Mina was a very sweet person. Every time we spoke, she treated me with nothing but kindness. The hatred she received was undeserved and completely disproportionate to what happened.
I understand wanting to protect an artist you love, and I understand how easy it can be to get swept up in the collective mindset that develops within fandom spaces. But please remember that behind every account is a real human being with feelings; a person who, just like you, loves the same artist.
Mina loved Ni-ki deeply, and she never had bad intentions toward the other members. Her work and personal history were dug up, she was called countless cruel names, and the very love and dedication for which she had once been appreciated were suddenly turned into reasons to attack her. For some people, the moments they share with an artist they love are among the few things that help them keep going. Those moments should never be weaponized against them.
Before posting something cruel online, please stop and remember that there is a real person on the other side of the screen. Words have consequences. This goes far beyond ENHYPEN, K-pop, or any fandom dispute.
I still have not received any news from Mina or the police. Please keep her in your thoughts and prayers, no matter what the outcome may be.
Everyone should read the comments under this post and feel deeply ashamed. Read them carefully and ask yourselves if this is really the kind of community you want to be part of. We have normalized harassment, public humiliation, and relentless dogpiling to the point where compassion has become the exception instead of the rule.
This is no longer about fandoms. This is about humanity, and the fact that so many people seem to have lost it.
There is a fundamental difference between pointing out someone’s mistake in the hope that they learn and grow, and using that mistake as an excuse to relentlessly shame, humiliate, and mentally destroy another human being. Accountability should never become a justification for cruelty.
Social media has become a place where people treat cruelty as entertainment, where harassment is dismissed as “holding someone accountable,” and where strangers feel entitled to pile onto another human being without stopping for a single second to think about the person behind the screen.
There are no fandoms, no ships, no fanwars, no opinions that will ever justify dehumanizing someone. Every account belongs to a real person with real emotions, real struggles, and a real life. Yet so many people seem to enjoy projecting their anger, frustration, and misery onto complete strangers, as if empathy were a weakness instead of the bare minimum.
If we continue to forget the humanity of the people on the other side of the screen, we shouldn’t be surprised when the consequences become irreversible.
pray for iran, pray for gaza, pray for sudan, pray for all the countries who have been suffering through israel’s terrorism and genocidal acts, no matter what kind of account you are, whether you’re religious or not
I need absolutely everyone to read SVT Seungkwan’s post. He has seen friends driven to the worst choice by what they’ve endured in this industry, & I hope all can take his plea to heart.
“My earnest wish is that we stop hurting each other in ways we can’t be responsible for.”
what’s crazy to me is not even literal criminals were bullied this extreme. I didn’t see you guys sending funeral wreaths when taeil got exposed. what did seunghan do to y’all? parasocial bitches. none of these idols would even consider dating your deformed gecko faces
AND TO WHOEVER WHO TOUCHED MINGYU, FUCK YOU! KEEP YOUR FUCKING HANDS TO YOURSELF! IT’S COMMON SENSE AND COURTESY TO NOT TOUCH PEOPLE WITHOUT THEIR CONSENT. LEARN HOW TO RESPECT AND ADMIRE PEOPLE FROM AFAR WITHOUT DISRESPECTING THEM OR THEIR SPACE.
pls pleeeease i really hope all idols involved in sex scandals get revealed i really don’t want to be loving and getting motivation from people who are rotten to the core and who deserve to go to jail :(((((((((( 🙏