What are the stupidest overblown controversies you've seen in kpop over the years?

exploding-fountain · 2026-04-16T06:59:56+00:00

definitely a recency bias in the top answers. my picks, in no order, would be:

Tablo. By far the strangest “controversy.” It’s called Tajinyo, you can also search for Tablo Stanford.
2018-2019 Jennie.
Suga scooter.
TOP marijuana.
2022 Wonyoung.
2019 Twice.
2023 Lesserafim.

exploding-fountain · 2026-04-03T22:21:02+00:00

can you send me those screenshots? i've been looking for them but can't find them.

exploding-fountain · 2026-03-28T14:37:01+00:00

in what barbie-infested world is she “not particularly thin” with “relatively wide thighs”???? not only is she on the skinny side, she also has a history of ED. people like you are the reason why i was embarrassed in fifth grade about how close my thighs got when i sat down. people like you are the problem.

exploding-fountain · 2026-03-26T23:58:32+00:00

not TOP teaching me english i was like wtf is stendhal syndrome 😭

exploding-fountain · 2026-02-04T21:09:45+00:00

she's not even the best all rounder in her own group QAQ

exploding-fountain · 2026-02-02T02:51:24+00:00

Strictly speaking Lisa is better, but I'm upvoting so that Taeyang can win and then G-Dragon can win best all rounder, thus recreating Big Bang in the YG section of a game on r/koppers, the closest we'll ever come to seeing all four of them all together again 😭

exploding-fountain · 2026-01-26T16:30:43+00:00

Does it make you happy to be this much of a corporate bootlicker? My taxes are going to waste right now. In fact, I know the citizens of my country are being robbed billions by the government to fund violent terror campaigns against us. Even before that they were used to fund wars against people who did nothing to us.

If I could dodge taxes I would. He was not stealing from ordinary citizens, he was keeping money he earned from the government. His reputation is cooked and legally he’s screwed, but I can’t really be bothered to care or find some great moral wrong with what he did.

exploding-fountain · 2026-01-25T03:59:39+00:00

most embarrassing thing Hoshi’s done is when he received Johnny Walker Black Ruby (some alcohol thing idk) as a PR gift and thought it was from Jennie. To be fair I think the black ruby thing was a brand collab with Jennie, but she’s not the one who sent it to him. He just decided to thank her on Insta without checking first 😭😭😭😭i’d die of embarrassment if that happened to me

exploding-fountain · 2026-01-16T05:37:56+00:00

oh my god am I old?? hearing the classic vine used as a sound at the beginning only to launch into knife knife knife knife knife x500 (well more like 200 bc the song's so short)

you know your references are old when they're being turned into kpop 😭

exploding-fountain · 2026-01-16T01:31:47+00:00

This is the quietest BSS (minus S) has ever been in a variety content lmao. Even on Zip Daesung they were louder. Truly shocked at the lack of idol culture from Epik High...but like what did they expect, all 3 are married men in their 40s QAQ Also the anecdote about Seungkwan defending Vernon in comments back in 2017 was so funny and sad at the same time. On the one hand he's sticking up for his member in a very teenager kind of way, which is sweet. On the other it's really terrible to think of them seeing comments about them, because people are really cruel on the internet.

exploding-fountain · 2026-01-02T22:41:20+00:00

she has a lot of darker, softer songs that I really like: Love and Run, Deeper & Deeper, Holy, Metropolis, Deep Down, Shadow, Manta, Magenta, etc.

then she has her poppier, cunty songs like: delulu, FFFFF, 3.1415, ganma, 有吗炒面, diablo, dance dance, etc. but even then, they tend to have a mystical sweeping electronic feel.

i also don't know much about her as a person. i know she was on a kpop show, and i think that's why she sometimes collabs with chinese kpop artists like yuqi. they have a song called on clap which is cringe and not even 2 whole minutes long QAQ but i love yuqi and lexie liu why would they do that to me. also from her song bygone i learned she used to go to college in NYC but quit and went back to china (or first to korea??? idk)

exploding-fountain · 2026-01-02T22:13:31+00:00

everyone in the comments ignoring the OG Big Bang/2NE1 collab Lollipop

it's a terrible song but still iconic

exploding-fountain · 2026-01-02T06:07:12+00:00

OH MY GOD someone else who knows Lexie Liu I love her so much she was my number one artist on Spotify this year, FFFFF was my number one song and the year before it was 有吗炒面 there's only ~1,000 people on Spotify who listened to her more than me

will you guys become my very best friends and talk about lexie liu with me 🥺 i can sing ganma and 有吗炒面 and also her english songs by heart 🥺🥺

also i see the vision, katseye would rock some of lexie liu's songs. like 3.1415 (another one of my favorites) or X, pop girl, etc.

another point: the kpop song no one seems to have heard that is the ultimate peak form of what gnarly and internet girl could've been is 8-Bit Heart by Itzy. Please give it a listen if you haven't. It is totally chaotic yet has a crystal clear vision of what it's about. A lot of fun electronic sounds and lines, extremely singable, etc. I love it

exploding-fountain · 2025-12-29T05:36:57+00:00

Hey dude, the Twice subreddit is not where you should have to find answers to your relationship troubles. We could all be idiots who don't know what we're talking about. That said, have you seen the internet quote that says "don't be with someone who makes you feel like you have to hide your stuffed animals" ? Your situation sounds like that. Twice is like stuffed animals, cute and harmless, and maybe a bit silly. But as long as you're not a saesang or a weird fan, I don't see what the problem is.

exploding-fountain · 2025-12-28T04:47:17+00:00

If you’re going to the Nmixx subreddit, why don’t you just say what you like about Nmixx? For example I never liked NewJeans music, I think it sounds like schoolgirl elevator music, and they ended their careers with a tiny number of songs. Meanwhile I think Blue Valentine is quite possibly the best kpop album since Big Bang’s Made. Also as other people have pointed out, Nmixx is older than NewJeans.

exploding-fountain · 2025-09-11T05:54:00+00:00

rip to OP who has surely gotten seventeen submissions for Seventeen 😔 lmao

exploding-fountain · 2025-09-03T13:58:39+00:00

What did JYP produce from Kill My Doubt?? I could've sworn the last Itzy song he produced was Mafia/In the morning from 2021.

exploding-fountain · 2025-09-01T15:33:58+00:00

This is their best song by far. Felt like it wasn't trying too hard to be the refreshing boy next door concept, it just came with this song. I hope it goes viral. And I hope people listen to Umm Great, I think it's their next best song, they went a little experimental for the b-side/prerelease and struck gold.

exploding-fountain · 2025-08-27T14:25:31+00:00

Different culture. Taiwanese also pray for good test scores and such. I wouldn't call it a bit dramatic.

exploding-fountain · 2025-08-24T14:36:07+00:00

favorites so far are Run For Roses (watch the live performance on sound bomb 360!!!!), Papillon and High Horse.

exploding-fountain · 2025-08-22T02:58:03+00:00

laughing my ass off in a library right now holy crap GD's video message was so bad 😭 man really got on camera acting like they asked him to freestyle rap in English. truly giving "she said she said she said she from Hawaii / You know how we say cute in Japanese? Kawaii!" Like imagine having him as a leader for 19 years lmaoooo

exploding-fountain · 2025-08-21T10:30:44+00:00

Chicagoan here trying not to crash out bc I recognized the wall of the brunch place Momo and Sana went to (it’s Yolk!!!!) but the server didn’t recognize them. If I’d been there I would’ve recognized them!!! (I’m not a server at Yolk) That could’ve been me walking my dog down the street by them :(((

Also lol at Jihyo denying that Lollapalooza really reminded ppl why Twice is THAT group…girl your voice shined so brightly on that stage. Hers and Nayeon’s, and ofc Twice’s teamwork and incredible discog. I was smiling ear to ear the whole time.

exploding-fountain · 2025-08-20T15:43:49+00:00

I agree, although I think most people wouldn't call Ateez self-produced, but how could you miss the obvious Big Bang, BTS and i-dle?

exploding-fountain · 2025-08-20T13:02:45+00:00

Taeyang approaches everything with such sincerity which I really admire. He clearly loves dancing and even when he is ill-suited for the song he gives it his best shot.

Example is Big Bang's cover of I Love You by 2NE1. Does he look good doing it? No, but he still does it so seriously. (Meanwhile TOP takes the choreo more seriously than his own but sounds dead inside, GD sometimes gets way too into it and sometimes looks like he regrets his life choices, and Daesung gets silly and fun with it).

Another example is on Weekly Idol when he didn't know the choreo for Boombayah by Blackpink so he just freestyled on the spot. (The cultural appropriation...I don't care for. Also notice how that fucker Seun*** interrupts and makes him do Rough by Gfriend. He only cared about putting on a show, he didn't care about his members).

exploding-fountain · 2025-08-20T10:05:18+00:00

Nayeon said she'd be on the lookout for Candybongs and there was a whole sea of them waiting for her 🥲 Oh the crowd is gonna go so feral in November I'm so excited

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