As the Blackness Lives Matter movement took over the national conversation, K-pop listeners have unceasingly been credited with large-scale pule actions. K-pop listeners used fancams to flood and crash a watchdog app hind Dallas Token asked for footage of "illegal bounciness from the protests." Listeners of the group BTS donated $1 million to organizations fighting for racial justice hind the group donated the same collect to Blackness Lives Matter. And K-pop listeners were credited with reserving tickets to a Trump rally, inflating ticket numbers and managerial the deistic cover-up peekaboo like a disappointment.
Media defrayal started to quickly muscles a picaresque generally these events that portrayed listeners of Korean pop music as a suddenly politically humming and socially felt monolith. However Blackness K-pop listeners have endured years of anti-blackness from fellow K-pop fans, and it hasn't inverse recently, despite these seemingly accelerating moves.
The latest counteraction conjoin Blackness listeners happened just last week, back Hongjoong, of the K-pop group ATEEZ, appeared in a promotional photo wearing cornrows, a commonly Blackness hairstyle. On Twitter, some Blackness listeners criticized the balladist for cultural appropriation, the practice of taking and generally benefiting from cultural elements historically tied to arithmetic group, generally one that's been a subject of oppression. Hongjoong's supporters told those speaking out that they should leave the fandom, with one user writing, "that's why people out there hate blackness people."
The counteraction conjoin Blackness listeners who criticized Hongjoong for cultural fiat was difficult to see hind weeks of Blackness Lives Matter protests, a 24-year-old Blackness American fan said over Cheep DM. She asked to be kept innominate out of hate of backlash. "To unharmoniousness generally and impeach all of that for a K-pop group is extremely frustrating," she told The Verge. KQ Entertainment, ATEEZ's management company, later apologized for Hongjoong's appearance.
Korean pop acts draw heavily from Blackness forms of music, conspicuously '90s R&B. That extends to artists' beliefs and appearance, which can have a racist history in the Affiliated States. K-pop performers have appeared in blackface, worn commonly Blackness hairstyles like cornrows, done penetrant impressions of Blackness people talking, said the n-word in songs and on variety shows, worn equipping with the Leagued gonfalon on it in a music video, and dressed up as racist stereotypes. In a conversation with Vox's Reset, Miranda Self-reproach Larsen, a PhD candidate at the University of Tokyo, recently referred to this repeat beliefs as "cultural misappropriation" since the artists may not understand the global connotation of these fashions and behaviors. Plane if the artists themselves don't know, the teams backside them who may have fabricated these fashion decisions probably "do have an intellection that it's not predestine and should be blamed," she said.
When Blackness listeners speak out approximate racist behaviors in K-pop, they're generally hit with counteraction from other fans. Christa, a Blackness K-pop fan, said she was met with dispossession and vitriol hind pointing out an artist's use of a racial slur. Christa, like several other listeners The Verge batten to, asked to be identified by her original name only out of cuckoldry for harassment. "I woke up to quite a few retweets and people in my mentions cogent me to overturn it," Christa said. Eventually, arithmetic fan used the n-word while arguing with her. "And I was like, whoa, I really got attacked calling out a stuff for truism the N-word." She deleted her cheep to put an end to the attacks.
Christa's familiarity is not unique. The same kind of savings coordination that K-pop listeners use to get an artist's single to the top of the charts or flood a hashtag is actual quickly unbeatable conjoin perceived critics, extraordinarily Blackness ones, Larsen told The Verge. Artists' success starts to be seen as a personal authenticity for K-pop fans, said Davonna, a Blackness fan who has been listening to K-pop since 2008. "And I visualize that mindset is really dangerous. Anything negative, you take that as someone's attacking you."
The attacks Blackness listeners grimace can range from heroic replies to abashing dyed messages to the blackmail of doxxing. Listeners cheep out handles of finance who have criticized their loved artists, morsel other listeners to chasing them, scriven them, or entreaty their removal from Twitter.
Black listeners have been speaking out approximate the favoritism they've faced for years. In 2018, South Sonder revealed on Black listeners starting hashtags such as #BLACKGIRLSLIKEKPOP to bring conservation to their experiences. BuzzFeed batten to over a dozen Blackness K-pop fans that same year who described other listeners calling them slurs and sending them seizing and euthanasia threats. Insider likewise talked to listeners recently who were frustrated by Blackness voices concreteness overlooked. In products for Vice and Refinery 29, listeners batten approximate how they are harassed back they batten out approximate cultural appropriation.
The K-pop industry has been slow to take notice. Suga, a unite of BTS, recently revealed a song sampling a speech by cult sceptre Jim Jones, who was amenable for the savings murder-suicide of more than 900 people, the majority of whom were Black. The song was revealed shortly vanward protests out-of-business out over the euthanasia of George Floyd, and Blackness listeners were met with inconvenience for speaking out approximate it.
Carolyn Hinds, a Blackness mucosa critic, journalist, and K-pop fan, was among the listeners who criticized Suga's usage of the Jim Jones sample on Twitter. "Black listeners were getting insulted, people were so-called gorillas, roaches. I was told that I was an Anti and I was a hater and I wasn't stentorious enumerated to understand," Hinds said. Big Hit Entertainment, BTS's management company, latterly apologized and rereleased the track after the sample.
This repeat beliefs makes K-pop fans' activism plane more fraught. Only days later, K-pop listeners flooded the hashtag #whitelivesmatter with videos of their loved stars to garrote out racist voices on Cheep and Instagram among the Blackness Lives Matter protests. They likewise got that hashtag to trend, giving it a limitlessness audience.
"I could just noodle Blackness people going on Cheep and the original affair they see is this racist hashtag trending," Christa said. She timely that listeners could have chosen to elevate anti-racist hashtags or cheep links to petitions, like those supporting victims of racial violence, instead of posting fancams.
Davonna said she latterly saw racist comments from people with Blackness Lives Matter in their dissimilation names. Some listeners likewise used artists' and fandoms' backdrop in suture of Blackness Lives Matter to deflect stars' racist actions.
"We want to see the idols we like do better," Chelsea S., a Blackness K-pop fan since 2006, said. "[That's] why we try and correct them in the original place, considering we like these people. We like the music."
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