HYBE’s Latest Announcement For SEVENTEEN Receives Intense Backlash From Netizens
HYBE‘s latest announcement for SEVENTEEN has sparked major backlash online.
At the end of April, SEVENTEEN released their new album and the title track “MAESTRO.”
Yet, when the song and album were released, netizens voiced their anger at HYBE, claiming the company was trying to sabotage the group by not having a premiere for the music video and not having the albums in stock in Korea.
Didn't gave us premiere link for Maestro MV like other artist and also basically under stocked 17 Is Right Here Albums at K stores HYBE AND PLEDIS GO BURN IN HELL PLS STOP SABOTAGING SEVENTEENpic.twitter.com/E9DsNhWhjg
— Jan♡ ¹⁷ ᴵˢ ᴿᴵᴳᴴᵀ ᴴᴱᴿᴱ (@carat29star) April 29, 2024
hybe can buy the whole industry and media for their other groups but can’t give svt a yt premiere and properly stock the albums on the day of release? https://t.co/Wa21hpHQ4t
— ale is seeing svt (@hoshijashy) April 29, 2024
Hybe and Bang PD right now when their SVT sabotage campaign failed pic.twitter.com/vorYu6XdFP
— 🌼😸🍒 shupashy mari¹⁷ ᴵˢ ᴿᴵᴳᴴᵀ ᴴᴱᴿᴱ🪄 (@meetme_at17PM) April 29, 2024
It seems like HYBE’s alleged mistreatment of SEVENTEEN during the initial days of their comeback is continuing to have an impact on netizens’ opinions of the company’s actions.
On May 8 (KST), HYBE’s merchandise X account announced and teased the release of new products for SEVENTEEN’s new album.
When the tweet was shared…
17. zip💎💖
SEVENTEEN BEST ALBUM '17 IS RIGHT HERE' Official Merch.
✔ Photocard Set HERE Ver.
✔ Photocard Set HEAR Ver.
✔ Plaster Ornament🎼 상품 공개: 2024. 05. 09. 11AM(KST)
🎤 판매 오픈: 2024. 05. 09. 6PM(KST)
📍@weverseshop#SEVENTEEN #세븐틴#17_IS_RIGHT_HERE pic.twitter.com/xLyUOkSMTB— HYBE MERCH (@HYBE_MERCH) May 8, 2024
It was instantly filled with angry CARATs.
In the comments, netizens couldn’t believe that HYBE didn’t want to invest in the comeback but were willing to keep releasing things that would earn them money, with many fans pointing out that HYBE would benefit more from these releases than the members. Others shared that it would be better to support fan-made merch that is of better quality and wouldn’t succumb to the company.
Pass. You can't even promote them properly, can't even do bare mininum of mv premier , but thick face in getting carats money?
Carats, if you wanna boycott something, start w/ this kind of merchs from hybe, not the album.
Most profits of this goes to hybe than to the artists. https://t.co/UX6LXI1StW— Keiti🪄⑰ (@KuroiKarasu38) May 8, 2024
Carats if you want to boycott, boycott merch like these not the albums. This doesn’t count in any award shows.
They can’t even promote seventeen properly yet have the audacity to release merch like this and earn more money. https://t.co/u12AF7cvYo— Nikki 🐯✨ (@neomukawaii) May 8, 2024
I don't know if it's alright for me to say this but… you really don't need this guys. Support your local fan merch artists and designers instead. https://t.co/mblEA9sLMW
— useless facts about svt's discography (@svtmusicnotes) May 8, 2024
cant promote svt properly, understocked albums on 1st week, cant even start a simple mv premier for svt and yet releasing merch left n right to milk carats of their money oh fck this company https://t.co/XzqLUqzTGI pic.twitter.com/HFtyUk3Zqn
— C ¹⁷ ⁱˢ ʳⁱᵍʰᵗ ʰᵉʳᵉ🪄 (@coupsology) May 8, 2024
Please don't buy the merch carats. They can't put the least amount of effort into promoting seventeen properly but sure knows how to leech off of carats. https://t.co/ZH5JXh6gEG
— diwa 🪄 (@homorangi) May 8, 2024
Carats THIS is what should be boycotted first. Please don't buy it, it's completely unnecessary, they just tryna milk us all. Can't even promote the boy or do bare minimum for them, but would do everything to earn in their name, let's not have them their way with this. https://t.co/yJq0S4mVQv
— Maria 🦋 ¹⁷ ᴵˢ ᴿᴵᴳᴴᵀ ᴴᴱᴿᴱ (@Dinfinity_hao) May 8, 2024
You can read more about netizens believing HYBE “sabotaged” SEVENTEEN’s comeback below.
