Just before debuting Karina was involved in a scandal where she supposedly called Kai from Exo, Jimin from BTS and some other popular male idols ugly she also criticised SM saying she was never going to debut and she should have moved to HYBE
SM came out saying this was all false and they would be pressing charges to anyone talking bad about Karina etc 1 or 2 months later aespa debuted
Some people she went to school with also came forward saying she never had that type of character and was always very friendly and polite
Now with the recent news HYBE has access to SM trainees and knows a lot more than expected about them/ SM also with HYBE obsession with aespa known publicly and them being responsible for starting or encouraging a lot of aespa / SM hate trains is it far fetch to theorise Hybe was responsible for this? I mean it doesn’t sound that surprising
It got her/ aespa a lot of hate in debut eras with Army’s/ HYBE stans