It amazes me, idols are painted immediately as racists for 1 misunderstood comment or imitation they did, yet the same k-pop fans have no problem at all with other k-pop fans mocking and belittling Asian fans buying albums or streaming songs.
Sorry, you can give it whatever justification or excuse you like: but if you downplay and dismiss Chinese album buying and SEA fans streaming k-pop as less valuable compared with sales and streams from the West, you're basically just saying 'Chinese and SEA people are worth less as human beings than people in Western countries, so their sales and streams or whatever they do doesn't count'
Now that is real racism and prejudice.