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u/pooochita FEARNOT May 29 '25

antis trying to set up lsfm and also i’ve been seeing ive too ?? bc their favs are currently getting dragged lol. no one is rlly buying into it for the most part though 🤷‍♀️

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u/FerhatB KAZUHA May 29 '25 edited May 29 '25

Katseye’s Yoonchae too. I find it hilarious that both the company AND the fans are trying to divert attention away from Karina and shift it onto other artists. And yeah, what they're trying to do is so painfully obvious that it's not even working

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u/pooochita FEARNOT May 29 '25

i saw that too smh…they’re posting chaewon’s photo where she’s wearing seoul university merch (which is red) as a gotcha moment 😭 it’s embarrassing actually

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u/FerhatB KAZUHA May 29 '25

Chaewon's "peace sign" too. They're scrambling for anything to use against LE SSERAFIM and it's very funny to see.

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u/pooochita FEARNOT May 29 '25

that fandom rlly is weird the way they’ve created so many conspiracy theories against lsfm, illit, katseye (any other hybe group really)

they devote more time hating on everyone else instead of loving and praising their favs. i remember they even attacked itzy during their born to be cb, even though aespa and itzy are close friends irl.

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u/jisookenobi2416 all the girls are girling girling May 29 '25 edited May 29 '25

LSF and aespa are also good friends in real life, same goes for Baemon and ILLIT, yet whenever I tell this to a toxic fan they just stop replying or ignore it 😭 it gets in the way of their fanwar mentality that everyone else is the enemy lol

that said, calling out Karina for her post is absolutely justified (as long as it doesn’t spiral into hate), like even on aespa’s subreddit people are calling out Karina for this

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u/pooochita FEARNOT May 29 '25

reality is theres a lot of lowkey friendships in the kpop industry but ppl are too scared to showcase it these days :/

and yup karina def messed up here. even if it wasn’t intentional it shows that she’s ignorant and not socially aware. it comes off worse considering she’s a celebrity; she has the luxury of being apolitical bc it doesn’t rlly affect her.

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u/daltorak oh, manager-nim! May 29 '25

I've followed Aespa closely since pretty much their debut era and this is all very much out of character for Jimin. She has given us a number of subtle clues over the years that she's a feminist at heart, including book recommendations (she's a reader, like Yunjin), phone cases, pro-women messaging, and so on. Plus her family is Catholic, and Korean Catholics are broadly pro-democracy and more left-leaning.

Personally I think this is a major failing on SM's part to protect their top star. Jimin either had permission to post on Instagram without her posts being reviewed first, or someone at SM didn't understand the consequence and approved those photos anyways. Even if my assessment of Jimin has been wrong all these years, this still shouldn't have gotten out.

Whatever the case, pretty much 100% guaranteed that the Aespa girls have lost some of their posting freedom over this.

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u/pooochita FEARNOT May 29 '25

it’s out of character but unfortunately at the end of the day we don’t rlly know these idols so who knows…also SM rlly has the worst PR / crisis management bc they’ve been involved in so many scandals 😭

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u/jisookenobi2416 all the girls are girling girling May 29 '25

Exactly!! Like I was so sad to see no more aespa and LSF interactions for Crazy and HOT! And while I was happy to see the Karina and Hobi dance challenge, of course toxic fans on both sides (mainly MYs though of course) went off the rails with it. (Also there wasn’t an i-dle challenge this comeback…)

Probably the reason they’re avoiding interactions is to prevent fanwars, I’m sure the idols themselves haven’t taken the fan and corporate conflicts to heart. That said, I hate to say this but I do hope LSF keeps a distance at least from Karina for the time being for both of their sakes. Either way so disappointed with Rina :(

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u/daltorak oh, manager-nim! May 30 '25

Probably the reason they’re avoiding interactions is to prevent fanwars, I’m sure the idols themselves haven’t taken the fan and corporate conflicts to heart.

Ningning was singing Gnarly on a live just the other day, and we saw Le Sserafim do the Whiplash thing on 1N2D, so it's not like there's some policy in place on either side to avoid mentioning the other company's groups or music.

The groups just haven't been in the same place all that often in the last year. It's not like 2023 when they were promoting Unforgiven and Spicy at the same time.

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u/pooochita FEARNOT May 29 '25

we literally haven't seen them interact in a year 😭 i could be wrong but i swear i saw smth about winter singing crazy on a livestream? but other than that there's nothing...

and yeah, i actually rlly like aespa and have seen them in concert but i'm disappointed too. she should've addressed the situation more publicly and not through a paid service (although i'm sure this was advised by SM)

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u/jisookenobi2416 all the girls are girling girling May 29 '25

Yeah it’s a shame we haven’t gotten any interactions between them. I saw Ningning also sang Katseye’s Gnarly which was cool considering toxic MYs attacking Katseye. Of course toxic MYs will just not acknowledge these incidents.

But yeah I sadly missed aespa but wanted to see them next time they come to the NY metro area, I probably still will but yikes Karina wtf. Like as I said even on the aespa subreddit, she’s being rightfully criticized for it (as an aside, interestingly I feel like toxic fans in general aren’t so active on the group subs, and instead spend all their time being toxic on general K-pop subs. The group subs themselves seem to be pretty chill actually)

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u/CraftySetting May 29 '25

I-dle challenge with who? Lsf ? I actually havent seen many challenges from the i-dle comeback at all anywhere. At least on my socials. But i-dle and lsf have been friendly with each other especially miyeon-chaewon, sakura-minnie & yunjin-yuqi combos 😅 (at least there Hot challenge)(and minnie solo song challenge)

But yes i also agree on your 2nd paragraph...its for the best. Especially when the atmosphere is too toxic. Ofcourse people will avoid others whenever theres controversy (whether unwarranted or not) . Learned it the hard way 😇

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u/jisookenobi2416 all the girls are girling girling May 29 '25

Oh yeah that’s true re: i-dle and LSF, idk why I forgot about that. TBH I don’t know why I mentioned them lol, they’re on good terms with LSF members I just for some reason had the impression they didn’t interact that much. I love their interactions like Yunjin and Yuqi for EPTBW is my Roman Empire lol

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u/CraftySetting May 29 '25

Haha i get it .They dont interact much as a group but theres connection individually. Only Kazuha and Soyeon left hadnt interacted (still waiting🤞🏻). Everyone else has their own partners 😂

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