WHY EVERYONE HATES GFRIEND; A thread

Since debut days Gfriend has been the punchbag of everyone, so here’s a thread explaining why Knetz and International kpop stans are always dragging them.

Gfriend it’s a Six member girl group under Source Music ent. Formed by Sowon, Yerin, Eunha, Yuju, SinB and Umji.

they debuted in January 15, 2015.

First. Source music was a bankrupt company so the CEO sold his house in order to make money and let the girls debut, they didn’t have the money to hire a dance and vocal teacher that prepared their songs, choreography, or the girls.

They hire experts only for two members, SinB and Yuju, they teached the choreography to SinB and gave Vocal tips to Yuju.

They both SinB and Yuju were basically the trainers of the whole group in pre-debut and rookie days.

This is a really surprising thing, since Gfriend is very well known for their Powerful Choreography and Amazing Vocals.

January 15, 2015 Gfriend debuted with the EP Season of Glass. A song that had 2nd gen Vibes. although the song was something that we already have listened to, their concept and their choreography was something new in kpop.

Gfriend’s concept was a pure concept with energetic and powerful choreography that was very unexpected and new to see in kpop back in 2015, despite calling the knetz attention the song didn’t went popular but it positioned itself in one of the best three debuts of 2015

along with twice and seventeen, debuting in the position 25 in reproductions and 20 in Gaon digital charts.

with all this gfriend started to get hate without any reason nor justification, they were accused of plagiarism because glass bead sounded too much like “Into the new world” by Girls Generation. even tho the comments were saying that gfriend had the same vibe because of

their talent and energetic choreography but remaining feminine. when this comparison spread all over korea everything became more and more horrible, all kind of bad comments were in every post related to gfriend.

Antis keept commenting that they had no visuals, they were basics, their clothes were cheap and that they all had an operation.

this went worse to Yerin and Umji for their physical appearance.

Yerin was taken as being fake because of her reactions, apparently they were too forced.

and to Umji who was only 16 years old in that time, was taken as a joke for being “ugly” and antis called her “shrek”...

this caused a big impact in the girls and their fans started to notice that Umji covered her face constantly when she was in public.

even tho this unnecessary hate never stopped, gfriend didn’t gave up.

they became to the scene six months later with Me gustas tu that keept the same 2nd gen sound + Their energetic choreography adding hardest steps this time

after this they were officially recognized for creating a new concept “Powerful innocence” MGT became an anthem until this days, this was the first song of a kpop girl group that reached 100M of reproductions on the Gaon chart.

Gfriend presented themselves in a SDS concert, the stage was slippery and that made tha the girls keept slipping in their performance. Yuju was the most affected by this, she fall 8 times. this accident was filmed, the fancam got viral having 15M of views and

tons of positive comments that made all the negative ones disappear.

the general public was proud of gfriend’s professionalisms. this issue made that knetz were expecting their new song.

A new year started and Gfriend made not just a simple comeback, it was THE COMEBACK. Rough had such an impact that even got their first all kill. making them the first 3rd gen group to achive one. and became their second song with 100M reproductions.

being one of the few groups that achieved 100M reproductions.

with this they got their very first win that came with other fourteen wins.

Rough achieved 15 wins and a triple crown they became the second feminine artist with the most music show wins.

if there’s any typo i’m sorry. english is not my first language.

rough became a success monster and rapidly gfriend was being called “Trend group” by the media, since they always keep themselves in the top places of searches and posts on forums and with that massive success the massive hate arrived once again.

remember when all the antis started saying that everyone had an operation? well, all of sudden knetz started saying that umji was d*mb because she didn’t wanted to have an operation. they started to fatshaming her whenever they could. make it make sense.

the hate posts where from “They choreographies are TOO complicated, stop being a pretentious group”, “They can’t sing”, to “the clothing is too basic and ugly”, “They all dont go well with each others” and “Eunha’s Aegyo is too much...” +

“they look fake on variety shows”, “Yerin is an attenti*n se*ker”

the girls did NOTHING and knetz were always trying to find just a little mistake to bring them down.

BUT gfriend actually did something, a “deadly sin”

be competition to groups from the BIG3.

Gfriend won their first win before one of the ggs from a big3 company.

they charted better than ggs from the big3

they were the direct competitors of ggs from the big3

all of the fans from those groups are ALWAYS bashing on gfriend.

gfriend even made absolutely shadow to other ggs with bigger fandoms in that time (2014-2015)

that’s one of the biggest peculiarities on gfriend. they are one of the most popular ggs with the smallest fandom. their popularity on charts and shows it’s because of the gp (general public)

that’s another reason why they are hated. the smallest the fandom, the bigger the hate

that’s why gfriend was started to being called a group with “Fake popularity” since everyone pointed that gfriend made comebacks on months where big groups didn’t made cbs (till this time, that’s another drag used by antis)

well, why nobody talk about the succes of gfriend in that time you might be wondering. one of the ggs from the big3 made a cb that overwhelmed every release from 2016.

but that wasn’t something that affected on the growth of gfriend. six months later they cameback with “NAVILLERA” the song got a RAK (Real Time-all-Kill) and got 14 wins on music shows. the album sales were duplicated this time and the fandom got bigger.

the general public loved them and the fanbase started growing. and the hate didn’t stopped but changed, they hate for their visuals were slowly disappearing.

instead, antis started the say that they had no talent. with comments like
“Sinb’s voice is so ugly”

“Umji can’t even sing properly to a 2 seconds part” and “the group overall is lacking of vocals”

but the recognition of Yuju’s as a main vocal overshadowed those comments.

at this point another criticism started with now “All their songs sound the same”, “The concept is the same” and “their choreographies are all the same”

the hate when so far when they said that NAVILLERA was plagiariz*d from groups of the big3 companies.

after this SOURCE MUSIC decided to talk with gfriend and they decided to change the concept.

8 months later Gfriend make a cb with FINGERTIP

A really different concept and sound from what we already listened back in 2016 but remained with the essence of gfriend.

and this marked them as a group with their own identity and sonority on kpop.

once again antis started to say that the girls didn’t fit well the concept, that it was too forced and it was boring.

weren’t they the ones who said that the girls should change the concept?

They debuted in the Top 10 of music charts but remained in the position 12-14 on the comeback era and antis started to say that the song fl0ped, if we analyze this. 90% of kpop groups don’t even enter the charts. and the only 10% that it does just the 0.01% remains

in the top 20 of the charts from more than a week the song didn’t “flopped” the only reason why the song didn’t charted HIGHER it was because by that time the gp didn’t enjoy this type of songs.

this “incident” make that the haters accusations were more loud between knetz.

comments like “they are in the past” and “nobody listen to them anymore” became bigger because two ggs from the big3 started to gain fame

leaving this gfriend with the tittle of the 4th best gg from the 3rd gen.

antis said “they cant even be top 3” but i bet you would kill for your group to be top 5 atleast.

with everything bad something good has to come, right? well this time gfriend’s fandom got bigger and the album sales went up untill 10k sales for gfriend.

source music panicked at the fact that the gp didn’t enjoyed FINGERTIP and decided to change once again the concept

this time they became with LOVE WHISPER.

let’s be clear. with this comeback gfriend proved that girl groups could make even harder choreographies.

Gfriend performed love whisper in water.

if any other group from have performed this exact same dance everyone would have loved them and called them “trendsetters”.

This is by far the hardest gfriend’s choreography.

and love whisper became an exit out of asia, debuting in the charts of iTunes for the first time

After love whisper we got the repackaged mini album “SUMMER RAIN” that became the starter point of gfriend’s new concept. something more melancholic and a choreography with a very deep meaning and expressions.

this time gfriend asked source music to do a change of concept, in 2017 girl crush started to raise and gain popularity but gfriend didn’t targeted that concept. they decided to go for something more unique. that could keep their sonority with power vocals and choreographies

they created “Passionate Melancholy” and dropped TIME FOR THE MOON NIGHT with a poetic and powerful choreography and amazing vocals.

this time nobody could say that the concept was too forced or it wasn’t a change. this was the perfect concept to shut up all the haters.

TFTMN got the first grand slam of 2018 by winning on all 6 music shows.

they surpassed the 86K sales with the album

and had the positions #1 and #2 of the charts. almost getting another ALL KILL

this time the hate didn’t get loud. their principal hate target(umji) make a drastic change with her visuals. after a harsh series of diets umji returned with a stunning appearance

that even the ones who called her ugly couldn’t say it anymore.

after this everyone started saying that “nobody criticized her for being ugly but having 0 vocal ability” and “she should concentrate more on vocal ability than looks” besides this the group was taken again as a group with “fake popularity”

in july 2018 gfriend make a hurried comeback with sunny summer a very criticized cb, apparently it “sounded too much like fingertip” or “it didn’t kept the sonority of TFTMN” and “the mv is too simple” “the choreography is too easy” “the wardrobe was simple” and all that

after all sunny summer was a special album since they were leaving the korean screen for a while because they will be having their first ASIA TOUR during the rest of the year.

2019 came and gfriend cameback with SUNRISE with the unique sonority of TFTMN but with certain twists that make the new gfriend concept “Emotional melancholy”

once again making a new concept and not adopting the trends.

the album debuted in the top 10 in the majority of the charts

this came with a new wave of hate for the girls and this time international kpop stans started to criticize gfriend too.

saying things like “they should disband” “they make no impact in kpop” and “their concepts are all the same” “they have no visuals” the same old drags

let’s see all the impact of gfriend so far :)

-Double 100M of reproductions in two consecutive comebacks in less than a year

-Record of All-Kills for a girl group

-Invented the 2x speed dance challenge

-being called “trend group” in their first year of debut

-one of the top 5 ggs of the 3rd gen

more :)

again on mid-year gfriend came back with fever with a new concept that explores the stablished summery vibes of “tropical house” but adding this retro feeling. ome of the most different gfriend’s song in sonority.

this resulted with gfriend acquiring new international fans and popularity.

this comeback got 6 wins and a grand slam (4 grand slams in two consecutive years)

with only two weeks of promotions because they were in the middle of their second ASIA TOUR

2020 started and gfriend cameback with their most anticipated album. since source music was acquired by big hit entertainment everybody expected a new style in their music

CROSSROADS by gfriend was the first album dropped after the acquisition but remained with

the sonority of TFTMN with powerful vocals and a powerful choreography.

Gfriend already had marked their sound on the kpop industry.

but everything changed this month.

Gfriend cameback in July 13 with their new album SONG OF THE SIRENS and their tittle track “APPLE” with a new concept and a sonority.

imagine making your own sound on kpop and after that throwing it aways to prove that they can do more than “sad concepts” or “cute concepts”

well gfriend’s apple concept is “Seductive temptation” they changed completely their brand in kpop with this release

after the mv release GFRIEND got dragged once again with the fact that “they made a great song BUT this group could have done it better” or “they are releasing good songs now because they are under big hit” or “big hit saved them” and “Gfriend is going S*ATANIC”

all this stupidity is what buddies live every single day in the kpop community.

idk what kpop stans have told you about the girls but believe me, you can always trust and listen to gfriend!.

Thanks for reading this informative thread:) if i missed something feel free to tell me and i will add it to the thread.

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