Mnet Accused of Sinophobia After Editing “2024 MAMA Awards” Thumbnails
Recently, Mnet held its annual award show, the 2024 MAMA Awards (The Mnet Asian Music Awards), over three nights. For the first time, the first night was held in L.A., while the rest was held at the Kyocera Dome in Osaka, Japan.
ZEROBASEONE was among the K-Pop groups that won big during the award show. The group also delivered a phenomenal performance with a Romeo & Juliet theme, performing “Kill The Romeo” and “Good So Bad.”
The performances were uploaded via YouTube for fans to rewatch, and ZEROSEs noticed the “Good So Bad” thumbnail was missing someone.
The thumbnail focuses on maknae Han Yujin, while Kim Taerae is to his right. Yet, the screengrab used for the thumbnail included Ricky to Yujin’s left.
ZEROSEs were appalled by Mnet’s effort to edit Ricky out of the thumbnail. They noted how unnecessary and disrespectful it was.
MNET edited ricky out of the good so bad thumbnail. they took the time, to remove him from the original thumbnail when it was perfectly fine. i NEED everyone to see the extent of ricky's mistreatment, seriously how is this even allowed? what did they gain from this edit????? pic.twitter.com/ZZ3ggKVzdj
— jian 🎀 (@shimrick__) November 27, 2024
knew mnet and wakeone hated ricky but taking the time to edit him out of the thumbnail is a new fucking low pic.twitter.com/7EERJIG5nA
— crys 🍓semi ia 📚 (@shimkcngz) November 27, 2024
This isn’t the only time that this has occurred, though. The “Kill The Romeo” thumbnail was originally Ricky but was changed to Zhang Hao. Yet, the video that initially had Hao for the thumbnail was changed to Matthew and Hanbin. Fans pointed out that Hao had been the thumbnail for the most viewed performance and was now moved to the least viewed.
How petty can they be?
1. They cut hao from the most viewed one to least viewed one
2. They erased ricky from the ktr performance
3. THEY EVEN CUT RICKY FROM GSB THUMBNAIL!? HELLO!?CAN U IMAGINE HOW INSANE THIS IS!? HOW PETTY AND HOW MUCH DO U HAVE AGAINST HARIBOZ!? pic.twitter.com/gfqoeSYxzj
— Mango 🥭 ⊂(´･◡･⊂ )∘˚˳° (@sleepypabo) November 27, 2024
this is just embarrassing 😐 imagine being so threatened by a memberʼs presence that you constantly have to pretend he doesn’t exist. mnet and wk1 are the lowest of the low! pic.twitter.com/rA3Km9khWq
— ricky (@shensource) November 27, 2024
just when this company couldn’t get anymore sinophobic they decided to completely remove ricky from the thumbnails & switch hao’s thumbnail from the most viewed performance to the least viewed…
this is the same company who’s planning to debut a group in the chinese market… pic.twitter.com/Gc2IoOJO4H
— dia ꒰აꨄ︎໒꒱ 章昊 (semi ia) (@ourangelhao) November 27, 2024
ZEROSEs can’t help but feel that it’s xenophobic behavior on the company’s part. Read more about the history of sinophobia against the Chinese members below.
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