World Cup 2022 is the most interested tournament today. Exciting matches and national pride became the focus of attention.

Not outside, Kpop idols also watch these matches, especially matches with the participation of Korean players. Although the Korean players recently failed to advance to the quarterfinals after being defeated by Brazil, however, many idols cheered for what they showed after the match.

But what is quite surprising is that some Brazilian K-pop fans have reacted as "rude" when making fun of idols - who supported Korea in the match in ways such as texting, leave posts on the fan community or tag them in tweets,... This makes many netizens feel uncomfortable and defends idols:

The incident happened after Korea played Brazil in a recent World Cup match on December 6, 2022. The match resulted in Korea losing to Brazil by a pretty big score despite their best efforts and played beautifully with a goal from a distance.

After the loss, Brazilian K-Pop fans made fun of K-Pop idols. Although the idol has nothing to do with the World Cup match, the Brazilian fans mocked the idol about the home team's loss.

In particular, a Brazilian fan drew attention when sending a direct message to her fan, j-hope. They sent a bunch of “kekeke” laughs and memes of a Brazilian national team player to DM him on Instagram and even showed it off to others.

The fan was severely ratioed and later privated their account. Even on TREASURE‘s Weverse, Korean fans were upset to find out that Brazilian TeuMes have been doing the same.

Along with memes including the idols and the Brazilian flag, they also have been mocking the idols about crying for the loss. Korean fans can be seen asking the Brazilian fans politely to stop.

K-netizen wrote on the Weverse post: "Unnies, don’t act up too much."

Twitter went crazy after the incident spread like wildfire. They even referenced the previous Olympics, where Brazilians entered Korean game servers to mock Koreans.

@Grrrn2 said that: "But even during the previous Olympics, it’s especially the Brazilians that suddenly came to Korean servers even when the competition hadn’t started. It was so severe as they barged in uttering nonsense… Really, why are they like that? They were so ridiculous, saying that they’re only going to fight on Korean servers."

Some netizens even were enraged, calling this behavior the precise reason international fans often get called the term “i-Roaches.” “i-Roaches” is a derogatory term for international fans who act displeasingly.

@Mist_MilkyWay commented that: "This is why you guys get called i-Roaches".

Brazilian fans continued to send messages to their favorite groups, referencing the loss.

Korean fans were outraged, claiming that fans should not like K-Pop while discriminating and acting racist toward Koreans.

- You guys are such trash for being racist to Korean fans and mocking us while you like K-Pop. I hope you continue living like this. It makes me wonder if all the most racist people are gathered in Brazil because I keep seeing the most mocking tweets from there. I’m so disappointed today, and you don’t have the right to like K-Pop at all, brat.

- Normally, it’s the winners who are carefree and benevolent, but why do they look so petty and nervous even though they won?

- It’s because they’re uneducated. They’re kids who didn’t get educated properly

- What’s so funny about the j-hope one is that the kids all don’t allow DMs to be sent to them but the fact that they still sent it anyway LOL”

- They’re on such a low level. They won the match but is it considered sports humor to get comfort from mocking the opposite team’s country? It’s so ridiculous.

- How pitiful. They’re doing that since they don’t have anything to be proud of on the regular.

On the contrary, some Brazilian fans have claimed that it is their style of humor:

- i just think you guys don't understand our humor and how big football is in brazil, we are crazy about football, and it gets worse with other teams and countries, but anyways

- Talking about empathy during a football game is a joke, I'm sorry but no one will cry over an edit. I've never seen anyone win a game without mocking the loser. And they know, they're not children. You have turned a spam into something so serious, what a misfortune.

- tbh i'm done with this, and i'm just gonna say again that i know this, i personally didn't do anything, and i also don't think it was the best place, people were already doing in other social medias. i just don't like how everyone blew this out of proportion and started cursing every brazilian for one mistake that was not done intentionally, just out of excitement, we could've talk and settle the differences but i guess this is twitter and people just want to expose each other.

However, it is not respectful to carry the humor on to their idols, who do not understand or see it as a part of the humor.

- there is still a line to be drawn? why would anyone post that on weverse for artists to see?? u could always just post on ur ig or tweet. if u could open weverse, can you open a more appropriate app to voice your feelings?

- we dont understand AND we dont like it! so yall need to tell these jokes among brazilian kpop fans instead of going to weverse where tyun and nonbrazilians dont understand yall humor. how can tyun/txt/moas be in a a joke with yall, when they dont understand?

- In this case, it's just rude.

- some of u a weirdos

- txt is comfortable with us but that's mean we forget our places know your limits they are your idols not your friends.

- This is why "hide from artist" exist. Also they shouldn't have posted it in the first place :/

- wait on weverse ? don't you have twitter or sum i thought weverse was meant to talk to the artists