[KNETZ] IZONE'S SAKURA, KIM CHAEWON SIGNS WITH HYBE SOURCE MUSIC "DEBUTING IN GIRL GROUP"

interesting

Uff, I forgot about Sakura‘s relation to Japanese politics. Do you guys believe it might reflect negatively onto the groups image?

And do you guys remember knetz mentioning the rigging scandal with the IVE members? Because I don’t and I’m surprised that they brought it up here

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the only backlash I remember there is people blaming them/Starship for ruining the IZ*ONE continuation group.

Yeah, many fans complained that PUP failed because of Starship. Anyways, I find it weird that people only started complaining with this group. Perhaps because Chaewon is more associated with the scandal because of her big leap?

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Uff, I forgot about Sakura‘s relation to Japanese politics. Do you guys believe it might reflect negatively onto the groups image?

What relation to politics? Sakura has never said or done anything political-related. Knetz just hate AKB48 so they strung together some images from a performance about an Anti-War song, created a fake narrative that it's evidence that AKB48 is a Right-Wing group, and used it to hate on her just because she was part of the group. The whole thing is so stupid. It's literally just Xenophobic Knetz coming up with excuses to hate on a Japanese girl.

those knetz comment

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What relation to politics? Sakura has never said or done anything political-related. Knetz just hate AKB48 so they strung together some images from a performance about an Anti-War song, created a fake narrative that it's evidence that AKB48 is a Right-Wing group, and used it to hate on her just because she was part of the group. The whole thing is so stupid. It's literally just Xenophobic Knetz coming up with excuses to hate on a Japanese girl.

I worded that a little poorly, my mistake. What I meant was the scandal and that knetz seem to be quite relentless regarding this topic.

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I worded that a little poorly, my mistake. What I meant was the scandal and that knetz seem to be quite relentless regarding this topic.

Knetz will always hate lol. It's what they do best. Regardless, the online hate doesn't matter just as long as it's not based on something actually substantial to hate on (ex. if Sakura had actually made some sort of pro-Japanese Imperialism comment on Instagram or wherever). I've come to realize that the only thing that hate like this does is bring more attention to the group and possibly cause them to get more popular at a faster rate. And attention is what the Source Music group needs because, frankly, after what happened to Gfriend I don't think many people would be paying attention to the next Source Music group at all if it wasn't for the fact that Sakura's name attracts attention.

Really, I think that all this group needs is a good debut song and maybe 1 or 2 more Korean visuals for Knetz to fawn over and they'll definitely do well in Korea.