KilliAN On June 23, which is just a few days ago,
KilliAN has revealed a cold harsh truth that if you wanna be famous in KPOP, you’d better
burry your orientation or else, you’ll be kick in the butt just like how he lost the
chance to debut under JYP Entertainment just because of being gay.
Yes, you’re not hearing it wrong. Even one of the most successful companies
in the industry still holds onto that discrimination mindset and obviously that’s not going to
change any time soon.
KilliAN joined the KPOP industry when he was 14 and since that was also the time JYP was
planning on debuting 2PM and 2AM, he could have been a piece of either act had it not
been for his orientation.
About the incident, KilliAN revealed that when he was in a relationship with another
male trainee, the company figured things out and decided to kick him right off the bat.
The saddest thing was that his future after leaving JYP was as dark as night. Even with
a package of talent and the visual that can hook everyone at first sight, he still suffered
from discrimination and struggled to find a company that valued his flairs instead of
how he led his romantic life. After training at five companies in Korea, KilliAN ended
up giving up the dream of being an idol and returning to Hong Kong.
So maybe at the end of the day, it’s still his hometown and most importantly, his father—aka
a famous action actor, can help KilliAN to some extent, right? Sadly, the answer is no.
According to KilliAN, he was basically under house arrest and though he didn’t mention
much about his family, the fact that his father had a fair amount of influences but still
let him suffer like that already tells a lot about his life at home. Wherever he goes,
he would be followed and even worse, they had multiple times demanded him to get testosterone
injections since his voice was “too feminine.”
His hardships only continued from then on. After a film opportunity fell through due
to a scandal involving Chinese actress Fan Bing Bing, KilliAN enlisted in the Taiwanese
military and then tried to return to acting several years ago. However, his orientation
still poses him tons of difficulties because at this second try, a male boss tried to lure
him in an intercourse in exchange for a future main role down the road. He was even dragged
into a bathroom but luckily, he managed to escape after several attempts to fight back.
So yes, just because of being gay, he lost his chance to debut in one of the top companies
of KPOP, being under control 24/7, nearly r*ped and still struggles to find his own
way at the age of 30.
However, time has passed and the industry should be more open to the LGBTQA+ community,
right? The answer is still no, and you'll see why when looking at the fate of these
new generation idols.
Aquinas Recently on July 13, Aquinas has confessed
through Instagram that he’s a bisexual and for those who haven’t known much about him,
he’s quite popular in South Korea after becoming the runner-up in the MNet competition
“High School Rapper 3”
While his brief annoucement “I’m a bisexual” received quite a lot of positive reactions
from his fans, Knets didn’t seem to be so happy about it.
When the news about him coming out went to Naver, netizens insulted him with all sorts
of bad words, calling him “another stain of the industry”, “bad influencer for
the young” and… “should go to hell for having a deviated mindset.”
On top of that, some also claimed they would stop support his future career since he made
them feel sick to the stomach just by the thought of his future rap about homosexual
love. [chèn meme wait what]
On Allkpop, it’s also not hard to find malicious comments targeting his gender. The funniest
thing is that while he’s already proven his talent on one of the most famous rap shows
of Korea, people still find out a way to overshadow it by saying his orientation was a sin and
he’s “not clean” enough to be an artist.
Formerly D.I.P’s Seungho & B.Nish If you’ve been a KPOP fans since gen3, there
are high chances that you’ve heard about the scandal that once shook the whole industry:
Seungho and B.Nish—aka the members of D.I.P but already left the group in 2018, confirmed
on one Instagram live in 2019 that they were dating. The most shocking thing was that though
the relationship has been going on for years, no one had a clue about their being love birds
since KPOP fans took the skinship culture between same-gender idols super light-hearted.
After they came out, people immediately dug up the old Youtube video where the two were
holding hands [chèn đoạn clip đó nhé], and said they should have soon realized earlier
to stop gay people from having much influences on others.
Netizens said they felt bad for D.I.P’s fans for spending so much time and money to
support Seungho and B.Nish, who dedicated most of their time absorbing in love instead
of rolling out high quality music and performances for fans.
People also called the couple “disgusting” and “sickening”, and told them to leave
the industry for good or their future music would be made dirty by their orientation.
Som Hye In First being famous for being an ulzzang, Hye
In’s reputation has risen a lot ever since she joined Mnet’s Idol School In 2017. However,
since she was caught up in a b*llying scandal half-way through the show, she eventually
left and two years after that, which was 2019 to be exact, she once again became the center
of attention for annoucing that she was actually a bisexual.
When this news was posted on Nate and Naver, netizens had flocked into the comment section
and used all the bad words to talk about her. And as you expect, her past bullying story
was also dug up. First, they criticized how she was a nugu
but always acted like a top star by putting her private life on social media. Then they
moved on to telling her orientation is abnormal, and she deserved to go to hell for being a
lesbian and a bully. The worst part was that even her girlfriend, who had nothing to do
with netizens and also did nothing guilty in the past, was also made fun of because
of having short hair and dressing more like a man.
Under such fierce pressure and immense hate from netizens, the couple didn’t end their
relationship on a bright note and were said to part ways in the same year.
Former WA$$UP’s Jiae On January 11, 2020, Jiae took it to Instagram’
story to announce that she was a bisexual and currently in love with a girl. While her
post gained polarized opinions from netizens, most of them chose to raise brows against
Jiae and tried to drag her down by discriminating words.
Similar to Hye In, people started to call her abnormal for falling in love with a girl,
shaming her body and regarding her as a sinner for going against the social norm. Not only
that, Jiae was also criticized for being vocal about how supportive she was towards the LGBTQA+
as if she was famous enough to make influences. As netizens said, she was just another delusional
nugu idol who tried to act famous like Hye In and didn’t bother how her future career
would end up when announcing to be part of the minorities like that.
Maybe that sounds kinda like angry yet harmless threats because there were still many people
supporting Jiae when she came out. However, as life is cruel, Jiae indeed struggled to
raise her popularity afterward. Even when she has been a Youtuber for more than 2 years,
her channel only had around 8k followers and on average, there were only 2k to 3k viewers
for each video.
MRSHLL While homosexual love has already been a big
thing in places around the world, not until 2015 did MRSHLL came out that the KPOP recognized
the first ever gay artists of the industry. This time, he didn’t simply go on Instagram
to post anything but decided to go big by coming out in an interview with Time Out magazine.
As MRSHLL said, though his friends warned that the move was social suicide in the conservative
K-pop industry, he still went forward to live as who he was. But just as what’s supposed
to be will be, coming along with that freedom was also a pretty hefty price that he gotta
pay.
First is about his friends. In an interview with Billboard, MRSHLL said that even his
friend once questioned if they were close because MRSHLL was romantically attracted
to him. That could be a joke but either way, MRSHLL was still put off for the misconception
that gay people are attracted to all the men they meet.
Then came the Internet. After his coming out, netizens kept calling him to get back to California
because in Korea, don’t he dare to hope that people were gonna treat him normal. He
was also shamed for having deviated mindset, making the music industry dirty by his orientation
and there were even people saying his ugly visual combined with being gay is the greatest
sin of his life.
Holland On the list, Holland is probably the name
that many of you are most familiar with because he’s the idol in the LGBTQA+ community that
got interviewed the most by many big magazines.
Different from all people here, Holland actually came out way before he was famous, which was
in the eighth grade to be exact, and also for this reason, he used to be bullied a lot
in his schooling days. Like what he said in an interview with JAYKEEOUT, this traumatizing
experience made him suffer from depression, panic disorder and serious social anxiety.
The most shocking thing was that as revealed by Holland, some of the bullies were even
idols that have already debuted!
Being gay also made him the victim of discrimation since when both Holland and Suzy came back
and included a kiss scene in their MVs, his was rated R but hers was only rated PG-13.
When Holland’s MV rolled out, many criticized and asked him to stop making trash music because
no one would bother to care. Similar to all the hate they people threw
at the LGBTQA+ community, he was also called “abnormal,” “disgusting” and a “sinner”
just because his orientation is different and as you can guess, the hate still continues
till today.
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