So, I'm reading through a bunch of comments on pannchoa/pannkpop and I se so many people saying things like "Oh? No Taeyeon?" "Well, what do you expect when Kakao artist IU is under melon?" as if SM themselves wasn't just in an scandal about buying awards, and "Kakao couldn't help but give all their subsidaries an award no matter how irrelevant," referring to Stay C and Monsta X, as if plenty of other groups didn't also receive a bunch of made up awards.
It's funny because I'm so used to seeing these types of comments about big4 groups, but now, it's like suddenly they are taking Kakao seriously. It makes me realize how many new Kpop fans there are to Kpop, because Kakao being a big company and owning Melon seems to really be the big discovery of Kpop 2022. Ive impact I guess lol.