TREASURE’s Haruto under fire after homophobic remarks go viral
About a week ago, a post about TREASURE member Haruto being homophobic blew up on Twitter, garnering tens of thousands of retweets. As usual fans have responded back with stuff like the whole context, as it apparently came from an old Weverse Live, though one could argue that seeing it just reinforces things. It’s hard to defend that as not homophobic, and he didn’t exactly back off from the sentiment on WeVerse either in what seemed like a response to the backlash. None of the excuses I’ve read make all that much sense to me. He said what he did, and if he regretted the wording or something of that nature, then he could’ve corrected it instead of doubling down. Amazingly, I found a lot of people worse in places like the replies to this tweet, where Koreans themselves don’t even deny the homophobia and in some cases even sympathize with Haruto. Gonna be honest, it’s baseball season and I just kinda … whiffed on this whole mess until I saw the Pann Choa post just now. My bad*. *None of you fuckers tipped me off either, lol. But man, catching up on it and it’s striking just how much support he has from TREASURE fans and how much homophobia is out there in the K-pop sphere (especially internationally). Just a ton of either right-wingers and/or religious people using that as justification to not only back Haruto’s sentiments here but take it a step forward in directness. Or even if not that open about it, they’ve going around couching homophobia in excuses galore. Should be interesting to see if there’s any further consequences for this, but the craziest thing is it doesn’t seem there will be other than to make it harder to expand their fandom in the West.
ChinaGoSmart CGS 
About a week ago, a post about TREASURE member Haruto being homophobic blew up on Twitter, garnering tens of thousands of retweets.
As usual fans have responded back with stuff like the whole context, as it apparently came from an old Weverse Live, though one could argue that seeing it just reinforces things.
It’s hard to defend that as not homophobic, and he didn’t exactly back off from the sentiment on WeVerse either in what seemed like a response to the backlash.
None of the excuses I’ve read make all that much sense to me. He said what he did, and if he regretted the wording or something of that nature, then he could’ve corrected it instead of doubling down.
Amazingly, I found a lot of people worse in places like the replies to this tweet, where Koreans themselves don’t even deny the homophobia and in some cases even sympathize with Haruto.
Gonna be honest, it’s baseball season and I just kinda … whiffed on this whole mess until I saw the Pann Choa post just now. My bad*.
*None of you fuckers tipped me off either, lol.
But man, catching up on it and it’s striking just how much support he has from TREASURE fans and how much homophobia is out there in the K-pop sphere (especially internationally). Just a ton of either right-wingers and/or religious people using that as justification to not only back Haruto’s sentiments here but take it a step forward in directness. Or even if not that open about it, they’ve going around couching homophobia in excuses galore.
Should be interesting to see if there’s any further consequences for this, but the craziest thing is it doesn’t seem there will be other than to make it harder to expand their fandom in the West.
