While Mnet has been famous for successfully hosting lots of survival shows, which apparently
has saved lots of promising trainees from being overshadowed by equally talented other
acts coming from bigger entertainment companies, the channel has ironically also been infamous
for their “evil editing” that could completely distort the truth and turn an innocent celebrity
into the sinner of the public.
1.
Viviz’s SinB
At Queendom 2, SinB has become the latest target of Mnet as right on the first episode,
she was already portrayed as the villain of the show.
The evil editing skills of Mnet was so scarily seamless that if people had just watched Queendom
without much consideration, they would have immediately believed what was being shown
on the screen was actually what had happened in real life.
However, because SinB has been in the industry for eight years, a period long enough for
both fans and netizens to learn that she is a good girl at heart, the dramatic scene of
SinB suddenly becomes a humiliation thrown at Mnet’s sinister intention.
After being chosen by Brave Girls as the opponent, SinB immediately questioned why they chose
Viviz but not other groups.
She also outright expressed the uncomfortable feelings as it seemed like Brave Girls were
not taking her group seriously enough.
While this was a completely normal thing because at the end of the day, Queendom2 is still
a competition where many acts come to prove their capabilities but not to be looked down
on by others, Mnet immediately took the chance to turn SinB into a villain of the show.
After zooming to her face, emphasize the scene where she sneered, pointed to herself and
questioned “[You chose] us?”
Mnet went to extra lengths, edited the interaction between SinB and WJSN to be completely far
from the truth.
At first, Mnet showed the scene where WJSN members joked that Viviz might not be their
seniors because the group came to Queendom2 as Viviz, who technically has just debuted
recently rather than as GFriend, who has already been in the industry for 8 years.
Then after emphasizing such a light-hearted joke twice, the production team immediately
zoomed in on the “unease” reactions of Viviz’s members, escalating the situation
by showing the scene where SinB asks Yeorum to tell other WJSN members to recognize Viviz
as their seniors.
Mnet even put in dramatic sound, zooming effects, and shocked reactions on other contestants
to make the atmosphere more intense.
Unfortunately, Mnet was just embarrassing themselves this time because after the episode
was aired, netizens only found their evil editing hilarious rather than found SinB arrogant
like the show wanted to portray because they know the relationship between SinB and WJSN,
especially with Yeorum, has been extremely good in real life.
2.
Kep1er’s Chaehyun
The fact that Chaehyun managed to be the center of Kep1er though she was initially evil edited
by Mnet to be an imcopetent trainee was a huge slap to the production team because she
not only proved that the production team was playing with the wrong person but also showed
how nonsensical the editing of the show was.
When Chaehyun first appeared on Girl Planet 999 and did the cover of aespa’s Black Mamba,
everyone was stunned by how a cute and bubbly girl like Chaehyun could have such powerful
vocal and groovy dance moves.
However, instead of helping Chaehyun showcase her full potential, Mnet went for the opposite
approach by blowing her small crack when hitting the highest notes in Black Mamba out of proportion.
Especially because Chaehyun was an ex-trainee of SM Entertainment, a home to many top vocalists
of K-Pop, Mnet worked even harder on nitpicking her singing capabilities, not only replaying
but also editing her crack to be more apparent and raspy than actual.
Of course they didn’t forget to add in shocked effects on the face of judges and audiences
to make things more dramatic.
However, things soon became a thing of the past because Chaehyun still managed to prove
herself as time passed and quickly gained the love from the public for both the visuals
and talents.
3.
Cai Bing (Girls Planet 999)
However, not every contestant was as lucky as Chaehyun because on Girls Planet 999, Cai
Bing was also another talented trainee that was evil edited by Mnet but ended up being
a real villain in the public eyes rather than being a victim.
Still, fans pointed out several things that clearly showed Mnet was doing Cai Bing dirty
and throughout episode 7, the production team had always tried to paint her out as a dictatorial
and attention-seeking leader.
The evil edited scene was when Cai Bing arrogantly said to her team that “I am the leader so
I can do whatever I want.
Keep practicing and stop voicing your opinions”.
According to Chinese viewers, the subtitles Mnet added was completely misleading because
what Cai Bing actually said was “I am the leader so I think my opinions should also
be considered.
Let’s keep practicing and don’t stop.
You guys should also stop adding up opinions,” which was way more gentle and polite than
the subtitles of Mnet.
Also in this scene, Cai Bing’s “arrogant” words were seen to be the reply to Hyerim
saying “I think people will be less confused if Zhang Luofei is the only center,” giving
the impression that that Cai Bing was a dictatorial leader who never took in the opinions of her
teammates.
However, fans pointed out that the truth might have been distorted because when Hyerim voiced
her opinion, Dayeon of the “Ice Cream” team was sitting behind but when Cai Bing
replied, Dayeon had magically disappeared from the screen.
While the mystery was never debunked, many believe this was the solid proof showing Mnet
had edited two irrelevant scenes together to brew some tea for the show.
And the most malicious thing Cai Bing’s fans believe Mnet did to her was how they
cut most of her part in the Salute performance and covered up the fact that she had let other
members take on her line to shine better.
For example, Cai Bing had let Zhang Luofei take on the center position alone in the part
recommended by Hyerim and in several other parts, she also let Yoon Jia take on the center
position rather than doing it all by herself.
However, Mnet completely hid all these changes and the parts where Cai Bing and other members
resolved their problems to have a final line-up like in the performance.
4.
Dayeon (Girls Planet 999)
Even worse than Cai Bing, Dayeon not only fell victim to the evil edit of Mnet once
but several times throughout her time on Girls Planet 999.
However, nothing much could be done about it because when netizens saw through how Dayeon
was the most pitiful victim done wrong by Mnet, it was also the time where she was about
to be kicked out of the show.
For example, the production team had created a title called “The member looks most different
before and after make-up” and intentionally showed lots of bad scenes of Dayeon to paint
her out as a lacking visual.
As if doing Dayeon dirty that way wasn’t cruel enough since many netizens said they
didn’t find Dayeon that different before and after doing makeup, Mnet even went the
extra miles to interview other contestants about Dayeon’s visual and public all the
unpleasant comments.
Before this humiliating edit of Mnet, the show also put Dayeon into a weird situation
after showing her crying as she couldn’t take on her favorite part in The Eve.
After that, Mnet continued showing the scenes where Dayeon asked the masters and her team
to change the performing part, which fortunately helped produce a better performance but unfortunately
led to a way worse team atmosphere.
Mnet of course didn’t forget to add some reactions from other contestants and in this
case, they showed Kim Suyeon annoyedly saying “I wish she had told us before telling the
masters” and Fu Yaning implicitly blamed Dayeon for not outrightly discussing her discontent
with the members but instead snitching on them.
But according to fans, the whole thing was again evil edited by Mnet because one, Dayeon
had always been the poor target of Mnet and two, it was nonsense for Fu Yaning to make
people stick with their position after the first try but Mnet turned blind eyes on this
and picked on Dayeon instead.
5.
BIGANG’s Daesung
The case of Daesung was a little bit different from others on the list because until now,
fans haven’t seen any evil editing Mnet did to him but probably because he himself
had suffered from this malicious act, Daesung once blatantly exposed Mnet at MAMA 2015 – the
award show organized by Mnet themselves.
Specifically, Daesung hated the evil edit of Mnet so bad that despite being on camera,
he still called Mnet “the devil of editing” and said this was the reason he always used
sign language to communicate rather than normally speaking on Mnet’s shows.
Daesung also showed explicit disgust to the cheap tricks of Mnet by half-jokingly saying
the channel would do anything just to stir the headlines, because more attention meant
more money poured into their pockets.
So, which case do you find the most frustrating out of the five times Mnet pulled the evil
edits on innocent people for clout?
Comment down below to share your thoughts with us.