Former NMIXX’s Jini Under Fire For Attitude During Virtual Fan Meet
Former NMIXX member Jini is facing backlash due to her attitude during a virtual fan meet.
On March 14, a fan’s post criticizing Jini for her attitude during a recent video call garnered attention. In the post, the fan lamented the idol for constantly checking her appearance rather than being focused on her fan.
Post by @0911_milkView on Threads
Haven’t people been discussing whether idols should remember their fans from fansigns lately?
The only thing I can say after reading all the fansign fan accounts is that, Choi Yun Jin, you’ve let me down.
The fan went to 9 fansigns and you still can’t remember her.
Are you treating us as mobile ATMs?— @0911_milk/Threads
Another fan posted instances of Jinni seemingly being preoccupied by her appearance during another fan call.
Post by @bitofsmileView on Threads
I saw these yesterday. This is the first time I’ve seen someone switching screens so obviously. And she was using the phone as a mirror every time. F*ck, you’re here for a fansign, not to fix your appearance in a mirror. If you want to do that, then go home. You didn’t even pretend. You took so much money just to use the phone as a mirror at the fansigns.
— @bitofsmile/Threads
The fan captioned the video, criticizing her for not being mindfully present during the call.
- Unnie, where are you touching? You’re not even going to pretend? You’re being so obvious [she’s touching the phone so that her own image takes up most of the screen, and the fan’s image becomes smaller.]
- Let’s look at it again in slow motion.
- You’re waving to yourself in the screen, right?
- Here, I’m telling her to imitate three expressions.
- Unnie couldn’t see them clearly so she touched the screen again to make my end of the screen look bigger, right?
- Let’s look at it in detail again.
- (Since she touched the screen again, her line of sight is normal now as she looks at the middle of the screen.)
- Now, it’s a fun, close your eyes for 5 second challenge. This is not the first time she’s done this with a fan.
- Unnie, where did you go? Did you not hear I said okay? You wasted an entire 20 seconds…
- …before coming back on screen. You’re wearing earphones, there’s no way you couldn’t hear me.
- I admit that I gave in when you had a silly smile on your face.
Netizens who saw the post continued to criticize the idol, which isn’t surprising given how expensive these calls can be for the fans.
- “Recently, she’s caused a lot of fans to leave her fandom in China. There are a lot of posts on Weibo by fans who’ve attended 10 – 20 fansigns saying she has a bad attitude, switches screens, only answers with ‘I don’t know,’ and more. Everyone’s welcome to go and read all the gossip.”
- “What are some of these comments going on about? Not remembering a fan’s name aside, the fan asked her to guess how many times they’ve met but her answer was actually ‘I don’t know.’ That’s absurd. I’ve never seen anyone answer like that in my life. Randomly guessing a number is better than ‘I don’t know.'”
- “To have so many fans who go to fansigns leave her fandom, that says how crazy the situation must’ve gotten. I’ve watched some of the videos, and she really didn’t have a lot of reactions + always spaced out or fixed her hair. Fansigns are short, so it’s really discouraging to see your own idol not treating them with sincerity.”
- “Since there are so many fans, it’s understandable if you can’t remember how many times a fan has attended fansigns, but you should at least give an acceptable reaction. This kind of reaction really leaves a bad impression.”
What are your thoughts?
The article has been updated to correctly state the quote beginning with “I saw these yesterday…” was said by user @bitofsmile, not @0911_milk.
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