Who’s Sojang? Ateez the subsequent Okay-pop act to reportedly sue YouTuber, followers say ‘get her’

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: It seems just like the gossip YouTube channel Sojang has lastly began to anger the bigwigs as Ateez has develop into the subsequent Okay-pop act to allegedly take a success on the channel. We first had BTS’ V saying that he could be suing the account for spreading malicious rumors about him and different Okay-pop idols who aren’t allowed to take authorized motion. Subsequent, Purple Velvet’s Yeri slammed the channel for claiming she was copying Blackpink Jennie’s outfits. In the meantime, Kang Daniel’s label tried to take down a malicious chat discussion board that was allegedly popularised by Sojang.

The place there may be fame there’ll all the time be antis and trolls. And as ordinary, there are some who attempt to revenue off poisonous followers by creating gossip and rumors. Whereas most corporations don’t take note of such hate accounts, YouTuber Sojang has reached a cult-like standing. Regardless of followers and Knetizens again and again sharing that the contents and rumors of her movies are baseless, they find yourself going viral and creating scandals. A number of severe scandals have been began by Sojang’s movies from EXO’s Sehun allegedly visiting a intercourse salon to Kim Shin-young supposedly being in a relationship with Oh My Woman’s Jiho.

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Who’s Sojang and why are Okay-pop followers offended with the YouTuber

Followers who’ve been making an attempt to dig into the YouTuber’s previous declare that Sojang is a Korean girl in her mid-40s. Regardless of followers blacklisting her, the movies on the channel have a mean of 1 million views. The YouTuber can also be taking advantage of it by importing monetised movies and membership-only content material. However her content material is harming the fame of a number of Okay-pop acts as a number of viewers find yourself spreading her rumors like wildfire. On August 17, KQ Leisure shared that they’d be taking authorized motion and suing a YouTuber that many suppose is Sojang on account of her first video on Ateez.

Through the Okay-pop sports activities day ISAC, the YouTuber created a video claiming that Ateez was not treating their followers nicely. With ISAC being a free occasion, the idols taking part are accountable for their fandoms on the subject of consolation and meals. There are a number of large label Okay-pop acts that employed meals vehicles and gave out costly lunch packing containers for the followers who attended. Ateez too did one thing related however Sojang ended up claiming that that they had cheaped out. Ateez followers who have been current instantly refuted her claims however the rumor reached non-fans who took it as a chance to pull Ateez.

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Ateez to take authorized motion

On August 17, KQ shared that that they had taken authorized motion on August 16 towards a YouTube channel for a malicious video. They added, “As well as, the YouTuber in query created a video spreading rumors as in the event that they have been true and was capable of make a revenue by way of it, which we judged to be very malicious. Specifically, for deceiving followers supporting ATEEZ, we’ve determined to take robust authorized motion.” KQ is urging different hate accounts to delete malicious posts on Ateez as they may proceed to take strict motion. Reports recommend that the YouTuber is Sojang since she is the one one who not too long ago uploaded a hate video on Ateez.

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‘Effectively deserved’

Followers made feedback like, “GET HER,” and “If I used to be a 47 yo girl I’d merely really feel embarrassed to stir drama for views lmao like simply go get an actual job or one thing. Some movies she made have been actually disgusting and I really feel just like the lawsuit is nicely deserved. I hope different corporations will comply with and perhaps she’ll lastly be taught her lesson.” One fan counseled KQ, “They didnt even submit something abt ateez however KQ sues them whereas every single day they submit abt enhypen & nct however hybe and sm don’t do shit 💀 that’s how u know who actually cares abt artists.”

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A Knetizen wrote, “This particular person has been tormenting idols for years residing her life like that, is not it time for her to go to jail?” One other added, “If we merely sue her, nothing will change. We have to sue the commenters who’re spreading these rumors round too.” One puzzled, “I do not suppose it is solely Sojang behind that youtube channel. She most likely has an entire staff who’re serving to her. No means a 50 year-old girl can do that on their own. So many artists have been receiving pointless hate due to her lies, she must rot in jail.”

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One fan puzzled if it was one other male YouTuber who took down their Ateez hate video after followers mass reported it, “We did not report sojang to kq but tho, the one we mass reported was solely particularly achieved hurt to ateez’ title and kq additionally did not point out any names.” One other felt it was Sojang as her video had circulated throughout Okay-pop Twitter, “They spent virtually half the video speaking badly about ateez and mendacity in regards to the isac fan items.”

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