Bugs Music is planning to change their operations policy, admitting that some subscribers abused the previous membership policy.

[Mrs. Morale]

Bugs Music is planning to change their operations policy, admitting that some subscribers abused the previous membership policy.

BUGS officially admitted that there actually were "some people" who abused the consent of legal representative process through under 14 y/o register and that they will be reviewing and changing their registeration policy.

"Bugs," a music streaming site, is considering changing its operating policy to prevent subscribers from abusing the membership process under the age of 14. (Download the sound source after creating an infinite account - affects the Gaon chart).

 

So basically, fans have abusing & use loop holes to make their faves chart on Bugs Music. More details:

"It's not an issue with music shows, it's an issue with Bugs. Flover are using the same loophole Danitys did to get Upside Down a win on Music Core last month. Bugs is supposed to limit you to one account per ID a week but there's a way around that. If you enter your age as under 14 it will ask for an adult to authenticate the account. If you don't authenticate the account you can still buy the song if it is appropriate for minors (which STW is) and then unsubscribe. Because the account was never authenticated, the account is not linked to the ID and the ID can be used again to make another account. So one dedicated fan can subscribe with a new account as a minor, buy the song, unsubscribe and repeat ad infinitum with one ID. Koreans call this talda (tal from taltwi/withdraw, da from daunrodeu/download). All these downloads count on Gaon/Circle and because downloads are more expensive they are weighted more than streams - a stream is worth about 3 KRW, one song purchase is 770 KRW (including 10% tax) or about 59 cents. I saw one K-Flover spent 1.3 million KRW (about $1000). A a song that's mass downloaded by a coupled hundred people can easily get a higher score than one streamed by 400,000 people. Et voila, a Gaon no. 1, maximum digital score and music show wins."

SOURCE

 

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[Mrs. Morale]

Well, well, well...Nayeon's impact

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[fiti]

A big fandom with dark heart did that, love that for us.

But seriously, I'm still soooo ppissed at flovers for what they did, Nayeon could have had her first win so much earlier.

I hope she'll still be able to win some this week, but i don't really have that much hope because Aespa and Enhypen both have big dedicated fandoms.

[Mrs. Morale]

1 hour ago, fiti said:

But seriously, I'm still soooo ppissed at flovers for what they did, Nayeon could have had her first win so much earlier.

No need to be pissed. Fraudmis 9 are digital monsters. Let them have their win, their fans have a heart of gold

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[fiti]

1 hour ago, Mrs. Morale said:

No need to be pissed. Fraudmis 9 are digital monsters. Let them have their win, their fans have a heart of gold

Heat of gold my ass, the fact that they are still denying the cheating lmao

Nothing against fromis9, litterally dont give a fuck about them but their fans are forever in my nemesis list, right next to Nilo and Shaun, the kings of digital monsters. 

[abra]

It's not cheating, it's just wasting money

[rananicolee]

About time. Bugs made it easy for anyone to get 1 on that chart. They should have changed it many many months ago. 

[Moon Jellyfish]

Recent drama aside, I bet a lot of fandoms are going to hate it since it's a bit easier to chart on charts like Bugs for smaller or non (domestic) popular groups compared to Melon for example. 

[StepOnMeJas]

It’s not cheating but yeah it’s a big fucking waste of cash