Kpop Idols And Black Fans. Recently EXO-CBX members Chen Baekhyun and Xiumin held a live stream on streaming app V Live to celebrate their mini-comeback. Kai of K-pop supergroup SuperM Getty Images Blackpink Jennie and EXO Kai are one of the most loved K-pop superstars who have a massive global fandom.
We cant say that they have no fans among the k-pop. Carolyn Hinds a Black film critic journalist and K-pop fan was among the fans who criticized Sugas usage of the Jim Jones sample on Twitter. Black K-pop fans deserve a place at the table that their community helped build.
SHAAZIA EBRAHIM and FATIMA MOOSA discuss the problematic side of the industry and K-pop idols affinity to blackface.
It would not be wrong that k-pop idols also caught in love with blackpink members. The conversation however left many black fans feeling frustrated especially given the impact that black music has had on K-pop. In March someone told her via Curious Cat that black BTS fans should have their own nickname Korean fans K Diamonds and international fans the I Lovelies already had their own. So when the story broke about the supposed dup dating fans truly lost their cool as rumors and theories surged with the expose.