i understand hating the company, truly i do, i even hate it myself. but why do the groups themselves get lots of hate? people here seem to go out of their way to discredit and disrespect them as much as possible and they usually get upvotes and laughs for it. aespa were probably the group that recieved the most hate pre and at debut in kpop's history, people were literally comparing them to prositutes and karina was accused of pushing a trinee to end her life, they broke the record of the lowest rated song in melon's history with their debut song and the week surrounding their coachella performance was unbearable. people were even brushing off the incident were they got sexually harssed and insisted it was planned by the company just to get the girls sympathy and headlines. and several posters here make it their daily mission to downplay their success and achievements, exaggerating their weaknesses, praying for their downfall and even rooting for undebuted groups because they might surpass them in the future.
and don't get me started on nct. they are probably the only group in allkpop forums' history that had a thread about their preorder numbers turn into a bashing fest for 10 pages. there are almost daily threads in anon and in main insulting their music, demeaning their talents, questioning their sales, mocking their streams, accusing them of chart manipulation and plagiarism and throwing misogynistic insults at their fans. there are some posters here that are always frothing at the mouth for the mere notion of nct existing at all.
i know that many groups get lots of hate here but with SM groups it feels like a collective, a package deal if you might, and their company seems to play a big part in the reason for the hate they get. you don't see people here collectively hate on bts, txt and enhypen or on twice, itzy and stray kids or on blackpink and treasure. but with sm groups, there are many people here that have a problem with them as an item as "SM GROUPS period" not as x and y.
