Huddy Finally Addresses His Weverse Controversy

Many K-Pop fans were upset when Weverse added him.

Huddy (also known as Chase Hudson) finally addressed his Weverse controversy.

Huddy | Netflix

The American musician and social media personality is best known for co-founding the TikTok collective the Hype House and popularizing the e-boy fashion style and subculture across the video-sharing app.

HYBE‘s application Weverse began as a K-Pop social media platform that connects fans and artists. It hosts many of the hottest K-Pop groups of today, such as BTS, BLACKPINK, SEVENTEEN, TXT, etc. (just to name a few).

| Weverse via Billboard

Today, it has expanded beyond to include even Western artists, such as American singer-songwriter MAX, British pop trio New Hope Club, American singer-songwriter Jeremy Zucker, American-Canadian pop and R&B boy band based PRETTYMUCH, American singer-songwriter Gracie Abrams, American record producer and singer-songwriter Alexander 23.

| Weverse

However, its first Western artist did not receive a warm welcome.

When Weverse announced Huddy was to join the platform, K-Pop fans were shocked, confused, and some even enraged.

Netizens took to all social media platforms to express their outrage.

Still, Huddy was added to Weverse as an artist.

| Weverse

He even uploaded both a welcome video and post, promising to engage on the app.

Weverse

Yet, when netizens created accounts and joined his artist page just to criticize and cyberbully him, Huddy never returned.

Weverse

Now, a year later, Huddy addressed it all.

| Zach Sang Show/YouTube

Recently, Huddy guested on the Zach Sang Show. Since both Zach Sang and he are self-proclaimed K-Pop fans, especially of BTS, they connected.

| Zach Sang Show/YouTube

While the two talked about everything from BTS concerts, favorite songs, and their biases, Huddy confessed that while he is ARMY, he tends to be more private about it now although he used to post more.

I’m a huge fan of them, and I’ve been like more of like a private fan now…

— Huddy

| Zach Sang Show/YouTube

Zach Sang recognized why Huddy might not be so outspoken anymore. So, he asked him if it was related to Weverse.

Yeah … They came at you. What happened? You tried to join Weverse.

— Zach Sang

| Zach Sang Show/YouTube

Huddy briefly explained that he was met with backlash when he joined the platform. Zach Sang wasn’t sure why, though.

| Zach Sang Show/YouTube

Huddy: I tried to join Weverse, and I got bagged on immediately so I was just like, “Okay…”

Zach Sang: Why though?

Zach Sang asked if he could assist in resolving any conflict. However, Huddy denied that there was any “beef.”

| Zach Sang Show/YouTube

Zach Sang: Can we help you like can I help squash this beef?

Huddy: I don’t think there’s so much of a beef.

Zach Sang disagreed. He told Huddy that he had been cyberbullied off the app.

I mean clearly, they bullied you, they rallied against you to get off an app.

— Zach Sang

| Zach Sang Show/YouTube

Huddy confessed that after the criticism, he took a step back from Weverse. He decided to leave it to the OGs.

I definitely just step backwards, was like, ‘You know what? Okay, I understand like I’ll leave you guys to it.’ You know what I mean? There’s already the big dogs in charge. They run that app like…

— Huddy

| Zach Sang Show/YouTube

Weverse was already a very new platform for him. Considering that, Huddy was concerned even more that he could make a mistake.

It was also like very foreign to me. So, I didn’t want to like try anything out, mess anything up, you know.

— Huddy

| Zach Sang Show/YouTube

Ultimately, Huddy just wanted to keep the peace. So, out of respect for the other fandoms on the app, he didn’t return.

I didn’t want to piss anyone off, and I was just like, ‘Well, I’ll just leave you guys to it.’ You know like I didn’t wanna crossfire with anybody… you know bad blood.

— Huddy

| Zach Sang Show/YouTube

Read more below.

Huddy Reveals His BTS Bias, But He Struggles To Pick Just One

Watch Huddy’s full interview below.

Source: Zach Sang Show

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