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

[Elscian]

6 hours ago, soman said:

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."

tbz is my fave from the lot, but I wouldn't be surprised if the same thing happened in RTK. Their production value seemed way more costly than the others. Its a bit like when mnet tested out the scamming with 2-3 people in produce season 1, didn't get caught and went ahead with it. That's what they always do. Imo they got away with it in rtk bc of less popular groups. So I disagree with other tbz fans saying mnet is against the group. Didn't seem so from rtk at least.