[NB] Chinese trainees auditioning for Mnet's 'Girls Planet 999' found to have made problematic posts

[My Everything]

 

 

 

Article: Chinese trainees auditioning on Mnet's 'Girls Planet 999' found to have posted commemorating China's support of North Korea in the 6.25 war

Source: Insight via Instagram

1. [+311] Enough of these rigged shows...

2. [+253] Ugh screw off

3. [+161] Screw off

4. [+90] Mnet needs to stop with the audition shows, the editing is so boring

5. [+175] Leave out the Chinese trainees. Just pick more Korean trainees and support them well.

6. [+31] How shameless ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ they must have really thick skin ㅋㅋㅋ

7. [+25] Screw off

8. [+13] Why! Are we still using Chinese trainees? 

9. [+44] There are a lot of Chinese celebrities working in our country who support China's involvement in the 6.25 war. They need to be boycotted and kicked out. Just off the top of my head, there's Cao Lu, Victoria, etc...

10. [+15] Mnet is so idiotic. Xi Jinping's nipple tastes that sweet, yeah? ㅡㅡ

11. [+9] Taiwan #1~~!

12. [+6] Away, away with you all

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Edited May 30, 2021 by My Everything

[STORM BLOOM]

Here we go again 

[Owlet]

This is so shameless I can't even wrap my head around it. How can you be openly supportive of the opposing party of an event that is obviously a painful memory to a certain country and then proceed to travel to said country and try to benefit from opportunities there???

Also:

15 minutes ago, My Everything said:

10. [+15] Mnet is so idiotic. Xi Jinping's nipple tastes that sweet, yeah? ㅡㅡ

W h a t

Edited May 30, 2021 by Owlet

[Nev Schulman]

Comment nr 10.... we need to talk 

[seokii]

Personally I think we should make it standard to describe Mnet as "something that sucks on Xi Jingping's nipple"

[schue]

I'm not surprised it's gonna be a mess one way or another

[jeong jaehyuns boyfriend]

8 hours ago, Owlet said:

This is so shameless I can't even wrap my head around it. How can you be openly supportive of the opposing party of an event that is obviously a painful memory to a certain country and then proceed to travel to said country and try to benefit from opportunities there???

This is what confuses me about people that have opinions like this. I'm almost certain that the girls themselves don't give a flying f*ck about politics, especially if they're minors (the younger generation especially is a lot more open minded about world issues). All they want to do is sing and dance on stage and fulfill their dreams. However, China is a communist country and so they need to say certain things to survive in an industry and society that's ready to blacklist them at a moment's notice. Just look at what happened to Tony Yu from YWY3. The fact that you're blaming the girls themselves for being born in an oppressive society doesn't make sense. I understand that it looks bad from an outsider's perspective and from countries that have bad political ties with China, but to put all of that burden on the shoulders of teenage girls that simply want to live their dreams of singing and dancing on stage does nothing but create more divisiveness. 

[Aegyo]

Have they not heard....

Please cancel all these survival shows... 

[Owlet]

5 hours ago, jeong jaehyuns boyfriend said:

This is what confuses me about people that have opinions like this. I'm almost certain that the girls themselves don't give a flying f*ck about politics, especially if they're minors (the younger generation especially is a lot more open minded about world issues). All they want to do is sing and dance on stage and fulfill their dreams. However, China is a communist country and so they need to say certain things to survive in an industry and society that's ready to blacklist them at a moment's notice. Just look at what happened to Tony Yu from YWY3. The fact that you're blaming the girls themselves for being born in an oppressive society doesn't make sense. I understand that it looks bad from an outsider's perspective and from countries that have bad political ties with China, but to put all of that burden on the shoulders of teenage girls that simply want to live their dreams of singing and dancing on stage does nothing but create more divisiveness. 

In my previous post, I described and compiled the situation happening into text and called it shameless, which I still stand by. I purposefully omitted to mention the names of the nationalities and countries involved because if you swapped them with other countries that have similar ideals and decades of bad blood between them, I would've said the same exact thing. What you wrote is your own opinion which I'm bound to respect, but is a bit too specific and leans towards politics and her ethinicity compared to my general statement about the hypocritical behavior in question. 

Also, they have every right to support whoever they want and they certainly don't need any netizens' approval for that. But nobody is gonna convince me of that overused narrative that the chinese govt is about to pull a literal gun to their heads or ban them from every single activity in the industry if they fail to publicly declare their support for a country that isn't even their own (aka choosing silence. I don't mean stating an opposing political view). Or rather, definitely not them specifically anyway since they're just idols and don't hold any major influence on the masses like other celebrities.

Anyway, if people want to work in a certain country, don't show support OPENLY to another ONLINE, considering how the first one feels about the second.

Thanks for the attention and clown reaction. Hope you have a good day.

[Ori]

1 hour ago, Owlet said:

In my previous post, I described and compiled the situation happening into text and called it shameless, which I still stand by. I purposefully omitted to mention the names of the nationalities and countries involved because if you swapped them with other countries that have similar ideals and decades of bad blood between them, I would've said the same exact thing. What you wrote is your own opinion which I'm bound to respect, but is a bit too specific and leans towards politics and her ethinicity compared to my general statement about the hypocritical behavior in question. 

Also, they have every right to support whoever they want and they certainly don't need any netizens' approval for that. But nobody is gonna convince me of that overused narrative that the chinese govt is about to pull a literal gun to their heads or ban them from every single activity in the industry if they fail to publicly declare their support for a country that isn't even their own (aka choosing silence. I don't mean stating an opposing political view). Or rather, definitely not them specifically anyway since they're just idols and don't hold any major influence on the masses like other celebrities.

Anyway, if people want to work in a certain country, don't show support OPENLY to another ONLINE, considering how the first one feels about the second.

Thanks for the attention and clown reaction. Hope you have a good day.

I upvoted you haha. I agree with what you said, don’t go to Korea if you’re not fond of the country.

[Oppa did mean it]

On 5/30/2021 at 10:34 AM, My Everything said:

10. [+15] Mnet is so idiotic. Xi Jinping's nipple tastes that sweet, yeah? ㅡㅡ

I got you fam

[My Everything]

47 minutes ago, Oppa did mean it said:

I got you fam

@Admindelete this 

[Oppa did mean it]

16 minutes ago, My Everything said:

@Admindelete this 

You can just ask me lol

[Walmart Goddess]

On 5/30/2021 at 10:42 PM, jeong jaehyuns boyfriend said:

but to put all of that burden on the shoulders of teenage girls that simply want to live their dreams of singing and dancing on stage does nothing but create more divisiveness. 

saying you supported the erasure of south korea and then proceed to go there for your own selfish gain is creating divisiveness. wtf are you talking about??

might as well say "the chinese celebs are allowed to SPIT on koreans because chinese celebrities want to keep their PRIVILEGES in a CCP driven society and entertainment industry, so koreans shouldn't care"  

we don't need CCP mouthpieces working in korea. People have the right to support celebrities that are "for the people" and not "for the dictatorship". the chinese idols who opened their mouths are doing it for their own gain and represent the corruption in their society. Its also important to note there were chinese celebs who chose silence. So everything you wrote was a bunch of bullshit (and probably out of bias cause you are part chinese afterall). The real victims are not chinese idols but everyone being oppressed by the CCP. The fact that you are more concern about victimizing chinese idols says alot. Horrible morals.

 

Edited June 1, 2021 by Walmart Goddess

[jeong jaehyuns boyfriend]

On 5/31/2021 at 4:17 AM, Owlet said:

In my previous post, I described and compiled the situation happening into text and called it shameless, which I still stand by. I purposefully omitted to mention the names of the nationalities and countries involved because if you swapped them with other countries that have similar ideals and decades of bad blood between them, I would've said the same exact thing. What you wrote is your own opinion which I'm bound to respect, but is a bit too specific and leans towards politics and her ethinicity compared to my general statement about the hypocritical behavior in question. 

Also, they have every right to support whoever they want and they certainly don't need any netizens' approval for that. But nobody is gonna convince me of that overused narrative that the chinese govt is about to pull a literal gun to their heads or ban them from every single activity in the industry if they fail to publicly declare their support for a country that isn't even their own (aka choosing silence. I don't mean stating an opposing political view). Or rather, definitely not them specifically anyway since they're just idols and don't hold any major influence on the masses like other celebrities.

Anyway, if people want to work in a certain country, don't show support OPENLY to another ONLINE, considering how the first one feels about the second.

Thanks for the attention and clown reaction. Hope you have a good day.

Your response doesn't make sense. By calling them "shameless", you're directly assuming what you think their intentions are. In respone to that, I said that their intentions are hard to gauge because of the complex political nature of being a public figure in China. Politics is intrinsically connected to this subject, so I don't think you can make conclusions about someone's intentions without also considering the political climate of the industry. 

It's clear that you don't have any idea about how C-ent and C-pop works if you think that someone can stay silent and still have a profitable career ahead of them. If a public figure or celebrity chooses to be silent, then the government won't even have to blacklist their career - online netizens will. These days, not openly showing support for nationalistic causes is a death sentence for your career. Even if you're an international (i.e. non-Chinese) celebrity, there is an expectation that you will post these things, for example, the foreign members in INTO1. Even in Chuang 2021 (the competition show that led to the creation of INTO1), RBW and Avex, which are Korean and Japanese companies, respectively, were making pro-China posts because they had trainees in the competition. If they didn't, they would never have made it far or debuted. 

My only point was: it might seem hypocritical to those that don't understand, but often times celebrities working in China have to choose between making these posts vs. the longevity of their career. It's hard or impossible to know what they truly think about the things they're posting, so I don't think we can make assumptions about their character.