The 12-year old fandom who has been silent and considered as one of the fandoms with a good reputation is now trending a hashtag #MintisSHINee in Korean as after BigHit Entertainment released the fandom lightstick for the rookie group TXT.
Pearl Aqua is the official color of SHINee. In the video teaser released by the agency, three colors were flushed, including blue, yellow, and Carribean green, which is similar to the senior fandom color.
In addition to this, official merchandise for the rookie group was also released, and Shawols took notice of the similarity of the TXT logo and SHINee's logo, which is Diamond.
Shawols then demanded an official statement from BigHit agency regarding the uncanny similarities, though BigHit hasn't been confirming this issue.
However, this controversy sparks a clash between the two fandoms, MOA, TXT fandom, and SHAWOL, SHINee fandom. A twitter fan war has been currently undergoing in which MOA's were proving that the color was in the same shade, but the color was not the same.
There were tons of K-pop groups in the music industry, and having the same shade of color is inevitable. The 10 -month old fandom then speak that Shawols are overly dramatic for just a color wherein there were other fandoms with the same shade of lightstick but weren't making it a big deal.
Shawols, but then, were firm on stating that a fandom official color is pride and identity of a fandom, and it is indeed a cardinal ever since the second generation of K-pop started.
In addition to this, Shawols pointed out how Bighit has been careless in doing research not only about colors but as well as fandom name, wherein last year, it has been an issue against SM Stans as well as how TXT fandom has supposedly the same fandom name with Tiffany Young, former member of girls' generation.
Though BigHit had an immediate discussion with the group and it has been changed into MOA.
On the other hand, The issue then eventually subsided not until Shawols took notice of the similar logo of TXT merch and SHINee's logo.
Both were in Diamond shape, but it was a bit distorted for TXT's logo, with four rays on the side.
Furthermore, "Shating star" was the lightstick name of SHINee, coming from Shawol+shooting star. On the lightstick teaser release by BigHit, a shooting star appeared as well before the TXT lightstick.
Some neutral fans were then frustrated and disappointed for both of the fandoms, for throwing each other hate comments and lighting up a debate. It's not been long ago when TXT covered "Replay", SHINee's debut song for a Year-ending Music Show and Shawol and TXT become closer after the cover, praising and complimenting each other group.
It's been a fact as well that TXT Taehyun became a singer because of SHINee, and it is quite a shame how the two fandoms' relationship were growing apart.
