I’m not really an IVE or wonyoung fan in particular but ofc, I’ve seen a fairly decent share of reels where the members and wonyoung particularly are targeted, like everyone probably has. I’ve never been dumb enough to actually blindly believe whatever narrative some people wanna push about her with exaggerated videos with random ass captions and a shit ton of zoom ins. this has been going on since their debut and quite frankly, I just wanna say, some of y’all would definitely easily fall for any propaganda you see
anyways, remember that video where “wonyoung was speeding and was in front of everyone and was trying to outshine them and get more attention” or whatever tf it was, I’ve lost track of what selfish act she apparently keeps doing but you probably know what video I’m talking about. I had only ever seen that video with edits made so that you could clearly hate on her a bit, but recently I saw an unedited video and dude…. it’s actually funny how normal it looked. like there’s not one instance I went “oh she wants attention” or whatever, like it literally looks like a normal group of girls walking
this made me realise that you could quite literally take any video of absolutely any idol doing absolutely anything and with a bit of editing make them look evil and people would absolutely eat it up. like that woman could breathe wrong and you’ll see a thousand close-ups of her face and how she’s the meanest human alive. oh who am I kidding? she could breathe exceptionally well and it would still happen. it’s genuinely concerning how devoted some people are to tarnishing her name or whatever. some videos people take of her could genuinely never be interpretated as her being a horrible person unless you in your head are adamant she is one
maybe it’s just a bunch of 12 year olds going through their mandatory phase of hating successful and beautiful women but why does this only happen to women? like the “IT girls” get absolutely dragged no matter what they do but a male k-pop idol could commit a sexual crime and he’d still have fans. like are we okay. I mean, this is an issue everywhere, not just in k-pop. genuinely, everytime somebody engages in hating on people like jennie or wonyoung or literally most women in this industry for irrelevant things (specifically irrelevant things, I know some people have valid reasons to not like jennie), they’re just participating in misogynistic culture
also the entire narrative of “ive are definitely just coworkers, not friends” is genuinely so exhausting. maybe they are, maybe they aren’t. why do we care. I’m sure many k-pop groups consist of just coworkers but the emphasis put on ive is just excessive. and the entire “wonyoung and friends” thing is also so ???? like why are we hating on her because she’s too popular or because their company sucks at treating them equally (at the start at least)?
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