seeing all the comments under the posts about the wkorea party defending chan and seungmin are really taking me out ππ as someone who has stanned stray kids since 2021 and is a seungmin bias im still disappointed in him and chan for attending and i don't think it's fair to hold ANYONE above anyone who attended that party regardless of which group or entertainment company they're from. at the end of the day, they still were in attendance to a trainwreck of an event and they're grown adults. it's not our responsibility to defend them and i don't think it's smart of us to? a reminder that we don't know these people in real life and it's actually not normal for us to make assumptions about their beliefs; in an idealistic world, every person we make famous would be amazing, but that's actually just not the case. we forget that a lot of this can be extremely performative because at the end of the day, these idols are performers both on screen and off! i like to think seungmin is a good person with a good moral compass, but that doesn't change the fact that he still attended a problematic event and didn't actually participate in advocating for the cause which is disappointing. speaking about skz specifically bc people will NOT stop defending chan and seungmin!! just because they left the party early doesn't make them better? also, people claiming that skz made a donation before they left: they didn't. the brands that they are ambassadors for who sent them to the event did. i don't think targeting them and hating on them specifically is at all necessary (we need to view this as a large scale issue, not just holding singular idols responsible) however i don't think it's necessary at ALL to be defending them. once again, i don't think huge hate trains or to get overly involved in targeting specific idols are the answer when they're ALL to be held accountable (except for the few sweet girls who did speak out on the cause) but i genuinely find it insane when people think they really do know these people. i hold the idols that i stan to the same standards i hold my loved ones; im not afraid to question their actions or beliefs if i believe they're offensive or in the wrong. we need to remember that they're not perfect beings, they're humans, and god pray that they all learn and that another fuckass event like this one doesn't happen again.
