K-Pop fans heard that BTS Jin faces labeling law accusations for his IGIN liquor venture with Baek Jong Won. Well, move over, JIn, because the K-pop internet is a bigger crime scene, and everyone plays detective without a license.
Truth Bombs Drop
Recently, truth bombs dropped about About BLACKPINK. A new vlog by K-Pop Spy on YouTube was titled, Unpopular K-POP Opinions Cuz BLACKPINK Can’t Stand Each Other. And, it’s getting tons of engagement. So, if you click for the tea, you get a scathing scolding because the vlogger isn’t dragging the girls. Instead, they’re dragging the fans for creating drama out of thin air.
A Harsh scolding by K-Pop Spy – YouTube
Let’s break down the real cases on the docket. First up in the court of public opinion, is the case of Rosé vs. Common Sense. Apparently, it all started when BLACKPINK’s Rosé did what every star does: a promo. In a Vogue Q&A, she shared a tiny anecdote about “tension” before a shoot with Bruno Mars.
Somehow, that bloomed into the internet yelling she had “obsessed X energy.” Accusations arrived that she seemed “desperate” by using his name “like she summoned him in a freaking Ouija board.”
But the vlogger wasn’t having it. “All she did was what literally every artist does,” they argued, pointing out the double standard. “Because had Bruno said the same thing, it would have been so raw, so real. Male genius tortured by conflict. But when Rosie says it, suddenly she’s a fame leech who won’t shut up.”
The real culprit? “Y’all only framed it that way because your fave TikTok account clipped it out of context to farm rage and you took the bait. That’s not being a fan. That’s being a reaction junkie.”
The BLACKPINK Friendship Tribunal
Then came the so-called Friendship Tribunal. After Jisoo’s collaboration with Zayn Malik dropped, he promoted it on his Instagram. But, BLACKPINK bandmates, however, didn’t instantly post public congratulations.
So along came the dramatic headlines: BLACKPINK aren’t real friends anymore, and they’re jealous.
“Oh, please,” the vlogger scoffed. “This is like watching people analyze Instagram stories like they’re court filings.” They explained that the members now all run separate companies with different PR teams and global distributors. “They probably have to submit a request form in triplicate just to post a group pic.”
Their final verdict? “Posting ain’t friendship. Texting, calling, sending memes at 2 a.m…. All real things that happen offline.” The narrative, they said, just gives fans “a storyline, a villain, a victim, a reason to engage. But guess what? You’re not defending Ji Soo. You’re not defending Rosie. You’re just feeding drama machines with free emotional labor.”
Soyeon’s Plagiarism Drama
The most heated segment covered the plagiarism scandal involving (G)I-DLE’s Soyeon. French singer Yseult called out the DAMDADI music video for being a frame-by-frame copy of her own MV, posting a side-by-side comparison.
The director, Hong Minho, quickly apologized, admitting the similarities were “too close for comfort” and took full responsibility.
But instead of holding the director accountable, Soyeon’s stans attacked Yseult. “People were calling Yseult Nugu attention-seeking, fat, irrelevant, and jealous,” the vlogger noted.
They fiercely defended Yseult, saying, “This woman is the industry in France. Y’all just hadn’t heard of her because your cultural literacy ends at M Countdown.” On the director’s “inspiration” excuse, they were blunt: “Copying the exact setups, camera angles, props, and blocking, that’s not inspiration. That’s theft with a lighting budget.”
The vlogger decided it was time for a scolding:
This whole debacle isn’t about Soyeon being evil or Yseult being messy. It’s about a music video that stole visuals, got caught, admitted it, and instead of fixing the problem, the fans tried to erase the woman who dared to speak. Do better, y’all.
The Final Verdict
So, what was the vlogger actually talking about? Not unpopular opinions about idols, but an unpopular truth about the fans. They criticized a toxic culture that invents drama, applies double standards, and attacks people for engagement, all while pretending it’s “stan behavior.”
Notably, the title was just clickbait irony. The real message was, in fact, the problem isn’t that BLACKPINK can’t stand each other. The problem is that some fans can’t stand the thought of them just living their lives.
Fans React
At the time of writing this article, the vlog was shooting up in viewership numbers like no tomorrow. Many comments arrived, and some of them were polarizing. One K-pop fan commented, “No, because why is Spaghetti having more ‘crazy’ vibes than Crazy itself (and I’m here for it).”
Here are a few more reactions from the discussion area:
- The director should’ve gave credit to yseult from the very start he only came out when yseult called him out.
- Jennie, Lisa, Rosé, and Jisoo have LITERALLY expressed in interviews, that the members are in contact, congratulate each other behind the scenes, and laugh and joke about all of the speculations! For the upteenth (sic) time, the girls are fine!
- Soyeon shouldn’t be blamed for any of that? She was a featured artist, I understand the original artist tagging everyone involved, but people are making this into a Soyeon problem when it literally isn’t.
- I have never heard of these “friendship” scandals for boy groups. Not that it should happen but internet is just so obsessed with pitting women against each other.
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