When it comes to online fan behavior, don’t expect anything less than borderline harassment, because nothing will ever stop extreme fans from doing exactly that. Just recently, Lisa of Blackpink became their victim.
It doesn’t matter what fandom they come from, they’re just there…spreading hate and unbecoming behavior that gives the fandom a bad light. For these kinds of fans, they will stop at nothing just to keep on bullying the person they feel like has offended their own favorite.
For this instance, K-Pop fans. That kind of behavior is the reason why fandom wars exist even though the artists they’re supporting are best friends or have no bad blood with each other.
To make things more specific, ARMYs and BLINKs have been at each other’s throats for quite some time now, and there seems to be no light at the end of this tunnel for these two fandoms.
Spotify had recently released everyone’s Spotify Wrapped, which is a sort of “looking back” on a person’s personal music listening habits in 2022. At the same time, the beloved music streaming platform also announced the top artists with the most streams for each genre, among others.
In terms of K-Pop, Spotify had initially announced that BTS member and “Golden Maknae” Jungkook was the most streamed K-Pop solo artist of 2022, much to the joy of ARMYs all around the world. BTS’ Jungkook had released several tracks and collabs during the year, such as “Left and Right”, “Stay Alive”, and most recently for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, “Dreamers”.
However, after an error done on Spotify’s part and a change in their tracking methods, Spotify gave the title of the “Top K-Pop Soloist of 2022” to BLACKPINK’s Lisa. The BLACKPINK member had released 2 songs—“LALISA” and “Money” in her self-titled EP in 2021, as well as collaborated on the track “SG” by DJ Snake with Ozuna and Megan Thee Stallion.
This mistake had angered ARMYs, who in turn barraged Lisa’s Instagram with slut-shaming, misogynistic, and xenophobic comments.
Spotify had already apologized and rectified their mistake, releasing a series of Tweets explaining their side. Their Tweets are as follows:
“Every year, we endeavor to accurately reflect consumption around the world. In reference to our Top K-Pop Artists of 2022 playlist, multiple genre tags led to slightly different top ten lists, and they were not properly merged. This mistake has been corrected. We join the fans in celebrating the many achievements of BTS and regret this error.”
Still, ARMYs weren’t convinced and still continued to send angry replies to Spotify and to Lisa.
As a result, BLINKs and other K-Pop fans trended “APOLOGIZE TO LISA”, who have been calling out the disrespect and insulting behavior of some fans towards the Thai K-Pop idol who had nothing to do with it. BLINKs have also called out Spotify for indirectly allowing the other fandom to continue on their bad behavior and slut-shaming towards Lisa by being silent.
Please help @LiliesHomeC to report & block all vile users/posts about Lisa.
These kind of comments are not entirely under your control but keeping silent about this issue you’ve caused is inexcusable. @Spotify @SpotifyKR @SpotifyKpop
APOLOGIZE TO LISA pic.twitter.com/2uVrU4pt0n
— LISANATIONS (@LISANATIONS_) December 2, 2022
Please help @LiliesHomeC to report & block all vile users/posts about Lisa.
These kind of comments are not entirely under your control but keeping silent about this issue you’ve caused is inexcusable. @Spotify @SpotifyKR @SpotifyKpop
APOLOGIZE TO LISA pic.twitter.com/2uVrU4pt0n
— LISANATIONS (@LISANATIONS_) December 2, 2022
You are inviting to celebrate the fandom that does not get tired of saying slvtshaming and racists comments all fuckingg day.
SPOTIFY APOLOGIZE TO LISA https://t.co/is9o50yRTx
— S' (@OURLALISAGIRL) December 2, 2022
https://twitter.com/ASTERl327/status/1598633059846598657?s=20&t=uphhUnOijtpyJIqYqpQwIw
They worked on a campaign against bullying in @UNICEF @uniceflac, but they were never able to control their fandom, who live discriminating against women, just because they blame them for the mistakes of others
SPOTIFY APOLOGIZE TO LISA
SPOTIFY APOLOGIZE TO BLACKPINK pic.twitter.com/wLA2CtIL3m— tats. (@babysoopink) December 2, 2022
A public apology for the mistake they made, for you misogyny rained down on my fav where she did not have to be responsible
SPOTIFY APOLOGIZE TO LISA
SPOTIFY APOLOGIZE TO BLACKPINK @Spotify @SpotifyCares @SpotifyKpop pic.twitter.com/wcK4f0bRiS— daylight 🫧 (@JJRL_PINK) December 2, 2022
It's been hours and y’all still are refusing to give an apology to the woman who was the target of detogatory remarks by that fandom due to a mistake committed by y’all
SPOTIFY APOLOGIZE TO LISA@jeremyerlich @eldsjal @SpotifyKR @SpotifyKpop pic.twitter.com/gTymLJYwgp
— Mar𓆙🕉🪬 (@godislaIisa) December 2, 2022
https://twitter.com/Maxea_lohr/status/1598561939017568256?s=20&t=uphhUnOijtpyJIqYqpQwIw
Lisa was subjected to derogatory comments from that disgusting fandom due to YOUR MISTAKE. Apologize to her for your unprofessionalism instead of celebrating with them.
APOLOGIZE TO LISA
SPOTIFY APOLOGIZE TO LISA@jeremyerlich @SpotifyKpop @SpotifyKR @Spotify pic.twitter.com/kOOcy1kYY0— Mar𓆙🕉🪬 (@godislaIisa) December 2, 2022
They got the story right. Hype this article.
APOLOGIZE TO LISA
SPOTIFY APOLOGIZE TO LISA #SpotifySupportsBullies @Spotify @SpotifyKR @SpotifyKpop @jeremyerlich @eldsjal https://t.co/BBdsU9FPXp— LISANATIONS (@LISANATIONS_) December 2, 2022
it’s really sad to see how their fandom has made @UNICEF a joke and now @SpotifyKpop is encouraging such behaviour #SpotifySupportsBullies
SPOTIFY APOLOGIZE TO LISA
SPOTIFY APOLOGIZE TO BLACKPINK
APOLOGIZE TO LISA@jeremyerlich @Spotify @SpotifyKpop pic.twitter.com/KyHfA5T7o7— honors lisa (@honorslisa) December 2, 2022
Spotify has yet to comment on the issue.
For a fandom with artists who have worked with UNICEF to fight the societal problem of bullying, they’re clearly doing a great job of exemplifying the kind of behavior that they’re trying to challenge.
Resorting to slut-shaming, xenophobia, misogyny, and blatant disrespect shouldn’t be a fandom’s first response to a mistake done. It’s clear to see that other people would choose to bring another person down just to bring their own favorite up, and that’s how messed up others’ morals could be.
Fans have to grow up and be better in the future. No one, and we mean nobody, deserves the kind of treatment that’s being done to Lisa. She, and the rest of BLACKPINK and other female idols get treated this way by almost the same kind of fans.
Please, be better.
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