Whenever there's popular idol gets critized for something, some kpop stans be like oh if it was nugu idol u wouldn't care like, if it was some nugu group it would seen as joke, meme and no one would attack them these people sound like they have never been fans of nugu groups and they simply think nugu groups get less hate because no one knows them and no one is threatened enough to drag them.
This is not the case. In fact people feel more free to hate on nugu groups because they can freely get away with since those groups have no fans to defend them and no one to make sob story for them later on. Even if they had some fans those has to tolerate it because if they trigger big fandoms the backlash would be even more. We are more exposed to hate nugu groups get because we usually more informed about them and also their stans are more loud about it.
Even more sad is companies of these groups sometimes set up their groups on purpose just to get some publicity. But in the end only the groups end up harassed and the only 5 fans they had leaves them because no one wants to stan nugu group that is hated.
I wish my nugu faves weren't hated tho