Many K-pop fans attributed the recent incidents of theft and harassment to the Sunday, March 5 episode of GMA’s Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho.
You need to do something about this! This is messed up and getting out of hand. OUR SAFETY IS AT HIGH RISK.Cloud, a K-pop fan since 2009, said that these recent instances of mockery are a flashback to the ridicule that most fans faced when the genre wasn’t as globally recognized as it is now. “
Cloud also pointed out that collecting K-pop merchandise is no different from other hobbies, like collecting anime merchandise, NBA cards,“It’s so unfair how [KMJS] always celebrates grown men flexing their toy collections, or shows homes wrapped around with Christmas decors every year, and yet the only time they feature a K-pop collection is when they find a minor whose means of funding them is through stealing,” one tweet read.
“I haven’t seen any other collectors get ridiculed like K-pop fans. No one does this to NBA card collectors, to TMG collectors, Funko Pop collectors. No one. Only K-pop fans experience such,” another tweet read. Many fans also lamented over how unfair it was that the community was generalized because of one experience. “All of the fellow collectors I know do it responsibly. There’s even some minor students who accept commissions or do part-time jobs so that they can afford their merchandise,” Jen said. “Others don’t have the right to judge them on how they spend their hard-earned money.”
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