Ethan and his 31-year-old wife were discussing the genre while watching a video clip of BTS.
“I don’t get the BTS thing,” the YouTuber said. “I’m just going to say it right now, I don’t like K-pop. I hate K-pop. I don’t get BTS. How did this become a thing in Western culture, where all these grown men and little girls are jerking off to K-pop boys? It’s like a little fetish.”
Klein then asked “Ian the Intern” for his thoughts on the matter, and the latter said he didn’t like the genre, but “gets why people do.” Klein then continued to reiterate his point and went on to describe how “weird” K-pop fans were on Twitter and jokingly said someone will probably try to “assassinate” him for the things he has said.
After his criticism went viral, many K-pop fans immediately took to Twitter to express their own side.
He was being plain xenophobic here. If he had left it at “I don’t like kpop” we wouldn’t even blink. But it’s the fact he had to bring stereotypes & all that crap into it.
Nah what he said is still iffy. I don’t like many things but hate on it and it’s fans? I would never. It’s also going into the whole thing of what a predominately younger audiences liking not being accepted or taken serious. Just like so many things kpop is an escape for some.
I’m a fan of K-pop, and I don’t care if he likes it or not, he’s entitled to not liking it. What I care about is his sick and insulting “humor”. The fact that he doesn’t care who his insults hurt is really disturbing.
I am fine with him hating it, im not fine with him classifying an entire group of people as a fetish. These guys have put in their entire childhood and hours of practice everyday into their performances.
If you dont like them okay fine but dont disrespect them.
I’m a big fan of kpop groups and I understand where he’s coming from. But there’s no need to shit on it just because you don’t understand it. It’s a fandom culture. We see the same tendencies in marvel fandoms too and others that are popular
That’s not even what we are mad about, he can hate kpop if he wants. It’s not like we dont get that comment every fucking day. But he was talking about MINORS MASTURBATING TO IDOLS. which isnt okay. Its disgusting and disturbing ffs
Despite all the negative backlash for his comments, Klein seems to be unfazed by what happened.
My message to K-pop fans:
Lighten up nerds, it you can’t handle your hobby being made fun of a little bit then you are really are just a bunch of little girls jerking off to kpop boys.
That face when K-pop stans are trying to take the moral high ground over a joke… but are responsible for dozens of suicides of K-pop idols because of their online abuse pic.twitter.com/SuceykzUNt
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