I think its more that episodes 13-16 haven't been fully edited yet, so they can remove/blur/edit out obvious references to the products
Posts by ThePhantomThief
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And the higher ratings are probably the "Car crash tv" types trying to see what all the issue is about
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Yes, i love Jason kkkkk
I keep laughing at all the obvious phone autocorrect Jasons I'm seeing everywhere
But yes, people need to relax, and honestly, I think the best path moving forward is to let go of Snowdrop, for Jisoo's sake. It's honestly unrecoverable and not a hill worth dying on or letting Jisoo die one. Stop defending the show, stop attacking people who do have legitimate reasons to be angry.
I-netz need to let k-netz see that we are listening to them, we understand their frustration and their concerns are valid. We just want them to maybe not make Jisoo the entire punching bag for all this and help give a way for Jisoo to get through this without too much damage.
But while both sides keep escalating the situations, thats not happening.
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Thats what dictatorships and fascist police states DO. Violence, intimidation, murder, silencing dissent etc.
They gave THEMSELVES the right to do this because again, thats what they do.
And thats kind of one reason people are so angry at Snowdrop. They are actually making the NSA police agency and the dictatorship looks LESS evil than they really were and almost "justified" in what they were doing.
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i think the issue is that if the character, a supposed protester, is revealed to actually be a nk spy (which he is), that immediately validates the justification the sk government had in order to get away with brutalizing citizens. by having a key character legitimize the anti-communist propaganda the government had been hiding behind, you're fundamentally giving credence to violence and torture the protesters went through. idk if i'm explaining this well, but atm, the drama is kind of an offshoot of the red scare propaganda in sk in the 1970/80s.
That and Korean right wingers (The SK versions of Trump lovers, MAGA's and Q anons) are using the show to bring up old wounds and be like "yeah, there really were NK spies in the student demonstrations, see? SEE!, the NSA was right!!!"
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At this point, the best thing for Jisoo and YG to do is start damage control.
Distance themselves from the show as much as possible. No more promotion of it, just leave it.
Have Jisoo make an apology that she wasn't aware of the issues behind the scenes or the hurt that still lingers. Have her do some "education" stuff by doing some work with victims groups or whatever and maybe donations.
I also wonder if YG could look at legal avenues. Probably not, but after the earlier controversy, when JTBC promised they would change things and the leaks weren't true, and it turns out they are true and things weren't changed, I wonder if YG can be like "You lied!".
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Me looking at Lisa 100k ul on her first day of debut and they wanna act like the main event? No, they aren't.
Sure it's a pity that the situation took the turn to hell, but trying to boycott a group that they are trying to boycott since forever isn't something to be proud of neither keep talking about every month.
What I'm worried about is how a Korean boycoTT, especially with Jisoo as the main target, would impact her solo if she were to have one.
It probably would have relied on the Korean audience a lot more than Rose or Lisa's and would probably be a more Korean taste song. A boycott of BP and Jisoo in particular would really hurt her solo chances.
But with all this nonsense happening I think any Jisoo solo suddenly looks a long way off.
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She also made those comments about loving history and being interested in it. She didn't do herself any favours.
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But if you have issues with distorting History, you going after a rookie actress makes no sense. Going after the producers on the other hand is.
They are going after Jisoo because of the frankly disgusting reaction from some i-fans
She's the focal point for that. If she wasn't in the show, most of the shielding i-fans wouldn't care
I think the question for Jisoo, and Blackpink, now is "how do I fix this and repair my image?".
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Well, some people who defend this drama will probably be the first one to go crazy and sign a petition if Korean drama/movie distort their country’s history and calling it “Fiction”.
I find it really ironic that many Thai Kpop fans want Korea to ban Sitala just few weeks ago because of her family’s political standpoint but when it comes to Snowdrop, they said Korean are overreacting lmao…
I wonder what the Venn diagram of Thai fans who want Sitala banned, hated on Lisa for not publically supporting the pro-democracy movement and think Koreans are over reacting to Snowdrop looks like?
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I'm still always shocked that in 2021 the major big groups still don't let their idols have individual Social Media accounts, especially after seeing the numbers spat out by BP's insta accounts and ESPECIALLY now after BTS.
It's free real estate. It lets fan stay engaged with an idol even when the group is somewhat inactive or on a break.
Saying that, I also expect JYP to be the LAST company that allows their idols to do so.
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And most of this is just a lie. There is nothing organic in Western pop, Kpop is just more open about how they manufacture idols, Western media likes to hide the truth.
When you sign with a company like UMG as a rookie, they own your ass. Plain and simple. We're just better at hiding this from the gullible masses, Kpop labels dont care to hide it they openly talk about it.
Thats why I said "come across as". The big and popular artists are almost all obviously manufactured and their image puffed up by whatever label owns them and controlled by them (even if they pretend to be rebellious, shocking artists).
But the story is still important. The whole "Lil Nas X was a nobody until he spent $30 on a sample and went viral on TikTok and got popular". Thats why the term Industry Plant even exists, a created, manufactured "authentic" artist. Lorde is another one. I've also read a fair bit saying Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo are as well.
So what I'm saying is that the trend in the Western music world right now is to LOOK "organic and authentic", a trend that doesn't gel with the boy group/girl group formula. There's still a bit of distaste for the obvious and open "we made this singer/group, please enjoy them" model.
But as I said, I kind of think that will change as Western labels try and start emulating BTS (and successful kpop girl groups).
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The West is going through another "authentic" fad, where the popular artists are ones who come across as having "come from nowhere and made their own name", as opposed to a group manufactured and polished by a label. Even more ideal is making it look like the artists popularity grew naturally from social media. "Just a small town girl got big on the Instagrams and now has a grammy!!". It does seem like some of these artists are so called "industry plants" though, still manufactured by a label, but polished to look "authentic".
But with BTS' popularity in the west, and even the less, but still important impact of other kpop groups, I think we'll see more Western companies start experimenting with obviously manufactured groups again over the next few years. Although there will be a big focus on diversity in said groups.
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It's part of the whole infantalising of kpop idols from the fandom.
That anything they ever do outside of singing and dancing well and looking good is this overwhelming achievement.
"OMG SONGWWRITER XXXXX SUCH DEEP LYRICS SO TALENTED"
"OMG CHEF XXXXX SUCH GREAT PACKET RAMYUN MAKING SKILLS"
"OMG ARTIST XXXXX SUCH AMAZING DRAWING"
"OMG DOOROPENER XXXXX SUCH BEAUTIFUL DOOR OPENING"
