HYBE Blind Internal Board: Some Employees’ Derogatory Remarks About NewJeans and Jungkook
Title: Don’t know if this is real.
Post: It was crazy on Twitter and spread to overseas communities… Did anyone at the company see this? Seems she passed them out when filming the challenge?
[Screenshot of Tweet]: “Ah, Karina and Giselle sunbaenim (seniors) gave ‘Alien Invasion’ stickers to Cat-NewJeans (Haerin/NewJeans) while doing the challenge, saying ‘Please spread these around the company!!’ Lolololol So Minji secretly stuck them all over the company, hilarious.”
Comments:
User 1: Kalguksu (Noodle incident), Sejong (University incident)~ and now aespa lol. It’s a bit much. Don’t blame others for hate comments that stem from your own actions.
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User 1: :(-/ I saw this on YouTube and thought it was identical too.
User 2: Exactly… You shouldn’t snipe (attack) others vaguely just because you’re offended… Of course, the “genius creator” will probably pull the “Naeronambul” (Double standards – “If I do it, it’s romance; if you do it, it’s adultery”).
User 3: Isn’t this too identical?
User 4: Only the speed is different, but it looks completely identical?
HYBE Employee: Let’s solve the NewJeans plagiarism suspicion first ㅠㅠ
Title: Is it true that public opinion has flipped again?
Post: I’m seeing posts about NewJeans being “shelved” (dungeoned) or HYBE being liars…
Comments:
User 1: It’s not for nothing that they are friends lol. It’s almost on the level of writing it for them lol.
User 2: They aren’t just friends.
User 3: Do you think “Dolphin” (Director Shin Woo-seok) would have stepped in if it was just a rumor?
User 4: They aren’t just friends?? What else is there??
User 5: So interesting.
User 6: I guess the “best friends for a limited time” thing is over.
User 7: Oh, were they dating?
User 8: Isn’t that director a married man?
User 9: Wow.
User 10: Everyone is just turning a blind eye, but people in the know already know about the relationship between those two.
User 11: Wow, crazy… Good partners in many ways.
Title: 4. HYBE employee writing hate comments about NewJeans.
Post: Lololololololololol [Link to YouTube Video: “What NewJeans wants to say”] Lolololololololol
Comments:
User 1: Lolololol seriously empty heads (airheads).
User 2: Goodbye, actually just get lost now please.
Subject: Reactions to BTS Jungkook’s dog (Bam) Instagram post (“Artists are not guilty”)
Title: Bam’s Insta.
Post: Hum.
Comments:
User 1: What? Bam is smarter… What was I working for… Sigh…
User 2: They took out the blue cap and the fighting emoji.
User 3: Without the cap, I can’t even tell which artist it is lol.
User 4: ???
User 5: Wow, seriously feels like the company is splitting.
User 6: It’s not even another entertainment company, it’s HYBE… Is the company really failing… Is this a signal to escape? ㅠㅠ
User 7: Shouldn’t we be protecting the people who are being beaten up and covered in blood right now?
User 8: F***, they are determined to kill them all…
User 9: “Artists are not guilty. Don’t use them.” Isn’t this directed at Min Hee-jin? She’s always using artists as shields, but why is the article like this? [Link]
User 10: I naturally thought it was sniping at Min Hee-jin too?
User 11: Go read the community posts saying it’s a fabricated account by HYBE.
User 12: Wow really, they are confirming that the employees are nothing to them.
User 13: They treat the centrist/neutral employees like fools, but if you look at the blind items, there are more of them…
User 14: You’re listening to the guy who’s the biggest headache? lol
Title: Cut (removed) in just 4 hours.
Post: Status message update including the blue cap.
Title: Let’s face reality.
Post: Why are you talking nonsense like calling NewJeans contract workers or regular employees? Didn’t you learn this at orientation? Artists are partners. It is possible for a partner company to ask to work with the creators they previously collaborated with. I’m not defending NewJeans’ actions. But I see members here who don’t feel any respect for the entertainers. It’s troubling if you feel that idols are in a subordinate relationship to the company like in the days of slave contracts. I’m absolutely not saying NewJeans is right and LE SSERAFIM is wrong. But looking at the internal Blind right now, it seems the majority of people can’t read the current flow, so it feels like this company is doomed.
Comments:
User 1: You seem to think this is “TheQoo” (an online fan community). Don’t yell at the employees.
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User 1: Do you think I’d be doing this just by looking at “Instiz” (community site)? I also know the scenario makes no sense. But because there are so many kids who genuinely believe this and spread it, that’s why I’m doing this. I was asking what’s the use of us knowing it’s not true if we’re the only ones. That’s why I said in the main text to do “public opinion work.” Obviously, I’m talking about community manipulation (astroturfing), not media play.