STATIONHEAD Under Fire For Excluding Idol Members From Group Photos
The app STATIONHEAD is popular among fandoms. Users can connect their Apple Music or Spotify accounts to stream their favorite music in a community setting while helping the artists’ charts.
The STATIONHEAD app is especially popular within the K-Pop fandom. In recent years, artists have officially hosted streaming parties, with idol group members hosting for their respective comebacks. Two groups that have hosted their own streaming parties are BTS and Stray Kids.
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stationhead🐯lets dance under the starlight- moonlight, you say?
🐯okay! today~ today we- in exactly twelve hour.. come over to the han river pic.twitter.com/w4QKWK8UAO— 찜라 (@mandakkoo) September 12, 2023
🥟: i need energy
🐿: i need energy!!
🥟🐿: AAAAAAAAAAAA [plays ultra] pic.twitter.com/VAeEorbwUk— 비니 (@spearhyunnie) December 14, 2024
Yet, STATIONHEAD left ARMYs and STAYs disappointed by excluding members in a recent post.
The official X (formerly Twitter) account for STATIONHEAD shared a post asking followers which artists they were streaming in the new year. This post contained a collage graphic, including square images of artists. While most of the photos were individual artist photos, Stray Kids and BTS were included as groups, but their fans noticed members were left out.
In BTS’s case, Jimin was cropped out, and many ARMYs took offense. They emphasized that BTS has seven members, not six. ARMYs trended “BTS IS SEVEN,” “RESPECT JIMIN,” and “APOLOGIZE TO JIMIN” on X, demanding STATIONHEAD fix their mistake.
BTS is 7, not 6. Posting a photo with one member missing is very disrespectful. If you’re going to post about BTS, you better include ALL of them! @STATIONHEAD
BTS IS SEVEN
APOLOGIZE TO JIMIN
RESPECT JIMIN
RESPECT BTS https://t.co/6rcryfeOAc— lucy⁷ (@HSK_HOPE13) January 10, 2025
.@STATIONHEAD the BTS photo used is not a full member photo and excluding Jimin is a form of insult. Please delete the post and change the photo now!
BTS IS SEVEN
APOLOGIZE TO JIMIN
RESPECT JIMIN
RESPECT BTS pic.twitter.com/NXBhpvS3gf— M⁷🌙 (@itsmahekkk) January 10, 2025
RT + REPLY
.@STATIONHEAD the BTS photo used is not a full member photo and excluding Jimin is a form of insult. Please respect Jimin and the other members, there are lots of photos of the seven that you can use. change the photo now
BTS IS SEVEN
APOLOGIZE TO JIMIN
RESPECT… pic.twitter.com/bAdYTQE96Z— Carolyne🌱⁷⁼¹ (@mhereonlyforbts) January 10, 2025
Likewise, Stray Kids’ Han was missing from their group photo. While Jimin was cropped out of BTS’s photo, Han was absent in the Stray Kids’ photo. Still, STAYs thought it inappropriate for STATIONHEAD to choose a photo representing Stray Kids that didn’t include all eight members.
As people pointed out, the BTS picture excludes the group member Jimin.
But also the Stray Kids pictures excludes the group Member Han (during this photo he was absent but there are so many other shoots).
Please do better and research the artists (and always count the heads). 🥲— Jule⁷ 🌙 yoongi cat agenda ㄱ-ㅅ-ㄱ (@Ashqtara) January 10, 2025
Also!!!! HAN is missing from SKZ photo!! pic.twitter.com/HK3u6iiWd7
— T 💜🏳️🌈 (@tuuliam) January 10, 2025
Why would you use a picture without Han for SKZ !?? pic.twitter.com/p9qk29zdzf
— Skz143 (@Aryaskz143) January 10, 2025
STATIONHEAD has since removed the post.
