Is it racist to poke fun at Idols' pronunciation of English words?

Yes.

Would you be making fun of someone's accent/pronunciation in real life ? No. Why would it be different there ?

Yes

Probably not racist but disrespectful. We have to understand English is not their native language so I’m sure fans can allow for mistakes here and there. People shouldn’t be so pedantic. I mean is their Korean as good

let's turn that around...is it ok to make fun of any person's pronunciation of a word regardless of whether it's in English or otherwise...

what about friends - can you make fun of your friend when they say something because of their pronunciation?

what about when idols make fun of each other? like when Korean members make fun of a non-Korean (or even Korean members) Korean because they said something funny...

I prefer theirs over standard english. I thought it was a cool way to speak english, Is reverse racism allowed? XD

No. I like the random Engrish.

By definition it's not directly racist, but it still doesn't make it okay. When you know it's not a person's native language, one should be encouraging and applaud their effort. Learning and mastering a second language is a pain in the ass, especially when it's a language from a different linguistic family.

Poking fun maliciously or finding it cute?

Stan Twitter seems to confuse the two and overreacts.

Meanwhile, RM shading his own members constantly in broadcasts lol.

Honestly I don't think it's racist pet say, but as a native speaker of english it is rude of us to do so. Especially wirh Korean, some words are really hard to pronounce and it's hard to break the tonal pattern of your native tongue.

Most idols are bi or even tri lingual so...

Depends on the context though

A lot of the time I see their English being used for teasing. Hyoyeon regularly got made fun of for her English by members, fans and people around them but it was always light hearted and never meant as a way to hate on them (and ironically Hyoyeon has released more English material than everyone bar Tiffany lol).

Meanwhile if you undermine someone simply because of their lack of English then that is unacceptable.

jfc, of course not. Calling it mean is pushing it already.

It more to mocking, but I think it can be considered mocking if only they said the word that way because of their accent. If it because they are wrongly saying and don't know how to say the word but still saying it, then I guess it is inevitable to get poked fun at it.

Intentions matter.

And in most cases, I don't think it falls under racism.

Yes it is. When french, spanish speak english , it is seen as cool

But asians are mocked for their accents, way of speaking english

It comes from the roots of racism only

It depends on the intention behind it if you make fun of it because of ill thoughts or you thinking a certain pronunciation or accent is superior then yes it is racist.