Netizens React ARMYs Sending Protest Trucks In Front Of HYBE Office Building

Recently, ARMY seems to be suffering a lot of chaos from the group members' akgaes. There are more and more cases of akgaes sabotaging achievements as well as spreading bad rumors, even attacking members during live broadcasts.

This made the true fans feel extremely angry and annoyed. Although fans are still working together to get rid of these akgaes on social media, that doesn't seem to be enough compared to the toxic actions they take towards BTS members.

Therefore, ARMY has sent protest trucks to the front door of HYBE's headquarters to hope that the company will take ℓєgαℓ action to deal with these toxic individuals. In response to this strong reaction from ARMYs, netizens have hotly discussed it on theqoo about it:

For fans who don't know, akgae is a familiar term in K-pop, which is shortened from the кσяєαn phrase "akseong gaein paen" (악성개인팬), which means "malicious individual fan". This type of fan usually only likes one member of an idol group instead of loving the whole group like normal fans.

As a result, they become extremely hateful and critical of the other members. Because they overestimate their bias, they always think their bias deserves more than being a member of a group, or feel like their bias doesn't get the recognition they deserve and start att@cking other members.

This is the type of fan that is extremely negative and will do whatever it takes to нυят one or a few team members. Meanwhile, in recent days, true ARMYs have to face many cases from the group's akgaes.

Things started to take a turn for the worse when many fans discovered a public discussion on DC Inside's private message board, causing significant repercussions in the ARMY community since late April. Hundreds of photos revealed that some malicious fans have been conspiring to harm BTS members and systematically manipulate public opinion, such as media management, media coverage and creating division among fandom members.

In particular, a former akgae person revealed an even more horrifying part of these akgae groups when saying that in an akgae group of 36 individual fans of a BTS member, they worked very hard to damage the reputation of the rest of the members. As the days pαѕѕed, the level of slander against other members of the group increased to the point that this user gradually realized the damage of this group causing the user to leave the group and decided to expose it.

Not only in the ARMY fandom but even akgae have organizations of other idol groups' fandoms. These Akgaes use other idol group members to defame their fellow group members and try to stir up a stir. promote alienation among fandoms. On one topic of akgae, about 1,700 comments expressing criticism and anger towards a targeted idol and the number of views reached 140,000.

In light of this situation, ARMYs are continuing the truck protests asking HYBE to protect BTS, who are suffering damage from some malicious individuals. Trucks with slogans showing the harmful effects of akgaes were recently sent to HYBE headquarters from May 2. Yesterday was the 6th day of the vehicle demonstration.

On the truck's LED display board, it includes: "Punish those malicious gallery users who created and spread rumors, reported false and unconfirmed news to media outlets, and targeted the members of BTS for years!", and "No more watching in silence! A company must protect its artists from criminals!". Furthermore, the protest signs harshly accused HYBE Labels of being "money crazed" and "failing to do the job of a management company", strongly criticizing the "dynamic pricing" system implemented most recently during the sale of tickets for Agust D's 'D-Day' world tour. 

Instead of using this issue to shame a particular member's individual fandom, ARMYs are calling on their agencies to take basic measures against all akgae. Acting against the BTS members to this extent is a criminal act, regardless of whose fan the perpetrator is.

HYBE can completely take tough ℓєgαℓ action against such action. In particular, through that, ARMYs also showed that HYBE and other entertainment companies need to have a basic countermeasure against DC Inside Group Gallery, which has become a convergence hotspot of anti and akgae that has grown into anti.

In response to this situation, netizens also left many comments:

- the fans are tired

- A company that doesn’t respond, a company that doesn’t treat fandom as fandom but treats them as consumers… Please sue those akgaes. Please solve what needs to be solved

- Why didn’t HYBE make a statement? Isn’t the basic duty of the company to protect the artists? HYBE, what тнє нєℓℓ are you doing these days?

- At HYBE, things like this always pαѕѕ quietly

- Please protect your artists, HYBE! Please sue and severely punish those who spread malicious rumors

- HYBE, please protect BTS members

- There have been rumors that some HYBE staff are allied with Jimin’s akgaes… Please sue them

- Why do they just side with the criminals? HYBE is weird

- HYBE is doing badly these days

- HYBE is weird, why don’t they protect the artists?

- Fans love the artists, not the company that’s crazy about the money

- Even now, they are spreading rumors about the members,,, Let’s sue them

- HYBE, please sue those bad guys. They are criminals

- y'all know they cant close dc inside galleries... literally kang daniel ℓσѕт his lawsuit ... over that