Besides excellent skills, eye-catching appearances, Kpop idols are also trained by their entertainment
agencies to possess standard manners before debuting in order to build a good image of
them in the eyes of the public.
However, recently, there are idols who are said to have lost their original image and
changed to a totally different person, which according to netizens, freaks them out and
disappoints them real hard.
1.
Jackson Wang freaking the hell out of people with his choreography
After his departure from GOT7, Jackson Wang spent most of his activities in China and
gained popularity here.
However, lately, the male idol was caught up in a controversy around his current image,
which is said to be a total contrast to it in the past.
Specifically, during his 2022-2023 Magic Man World Tour, there are many circulated videos
on social media about him having many shocking actions on stage.
The male singer was seen to excessively swing his hips and have erotic choreography, which
is said to be 18+ moves and not appropriate with adolescent fans, not to mention other
crazy actions like drinking and pouring wine all over his body.
Not only that, he also got everyones’ talking due to his weird way of doing fan-service.
To be more specific, Jackson constantly invited his fangirls on stage and had numerous intimate
interactions with them like hugging them and kissing their hands.
What is also worth mentioning is that he even brought a fan on stage and gave her a lap
dance as well as performed offensive moves in front of her.
Jackson was seen to be too hysterical to the point that he didn’t hesitate to strip his
shirt off when getting closer to his fans and let them touch his bare chest, making
the concert look like a real club.
Needless to say, everyone is speechless after watching these videos as they are shocked
to see what kind of person Jackson turns out to be, saying that he is now no different
from a weirdo.
Even his own fans also stated that they are so embarrassed to the extent that they dare
not to claim to be his fans anymore.
Some even express their regret for his gentlemanly, elite image when he was a member of GOT7 and
joke that they really need to wash their eyes after watching those videos.
To this point, many suspect that when Jackson was working as a member of GOT7, JYP entertainment
must try so hard to help him to cover up his true color and build a perfect image of him
as a caring man and boyfriend material.
However, after leaving, Jackson had totally revealed his nature as a person who is willing
to sell himself short and do whatever it costs as long as he has his own benefit and money.
On the other hand, many other fans show their interest in his current image and defend him,
saying that Jackson now just simply follows the style he has always wanted to but didn’t
have the chance to do when being under JYP Entertainment, not him being weird and crazy
at all.
They also said that those who don’t like that and are not into him should just skip
over instead of mocking and criticizing him, as well as let other people who love Jackson
as who he is continue to support him.
2.
Jennie being allegedly spoiled
There is a fact that Jennie has constantly been in the limelight, leading to haters nitpicking
every aspect of her life.
One of the latest discussions that have stirred controversy among netizens is about the way
Jennie presented herself lately.
Despite being at the forefront of creating trends with a breakthrough fashion career,
Jennie is as famous as she is scandalous.
It can be said that 2022 is the year in which Jennie has been constantly under fire for
her overexposed style and performance.
At the start of the year, she created a buzz when wearing an underboob top during the “Paris
Fashion Week 2022”, continuing through the middle of the year with "indecent" and "overexposed"
outfit in BLACKPINK's Pink Venom teaser, and most recently with critiques of revealing
and provoking costumes during the BORN PINK tour.
As you can see, Jennie has been changing her image completely and if you've been following
her Instagram or been her die-hard fan for a long time, you'll definitely notice that
about 2 years ago in the How you like that era, Jennie used to follow a girl-crush style,
sometimes a bit sassy yet still chic and feminine.
Croptops, baggy jeans or elegant dresses were the clothes she often wore at that time.
Since 2022, it seems that Jennie is pursuing a sexier and more seductive style like Western
singers with spaghetti-strapped bralettes and super-short shorts which reveal most of
her body.
Since this is in stark contrast to the other BLACKPINK members as Jisoo is still elegant,
Rose is still sweet, Lisa is still vibrant as they have always been, Jennie is said to
be the disgrace of the group when constantly getting in trouble with her controversial
stylings.
Not only that, her actions and behaviors are also said to be way worse compared to when
she first debuted.
Some remarks criticized Jennie for the way she twerked in Paris and how lazy and superficial
she was during the world tour in Hong Kong, saying that the female idol is becoming out
of control and no longer the Jennie Kim people used to know as she seems to be trying too
hard to be as liberal as Western stars.
Many even stated that Jennie is not qualified enough to be an idol as her current style
will promote bad images to young fans.
However, many have also swooped in to defend Jennie, emphasizing that she is a freaking
adult so she has the right to pursue the image she finds appropriate.
Thus, Jennie can wear whatever she likes and do whatever she wants as long as it doesn't
affect the interests of others.
What's not normal here is that many toxic netizens and so-called fans always try to
force Jennie to be what they want and tell her what to do.
Above all, to promote their image widely, BLACKPINK has been focusing heavily on international
markets such as North America and Europe, where there is a significant cultural difference
compared to Korea so the fact that the group's outfits are a bit more revealing is acceptable.
3.
Jeon Somi not focusing on her idol career
Well, the controversy was sparked on Pann after netizens noticed that Jeon Somi now
seems to ignore her music career because she was seen to not have much promotion activities
regarding her solo career lately, and instead worked real hard on filming TikTok videos
and commercials, which aren’t really approved from netizens as well as gets on their nerves.
Many stated that as a solo artist, Somi needs to spend time building a solid foundation
because her career path now is not stable enough to allow her to enter other fields
like what BlackPink has done.
Since dropping her solo debut, the young female idol was considered one of the most successful
soloists when releasing many hits which received really positive reactions from netizens like
What You Waiting For or Dumb Dumb.
However, as there are no new promotions from Somi during 2 years after that, she was said
to gradually disappear from the Kpop track, which is really alarming as the Kpop world
is becoming more and more competitive with mushrooming talented idols.
Netizens, thus, asked Somi to stop playing around and instead concentrate more on her
music career to gain her fame back.
However, others didn’t see eye to eye with these opinions.
They said that netizens are just full of jealousy of Somi because she obviously has flawless
visual and tons of advertisement contracts.
So criticizing her for the alleged distraction from her music career is just the way some
netizens use to help them feel better with their insecurities.
Not only that, Somi’s fans also pointed out that the female idol is not the one who
made decisions on her plans, but it in fact depends on her agency’s strategy.
Thus, netizens should be more reasonable and weigh the whole situation before judging anyone.
So, do you think these idols really have a problem with their image lately as netizens
claim?
Is Jackson being weird?
Is Jennie trying too hard to be a Western artist?
And is Somi getting lazy?