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Literally The Worst PR Scandal An Idol Group Can Get

Jeff Gao

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Last time a J-pop idol group hit my FYP, it was an amateur group getting absolutely cooked online for speaking “bad Japanese.”
Fast-forward to 2024, and now we’ve got one of the messiest PR disasters I’ve ever seen from a professional idol group, the KLP48 Racist WhatsApp Groupchat Drama.

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@jgao1999 Creator 8 months ago Pinned

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Ok now, have a wonderful week (also, do ya'll think its racist?).

@denyel_ 8 months ago

they’re replacing her for being serious when reprimanded, taking her work seriously and defending her members? literally the job?

@chanelgodd 8 months ago

Despite East Asian countries having some of the most stringent and ruthless work cultures in the world, the beefs people get into are so spiritually-unemployed I can’t wrap my head around it😭🥀

@redred7702 8 months ago

Japanese corporation mad that non-Japanese employees are being non-Japanese corporate slaves

@Sir.WumbolottAV 8 months ago

Okay but “not smiling enough in Japan” is such a stupid greivance 💀

@problemperson4221 8 months ago

literally one of the mildest work gc shittalking i've seen in my life

@yejoyt 8 months ago (edited)

"Her face always looked bothered or neutral"

Japan never beating the stereotype

@sl3074 8 months ago

“Made excuses for members instead of reprimanding them” sounds a lot like “refused to enforce a toxic work culture”… can’t fault her for that

@MariyaDrakonovna 8 months ago

Malaysian Idol has a Malaysian response to bosses and the Japanese lose their goddamn minds.

@sigged 8 months ago

Girl groups are literally active battle royale zones until the chats leak

@blooming1312 8 months ago

idol fans call the stupidest shit a scandal lol

@ゼロ1ー 8 months ago

Ah Japan and their nitpicky work culture where everyone have to bow down to their managers. Gets me everytime

@rach7096 8 months ago

People being mad about this are so ridiculous. This is the most normal 'friends/colleagues privately complaining about their job' group chat ever. And the name is lowkey hilarious tbh

@nickchua5772 8 months ago

Bro this is just a cultural mismatch

Malaysian culture leans more chill/direct and Japanese leans more professional/indirect

She went to Japan and just didn’t get along because of the mismatch

Then they complain because well they’re people/teenagers

The fans went too far…

@havenavalon 8 months ago

that "strawberry! blueberry!" awakened a sleeper agent that i didnt know was hiding

@burntsolis3942 8 months ago (edited)

Tbh, as a Malaysian i dont see it as a serious controversy? It's just a group chat complaining about work and coworkers being leaked. I've seen people talking worse about their jobs.

@yungs_space 8 months ago

yall as a malaysian i think the reason why their gc is called "not the colonizers" cause malaysia has literally been colonized by japan b4 😭 zo like it could be an inside joke stating how the malaysian girls are not the colonizers cause they're not

@someguyyaps 8 months ago

This feels like normal trash talking ngl. Imagine your trusted and well liked manager (given the fact that she was giving excuses instead of reprimanding people) gets replaced by someone that's tougher and you don't know from what's basically corporate.

I'd talk real shit.