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juhli.livejournal.comA few days ago, ATEEZ held a fan meeting event, which was limited to 30 spots. The intimate meeting should have been filled with heartwarming interactions, but a recent TikTok video has started to go viral on Twitter due to a participant's condescending and racist behavior. The person in question is a Russian TikToker with over 124,000 followers, who recently moved to South Korea and posts K-pop related content like dance covers on TikTok.
According to different Twitter users, the TikToker can allegedly be heard asking some rude questions to some of the ATEEZ members, while mocking their English speaking abilities.
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After the fansign, she went on IG to talk about her experience at the concert and she was making slit-eye gestures mocking Asians.
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The issue blew up first under international Ateez fans but has now reached enter-talk and kpop sites like koreaboo. The fan has since then posted an apology on Twitter/TikTok and defends herself that she was misunderstood.
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Source: koreaboo, u/butterflymar, just_2alina, @hjshyper, @babieteez, @AlinaMin98, pann-choa
It is a bit murky about what she actually said in the fansign and what she "just" put as on-screen captions in her TikTok. But her slit-eye gesture at her live afterwards is pretty cut and dry.
What were instances in your fandom, where people have crossed the line during fansigns?
According to different Twitter users, the TikToker can allegedly be heard asking some rude questions to some of the ATEEZ members, while mocking their English speaking abilities.
( Tweets under cut )
After the fansign, she went on IG to talk about her experience at the concert and she was making slit-eye gestures mocking Asians.
( Read more... )
The issue blew up first under international Ateez fans but has now reached enter-talk and kpop sites like koreaboo. The fan has since then posted an apology on Twitter/TikTok and defends herself that she was misunderstood.
( Read more... )
Source: koreaboo, u/butterflymar, just_2alina, @hjshyper, @babieteez, @AlinaMin98, pann-choa
It is a bit murky about what she actually said in the fansign and what she "just" put as on-screen captions in her TikTok. But her slit-eye gesture at her live afterwards is pretty cut and dry.
What were instances in your fandom, where people have crossed the line during fansigns?
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