One person. One single person made one anon post that they later deleted that subsequently went viral and ended up extremely affecting Chanyeol's career, and possibly him, due to the hate, and malicious comments throughout these months. It wasn't even a completely believable story either, what with the exos hating each other, but also secretly loving OP, despite her relationship with Chanyeol, and Chanyeol's crazy airplane sex.
The same thing happened to Mingyu of Seventeen. Someone made up bullying rumors. People immediately started going wild. Only to find out later that all of it was false.
And people in kpop just love to twist words, to take a positive statement, switch up the subtitles, add some horrified reactions and make it so that Jennie of blackpink actually hates bts. Or Taemin is misogynistic. Or Kevin is pro Israel.
And it's so interesting to wonder how people are supposed to react in these situations. How do you know their telling the truth? What if it's not the truth? What if it is? How do you truly stay neutral? I suppose if your some random cow farmer in Italy who has never heard of kpop in your life it's easy, but we've all seen these idols, and thus have biases. And being neutral doesn't do anything about the situation. I guess it's just interesting how extreme kpop gets, how easy the fan culture can breed hate, and false rumors, and just how detrimental this stuff is.
