K-stays are really upset after the first weekend of the RUN IT tour, so here’s everything summed up:
According to multiple posts and videos on X rn, a lot of influencers were invited to the concert and reportedly received:
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Premium central section seats on the floor, along with tickets for their plus-one and families?
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Meet and greet access with SKZ, requesting them to keep the meet and greet hidden
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Free official lightsticks.
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Other VIP benefits
Meanwhile, these are benefits that a lot of actual fans spent months trying to get or never got at all because getting tickets for a Seoul concert is so competitive. Then the encore happened, and from the videos going around, the members seemed to greet the section where the influencers were sitting while turning their backs to fans in the upper sections. To be clear, I don’t think Stray Kids are at fault here; they almost certainly didn’t decide who got invited or where anyone was seated. But after everything that had already happened, I can understand why fans felt hurt seeing that. It felt like the people who had already received special treatment were getting even more attention, while the fans who fought through ticketing were left feeling overlooked. Another thing people have been asking is why these influencers?
From what fans pointed out, some of them don’t even have particularly large followings, with someone literally having 100 followers to 4k followers. Honestly, I don’t think this would’ve blown up if influencers had simply been invited and given regular seats or at least not been given seats for their families as well. Most people understand that companies invite creators to events for promotion. The problem was giving them benefits that many paying fans couldn’t access themselves. If Division 1 wanted good publicity, why create a situation that made so many fans feel like they came second? That’s the part I can’t wrap my head around.
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