GLLITs, the fandom of ILLIT, expressed their disappointment on X after P-Pop girl group BINI snagged the award for MTV EMAs' "Best Asia Act" against the K-pop act.
On Nov. 10th, the MTV Europe Music Awards 2024 (MTV EMAs) was held in the United Kingdom to celebrate this year's best music, celebrities, and culture.
For the first time in history, Filipino girl group BINI took home the trophy for "Best Asia Act," competing against top-tier artists from their respective countries like ILLIT (South Korea), Mahilini (Indonesia), Masdo (Malaysia) and Sakurazaka46 (Japan).
#BINI : BINI wins Best Asia Act at this year’s MTV EMA!✨
— BINI_PH (@BINI_ph) November 10, 2024
This honor means the world to us, seeing Filipino music shine on the global stage.
Maraming salamat po!@mtvasia @mtvema @MTV #BINI_Novemverse pic.twitter.com/ZHQ8geUssy
On X and other social media platforms, BINI's supporters, BLOOMs, commemorate the special award when GLLITs ruined the joy as they accuse the fandom and group of cheating.
In particular, the award's criteria were mainly based on voting, and the Korean act's fans claimed that BINI doesn't have an impact the same as ILLIT, called their fanbase "non-existent," and implied that they cheated on the system to win the voting. They can't believe ILLIT lost, when they reigned the global music scene with its hit, "Magnetic."
girl nobody knows a single bini song and their fanbase is nonexistent. illit had the biggest song of the year and have. massive fanbase despite debuting n months ago…. something fishy happened in the voting and needs to be investigated https://t.co/sr20FwyFYa
— 𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢 (@fantasizemafia) November 12, 2024
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When GLLITs started targeting BINI, BLOOMs, and other Filo K-pop stans defended them by showing the massive followings the members and their fanbases have. On Spotify, they also have numerous hits such as "Salamin, Salamin," "Pantropiko," "Karera," "Cherry on Top," and "Lagi" — proving their popularity.
With this, Filipino fans also called out GLLITs to stop belittling how supportive and "voting monsters" they are, recalling how even UNIS Gehlee amassed 2.4 million votes to secure her spot in "Universe Ticket," which made history for the highest number of votes in a Korean survival show.
Here are some of the tweets:
the philippines didn't give gehlee 2.4 million votes (the highest in k-survival show history) when she was literally UNKNOWN for yall to question the win of their BIGGEST GROUP. you have no idea how crazy they can be about voting esp if it meant a win for the country. https://t.co/hkcNNzDh2a
— yka (@haennirin) November 11, 2024
cheating allegation?! first of all most blooms came from kpop fandom, specifically girl group stans and second this is the group who took our country by storm
— ♤ (@eckarys) November 11, 2024
a girl group who organically went viral and broke many records that are usually dominated by male artists https://t.co/WgR5f0gcwc pic.twitter.com/DQwYnCDWrL
K-pop stans discovering in real-time how Southeast Asians (and by extension oir Brazilian cousins) are the backbone of K-pop fandoms lmfao. A lot of your favorite AUs, edits, update accounts are just us and you don't even know it 😭 https://t.co/VdKnT7SMAv
— ( ╹_╹ ) (@navilleraven) November 12, 2024
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Written by Eunice Dela Cruz
