NewJeans Gets Praised Belatedly For Bravery After Contents Of HYBE’s Internal Documents Get Published

Girl group NewJeans previously received criticism following their previous bombshell livestream as well as Hanni‘s appearance at an audit.

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Many felt as if the issues brought up by NewJeans had the opposite effect and ended up downplaying more severe cases of mistreatment faced by other idols.

International netizens in particular were quick to call NewJeans “entitled” and “privileged,” dismissing their concerns.

BTS did get ignored, especially mistreated by almost the whole kpop but they never cried abt it? BTS came from the nothing meanwhile newjeans grew on bts's money & all the privileges but still crying on getting ignored like a kid https://t.co/VfYB6l7eKE

— 𝙁1 ⋆🏎️ (@iansleague) October 9, 2024

do tokkis know that newjeans are hella privileged in hybe and have probably gotten EVERYTHING handed out on their table since the beginning 😭 yet a simple greeting is what they deemed to being mistreated? goddamn id take everything if thats the only cons they get 😭

— lin • i’ll be there for jin ೀ (@koowonuu) May 13, 2024

Others called them “brainwashed” and accused the girls of siding with Min Hee Jin when they called themselves victims.

the same exact take as the other creator i posted about before this…. are they reading off the same script?!!!! when newjeans speak up about mistreatment they are being groomed? why aren’t we believing the victims? are they expected to endure the mistreatment in silence? fk is… pic.twitter.com/BAs7FvfppI

— taly (@talytokki) September 11, 2024

After the shocking contents of HYBE’s internal documents were recently revealed and reviewed at an audit, it became obvious that there was more to the story than the girls could have said. Not only did HYBE gather negative opinions and comments about other groups…

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…they also tried to use other groups to promote their own idols. While trying to promote LE SSERAFIM and ILLIT, HYBE staff allegedly tried to put NewJeans on the back burner despite using their name to help ILLIT gain exposure.

Newly Released HYBE Internal Documents Show Plans To “Throw Away NewJeans”

As various communities began to use “HYBE’s New-ILL-LE” to refer to NewJeans, ILLIT, and LE SSERAFIM, people began to mention ILLIT more.

Right now, it might be necessary to tie LE SSERAFIM to BLACKPINK, aespa, and IVE into the category of girl groups as million sellers in the first week of sales and separate them from the 4th generation. We were plagued by the term New-ILL-LE for a few days, but we can just throw “New” away and start a whole new thing.

— HYBE Report

Netizens are now beginning to realize the impact NewJeans had in helping uncover HYBE’s alleged misdeeds.

in the end, newjeans were right pic.twitter.com/VTioVFiij2

— shie (@shiecollects) October 28, 2024

so newjeans fans were right the entire time pic.twitter.com/pWIHbsGJhP

— DOLL (@doIlbehavior) October 26, 2024

In particular, Hanni‘s decision to go against HYBE and ADOR‘s new CEO Ju Young Kim by testifying at the audit sparked a ripple effect.

everyone mocking hanni for saying hybe bullies her and her group but it’s thanks to her speaking up that hybe is now being exposed for bullying the entire industry

everyone say thank you hanni ! https://t.co/SF5hirAFn6 pic.twitter.com/XTERAbVuj1

— bee 𖼐꒱ (@j3anies) October 26, 2024

And hybe stans called Hanni all disgusting names because she laughed at hybe’s lies, she knows.

pic.twitter.com/HDmgEyuHFy https://t.co/nif8VHeIwr

— t?😾 (@phamgucci) October 26, 2024

Despite the fact that all odds were against them, NewJeans’ bravery and decision to speak out against higher powers ended up creating a positive effect in changing the industry.