Posts by ThePhantomThief
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When it comes to kpop idols getting Covid, my biggest worry is the whole long covid thing and the damage it could do to their vocal ability and fitness levels.
I have no doubt that the boys will recover from the initial illness as they are young, healthy, vaccinated and have access to good healthcare.
But I've heard many things about Long Covid sneaking up on young people who had even asymptomatic covid and months later have less breathing capacity, feel fatigued more often and other impacts that would concern someone whose whole life is singing, dancing and high energy performance.
So I hope Jin, RM and Suga (and all other idols who have had Covid) not just recover safely and quickly, but recover long terms as well
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Ohhh... Ummm...
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agree to disagree
k, bye
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She's soooo beautiful but also so fun to watch on variety shows, vlogs, itnerviews and all that
Shes such a sweet beautiful cinnamon roll
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That really doesn't read as unbias
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I have a feeling a lot of groups aren't that happy with the cutesy concepts, especially the extremely cutesy ones.
I just think for humans, it's just not natural to be that cutesy LOL I could be wrong.Minx wasn't just cutesy either though. It was kind of exploitative, at least in Love Shake. I can understand why some members would have been uncomfortable and not liked doing it.
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I think there are two reasons Jisoo is getting hit.
The moronic behaviour of Blinks, particularly some from certain regions of the world, has inflamed knetz who are focusing their anger at those Blinks onto Jisoo as a "figurehead'.
And good old fashioned Korean misogyny. It's telling that a large percentage of Koreans who signed the petition are middle aged men, and more men than women anyway. For some, it is much, much easier to heap anger and abuse on a prominent female than powerful, more faceless men.
Just my opinion anyway.
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AWESOME! I cant wait to hear half of the normal version of Next Level followed by half of the normal version of Savage again!
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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
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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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