As the #BlackLivesMatter movement (BLM) became widely known around the globe, celebrities and famous personalities from different countries, may it be Hollywood or K-pop artists, are starting to play the role of the bigger voice, showing their support and stand through various social media platforms and at the same time, giving donations to the protests and Black families.
With the help of these famous personalities, the voices and the call for justice of the protests are being heard and seen by a larger scale of people, reaching the authorities better to solve this injustice and becoming a more accessible medium to call out for an action which is to have a better treatment and stop the oppression among the blacks.
In this regard, several K-pop idols, rapper, and celebrities are then showing their supports to the BLM Movement, speaking up for the voiceless people, as well as giving out in-cash donations.
However, as the movement gets bigger and the fire to seek equality and justice fires to the heart of the protests, some K-pop fans have been pressuring K-idols to speak up as well, especially to those idols who were born and lived in the United States. Those influential K-idols who were not voicing their support were then criticized and received hate comments from K-pop fans for not joining the movement.
Just then, Loudi, a former member of the idol group 14U, vent out his anger in his Instagram account, calling out K-pop fans around the world to clear out things about the movement, which is becoming a responsibility of K-pop idols rather.
In his lengthy message intended for K-pop fans, Loudi wrote on his IG story,
"For all K-pop fans around the world, please understand that not every K-pop idol has the freedom and platform to actually speak up, even though they want it so bad!", pertaining to the K-idols who were restricted to post anything related to politics or any societal issues, as well as those K-pop idols who were restricted to put up their own social media accounts.
As he continues, he pleaded K-pop fans to refrain from bashing other K-idols who don't have the voice as well to speak for themselves.
"I am in a place that I can still post stuff about myself, but there's a lot of other idols that can't do this kind of stuff by their will!!!" he added.
He goes on with explaining how K-idols can't even speak their mind due to their own circumstances; that's why people shouldn't bash them just because of it, for it doesn't make anything better.
As soon as other fans found out about his post, they eventually agreed to him and shared it with other online community platforms, to make haters and bashers understand the situation better.
In addition to this, some twitter stan is also uploading explanations as to why other K-idols can't say anything regarding this issue, as even if they want to, their company are monitoring every step and move that they are making, just like want happened to the rookie idol, Secret Number's Denise, who's SNS account was closed after trying to talks about the BLM Movement.
I think kpop stans forget CONTRACTS exist. Your idols are legally contracted to their company to act a certain way within the public eye.
Their words are monitored and carefully watched by managers and staff.
The ones that can and have spoken out do because they’ve left their- https://t.co/IlrV1tISz5 — Hikaru (@Hikarucarat) June 4, 2020
As Loudi ended his message, he warned K-pop fans that he won't sit still once he found out that any of his friends was bashed for the same reason again.
