i took my time to read new’s comment and tbh it looked messy. i understand where the rage is coming from. there were things that he shouldn’t have said/could’ve been worded properly. it’s a good thing that he acknowledged his joke was calloused and offensive but+

he failed to acknowledge that it was some sort of an insult to the mentally-challenged. yes, his intention was clean but it didn’t follow the universal moral compass. yes, donating to charities catering to the mentally-challenged people is great, but it can’t be used as an excuse

it was obv he lacked counseling about the exactingness of the matter—how big of a deal this actually is for everyone else—and flew by the seat of his pants. you can argue that “he’s a grown man, how can he not know?” well, it’s likely he can’t if he hasn’t been exposed to+

a situation that completely negates the normality of his actions. i learned that joking like that is normalized by some in thailand (in most asian countries, safe to say) and if that’s his kind of cultural upbringing, it will greatly reflect in his actions and his response+

to situations arising from the former. yes, we were tweeting about how it was wrong and all that, but like he said, he wasn’t reading comments at all. following this, the only way he could be made aware is by contacting him directly, i.e., the company, but the problem was+

GMMTV DIDN’T ACKNOWLEDGE IT AS AN ISSUE (our sources said) and we all know why . they didn’t tell newwiee. he only got to know this through his official fan club and we don’t know how this was conveyed to him.

if only this was properly taken care of by GMMTV, if only they got to sit and talk about this exhaustingly, then there could’ve been a formal, well-versed apology. bottomline, the apology was not it, and honestly new could’ve done better.

yall can block/sb/unfollow me for this but i’m giving new the benefit of the doubt following his last sentence. he’s my ult, it’s so hard for me to drop him entirely as he’s the only reason i’m here, so i’m giving him a chance. i’m sorry to everyone who i disappoint w this :((

i just really hope new learned from this and something of the sort won’t happen again. otherwise, i would have to drop. good night