“Congratulations on defending ENHYPEN and NCT.”
There’s a number of controversy, and understandably so, over the “tradition” surrounding Okay-Pop followers making an attempt to work together with and get photos of their favourite idols on the airport. These sorts of conditions can simply turn into chaotic and even harmful when followers get too shut and don’t respect an idol’s private house, particularly when there isn’t correct safety concerned.
There have been numerous situations of idols being mobbed on the airport, some to extra scary and harmful levels than others. But this has turn into upsettingly normalized for lots of the so-called “followers” that take part on this conduct, which has led to some labels needing to extend their safety so as to maintain their idols protected.
Not too long ago, the bodyguards accountable for defending ENHYPEN‘s members went to intense measures to verify the idols stayed protected, as may be seen on this clip.
enha bodyguards doing every little thing proper latelyㅋㅋㅋ pic.twitter.com/Uz0eq5EXdo
— 단비 (@silentstarsnk2) September 18, 2023
Followers are praising their actions and willpower to do their job properly, whereas others are demanding that one thing be completed so as to forestall this kind of factor from taking place within the first place.
Airports want to start out criminally penalizing fansites, stalkers and overzealous followers who present up at airports as a result of none of that is okay. https://t.co/aaZZz8WiKP
— Joy⁷🇿🇼💜 (@BTSareHumans) September 18, 2023
irrespective of how a lot kpop stans need to persuade themself that stalking and crowding idols on the airports is a part of “kpop tradition” none of this conduct is regular and y’all lastly have to cease consuming airport “content material”… https://t.co/oiiet2xiFw
— bahar⁷(ꪜ)📦💜 (@her_magicshop) September 18, 2023
sorry nevertheless it baffles me how on this planet k-fans can bitch about safety being “too robust” when there have been so many situations of idols getting pushed, having their garments pulled, and having full on panic assaults at airports bc idiots refuse to respect their private house https://t.co/7zm1N3a15P
— ⁷ (@bbystarkandy) September 18, 2023
And ppl will nonetheless say that is simply kpop tradition regardless of the the precise hazard not only for the idols however for the very common people who find themselves simply making an attempt to catch their flights that is simply madness https://t.co/wvles6b7iS
— Kay⁷ ✨🐱 💜 (@aqualimits) September 18, 2023
This isn’t one thing to be normalized. When you’ve got even a bit of affection of respect and love for the folks you stan cease participating with airport tradition. You can not justify getting couple of images after they need to be mobbed like this for them. https://t.co/sCcmU1ODuc
— raichu⁷ 💜¹⁰ (@trivialove23) September 19, 2023
But it surely seems it wasn’t simply ENHYPEN followers that the bodyguards had been holding again. Based on the account of an NCT fan on the airport throughout this chaos, members Jaemin, Jeno, and Jisung had been taking the identical flight as ENHYPEN, leading to NCTzens being there too. And subsequently, the bodyguards had been defending NCT as properly, despite the fact that that wasn’t what they had been employed for!
하 웃교 오늘 잼젠성이랑 엔하이픈이랑 같은 비행기였는데 엔시티수니들 조용히 엔시티 찍고 있는데 하이브 경호들이 개지랄을 하셔서 엔하이픈 아니고 엔시티팬이라고 하니까 엔시티도 찍지말랜다 https://t.co/OBuqb2jeyW
— ໊ (@5xhour) September 18, 2023
Caption: “Ha, that is ridiculous. NCT members and ENHYPEN had been on the identical flight, and NCTzens had been quietly filming NCT, however HYBE’s bodyguards had been making a difficulty. We informed them we had been NCT followers and never ENHYPEN followers, they usually informed us to not movie NCT both.”
In a discussion board submit on the subject, most individuals are on the facet of the bodyguards and supporting their actions in defending each ENHYPEN and NCT. Some are even saying that HYBE Labels ought to ship a invoice to SM Leisure for the safety!
Although it looks as if nobody was harm on this occasion, it will be good to see one thing completed to stop followers mobbing idols at airports within the first place.