T-Jinyo's boycotts, protests, and petitions continue to fail in the real world

[girlsday.livejournal.com]

'T-JinYo', who is known to have 340,000 members online, don't seem to work well together offline.

On August 6, the first episode of "Haeundae Lovers" with T-ARA member Soyeon, received a viewer rating of 9.8%. Considering this was their first episode, the ratings were seen as good.

'T-JinYo' planned to ban watching dramas with T-ARA members in it. However, it was harder than they had thought. Due to the positive ratings of the drama, many watched the drama regardless of the ban.

'T-JinYo' had also planned to protest in front of Core Contents Media on August 4. However, they ended up canceling the petition due to their lack of preparation. There were thousands of posts about the protest, but in reality, only about 30 members came out to petition. This is a rather embarrassing number for a group that has over 340,000 members online.

Why is it that the online and offline actions are so different?

An official stated, "It could be because of the fact that they have to show their face when they come offline. Online, anyone can say whatever they want, but when they are revealed in public, it is harder for them to say what they want."

Most of the members of the group are also in their teens, which could also cause problems if they were all to meet offline. Many of the group members ideas and thoughts were different which could have also made it difficult for them to come to a clear consensus.

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Comments

[hisjulliet.livejournal.com]

all talk, no action

except for that 1 guy

[meridianslair.livejournal.com]

lol forever alone

[frantastic.livejournal.com]

lol

[junhobrand.livejournal.com]

not surprised....they all just wanted to act like they were doing something important...but when it comes down to it, i don't think they actually care, i mean really care, about fixing the issue with hwayoung and t-ara...its more like something to do/say. Also im pretty sure there's only a handful of t-ara fans on there too...even the fangirls dont want to be seen on tv...thats why they hide behind their fan towels and signs...

[ayumikoshiro.livejournal.com]

I thought Haeundae Lovers was great Ep.1.

I wish crazy anti groups would just die out like a bad fad that nobody want's to remember they ever participated in. Online bullying (however noble it starts off as) is never good and as seen by the turnout there is always more hate spewn from the months of babes online than they can own up to in person. anonymity has it's ways of bringing out the nasty in people.

I hope that KKS has learned his lesson after this (I can hope) and starts to treat his artists better. Maybe CCM will just do the right thing and get rid of him.

[noneko.livejournal.com]

I thought the protest was canceled because the police would only issue a permit for 30 people.

[toshi830.livejournal.com]

"It could be because of the fact that they have to show their face when they come offline. Online, anyone can say whatever they want, but when they are revealed in public, it is harder for them to say what they want."

The problem with most any protest set up online. Maybe not the Anonymous dedicated to Scientology so much since they all wear masks, but not a lot of people have the balls to.

I wonder how many of T-jinyo is international fans anyways.

[asnindie.livejournal.com]

Er the protest were told they could only have 30 people or the police would get involved.

[devilsatin.livejournal.com]

They had to cancel it anyway cos not even 30 people wanted to show up. Looking at the pix of the protest there was maybe 3 people total

[fancifury.livejournal.com]

so much for t-ara being over. (:

[sadistic-dance.livejournal.com]

Oop.

[thebluemonk.livejournal.com]

we may have lost the battle, but we still continue the war!

[mingobus.livejournal.com]

Or maybe nobody really gives a crap about the issue.

Joining a club and leaving hate mail only takes a couple minutes of my life, but to actually stand in the scorching heat and protest against an issue I barely care about... yeah, not going to happen.

[katzsong.livejournal.com]

but isn't the 30 guys because the police restricted the number of protester?

[peanim.livejournal.com]

So people have forgotten about it now? Korea's moved on?
Aigoo. Seems like the most drastic things that have happened are companies cancelling their endorsement contracts with T-ara, just to save brand identity due to public outcry. But then it also looks like people also just want to do away with T-ara (boycotts), and not really get to the heart of the matter.

[peanim.livejournal.com]

Oh just reacting this way because I thought the group also wanted to address the issue of bullying, in addition to asking CCM for the truth.

[dannknee.livejournal.com]

Is Sexy Love still being released next week? I'm so excited! ^o^

[kerplunk.livejournal.com]

just look at that guy haha.

[bear100.livejournal.com]

lol, sad