Twice fans are emailing JYP about them potentially wearing box braids and cultural appropriating

[Corysilk]

I don't think its actually box braids (nor would i really care if they were) but they might wanna tweet a donation to BLM like Got7 and Day6 just to be safe.

 

Edited June 1, 2020 by Corysilk

[Haze]

trying to zoom in on my phone but this screen ain't cutting it, is that a shot from the MV set?

[Corysilk]

2 minutes ago, Haze said:

trying to zoom in on my phone but this screen ain't cutting it, is that a shot from the MV set?

Yeah its from the outdoor Jeju island set.  Jihyo and Chae have the questionable hairstyles.

Edited June 1, 2020 by Corysilk

[A Hamster Named Loneliness]

a black fan in the comments pointed out that their braids don't really count as box braids and that they were single braids:

 

Edited June 1, 2020 by A Hamster Named Loneliness

[Jollux]

When you have these type of situations is normaly the non-fans or kpop fans in general that do this kinda of escalation of the "issue".

[Corysilk]

1 minute ago, A Hamster Named Loneliness said:

a black fan in the comments pointed out that their braids don't really count as box braids:

 

They kinda look like random colorful dreads.  I hope the fact that its blended with their loose hair will keep it from being a thing.

[Moon Jellyfish]

The picture quality is so low and I haven't seen a higher quality to confirm one way or another. That said, if it is CA, then yes people have the right to call them out. I don't expect much from JYPE in terms of addressing it if people's suspicions are right, but it wouldn't hurt to try still. 

[A Hamster Named Loneliness]

2 minutes ago, Corysilk said:

They kinda look like random colorful dreads.  I hope the fact that its blended with their loose hair will keep it from being a thing.

tbh though I remember seeing that kind of hairstyle (colorful single braids) among teens on TV in the 90s. Like, I remember seeing TV infomercials selling these weird contraptions that could braid your hair and also add colorful beads and shit to your hair, so. Someone posted a screenshot from one of their V-lives or something where Momo said their concept was a hippie look? 

Edited June 1, 2020 by A Hamster Named Loneliness

[delirium]

another black guy killed by the cops and ppl still worried about hair in kpop...bc there aren't actually issues that are destroying black lives. aight kpoppers

[Haze]

8 minutes ago, Corysilk said:

Yeah its from the outdoor Jeju island set.  Jihyo and Chae have the questionable hairstyles.

the MV will confirm what they are most likely, but whew, never a dull day within kpop

[puellarum generatio]

people still care about hair right now ?

[turn it up!]

I can't tell what 100% off that blurry picture so I guess we'll find out for sure in a few hours

it does look pretty questionable to me right now though not gonna lie 

[turn it up!]

1 hour ago, delirium said:

another black guy killed by the cops and ppl still worried about hair in kpop...bc there aren't actually issues that are destroying black lives. aight kpoppers

 

59 minutes ago, puellarum generatio said:

people still care about hair right now ?

honestly I'm the first to be nonchalant about idols wearing dreads and box braids because it's so prevalent. I usually just think it's ugly and go about my day.

but as a once myself... it's kind of hurtful NOW of all times considering everything going on. Kpop idols consume every aspect of black culture but can't care about the struggles we face. Again I'm not fully sure what's going on with their hair here so let me not jump the gun but i'll be disappointed if they show up with box braids and dreads in the midst of this current social climate 

[CandyCane23049]

I don't see dreads and I don't think people know what box braids are. 

[satoori]

1 hour ago, Jollux said:

When you have these type of situations is normaly the non-fans or kpop fans in general that do this kinda of escalation of the "issue".

 

[delirium]

1 hour ago, turn it up! said:

 

honestly I'm the first to be nonchalant about idols wearing dreads and box braids because it's so prevalent. I usually just think it's ugly and go about my day.

but as a once myself... it's kind of hurtful NOW of all times considering everything going on. Kpop idols consume every aspect of black culture but can't care about the struggles we face. Again I'm not fully sure what's going on with their hair here so let me not jump the gun but i'll be disappointed if they show up with box braids and dreads in the midst of this current social climate 

And I hear you but even if it is a protective style that they're wearing that's common among brown women and even as a natural who has worn protective styles since a child, hair is not the issue that Kpop idols need to be educated on when it comes to African American concerns and that's why people find it tiresome. People won't educate them about things that are causing blacks to be spit on, denied jobs, avoided in the streets, and so on in Korea. Instead they're going off on idols for subjective reasons that sadly, don't even apply in the context. People skip teaching about 400+ years of torment and then expect someone to understand 5 seconds of rage about a style that stems from one's understanding of what happened throughout 400+ years of torment.

But when dealing with appropriation, in it's true sense, it was about America causing the struggle/"raping" a group of people (culture) and using appropriation as a means of further destroying brown Americans. While they were taking brown people contributions, they were also convincing others that AA's were contributing nothing to society but anger/violence and so they had no place in society. Ergo, "do whatever you want to them because the world will not miss them". Like when they wouldn't allow us to use the bathrooms so people had to use the bathroom in the woods and then they called them animals. Then they propagated this idea that they orchestrated to the entire world...it was a systematic attack. That's why appropriation was so evil in early America-it wasn't just a white woman wearing braids, it was that appropriation was literally another tool in the psychological, emotional, and physical destruction of a people who had to create their own culture through genocidal attempts on their community and it wasn't recognized. Sometimes, it feels like people care more about protecting the "culture" than they do about the actual people whom, without them, there would be no culture, in the first place. When many established civilizations first encountered others-all they did was share culture with each other without being aware of their personal struggles, that conversation came much much later.

Edited June 1, 2020 by delirium

[turn it up!]

9 minutes ago, delirium said:

And I hear you but even if it is a protective style that they're wearing that's common among brown women and even as a natural who has worn protective styles since a child, hair is not the issue that Kpop idols need to be educated on when it comes to African American concerns and that's why people find it tiresome. People won't educate them about things that are causing blacks to be spit on, denied jobs, avoided in the streets, and so on in Korea. Instead they're going off on idols for subjective reasons that sadly, don't even apply in the context. People skip teaching about 400+ years of torment and then expect someone to understand 5 seconds of rage about a style that stems from one's understanding of what happened throughout 400+ years of torment.

But when dealing with appropriation, in it's true sense, it was about America causing the struggle/"raping" a group of people (culture) and using appropriation as a means of further destroying brown Americans. While they were taking brown people contributions, they were also convincing others that AA's were contributing nothing to society but anger/violence and so they had no place in society. Ergo, "do whatever you want to them because the world will not miss them". Like when they wouldn't allow us to use the bathrooms so people had to use the bathroom in the woods and then they called them animals. Then they propagated this idea that they orchestrated to the entire world...it was a systematic attack. That's why appropriation was so evil in early America-it wasn't just a white woman wearing braids, it was that appropriation was literally another tool in the psychological, emotional, and physical destruction of a people who had to create their own culture through genocidal attempts on their community and it wasn't recognized. Sometimes, it feels like people care more about protecting the "culture" than they do about the actual people whom, without them, there would be no culture, in the first place. When many established civilizations first encountered others-all they did was share culture with each other without being aware of their personal struggles, that conversation came much much later.

you know, I'll be honest this is an outlook on CA (specifically regarding black hairstyles) I haven't heard before but I see what you mean now that I think about it. 

[lighterxx]

Arent you guys bit late it would be impossible to edit video in few hours...