Not long ago, the Melon Music Award (MMA) 2022 took place on November 26th, which gained
lots of interest from Kpop lovers yet ended with many heated controversies.
Did you get them in detail?
So in this video, we will walk you guys through all of these latest head-aching issues of
the event.
Stay tuned till the end of our video to keep yourself updated.
1.
IVE’s allegedly controversial attitudes toward their seniors
Let’s kick off the video with the first controversy of IVE.
So during the event, there were many times netizens spotted that the girls had a rather
disrespectful attitude toward their seniors.
To be more specific, when the duo MeloMance was passing by IVE, only 3 out of six members
were seen to bow to them while Wonyoung, Yujin, and Leeseo seemed to be indifferent as they
just sat still without bowing or standing up.
The video soon reached many netizens, making them really irritated and said that this is
not the first time IVE had problems with their attitude but they still seemed to not know
how to act properly to avoid criticism.
Some also questioned IVE that is this too hard for them to spend some seconds to greet
their seniors, or are they now get infected with celebrity syndrome so that they think
they have the right to ignore their seniors.
However, fans defended that maybe the girls were just too immersed into the event and
didn’t pay attention to people around them.
They simply can't just watch the performances with one eye and use the other eye to see
if anyone passes by.
Netizens, thus, need to stop digging up dirt every minor moment to drag IVE down.
But things didn’t stop there because many netizens have soon noticed Jang Wonyoung’s
allegedly disrespectful attitude towards IU.
When the VCR of IU was shown, Wonyoung was seen to not show any interest or give an applause
to support her senior but keeping her hands crossed on her thighs.
Many netizens, after seeing the shortcut, immediately picked on the female idol, saying
that Wonyoung was so ignorant and if there's any event where she's not the center of attention,
she wouldn’t care.
On the other hand, Wonyoung’s fans pointed out that their idol, in fact, did clap for
IU right in the beginning of her VCR for a few seconds and then lower her hands, but
some netizens maliciously cut that part out of the clip and made up an accusation Wonyoung
being disinterested in IU’s VCR, so netizens need to see the original video before criticizing
her.
What also got everyone talking is the emotional moment of Wonyoung at MMA 2022.
Accordingly, IVE has made a big hit at the event when receiving their first Daesang award
for “Love Dive”, and the girls have won 4 awards in total.
This must be one of the most memorable events for all members of IVE as they all bursted
into tears.
However, some netizens found that Wonyoung looked so phoney when crying as if she was
pretending to cry.
They even mocked and made fun of her for trying to look beautiful and searching for her fansite
even while crying.
In contrast, many stood up for Wonyoung as they believe that it is ridiculous of some
people to criticize her for such a nonsense reason.
They said that there is no way the female idol could satisfy everyone because once they
hate her, everything she does becomes a thorn in their eyes and they will always keep an
eye on her actions to dig up dirt on her.
Frankly, fans believe that these haters actually are jealous of a girl who won Daesang at the
age of 19, so whatever reason could be an excuse for them to throw shade at the young
female idol.
2.
IVE’s VCR was said to plagiarize Red Velvet’s One of these nights
Here we move on with the next MMA controversy, which is also related to IVE.
So, it was said that there are many similarities between their VCR and Red Velvet’s One of
These Nights.
Netizens pointed out that the theme color, the sitting postures of the members, and how
everything was set up to the camera angles are obviously no different from Red Velvet’s
MV.
What is also worth mentioning is that One of These Nights was made with a view to commemorating
the victims of the Sewol tragedy in 2014 so the criticism from netizens was pushed even
higher.
They accused IVE of shamelessly taking advantage of Red Velvet’s concept and turning a song
commemorating the unfortunate victims into a love story.
Thus, many believe IVE obviously have no respect toward the victims of the tragedy.
Immediately, IVE’s fans stood up to protect their idols, saying that netizens need to
stop pointing finger at IVE because the one to be blamed here is StarShip Entertainment,
who organized and decided everything.
It is not IVE’s fault as they just literally follow their agency’s settlement.
Moreover, some also added that there is no confirmation that One of These Nights is a
tribute to the Sewol tragedy, so IVE’s similarities are not disrespectful at all.
3.
G-IDLE was said to be allegedly jealous of IVE and NewJeans
Here we come to the last controversy.
Do you guys remember that previously, Shuhua has gained loads of backlash for being arrogant
when telling fans that G-IDLE was going to win the Daesang Award.
However, it turned out that IVE was the one who received it, which is said to throw a
bucket of cold water at G-IDLE because they were expected to be a strong candidate for
Daesang with their hit song “Tomboy”.
Eventhough G-IDLE won several awards in this event, this seemed to not live up to their
expectation because as soon as MMA ended, Minnie got everybody’s talking due to her
vague post on her Instagram, which is said to imply the result of the music award.
To be more specific, the female idol had soon posted a photo of her on Instagram story with
the caption: “Is this for real?”, which made her receive numerous mixed opinions from
netizens.
They believed that there must be an implication behind the story as the caption and the photo
seem to be irrelevant with each other.
Some said that Minnie was actually expressing her dissatisfaction toward the award results
and was trying to indirectly mock IVE for not being qualified enough to win Daesang.
They, thus, criticized the female idol for acting so childishly while IVE, in fact, totally
deserved the award.
On the side of her fans, they defend their idol by saying that netizens were overreacting
and too sensitive.
This was actually just a normal story but some people were trying to exaggerate everything
to make an excuse to mindlessly criticize Minnie.
Many firmly stated that netizens have lost their mind when throwing malicious comments
at Minnie while having no evidence to prove what they said.
Unfortunately, these justifications of Minnie’s fans failed to convince strict netizens as
they assumed that if the female idol didn’t have any bad intention toward IVE then why
she was quick to sweep the story under the carpet as it was soon deleted and she had
uploaded another one instead.
Apart from that, they also pointed out that during the announcement section of the Daesang
Awards, G-IDLE was seen to not show up.
Even at the end of the ceremony, the girlgroup was said to be absent while other groups all
stayed till the end to greet and thank their fans.
This raised a question whether G-IDLE were disgruntled when knowing that there was no
Daesang for them.
Some even said that there must be a reason why they couldn’t win Daesang, so the girls
need to be humble and work harder instead of putting on an irritating attitude toward
everybody like the whole world is turning their back on them.
Fans one more time stand up to protect their idols from the accusation.
They stated that maybe G-IDLE had another schedule so they had to leave sooner than
expected.
Plus, the girls had all the right to leave as long as their absence didn’t affect the
flow of the event.
Fans also expressed that they don't understand why netizens keep pointing finger at G-IDLE
when all they did was post an innocuous story and leave the ceremony a little earlier.
So, do you think G-IDLE is really jealous of IVE and IVE were disrespectful to their
seniors?
Or is it all just the imagination of some toxic netizens?