#the kpop community is so toxic with their cancel culture its disgusting

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Hanbin was accused, Hanbin was cleared

Wonho was accused, Wonho was cleared

Woojin was accused. Woojin is cleared

Illhoon was accused. I believe Illhoon too will be cleared.

I can finally speak out on of the things that has been bothering me since the news broke out. At the time it was very scary and stressful as we were dealing with the wildfires in our state at the same time so I was already having a hard time. Woojin was my bias and I never believed he would do something like that. I know everyone says to believe the victim but innocent until proven guilty is still valid and victims lie, it happens often and we all know how fans and antis get sometimes, just like Wonho and Hanbin people will do anything to throw idols under the bus.

The scariest thing for me to see was how quick everyone was in defending Hanbin and Wonho and how quick the same people threw Woojin away, immediately spreading hate and sending death threat and calling him fake and all these names and just obnoxious behaiver. I understand we were all upset but you can’t just believe someone right away with no evidence and so many holes in their story. And sometimes it’s best to wait it out and then make a decision.

It wasn’t just Woojin that was caught up in the whirlwind, Jungwoo, Chanwoo, Hongjoong, Seonghwa and a few more that I can’t remember were also names thrown out from so many people. Their biggest thing was when they claimed he was a member from the big three, had a w and two o’s in his name. This is not a good statement because for one thing Woojin left Stray Kids and JYP so not only was he out of the big 3 but he’s not the only one with those letters in his name. Jungwoo and Chanwoo are also under the big three and have a w and two o’s in their names.

Back when it was so big on Twitter the Jungwoo tags were all stating that Woojin was innocent but the Stray Kids tags were saying he was guilty. Even the supposed person themselves posted one last tweet before delete the account stating it was all fake but no one took that screenshot so people were led to believe it was all fake

And then on the bullying, I’ve seen a lot of videos saying ‘this idol bullying this group’ or ‘this group bullying this member for 8 minutes’ and multiple videos being taken out of context and people claiming that since Woojin doesn’t speak a lot in some videos it’s proof he doesn’t get along and the member don’t like him. Y’all that’s not how things work. Just because you aren’t fully engaged in an activity or if you aren’t getting along doesn’t make you a bully or a bad person, Woojin was going through his own shit and idols lives are hard enough, if they feel out of it sometimes it’s not okay for us to immediately accuse them of such things like ‘they don’t like their members, they don’t get along, they are bullies.’

Idols live together and are around each other often so what you might see as “bullying” might just be them goofing off I mean ffs there is a video titled ‘ATEEZ bullying Seonghwa’ and y’all fine with that because they are only goofing around and teasing each other but you automatically assume from any footage or out of context video of Woojin playing with and teasing the members that he’s a bully. Why are you putting double standards on this? Bullying is a very serious accusation and rumors and spreading false information or any information with no evidence can ruin an idols careers. Tara and Co-Ed School unfortunately we’re big examples of this. The Tara bullying scandal ruined those girls and all the rumors and accusations caused Co-Ed School to disband before anyone could say everything was false. You have to be careful with what you say and what you hear and see cause if it’s not true and everyone believes it is you ruined a whole idols career before it can even be fixed.

Ok so, yes I know everyone says “the victim is always right” and it’s okay if you want to believe that but remember there are two sides to every story and both parties are valid until further evidence or actual evidence and you are able to prove whether or not something actually happened. I had some other things to say but I’ll let those slide and it doesn’t matter not because Woojin is innocent and it’s great news. I’m so relieved because he was my bias and I was so heartbroken when he left and when I heard about the trouble he was going through. I was so afraid to even say Woojin because everyone was censering it, acting like it was a bad name and that’s not fair on Woojin himself and it’s also not fair on the other idols named Woojin because there are at least 5 Woojins so for people to be doing that is like, you’re invalidating the other Woojin’s just because you think one Woojin is bad. Seeing people tag Woojin like w***** or w**jin and woojail and tw woojin is really upsetting and that’s not okay, that’s like bullying, calling him woojail is not okay at all. Pretending his name is a trigger when it’s not and if his name was a trigger than all the idols named Woojin would have that and censoring his name, again you’re invalidating all the other woojins. And everyone that says “ot8 or get the fuck out” or “if you still support Woojin fuck off” like..he’s literally fucking innocent. It was a bunch of Brazilian antis that started all the lies and rumors and after all the stories that don’t make sense and people still think he’s guilty and they are still sending him hate and being absolute assholes towards him. If you don’t want to believe that he’s innocent, if you don’t want to like him fine. Don’t talk about him don’t make a bunch of woojail posts, don’t send him hate or death threats because you’re 1. Making things worse and 2. Care enough about him to make his life miserable which is exactly what antis do and what those antis did. It pisses me off and upsets me how fast everyone just turned on him and they continue to bully him and send him unnecessary hate. Also it’s ok to tag Stray kids and Woojin because he was a member of Stray Kids so don’t give people shit for tagging Stray Kids.

So I’m gonna end this posts educating y’all about the multiple Woojins and it’s okay to say and spell Woojin you guys. It’s alright, you won’t get in trouble. So Woojin, my boy who I miss so so much Kim Woojin who was in Stray Kids, there’s my Thot Woojin from Target, an amazing rapper btw, I do believe there is a Woojin in AB6IX and of course there is the hot Woojin from My.st who just has this whole vibe to him that is dead sexy. Also the Woojin from Teenteen/Ghost9 and also also your gurl found a sexy man, despite me not being into body builders, I found a man on Insta named Kim Woojin and he is definitely a fucking snaCC. So thanks and enjoy the Woojins. I can get back to making my memes again. I’m just sad that I believed and jumped to conclusions and deleted some Woojin posts. But I stopped myself before I deleted all of them

ALSO ALSO recently it’s been pointed out how did Woojin has been and someone described it as what Jonghyun looked like before he left us. Woojin is my boy and I’ve been worrying about him ever since he left Stray Kids and I swear on god Hui and my camera roll if he hurts himself in any way or we lose another wonderful person I will blame Bangchan. I will blame Felix, I will blame JYP and I will blame everyone that started the rumors, the lies, the people that sent Woojin mean messages, death threats, bullying him because you don’t need to like an idol no matter what they do but bullying them and sending unnecessary hate to them is not ok no matter what they did. Even if it’s bad just ignore it because you sending them mean comments doesn’t make you any better. I was already pissed off at fans and everyone else and Bangchan and Felix for all the mean comments and everything else they were doing and I’ll be even more pissed off if this whole situation was too much for him on top of his depression and he ended his life.

Ok you know what, I’m so fucking pissed off over these posts I’m seeing on tumblr and I’m upset and I’m still having thoughts on whether or not I should post this but you know what. I don’t care. It’s my blog, it’s my opinion and it’s my feelings that I need to get off my chest. Kim Woojin is innocent and if I get any hate of any kind my stomach will do flips but y’all should know better especially if you don’t agree with me so have fun I guess I’ll probably delete or block you so I don’t have to hear your meany-ness. It’s my opinion, my post and my blog and if you don’t like it then I have nothing to say to you.

[amonicano]

Week 9 - Fandoms

For this topic, I will be specifically focusing on Kpop groups and One Direction fandom.

What is Fandom?

First, let me start off by explaining what fandom is. Fandom is basically another saying of "fan culture". A fandom us a group of people who have formed a community or subculture around a piece of pop culture, such as a book, movie, video game, comic, music groups, or sports team. This group of supporters is united by their love for the source material.

While most fandoms are made up of people who buy the source material and its various offshoots (action figures, posters, books, etc.), they can also be made up of people who actively interact and engage with the original material through creative works. Posting fanfictions and drawings, as well as writing songs or creating videos on the original work. People may even dress up as the characters from the source material.

Kpop fandoms

If you're unfamiliar with K-pop music, consider pop bands such as One Direction, Little Mix, and Fifth Harmony in the western countries: they're similar to the concept of idols.

Fandoms are a large part of K-pop fan bases and what comes of fandoms in general is always that one common thing you always see: Toxicity. The power of social media has become so popular among fanbases. The K-pop fandom is immensely popular on Twitter, with some accounts as old as the platform itself.

I'm pretty sure everyone has heard of cancel culture. If no, cancel culture is a form of online shaming involving a celebrity/or fans receiving backlashes if something offensively done by them. This is a very common thing in K-pop fandoms as K-pop fans are not afraid of this idea. In fact, they can even start canceling people or idols at anytime. In some cases, these fans have gone as far as making death threats or directing massive pile-ons for innocent opinions. Pretty disgusting.

I have never really linger around in any of the K-pop fandoms because I have been on Twitter loooooong enough to actually see the amount of sh*t happening just from a trending hashtag or accounts appearing in the normal hashtag like #BTS I follow. I admit that I love and support BTS in terms of their music but I do not want to associate myself with the fandom because of the amount of pathetic people within the fandom, especially the new fans (I hope I don't get killed but this is the truth)

Pretty sure we all know who Charlie Puth is. ARMYs started to cancel him after his live performance with BTS in 2018 (If I’m not mistaken) as they accused him for using BTS just to gain more popularity. It is really insane because some of these fans gives 0 craps and just went all out cancelling him for no damn particular reason or actual evidence. 

I’m done talking about BTS ARMY. This is so tiring so I’ll talk about One Direction instead.

One Direction (Directioners)

Awwww, look at their glowups.

Ah yes, this takes me back to my time back in early secondary school days where I was an absolute hardcore One Direction fan. The fact that I still have their autobiography books as well as merchandises till today. Maigod, I feel embarrassed. But hey, I still listen to their songs cause it’s so goddamn good and even though they have disbanded, I still keep up with Harry Styles LOL. Yes, he’s my bias. Okay, moving on xD.

Also, people who are a fan of One Direction (1D) are called Directioners. 

I’ll just get straight to the point and keep in one paragraph LOL cause this post is getting a bit too long. Basically in short, One Direction was badly mistreated by both toxic Directioners and people from other fandoms back then. Louis Tomlinson was called horrendous names and people commented how his voice wasn’t good enough when in actual fact, HE’S ACTUALLY REALLY GOOD AND HE HAS THAT ANGELIC VOICE. When his mom passed away in 2016, I was so disgusted at the fact that people had gone so far to commenting “I would love to make out with his mom’s dead corpse,”. This is so disgusting. Niall Horan was badly picked because of how he wasn’t as good looking as other members as well as being told that he was not good enough for the band as well. Liam Payne went into alcoholism due to the amount of stress he had to go through, which resulted him to go for therapy after the disbandment of One Direction. Zayn Malik was called racial slurs because he is a mix Brit and Pakistani. What’s even worse was that when Zayn was the first one who left the group, fans, especially the hardcore Zayn Malik simps went as far as cutting themselves thinking the faster and sooner they cut, the sooner Zayn will go back to the group. As for Harry Styles, when he was 16, he was labelled as a ‘womanizer’ by their management. Yes, you heard it right. The damn management. Even the damn management mistreated them badly back then.

I’m literally facepalming as I’m typing out all of that. 

But yes, those are all some of the major points I’ve mentioned about Directioners and the mistreatment towards One Direction. There’s more to those I’ve mentioned and I can literally write a short book about it LOL.

Anyways, in summary,

Every single fandom out there is bound to have toxicity happening within. The thing about toxicity is that it cannot be avoided and stopped. Some fans even go as far as to cancelling other fandoms just for the sake of power of who do better and all that shit. It’s honestly tiring I swear, and that’s why I never involve myself with any of the fandoms after One Direction, and I’m glad I’m not in BTS ARMY fandom, though I’m a big fan of BTS music myself. Heck I rather just fangirl over them by myself like for real.