While people usually think that entertainment agencies would only debut their best of the
best trainees to ensure the marketability of the group, it has recently turned out that
this is not always the case.
Even with big groups managed by big companies, netizens still spotted some members that they
think are not only mediocre talent-wise but also scandal-attractors dragging the group’s
level down several grades.
V
Once being the most famous and most lovable member of BTS, V has recently become the target
of constant criticism because not only his personal life but his attitude also made headlines
for bad reasons.
Netizens said that in just 1 year, V has caused BTS's reputation to be affected quite a lot
because of his various scandals from smoking, dating to attitude.
According to them, as one of the top famous members of the very top famous K-Pop act,
V should know better than anyone else that a small scandal was already enough to put
the group into ill situations.
Especially as ARMY is a female-dominant fandom, news about the members’ relationships was
even more detrimental to the group but still, V let himself be embroiled in the most shocking
dating scandals of K-Pop 2022: dating Jennie, as a photo of him and Jennie being in a car
without any camouflage or masks on was posted on social media.
Regarding the recent attitude scandal, many said they realized that he has changed from
a very lovable dork and a legit fan attractor with a funny personality and a friendly attitude
to an arrogant person trying to be cool and not knowing the limits.
He used to be so nice that when being surrounded by reporters, he still happily shook hands
and gave them high-fives.
When the cameraman interacted with him at year-end award shows, he didn’t mind showing
his quirky side and even excitedly danced to the music.
But now, he is said to be completely different.
When V appeared in public, he no longer smiled and interacted with fans and reporters like
before, instead, people just saw a cold, emotionless face.
Some used-to-be fans even mocked him, saying that they only saw a child in the body of
a top star clocking in his 30s as when the gossip about his being in a relationship with
the daughter of ​​Paradise Group's chairman, V straight up called those who spread the
rumors “Pathetic” and even said that he would shoot needles on the haters’ back
necks in his dream so they’d better watch out for him.
The criticism aimed at V’s attitude reached its peak when fans saw him putting a poker
face and walking straight into the car with hands in the pockets despite there being tons
of ARMYs who came all the way to greet him at the airport.
In Asian culture, and especially in a strict society like South Korea, this was the most
disrespectful behavior and that’s why many fans just couldn’t put up with that eventhough
V is their bias, and they realized he was no longer the person they used to love.
Therefore, netizens have even more reason to believe that V is indeed the disgrace of
BTS.
However, there are also lots of ARMYs who stood up for V, saying had they not complained
anything about V as real supporters of BTS over the years, netizens should have shut
their mouths as they were only outsiders looking inside.
To explain V, many ARMYs clarified that as there was an influx of crazyfans who violated
protocols, he was forced to bypass the press greeting.
The anger of reporters that day was also the result of those mindless foreign fans who
blocked their view rather than V ignoring them, so criticizing him for something he
didn’t do was ridiculous.
Regarding the dating scandals, they believe that as a world-class superstar, V is frequently
the victim of these kinds of fabrications and rumors intended to bring down his reputation,
so the fact that he was so done and had to express his anger on social media was understandable
and anyone would do it if they were in a similar situation.
Giselle
While people were very looking forward to Giselle as she was introduced as the member
with the shortest training time who also managed to get casted through the most rigorous audition
of SM Entertainment, they soon realized that they had expected too much.
Recently, Giselle is frequently called out for being talentless and amateur since according
to netizens, she couldn’t even tick one off the list naming the must-have qualities
of an idol.
Particularly, there are some posts discussing Giselle’s ability in which, people comment
that her dance moves are sloppy, her vocal is plain, her visual is way below the par
despite many allegedly heavy plastic surgeries and most importantly, her rapping was unacceptably
weak despite her position as aespa’s main rapper.
The peak of this was when the group had their latest comeback, Giselle got criticized all
over the internet for not remembering the choreography of Illusion.
She kept making the wrong moves all over again and at one point, there was even a video titled
“aespa couldn't present a perfect comeback stage due to Giselle's choreography mistakes.”
In the comment section, there were lots of fans defending Giselle, saying that she was
probably too nervous to perform and the overwhelming successes of Next Level and Savage were putting
great pressure on Giselle.
However, netizens were quick to shut these defenses down because in the practice video
published by SM Entertainment themselves, Giselle still made noticeable mistakes.
As this type of video was self-produced and thus, aespa had multiple chances to re-record
their dance, the fact that SM still uploaded such a video implicitly confirmed that they
couldn’t even help hide Giselle’s lacking capabilities.
Besides the questionable skills, netizens also believed Giselle was the most problematic
factor of aespa which put the group into ill situations.
Specifically, during a shortbreak at aespa’s concert in Los Angeles, the members tried
out some of the latest Tiktok dance challenges like Jiggle Jiggle to entertain fans.
However, one action of Giselle caught the eye of many as she added neck movement to
the choreography and according to some, Giselle had deliberately mocked Desi culture.
Basically, netizens believed that most of the things she brought to the table till this
point were a heap of scandals and they were annoyed about it.
However, there were lots of defending opinions, saying that Giselle didn’t deserve to be
called a disgrace of aespa.
Talent-wise, she has been serving as a legit rapper of the group and her impressive flow
could be seen in Dream Comes True [chèn 1 đoạn rap của nó nhé - âm thanh gốc].
She was also the only member to speak fluently Japanese, English and Korean so were it not
for her, aespa could hardly communicate with foreign fans and do interviews in the States.
To express anger over people’s inexplicably strict attitude towards Giselle, a netizen
even took on Reddit saying that if people are going to call Giselle untalented, they
should have the same energy for 50% of Kpop idols.
About the cultural appropriation scandal, some found that accusation was so ridiculous
because first, the fact that she did that gesture does not at all mean that she was
discriminating against Indian culture.
Second, that gesture was also used in practicing yoga and Indian people never claim to own
it.
Kang Hyewon
Even before debut, Kang Hyewon was already a contentious persona as netizens just couldn’t
believe she could debut thanks to her disaster performance on Produce 48.
Basically, Kang Hyewon and her team were said to do extremely badly on the cover of BOOMBAYAH
but also since the stage was so bad, people found it funny to put on replay [chèn 1 đoạn
clip nhé - âm thanh gốc].
From then on, netizens called it “Hellbayah” instead of “Boombayah” and kept mocking
Kang Hyewon for rocking from the 80th rank to the 13th rank thanks to the “impressive”
lackings.
Of course, this also gave her the title “least talented member of IZ*ONE” but what ticked
people off more was that she didn’t bother to improve either.
Many said that they were annoyed at how Kang Hyewon literally ran on the treadmills for
two years straight and at one point, they had to collect a pile of videos showing her
terrible dancing capabilities, stiff stage presence, and noticeable ill attitude as she
just casually threw trash on the stage as if it was a natural thing to do.
Until now, some still questioned why Kang Hyewon could be a piece of IZ*ONE.
Still, there were defending opinions, saying that having a pretty face was still a type
of talent and Kang Hyewon was picked for that.
Plus, as she has already set her goals on becoming an actress rather than an idol, her
lacking ability was probably a result of her focusing more on improving her acting.
About the trash incident, fans said netizens were blowing things out of proportion as she
just threw away a bag of confetti, which was also the same thing blown all over the stage
that day.
So, do you think it's reasonable for netizens to consider these idols the disgrace of their
group?
Or some people are just nitpicking too much?