Before watching this video, I want to give some backstory to help you see where I'm coming from and why I have decided to make this video after all this time.

Last year I uploaded two videos about how I believed that both BangChan, and the fans were at fault for the cancelation of 'Chan's Room'. However, after RIIZE's situation, (specifically regarding Anton and Eunseok) the whole Chan's Room situation came back into my mind and so I began to take a step back and think about both situations. I noticed that both are very similar in the sense that, BangChan's words were mishandled by fans, and both Anton's posts, and rumors surrounding Eunseok having an alleged ex girlfriend, have been blown way out of proportion by netizens. Not only that, but seeing idols who were done wrong by "fans", apologize for rumors that not they themselves, but rather netizens created, doesn't sit right with me.

No matter if you post something or say something online, your words and posts can be taken out of context and used against you in the worst ways imaginable. People can just twist things around, create narratives, and even label you as an IST or PHOBE just for posting or saying something.
Free speech is under attack in Kpop I see it, and here in the west as well and it's getting worse. Some people say the problem is free speech, but I believe the biggest problem is actually censorship.

As I have said in the past, I made my first vid about the Chan's Room situation before I knew about Everglow up's vid, so I decided to listen again to the vid. A lot of her points were good and understandable, however, there is one point that I don't agree with. In the video she talked how idols shouldn't have free speech, because of how toxic netizens are and how they idols could say something that might land their career in hot water. Whilst I understand her points on this, I think censorship is the real villain here. censorship doesn't protect idols, it protects netizens feelings, and is (in my opinion) a form of bowing down to what netizens want.

The industry in and of itself is a dome of censorship, which I strongly feel needs to change in order for free thought and expression to become the norm. If we keep this up, the greatest censorship will come in the form of AI, and personally, I don't know of many Kpop fans who would much prefer human Kpop groups to be replaced with AI groups with artificial and scripted speech.

I wrote too much and gave the whole plot away.....😬 sorry lol anyway, I hope everyone will understand my words, thoughts, and feelings on this topic and if you disagree, thats okay too. We're not always going to agree on everything, but as long as we try to understand one another points of view, I think we will all get along well, and the Kpop community will be better for it.