Everything and Nothing

Do people just follow blindly? And might I add, that in this particular case, it was f*cking juvenile detention.

After hearing the tragic news that Sulli, the 25-year-old K-pop singer and actress born Choi Jinri, had died earlier this week, fans and supporters flooded social media with posts celebrating her artistry, praising her outspoken and unapologetic stances on sexuality and feminism and calling for an end to online harassment and bullying.

Sulli was found in her apartment on Monday. No official cause of death has been released, but that the bulk of the discussion has assumed she took her own life.

Sulli’s struggles may never be fully known, but following her death, the conversations on social media among her fans and supporters have focused on two things: providing wider access to mental health care and clamping down on online harassment.

Sulli started her career as a child actress back in 2005 and debuted as a member of the K-pop girl group f(x) in 2009. The name of the group comes from the concept of mathematical functions, which can take any number or variable and use a formula to transform it into a new output — the group’s five members were known to take any musical genre or topic and make it their own.

Sudden Death Of A Young K-Pop Star Spurs Talk Of Action On Mental Health, Bullying

She was always so brave even when they silenced her. Now they silenced her to death and are trying to dump the blame onto someone else. The fact that South Korea even has a law against malicious comments shows how serious of an issue it is. It’s ridiculous the amount of hate she had to endure to feed the self-esteem of pathetic netizens. 

The law failed her, the South Korean education system that should constantly teach students to respect one another failed her, the media failed her and we all failed to give her the support she needed to keep living. Depression is no joke and wears a scary, happy mask when in the public eye.

We can only learn from this and try to make the online community a more welcoming place. Please be kind to one another and support each other because you never know what someone is really going through until it’s too late. 

Sulli’s death is tragic and really upsets and angers me. She never did anything wrong but got hate for everything she did. The amount of shielding male idols got (& continue to get) for things like committing acts of violence to participating in sexual harassment infuriates me. Korean media is complicit in this—we know they’re bought by entertainment agencies to manipulate search rankings & pour out articles. Entertainment agencies are complicit too. How many times do they threaten to sue for negative comments towards their artists but actually do it? God forbid a woman doesn’t want to wear a bra but you’ll happily defend a man involved in prostitution and sexual harassment. She asked the questions that no one wanted to talk about. She defended woman from sexual harassment, abuse, and the double standards that woman both in music and living normal lives everyday. To all the people that bullied her, harassed her, made her feel like a outsider, the blood is on your hands now.

Krystal's being flooded with hate comments simply for not posting about Sulli, despite how hate comments likely played a big role in Sulli being gone in the first place.

And guess what? It was just revealed the reason why Krystal hasn't posted anything is because she's been at the funeral home with Sulli for the past 3 days

Can you imagine? Here she is mourning a person who was like a twin sister to her, not leaving her side, and all she gets is hate comment after hate comment. These horrible people are literally doing the exact same thing that very likely lead to this tragedy in the first place, and not just to Krystal. They were all over Victoria too before news broke that she jumped on a plane as soon as she could, and even her ex Choiza.

Some people after losing a loved one are not ready to talk about it months after the fact, when these people didn't even give the rest of f(x) or choiza a couple days max to grieve. Anyone who follows Krystal's instagram knows she isn't exactly active on social media either.

Sulli / Choi Jin-ri (March 29, 1994 – October 13 or 14, 2019)

Rest in peace, beautiful soul

monsta x postponed their schedule, n.flying cancelled their showcase, vav postponed their teaser release, amber(for obvious reasons) stopped mid schedule, super junior cancelled their schedule, the nct dream booking got postponed, and kang daniel, sf9, nuest and hyunsik also did the same, bts didn’t release the run episode and bighit(most probably) postponed the release of txt’s comeback teasers