Starship Entertainment Hit With Harsh Criticism Over “Insulting” Audition Announcement
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As a non-big four company, Starship Entertainment has produced many popular groups over the years, including Monsta X and IVE.
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It is no surprise that companies that continue to see success wish to expand, and one way entertainment labels do so is through auditions to find the next big idols. On July 7, Starship announced it would hold auditions for a new project titled “New Kids On The Starship,” looking to debut a new boy group.
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The company also advertised the open auditions by revealing the auditions of current idols under the company, including IVE and Cravity.
๐2025 NEW KIDS on the STARSHIP๐
7์ 8์ผ,
์คํ์ฝ ๋ณด์ด๊ทธ๋ฃน ํ๋ก์ ํธ ์ค๋์ ์ฌ์ ์ ์ OPENโ๐์ฌ์ ์ ์ URL
์คํ์ฝ ์ค๋์ X ๊ณ์ (@STARSHIP_ADT) ํ๋กํ ์๋จ ์ฐธ์กฐโถ https://t.co/SCl61eqfUM#2025๋ดํค์ฆ์จ๋์คํ์ฝ #2025NewKidsOnTheStarship #์คํ์ฝ #STARSHIP#IVE #์์ด๋ธ pic.twitter.com/NBAbl5rhUR
— STARSHIP Ent. (@STARSHIPent) July 8, 2024
๐2025 NEW KIDS on the STARSHIP๐
7์ 8์ผ,
์คํ์ฝ ๋ณด์ด๊ทธ๋ฃน ํ๋ก์ ํธ ์ค๋์ ์ฌ์ ์ ์ OPENโ๐์ฌ์ ์ ์ URL
์คํ์ฝ ์ค๋์ X ๊ณ์ (@STARSHIP_ADT) ํ๋กํ ์๋จ ์ฐธ์กฐโถ https://t.co/ne2HlcsHoX#2025๋ดํค์ฆ์จ๋์คํ์ฝ #2025NewKidsOnTheStarship #์คํ์ฝ #STARSHIP#CRAVITY #ํฌ๋๋นํฐ pic.twitter.com/3UmzHgQCTp
— STARSHIP Ent. (@STARSHIPent) July 8, 2024
However, the third clip shared has not been well-received because of who is in the clips.
Girl group WJSN debuted in 2016 in a collaborative effort between Starship Entertainment and Yuehua Entertainment. The group saw a good deal of popularity, ranking high on music charts.
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The group has not had a comeback since the release of “Last Sequence” in June 2022 and lost three members following contract renewals. Despite this, the group has not disbanded, as fans wait for news on their activities.
Itโs been 2 years since WJSN last group activity
Debuted in 2016,
WJSN has only released 1 regular album,
Official membership was stopped in 2022,UJUNGs deserve to know WJSNโs future#WJSN_STAGEBACK_NOW#์ฐ์ฃผ์๋ _์น ๋ฐฑ์ผ_๊ณต๋ฐฑ๊ธฐ pic.twitter.com/MrPdSw9QDB
— ์ฐ์ฃผ๋ฒ๋ ๐ฐ WJ Bunny (@WJBUNNY_twt) July 5, 2024
The video shared of WJSN’s member’s auditions left many angry with the company for using them to attract new trainees, while the group remains inactive.
Shameless as hell because how are you going to advertise them as idols to attract new trainees while simultaneously not letting them release music for over 2 years
700 DAYS WITHOUT WJSN#WJSN_STAGEBACK_NOW#์ฐ์ฃผ์๋ _์น ๋ฐฑ์ผ_๊ณต๋ฐฑ๊ธฐ https://t.co/yMd8CiC4sy
— m๐ซงโกฬถ (@misanujung) July 8, 2024
how about a super-fast comeback for your group https://t.co/o7LbyHXW8F pic.twitter.com/7DgfTg8O2r
— save me save wjsn (@soft4wjsn) July 7, 2024
I feel like if you want people to audition for your company reminding them of the group you treat like shit isnโt the way to go ๐ญ https://t.co/uaAzfDu51S
— Ujung Hotline operator (@FuIIMoonMP3) July 8, 2024
this is so foul have you no absolute shame??? still using wuju for your own gain instead of treating them like the artist they are and this is false advertising because this is a open audition for boys only. burn in hell https://t.co/9Bp6GNVG0b
— โกฬถ coyote แฑฌ (@wjsntho) July 8, 2024