ENHYPEN fandom again engages in ‘thuggish behavior’···stages cyberattacks over Heeseung leaving - 스포츠경향

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Singer Heeseung made his solo activities official on the 10th. Provided by Belift Lab

Excessive interference by parts of the fandom surrounding Heeseung leaving ENHYPEN has once again come under fire. At this point, it is a K-pop fandom ‘disgrace’.

El Capitan (Jang I-jeong), a producer and songwriter at Big Hit Music under HYBE, expressed anger toward parts of the ENHYPEN fandom on his social networking service (SNS), Instagram, on the 12th.

He said, “Stop sending me talk about Heeseung. If you are real fans, embrace him before you throw stones,” and poured out his feelings: “Why do you keep blaming me? You stupid ○○.”

The incident began when some ENHYPEN fans launched cyberattacks on the Instagram account of El Capitan, who had worked with Heeseung on music, while pushing the far-fetched claim that ‘you egged on artist syndrome in Heeseung, leading to his departure’. They misdirected unreasonable blame at a creator with no causal link.

Attempts by parts of the fandom to control public opinion have also come under scrutiny. Centered on online communities and social media, they treated as established fact the unverified rumor that ‘the agency forcibly expelled Heeseung’.

Over Heeseung leaving, the excessive cyberattacks by some ENHYPEN fans have come under fire. The Kyunghyang Shinmun AI image

In addition, they have continued de facto ‘thuggish behavior’, such as sending more than 10,000 email bombs a day to some reporters.

Even though the agency, the ENHYPEN members, and Heeseung himself have publicly stated that the six-member setup of ENHYPEN was mutually agreed, some of the fandom are not even attempting to listen.

This is not the first time the ENHYPEN fandom has engaged in such extreme interference. In 2023, they staged a truck protest in front of HYBE headquarters demanding that the choreography be scrapped in its entirety because the title track ‘Bite Me’(Bite Me) included choreography with female dancers, inviting criticism for ‘going overboard’.

Again this time, on the 11th, some fans spread conspiracy theories around Heeseung leaving and announced a truck protest carrying messages calling for his departure to be reversed. It is another point where a mature K-pop fandom culture is nowhere to be found.