Literally EVERY time they have a comeback a bunch of these nonsensical and nitpicky targeted articles come out. And it's always done at about the same time. Remember right before they did their JP debut that fake allegation of Chaewon's dating scandal came out?
https://sbsstar.net/article/N1…-they-turn-out-to-be-fake
The article was made by Shukan Bunshun (On Jan 18, right before LSFM's JP debut on Jan 25), which is a HUGE Japanese weekly news magazine that has been able to take down politicians and celebrities alike and considered one of the most influential weekly magazines in the country. Yet, this huge magazine decided to target a completely rookie group in Japan AND decided to base the article on a faked photoshop picture without any investigative journalism whatsoever? Why would they do that?? It's 100% obvious that the magazine received some sort of huge payola to do something like this since it has no benefit to them any otherwise. No small group of Antis could accomplish this.
Trying to ignore this whole re-occurring pattern is pretty much silly at this point. There's definitely a large ass company targeting LSFM and it's most likely because they simply want to take down competition.