Besides talents and visuals, idols’ good personalities are also said to be one of the
must-have qualifications.
However, there are some idols who are recently getting entangled in bad attitude controversies,
which received loads of mixed opinions and in turn lead to fans turning their backs on
them.
So today’s video, we are going to name 4 idols that are said to take their fans’
support for granted.
1.
V was said to arrogantly ignore fans and reporters
A few days ago, on June 26th, 3 A-listed celebrities V, Lisa, and Park Bo Gum attended the Celine
fashion show in Paris as representatives of South Korea.
Their appearances gained massive attention from international fans.
However, a controversy was sparked when it came to V’s allegedly weird behavior towards
fans’ support.
Specifically, after arriving at Celine Fashion Show, Lisa and Park Bo Gum keep interacting
with fans.
Lisa showed up in a fresh and bright mood when constantly smiling and waving at fans,
and Park Bo Gum appeared to be really humble and sweet.
Contrasting to the two companions, V barely had any interaction with many awaiting fans
even though he was said to receive the most attention compared with the other two.
Moreover when showing up at the venue, he did not reply to fans’ calling his name
or even greet them back but instead put on a poker face, which is completely different
from Lisa and Park Bo Gum.
Some fans expressed that they were shocked and extremely disappointed with his distant
attitude and assumed that he is taking fans’ support for granted.
Everything was pushing to the peak when V returned to South Korea after completing his
schedule in Paris.
He headed straight from the airport to his car without any greeting or glances back to
the crowd including awaiting fans or reporters as he usually did with them previously.
In contrast, Lisa and Park Bo Gum drew praise for greeting reporters and fans, doing heart
poses, and bowing 90-degree with bright expressions towards fans’ enthusiastic support.
Needless to say, V’s cold and nonchalant attitude was heavily criticized by netizens.
They think it is unacceptable as fans spent 3 hours waiting at the airport to welcome
him and he didn’t even bother to look at them for 1 second.
However, some ARMYs explained that V was just too tired because the flight was delayed by
three hours.
What’s more, they also posted a video of V sticking his hand out from the car window
and waving to fans.
When being questioned about the behavior, after V came back to South Korea, the male
idol posted a status with a starry night sky on Weserve to apologize to fans and reporters
and hope everyone can lend him a sympathetic ear: “Reporters and Army, I’m so sorry
for getting in the car right away.
You must have been waiting for a long time, mustn’t you?
I prepared a gift.”
2.
Sakura was said to make fun of Korean fans
On May 29th, a post-sharing excerpt of Sakura's performance in Japan created a high-pitched
buzz among netizens in which she has been under fire for allegedly making fun of the
Korean WIZ*ONE.
Specifically, according to Top Star News, on the last performance of HKT48 - Sakura's
original group, she had a solo performance with the presence of her close friend, Murashige
Anna.
During Sakura’s performance, Anna pretended to be Sakura's sasaeng fan in Korea and acted
like a mindless stan [chèn clip đó - âm thanh gốc].
She wore a T-shirt with Sakura's face printed on it, holding a sign and showing her excessively
clinging to Sakura.
Anna was even seen holding a banner saying “I only stan you Sakura, I love you” in
Korean.
She was later dragged off the stage by bodyguards.
After the performance, Murashige Anna posted on her instagram story a picture of her role
with the caption "WIZ*ONE", giving rise to frustration for WIZ*ONE.
In contrast to the fun purpose that Sakura and Anna aimed for, Korean netizens only felt
extremely enraged and thought that this was a sarcastic behavior, mocking Korean fandom
culture.
They said there were WIZ*ONE in Japan too but Sakura and Anna had to write the catchphrase
in Korean.
Many even claimed that Sakura was being fake as she always put on a friendly attitude toward
WIZ*ONE in Korea, but then made fun of them when she returned to Japan.
Upon the criticism of Knetz, many defended that Sakura and Anna's performance was just
a parody that did not refer to Korean fans but a Japanese one.
It is explained that Anna was transforming into a Japanese 'crazy-fan', who had just
come to Korea to support Sakura as an IZ*ONE member.
That's why Anna held a Korean nametag even though she is cosplaying as a Japanese fan.
It's really just an exaggeration of her own portrayal as Sakura's biggest admirer.
3.
Shuhua was said to treat fans like inferiors
Out of the 5 (G)I-DLE members, Shuhua seems to be the most controversial one.
The youngest member has been entangled in disputation concerning her singing and dancing
skills to her real-life personality.
Shuhua was once even reprimanded by netizens for having an inappropriate attitude while
interacting with fans on Vlive.
So, when (G)I-DLE held a V-Live broadcast called 'Hwa Workshop' to perform flower arrangements
together in January 2021 with the participation of 3 members, Yuqi, Minnie, and Shuhua, the
maknae was said to lack respect toward fans as she asked them to do this and that.
Specifically, near the end of the livestream, when Shuhua read fans' comments, she noticed
that the number of hearts did not live up to her expectations and wanted Neverlands
to press more hearts.
“Please give us a heart!
Why aren’t there any hearts?”
Then when Yuqi told Shuhua that fans would get fatigued if they pressed heart constantly,
Shuhua was seen giving an impulsive response to both Yuqi and fans, saying“So what?
Our hands are hurting right now too" without even a smile.
In another livestream, Shuhua again made many fans disappointed with her allegedly sassy
attitude.
Specifically, when a fan asked Shuhua to turn down the music volume so that they could hear
her clearly, she bluntly replied, "Turn down your phone volume.
Why are you all so demanding?"
Not only Knetz but even international fans also said that Shuhua always has such an intrinsic
attitude since she is overly pampered by other members in (G)I-DLE.
Although netizens have continuously censured Shuhua’s attitude to fans, which always
become a hot topic on Korean online forums, Neverlands considers this to be a very negligible
thing and believed that Shuhua was just joking with fans a little bit to hype up the atmosphere.
They also said that people were exaggerating this incident and were trying to drag Shuhua
down.
Some defended that Shuhua has always been a straightforward girl and kept the habit
of teasing fans since her debut, but that also backfired on her as some anti-fans saw
this as an opportunity to defame her by putting Shuhua’s words out of context.
4.
NO:ZE was said to look down on small brands
Even though No:ze is not an idol and has never got into fan-disrespect controversies, I still
decided to add her to this list because recently, she was caught up in suspicions of abuse of
power for her SNS advertisements against small and medium brands.
In particular, many small brands accused No:ze of delaying uploading sponsored posts, not
following the promised schedule, and taking down advertisements after receiving the payment
yet still keeping her posts promoting luxury brands on her SNS for months.
Moreover, these small brands shared that it’s really hard to have a chance to work with
No:ze, and her actions have negatively affected their business.
After that, No:ze’s agency, Starting House, uploaded a post to explain this problem.
They said that it is not true that NO:ZE is uploading SNS posts by dividing the brands
into 'luxury' and 'not luxury', and that she is receiving 3 to 50 million won per post.
Also, regarding the posting schedule, they claimed that it is not a matter of the artist,
but the company would first check the contract period and deliver it to the artist, and then
upload it through SNS according to the schedule within the deadline.
Also, they mentioned that the deletion of the post was also carried out in advance under
the discussion between the artist and the company.
That’s why many netizens are blaming Starting House as they believe NO:ZE was just following
their schedule and doing the things she was requested to do.
Besides, they argue that Starting House should be responsible for the problem and take further
action to protect NO:ZE from the hate of netizens.
Despite all that, NO:ZE is still receiving loads of criticized comments from netizens
due to her allegedly unprofessional actions and people are still waiting for an official
explanation from her.
So, do you think these idols really lack respect or are some people just exaggerating things
to drag them down?