Aespa’s “Unequal” Treatment Among Members Elicits Mixed Responses
Netizens raise suspicions of the aespa members being treated differently.
A fan took a photo of the item boxes from aespa’s Hong Kong fansign where fans can deposit gifts. From left to right, the boxes belong to Giselle, NingNing, Winter, and Karina.
The boxes on the right, belonging to Winter and Karina, are a larger size.
It’s especially notable when comparing them to Giselle and NingNing’s boxes.
Netizens shared their various points of view: Some believed that the members’ boxes were switched out to bigger ones after receiving many gifts and it was necessary. Others say that the issue of having more popular members isn’t a problem, especially because the members have good relationships with each other. Additionally, since aespa has a lot of fans, even less popular members have many fans.
- “If they received a lot, wouldn’t they have to switch to a bigger box…? Why are people saying it’s discrimination?”
- “I don’t think they started with different boxes from the beginning. They probably just switched Karina and Winter’s boxes to larger ones because they received a lot of fan items. If it’s overflowing, change the box. Right?”
- “This issue about ‘which member is more popular’ or whatever has been around since previous generations and it’s not something that can be fixed. Like, Ningning is my favorite, but the box size wouldn’t make a difference to me. If the fandom tried to treat all four members equally, some would end up acting fake. Not only for aespa but for all groups, these things happen. In fact, as aespa gained more experience, the treatment got better. Even the fans of the less popular members accept it now. aespa’s fandom is large, so there is enough fans to go around for all four members. And the members have good relationships within the group. So, to be raising complaints about this at this point is just causing trouble.”
- “While it’s true that Winter is one of the more popular members, isn’t the box thing just because she received more bulky items? The item on top looks like a blanket. Also, all of aespa is popular.”
- “It wasn’t like they prepared different box sizes for each member from the start. They just switched to bigger ones because the two members received some more stuff. Posts like this aren’t helpful to aespa. Honestly, the number of fans does vary, but even the ‘less popular’ members in aespa have a lot of fans.”
As long as the members are happy, the fans are happy!
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