Do not, in any case, a virtual bad K-POP stars on social networks

Kpop demon hunters Dominated streaming and box office this summer, but KPOP defamation hunters won a victory in a different place: the South Korean courts. The Group of South Korean Plave virtual boys, which is made up of five members who appear only as entertainment, have managed to continue a person who made derogatory comments on the online group.

According to the BBC, the user of unidentified social media has produced an insulting messages on the group in July 2024. Among the attacks: he suggested that people behind the members of the virtual group “could be ugly in real life” and said that they gave off a “typical Korean man’s atmosphere. Some of the messages also included blasphemies, which does not seem as offensive, but the messages either, so it is probably worth mentioning.

The person who made the articles attempted to argue that the comments were directed to the avatars before the group and not the real people lending their votes to the members of the virtual group. The court did not buy it and declared that the avatars represent someone real, so the attacks extend beyond the virtual fronts to the people behind them.

The victory won 500,000 Sudates South Korean in total, 100,000 per member of the group, which is equivalent to just over $ 70 POP. Not exactly a fortune for a group which already has more than a million subscribers on YouTube, sold more than 500,000 units of their last album in the first week, and interpreted concerts which attract tens of thousands of fans. It is also much less than the requested group. They sought 6.5 million won for each artist, which would have reached about $ 4,650 per member and $ 23,250 in total. The group said the comments had caused emotional stress for the group.

Vlast, the group’s label, intends to use the damages granted by the court, according to the BBC, arguing that it is too weak for a case that establishes a precedent for defamation against virtual avatars. Although it seems that the decision is the first defamation case against virtual pop stars, it is not uncommon for Korean music labels to pursue accusations against trolls on the Internet. Several labels of the country have made a concerted effort to continue people who act online. The trend of the virtual band, to a certain extent, is considered to be an answer to the type of attention and to the pressure that pop stars receive in Korea.