K-Pop and anti-Black Racism: Lee Gi-kwang (famous K-Pop artist) doing blackface.
I believe this video was aired in 2015 on South Korean live TV. In the video, famous K-Pop artist Lee Gi-kwang, a member of the boy group 'Beast,' is doing black face and also performs black caricatural acts such as eating a watermelon. K-Pop, and pop in general (and practically many other well-known music genres), is heavily inspired by African American music and culture. It's so disrespectful--on par with spitting on someone's face and slapping them--to be a K-Pop artist and doing blackface. Their revenue practically comes from the cultural appropriation of African American culture in which they give no credit to.
I don't know how this person still has fans, nor even has a career still. It's so disheartening to see. I am sure many of you have also seen former NCT member Mark Lee also proudly wearing a shirt with the Confederate flag on it. His main discography is quite literally rap 😭, and he was born in Canada no less.
It's crazy how people excuse their disgusting racism with statements such as "they didn't know" or "they had no choice." Bruh if they didn't know then why is it so funny? The punchline is racism, particularly against black people. Like, do they not know how it feels to be discriminated against for genetic traits they had no decision in choosing at birth? It's human decency 101 this is unforgivable.
YouTuber AngryGinge was absolutely PISSED after confronting a guy who made RACIST comments about Ghanaians during the England–Ghana World Cup match, only for stadium stewards to refuse to kick him out after he reported him 😳👀
“Not good enough from the American stewards… he got to watch the whole game after his comments. Absolute disgrace.”
Haskell sends shots after he got bailed out and sends an apology to Twitch CEO 😲
"F*ck twelve, F*ck TimTheTatman.. I want to apologize to you, twitch CEO.. I wont Jack Doherty max again."
This is the part of the video footage that they made blurry when Karmelo Anthony got jumped by Austin Metcalf and others in that Tent doing that day. They made sure you couldn’t see that footage while that was going on but they made other parts of the video clear why is that ?
It turns out you cannot artificially manufacture cultural relevance forever.
The far-right pipeline of industry plants is hitting a wall, proving that no amount of financial backing, algorithmic manipulation, or bot-farm views can save talentless, dishonest, and fake political content creators.
The strategy was lifted straight from Russia and the European far right. The anti-democracy libertarian tech bros who supported MAGA realized that winning elections required full narrative control. They did not just buy up traditional media and hijack the algorithms, they also created and boosted the people making the content.
This whole ecosystem is completely fake. They built a network of paid influencers, using a mix of established names and pure industry plants who were engineered for fame. Characters like Lex Fridman and Nick Shirley were aggressively pushed to the top by powerful people like Elon Musk.
Even people within their own circles are blowing the whistle. Ashley St. Clair recently exposed the reality of these right-wing influencer networks, revealing how creators are given explicit marching orders and told exactly what to post behind the scenes.
The desperation peaked with the Tenet Media scandal, where right-wing darlings like Tim Pool and Benny Johnson were exposed for taking dirty blood money from Russia to parrot pro-Putin and anti-Ukraine talking points to American voters. They are literal traitors.
But the grift has an expiration date. These far-right plants got massive before and after Trump's election, but they are having an incredibly hard time maintaining the illusion today.
Go look at their actual cultural impact. They have become totally irrelevant, and nobody talks about them anymore. They are entirely dependent on bot farms to make them look popular, but real people have completely moved on