Fans have come to the idol's defense.

On May 30, outlets shared that HYBE's appeal to exercise the voting rights for Min Hee Jin's removal as CEO of ADOR has been denied by the court. Sources also stated that HYBE has complied with the decision and has chosen to respect the ruling.

Ever since the feud between Min Hee Jin and HYBE began in April, numerous K-pop groups have been named and caught in the crossfire. K-pop groups such as ILLIT, NewJeans, aespa, LE SSERAFIM, GFRIEND, TWS, RIIZE, and many more were dragged into the conflict.

However, the group who is currently drawing the most criticism and hate within the feud was none other than the newly debuted ILLIT, as the group had been receiving endless flak for numerous reasons, from making fun of their live singing skills to calling out their similarities with NewJeans.

On May 30, a netizen established an online thread titled, "ILLIT Minju's Weverse Post After The Trial Article Came Out."

OP then uploaded a screenshot of Minju's message on platform Weverse. For further context, a fan sent an endearing message to Minju saying, "Minju, be happy forever. Happy Minju is my favorite. I love you, Minju."

Minju replied back to the fan, "Yes, I got it! I hope you're always happy and smiling!"

However, the author cropped the exchange out of context.

Minju releases first Weverse post following HYBE VS ADOR trialhttps://t.co/TxO60nBYhT pic.twitter.com/4btY1UqXsz

— pannchoa (@pannchoa) May 30, 2024

This caused angered netizens to question the OP's intention in making the post, as they implied that the forum was made to purposely draw more hate to ILLIT and Minju. K-netz defended the idol from the backhanded gesture and voiced out that Minju was only expressing love to fans.

Read their comments below:

• "So what?"
• "Who cares?"
• "HYBE part-timer, what do you want us to do?"
• "So?"
• "The members are not at fault."
• "The adults are the ones wrong! Stop using the idols as shields."
• "She has nothing controversial about her (message) though? Leave it."
• "HYBE part-timer-ah, stop shielding yourselves with the kids."
• "She's just showing the love to her fans, what are we supposed to do?
• "Stop tormenting ILLIT."

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International netizens also reacted to the post. Some were frustrated with ILLIT's intense hate train, while others were simply outraged with the post's overall intention and speculated that the author was an anti.

• "People still refuse to see these girls as victims it's crazy they get more hate on the regular than Bang Si Hyuk."
• "Even the biggest hater can't twist what she said, like what are people even supposed to be mad about here?"
• "Stop trying to villainize the girls!"
• "I'm confused why they are calling the one who posted it a HYBE part-timer. When it's probably an anti?"
• "They need to leave these kids alone."
• "What did she even do? Hate on Bang Si Hyuk instead not a 20-year-old idol who's not in charge of her company."

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Written by Israel Monte