kiwi 🥝

[kiwi 🥝 @kiwiponi]

Originally I only came back to this account because I felt passionate about the misrepresentation of NewJeans and Ador abroad and wanted to correct misconceptions. Now I might stay haha, the side of community I found is really nice.

Thread of tweets I made that feel important🧵

[kiwi 🥝 @kiwiponi]

@oehvouwnh8321 However, I have LONG been critical of ***HYBE*** for supporting and working with far right lunatics in Korea. This is something I have been consistent on. If you see criticism of HYBE and instantly get mad and think I’m hating on your fave you seriously need to reflect.

[kiwi 🥝 @kiwiponi]

@oehvouwnh8321 I’m absolutely not mad at the artists and nothing about my tweet suggested that. I’ve never spoken about Cortis once and dgaf about them. I’ve only spoken about illit when I was covering the ongoing case. Even then I stayed impartial because I felt bad for them. https://t.co/1V8oiNIR9G

[kiwi 🥝 @kiwiponi]

I’m shitting on HYBE and their track record of siding with far right weirdos, which I’ve spoken about multiple times prior, and the clueless ass president who sides with them. Mental deficiency display from these stans getting heated in my replies and quotes

[kiwi 🥝 @kiwiponi]

NewJeans personally went to hand out food to the people marching for the impeachment of Ex-President Yoon.

HYBE artists did NOTHING.

And this is how the slimy mongrel @Jaemyung_Lee acts. Nothing for the many artists that supported you, everything for the corrupt money machine.

[멍곰 @leggoherewego]

@Jaemyung_Lee 하이브 의장 방시혁이랑 대표이사 이재상 잡아가시라고요

[kiwi 🥝 @kiwiponi]

“Why are you hating on Cortis and ILLIT”

Mentally ill company stans hallucinating names that weren’t mentioned once

[kiwi 🥝 @kiwiponi]

@minjidiesel It doesn’t have anything to do with Cortis, you are genuinely hallucinating from your parasocial obsession with these groups. I’ve literally never mentioned Cortis on my account and dgaf about them. I think it’s pretty obvious my criticism is of the dumbass president.

[kiwi 🥝 @kiwiponi]

@oehvouwnh8321 Non Korean thinks they can lecture Koreans on how they feel about their country’s politics, tale as old as time 😹

[kiwi 🥝 @kiwiponi]

@oehvouwnh8321 A) you’re mad as fuck
B) you liked your own comment
C) I am absolutely Korean lil guy. I’m one of the Koreans who translated the press conference.
D) Not once did I drag Cortis to or ILLIT so why are you so mad. A hit dog will holler though!

[kiwi 🥝 @kiwiponi]

@oehvouwnh8321 @Jaemyung_Lee That is seen as shitty and out of touch and they definitely do get hate for that? What kind of stupid ass argument is that lil guy

[⁷₂² @kismetfiless]

i have no other way to describe her vocal tone besides warm honey.. she’s just such a phenomenal singer i can’t

[kiwi 🥝 @kiwiponi]

Negative $180 million in 3 months is crazy #KARMA

[kiwi 🥝 @kiwiponi]

@PoppyKPoppie Hiiiii 🙇🏻‍♀️🙇🏻‍♀️

[혠 @0lhyen]

이 영상 처음 봤을 때의 감동을 영원히 못잊음 당연함 저걸 잊을 수 있겠냐고

[마이미 @ilymymie]

이쯤에서 다시보는 뉴진스 어텐션

[kiwi 🥝 @kiwiponi]

Please use your brains. Please tell me how the hell you think she has any power in the media to do evil media play when 99% of Korean articles are anti NewJeans and anti MHJ. If she is so powerful why would she shit on her own face? Wouldn’t we be hearing about evil HYBE all day?

[kiwi 🥝 @kiwiponi]

EXACTLY.

How the hell could Min Heejin be an evil all powerful witch conspiring to take over the company if she owned only 18% of ADOR and HYBE OWNED 80%? And if she wanted to take over the company, why would she be conspiring to take NewJeans out of that very company?

[1tokki @juantokki]

Bang Si-hyuk and “Gwa-Ju-Se-yeon” [Choi Hoon-min’s Abyss]
https://t.co/hlitYG3PpC
By Choi Hoon-min

Around late December last year, I wrote an article to the effect that “HYBE is pushing out NewJeans member Danielle.” After that article was published, several people contacted me. Most of the responses were along the lines of, “The tone of your article seems completely helpful to Min Hee-jin. Why are you taking the side of such a strange person?”

The people who reached out were, for the most part, genuinely smart individuals. I was dumbfounded. I couldn’t believe that even such intelligent people had been swept up in HYBE’s media play. Because if you understood just one basic fact, you could prove that all of HYBE’s media framing was nonsense.

This case began on April 22, 2024, when HYBE announced that “circumstances suggesting ADOR CEO Min Hee-jin attempted to seize management control had been uncovered,” and launched an internal audit. What followed was an intense media campaign. Min Hee-jin’s KakaoTalk messages obtained during the audit were exposed to the public. From “Why did you vote for the Democratic Party? If there’s no party to vote for, you shouldn’t vote,” to provocative phrases like “shaman management,” sensational excerpts flooded the media.

It was a classic case of “demonization.” There is no better method for bringing someone down than turning them into a devil. Once someone is demonized, it becomes easy to implant the perception that “She’s weird anyway, so she must have done something wrong.” For HYBE, which holds significant sway over entertainment media, launching a full-scale offensive was not difficult.

Amid the noise of sensational language, HYBE kept pushing one simple line: “Min Hee-jin attempted to seize management control.” In other words: “She’s a strange person, so please believe our claim that she tried to take over ADOR.” Backed by Kim & Chang, HYBE ran with that narrative.

What drew my attention to this case was basic curiosity. “Let’s assume Min Hee-jin is strange. But did she even have the conditions to seize management control?” I simply wanted to check the numbers, so I looked at ADOR’s share structure. HYBE held 80%, Min Hee-jin 18%, and others 2%.

Even if Min Hee-jin’s grandfather came back to life, it would have been structurally impossible to seize control. Is there anyone in the world capable of overthrowing a parent company that owns 80% with just 18%? No such person exists. Even the world’s richest figures couldn’t do that. Yet none of the people who called me had bothered to look up this basic fact. That was astonishing.

On the 12th, the first conclusion in the legal battle between Min Hee-jin and HYBE was reached. It was a complete victory for Min. Stripping away complicated terms like “lawsuit for payment of stock purchase price” and “confirmation of termination of shareholders’ agreement,” the ruling essentially said: “HYBE’s claim that Min Hee-jin attempted to seize management control of ADOR makes no sense.” The court stated that such a takeover “could not have been executed without HYBE’s consent.” To me, that sounded like the judge indirectly mocking HYBE and Kim & Chang, as if saying, “This lawsuit itself makes no sense.”

Mockery would be understandable. After BTS established HYBE as a powerhouse, the company brought in numerous “financial elites.” Yet during the trial, HYBE and its legal team advanced illogical arguments beyond the management takeover claim. HYBE also alleged that Min attempted to “tamper” by taking NewJeans with her and terminating their exclusive contracts.

This is a claim that falls apart under even basic logic. If Min had truly been trying to seize management control, she wouldn’t have needed to take NewJeans out. If she controlled ADOR, then NewJeans—ADOR’s sole artist—would naturally fall under her control. Why would she need to take them elsewhere? I don’t know whether Min engaged in tampering. But if she did, then HYBE’s logic that she was trying to seize ADOR’s management control collapses entirely. If NewJeans is ADOR’s only artist, and you’re going to take them anyway, what’s the point of taking over an empty shell company?

To make such poorly constructed arguments persuasive, they resorted to demonizing Min Hee-jin. The fuel for that effort was her private KakaoTalk messages obtained during the audit. Even if some content was inappropriate, it was still part of an individual’s private life. There’s a saying in business: “If someone makes money, a company would even hire a monkey.” Whether Min consulted a shaman or not, she raised NewJeans well and generated profits. That’s what matters.

If someone handed me Chairman Bang Si-hyuk’s phone message history from July 2024, I’m confident I could write a sensational love story that would shock the world. The circumstances of an internet streamer strolling through Los Angeles with the “godfather” of the world’s top K-pop group would likely be laid out in those messages. But even if I obtained them, I wouldn’t publish them. Because Chairman Bang’s job is to nurture K-pop groups and generate revenue. Whether he meets “Gwa-Ju-Se-yeon” or “Yuk-Ju-Se-yeon” is irrelevant to the essence of his role.

[쿠키 @lifernfkrkxek]

아 진짜 존나 기모띠하네ㅋㅋ
하이브 전관22명쓰고도처참히발린 거 씹ㅋㅋ 어나지금사과베어문것마냥달콤하고기모띠해 이게얼마나달콤한건지너무나도잘알앗슨

[kauã onodera @kauaonodera]

vamos cancelar seu full álbum + colocar vocês em hiato + torturar psicologicamente vocês por meses nos tribunais + fazer vocês voltarem pra cumprir contrato + expulsar uma de vocês e processar a família dela em 30 milhões de dólares

por algo que vocês tinham razão

[bear ʚɞ⁵ @hyekittyz]

like oh okay ?????