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why the hate against gidle has went too far, a thread on how they became stan twitter's punching bag and why they don't deserve it.
before i start, i want to say that i'm black but i am speaking from my own thoughts and feelings as a poc. i'm not telling anyone how to feel about idle, nor am i asking you to forgive them. you have a right to your feelings. this is just about the excessive hate they recieve.
in this thread i'll try to debunk everything stan twitter has said about gidle, explain why the hate the girls receive has reached a breaking point for neverlands, and show you why the girls are not nearly as problematic as people make them out to be.
i know that in the end this probably won’t change anything. people will choose to believe what they want about idle and even if i explain everything, stan twitter will just ignore this thread or spread it then go back to normal. but i still want to try.
this thread is very long because there's a lot to cover. if you don't feel like reading this, then i highly suggest this video on all of the things idle has been accused of and why they are unfounded.
i want to start with the infamous ethnic hip video. during the fliming of queendom, idle was challenged to remake 2ne1's fire. at the dicussion table, some very insensitve remarks are made. everyone has seen the video so i will go ahead show it.
as you can see, idle generalizes native american and african culture, clearly not knowing anything about it, and uses very inaccurate and harmful stereotypes about tribal culture as an aesthetic. their comments were ignorant and rightfully hurt a lot of people.
some people have clarified that "ethnic" actually refers to "essunik", a korean fashion style not related to any culture. several groups have used "ethnic/essunik" to describe their songs or concepts. however this does not excuse what the girls said or did after.
the video went viral and the hate idle recieved became intense. people began to say that "all they do is ca". i've already made a thread on this but this is not true, idle has only done ca in the ethnic hip conversation and the fire performance. https://twitter.com/ceosoyeon/status/1309970351074484224?s=20
neverlands immediately took action after ethnic hip happened. we mass emailed cube, spammed the replies under idle's posts, all in hopes of getting cube's attention for an apology, but nothing worked. under the replies of this tweet you can see us trying. https://twitter.com/G_I_DLE/status/1175434423178678272?s=20
a few weeks ago on september 5th, neverlands trended #Cu6e_Listen_To_Neverland worldwide to ask for an apology, spammed replies again, and flooded ucube to at least get to the girls directly, but still got no response.
cube seems to know about the issue, because in the middle of idle's online concert they removed fire from the setlist. korean neverlands also confirmed that they became aware of how insensitive the performance was because of international fans' education.
there's a lot of misinformation about what idle is actually responsible for. the gda 2018 incident where they performed with a mosque bg was not their fault. as rookies they wouldn't have gotten a say. other idols performed with the bg as well but did not get the same backlash.
neverlands emailed cube for clarification on who was responsible, but the gdas seemingly took responsibilty and removed the video. the dumdi dumdi stage was not idle's fault either, the only stage idle has worked on was for lion.
i'm not saying any of this to excuse idle's actions on queendom. what they did was wrong and they should be held accountable for it, which we have done. stan twitter accuses neverlands of not caring about ethnic hip when over a year later we are still trying to get an apology.
idle has only done ca once, but stan twitter very quickly began to paint idle as racists and poster children for ca, specifically soyeon. there's nothing wrong with not liking the girls, but things went too far. someone even compared them to wooj*n.
people began to make jokes about soyeon's appearance, sending her d*ath and r*pe threats, calling her racist, and blaming her whenever another idol/group did ca. everyone in idle participated in the performance, but she recieves much more hate than the other members.
the hate towards soyeon has went past holding her accountable for what she said. some people have even compared her to jim*n of aoa, called her selfish, accused her of h*ting the members, and making fun of her english even though she's not fluent in the language.
the same few fandoms constantly find a way to get hit tweets off of joking about soyeon or ethnic hip, some of them are white people or men, which makes things even more uncomfortable because they are in no postition to say the things they do.
there's a larger conversation to be had about how soyeon recieves much more hate for doing much less than her male peers. as a female idol with a lot of critical acclaim, soyeon gets vile and sexist comments that aren't about holding her accountable, but rather misogyny.
when a fan account mistranslated a comment yuqi made in chinese, people called yuqi col*rist, which caught attention in korea and forced yuqi to apologize for something she did not do. despite the account apologizing, people began to make xenophobic comments about her.
islamophobic tweets about the girls, comparing them to is*s and calling them a terrorist group, are made nearly every day. they are often called gis*s or gisl*m, which makes muslim neverlands extremely uncomfortable.
these are just a small example of what neverlands see every day, viral tweets accusing idle of being racists and making them out to be villains who hate poc when it's not true. everyday we try and educate people and we see that there are so many people who refuse to learn.
ethnic hip and gidle have become a joke to stan twitter. something everyone can throw around when they want to deflect from their own faves. the hate the girls get is no longer about what they did, but just because everyone else hates on them.
our fandom has tried to educate people on what idle has actually done wrong and made dozens of threads detailing the hate that our girls recieve but no one listens. it's becoming tiring to see people make a joke out of ca. https://twitter.com/bratzcho/status/1282050829214777345?s=20
again, no one has to forgive or like gidle, i just ask that these fandoms focus on their faves and leave us and the girls alone. the hate against idle is normalized on twitter and it's a lot to handle. everyone should be held accountable, but it seems like idle gets hit worse.
we have been trying for over a year to ask for an apology and educate everyone, hoping it will end the hate against the girls, but nothing is working. please start holding idols and groups accountable without bringing gidle into it. racism has never been a joke or a competition.
if you've made it this far, thank you for reading. hopefully stan twitter can move on from bullying idle and making them seem like they are the most problematic group alive when they have never been. i hope you were able to learn something. please spread this in any way you can.
