Popular Rookie Group Hit With Fierce Backlash By NCT Fans

On the recent broadcast of KBS’s Music Bank, the nominees for first place were NCT 127 and ALPHADRIVEONE.

However, during the broadcast, ALPHADRIVEONE’s voting team account posted a message that garnered much backlash online.

“Since we don’t know how strong the other team’s power is, we can only compare their last comeback Circle chart scores and this comeback’s music charts. We felt we could catch up, so we decided to proceed with the pre-voting.

However, after seeing that the other team received a huge score on the Circle Chart yesterday, we found it puzzling and contacted the Circle Chart about it. However, we did not receive a response from them, and even if we do, we think it would be hard for them to admit an error or reverse their position. (This is our personal opinion, so it’s possible to have a different view.”

— ALPHADRIVEONE’s Voting Team

As a result, they were bombarded with criticism from NCTzens, which ultimately led them to delete the post and apologize.

next time think carefully before spewing nonsense. your ego is so fucking high for a group who barely just debuted 🙄 pic.twitter.com/fsNGBLXlQu

— 𝓙 ¹²⁷ (@1997SMOKE) September 4, 2026

However, the apology post garnered even more backlash, as they felt it wasn’t proper and continued to make underlying assumptions that the scores were an error.

이 시점에서는 화풀이로 보일까봐 더 이상 말 얹기가 조심스러운데 그럼에도 불구하고 끝까지 워딩이 황당해서 입을 대지 않을수가 없네요

사과문이랍시고 몇 차례 올리는 글 내내 여전히 우리 지수가 당연히 오류일거라는게 기저에 깔려있는데 이게 사과가 맞나요???? pic.twitter.com/fWwyhDHU1k

— 꿀떡✦ (@jhjh_xX) September 4, 2026

I didn’t want to say anything more because it might sound like I’m just venting, but the way they wrote the apology is making me speak up again. They keep posting these so-called apology statements, but throughout them, there’s this underlying assumption that our scores are at fault. Can you really call this an apology?

What you did earlier was straight up disrespectful. Questioning 127’s fandom credibility even worse dismissing their scores as “errors” simply because you’re lacking is not cute at all. Careful what you wrote for and do better research

— 𝐛𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐚 ❇️¹²⁷ • 𝔹𝕃𝕀ℕ𝔾𝕐 (@127supremacyy) September 4, 2026

the problem isn’t simply that you mentioned another group publicly. the problem is that you publicly questioned their results and suggested there was an “error” without any basis. of course, that’s going to make people think you’re implying some kind of manipulation or foul play-

— 🍑🐶❇️ (@peachyeolie_) September 4, 2026

Things escalated even more, with even ALPHADRIVE fans speaking out about the situation.

wanted to make sure to say that international allyz don’t align ourselves with the korean fanbase & their mistakes. we have nothing but love for nct and nctzens. Still sincere apologies to every nctzen who feels hurt

— 𝓼🎧ྀིྀིྀིྀིྀི (@rverseul) September 4, 2026

this is a highly unprofessional issue coming from our korean fanbase. Please give your apologies to the correct fandom instead of being vague

— 𝓼🎧ྀིྀིྀིྀིྀི (@rverseul) September 4, 2026

and an antis run behind this acc btw and yall allyz so comfortable supporting this where also the same group of antis asking gw to withdraw from the group.
Bullshit and bunch of hypocrites you are, so problematic.

— Wooya (@sheepgeonwoo) September 4, 2026

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