The GDA 2024 went under fire from K-pop stans, who believed that aespa deserved to win the Digital Bonsang award more than SEVENTEEN.
Here's what happened.
aespa Robbed at 38th Golden Disc Awards? K-pop Stans Call Out Ceremony for Giving Trophy to SEVENTEEN Instead of Girl Group
Earlier on January 6, the highly anticipated 38th Golden Disc Awards was held at the Jakarta International Stadium, in Indonesia. The ceremony was livestreamed through the help of JTBC2, featuring numerous K-pop artists who became the main highlights of the event.
Even for physical sales, SM, JYP, and YG (NCT, TWICE, EXO, TREASURE) all got beaten by HYBE, who received two extra awards.
Isn't HYBE Disc Awards way more severe than SM-A? What's more is that they usually had 8 Bonsangs, but this year, they got 10."
In the comments section, Korean netizens defended the win and expressed disdain over Pink Bloods. Read their comments below:
"But people are just too much. If SM wins, people are f**king mocking them by saying 'did they buy off the judges?' but when other teams win they say, 'are judges' scores just for show?'"
"Shouldn't you question the results regardless of what happened in SMA?"
"SMA, who took the Daesang from others are more severe."
However, some K-netz, alongside international fans on a separate thread and X (Twitter) opposed the comments and called the netters out for defending HYBE as company "stans." Others drew out their frustration towards the results for being a "HYBE fest."
"Even if NCT won Daesang at SMA, can't we just say they were robbed of the Bonsang at GDA?"
"If the positions were reversed, all top posts would be hating on them and calling people 'SM cultists, SM-Roaches."
"Mind you, aespa and Dream won Physical Bonsang yesterday without attending, but they were robbed for Digital Bonsang to the company groups."
"Bunch of hypocritical company stans."
"You guys should have the same energy when both companies are corrupt, daesang or not, HYBE rigged GDA."
"You know, it's severe when HYBE's doing bribery over a f**king Bonsang."
don't want to bring negative but.. you know what's funny? they called sma sm's awards just bcuz there were only 2 sm artists but when gda is almost full of hybe artists it's nothing, not sus at all lol🤡 pic.twitter.com/SHMp7dbLOQ
