"Kingdom" reportedly questioned on fairness over cost of production for performance stages + Mnet responds

[soman]

10 minutes ago, Hizu said:

Why is Kingdom already a mess and it hasn't even started?

"the production team will be taking the matters seriously moving forward in the competition"
Shouldn't this be a given? Should have been taking matters seriously from the start. What is this unfairness?

Also please please JYP, play fair, Stray Kids are in a very delicate position, don't make this show an excuse for people to hate on them, don't create situations that could give them negative attention. I hope they're not the group with the underwater part, because now that that's out you can bet people are going to use it against them.

I'm stressed already.

So right now, pann girls are suspecting that Mnet is trying to shift the hate that Ateez was getting to The Boyz. 2 articles came out, they both mention a group under a company that CJ invested in, the only group that fits this desciption is Ateez. Then a 3rd article came out (written by a journalist who also was the quickest to get access to Mnet's response) didn't mention about the CJ invesment, and mentioned a group who did underwater shoot instead (which is The Boyz). There is context to the first 2 articles mentioning the group that CJ invested in as well, according to them (and Mnet didn't deny this), other companies saw how extravagant that group's stage was and they complained, which led to the miscommunication being discovered. But the underwater shoot mention has no context, just "oh yeah 1 group did underwater shoot btw."

[soman]

43 minutes ago, Hizu said:

Why would Mnet try to shift the hate? Is it because they invested in Ateez?

Maybe, or bc they hate The Boyz, remember how they evil edited Haknyeon in broduce? Now ateez and tbz are getting hate comments even tho mnet is the one being shady as hell

Edited March 29, 2021 by soman