Is being hated on a sign of popularity

It means they are at least relevant enough to be hated. But I wouldn't rejoice.

I mean seungri is hated and he's popular after that scandal ig.

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Did he become popular after the scandal?

Not for the right reasons but yeah ig.

As a great philosopher once said :

I like hate comments more than no comments

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As a great philosopher once said :

I like hate comments more than no comments

well I guess that is a good one.

For OP's answer yes. I mean, look what happened to Jennie and Lisa.

ehhh kinda but kinda not. a lot of idols get hated on for being unpopular "nugu" is a common insult. Idols before they got famous like IU got cursed at by Koreans when they tried to perform because unpopular idols are seen as nobodies and treated like dirt.

however being famous does attract more attention overall (positive and negative) and being more successful makes certain celebrities seem more like a threat to other celebrities' popularity, so fans of that celebrity will want to tear down those competing celebrities to prevent them from stealing some limelight from their faves (it's not a coincidence the Blackpink hate bandwagon started in 2018 after their most successful and popular comeback)

no there's been plenty of idols who were only seen as punching bags to pann, especially when it comes to calling them ''too ugly/fat''

As long as there's balance if it's too much hate with barely any positivity then no

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no there's been plenty of idols who were only seen as punching bags to pann, especially when it comes to calling them ''too ugly/fat''

That matches ominmorphism's point, you're relevant enough to have people pay attention to you.

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That matches ominmorphism's point, you're relevant enough to have people pay attention to you.

I mean, no one knew about Somyi from dia other than shes absolutely hated and dragged into oblivion for her looks, and we only caught wind of this after a suicide attempt on live stream

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I mean, no one knew about Somyi from dia other than shes absolutely hated and dragged into oblivion for her looks, and we only caught wind of this after a suicide attempt on live stream

Dear lord wtf!!

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Dear lord wtf!!

yes, some nugu groups and members get really unlucky, they targeted jinE from oh my girl as well when they were rookies, so she literally had no fanbase to defend her.

Not always. Some idols attract more hate than others for no specific reason.

It definitely is a sign of popularity somehow.

There is a new idol in our country, she won The Face 2016 (rigged) and she became a model.

She doesn't have that much fame and now she changed to be a singer.

Everyone criticized her for that.

She released a debut consisting bad lyrics, plagiarized choreos and images from Kpop, she stole the ending pose of ITZY.

She released the second song with the same formula, the whole song is plagiarized from Kpop.

Her MVs got many views and even went on trending, so controversial, her fame rose.

Then she released the third song, a very GOOD ballad and suddenly she got praised.

This method is called "make noise and then fix your image later"

Yes I guess so as the popular groups have just got that something that haters want and feel jealous and insecure of.