HYBE Allegedly Uses BTS To Promote Junior Group, Triggers Backlash

Recently, an online community post went viral after K-Netizens began speculating about the reason BTS told fans to put their phones down during their concert.

“During the BTS tour, they kept telling certain members to tell fans to put their phones down in both Korea and the U.S., so I thought they just wanted us to put our phones down and enjoy the show. The members seemed to want that too, so I believed it. But then the title of HYBE’s rookie group’s tour LOL. Honestly, Big Hit and HYBE would have used BTS to promote their junior idols without BTS knowing because they are fully capable of doing that. HYBE fans will know what I mean. They have this perverted tendency to provoke fans in a weird way, making it seem like a mistake or a coincidence.”

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Photos of the prompter at the concert revealed the script made for the members.

Jimin/V: Do you see a phone in my hand? No, right? It will be complete if you put your phone down safely!

At first, ** would sometimes say, ‘Please take a good pic of me,’ and would post those fan site photos on their Instagram. So them asking fans to ‘put your phone down’ was the agency’s instruction. I don’t know what their intention is, but it seems like they were told to say that at the concert.

Most recently, HYBE’s junior group CORTIS announced its tour titled Put Your Phone Down.

As a result, netizens expressed their frustration regarding HYBE’s sly tactics.

• “CORTIS can never become BTS.”
• “HYBE is such a f*cked up agency.”
• “It’s so annoying seeing the company using BTS to promote their junior artists.”
• “Whether it’s the company telling them to do it or BTS doing it because they were told to do it LOL.”

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