 2020, lots of fans were triggered
and targeted Heechul, calling him a predator for dating such a young girl, which was actually
kinda weird because Momo was already an adult.
According to a netizen, the couple’s age gap was too large and because Heechul was
said to have been having an eye on Momo since she was still a minor, it made him nothing
less than a “gross and predatory” man.
Somehow, this tweet still received up to 699 retweets, over 2k likes, and following this,
there was also another widely shared tweet calling Heechul out for being a man around
40 constantly flirting with a girl since she was still underaged.
When others fought back that an inner source confirmed Momo and Heechul had developed feelings
recently, Heechul was still accused of “grooming” Momo and basically disregarded all the information
published on many famous outlets.
So, why do you think these couples are so hated and fans are still so stuck up with
the mindset that idols should only belong to them?
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