On May 28, a topic titled “HYBE’s sins including BTS’s plagiarism” was published on the Korean forum “theqoo” and drew massive attention.
According to the topic in question, various rap lyrics written by BTS member RM, j-hope, and Suga are actually plagiarized from a huge number of artists, including Drake, E-Sens, DOK2, YOU, SoNyeoRadio, Kim Gaeri, Gaeko, Yankee, Swings and BIGBANG‘s TOP.
Responding to these allegations, in 2014, the official Twitter (X) account of BTS, has denied the plagiarism scandal themselves with a Tweet saying, “We have always been serious about music and plan to continue doing so in the future. Please trust and continue to watch over us, and we will deliver all the good music that your heart desires”.
Nevertheless, BTS eventually admitted to the lyrics plagiarism scandal in 2015, according to quoted articles in the topic.
In 2018, however, a concert VCR of BTS painted the boy group as victims of false accusations, manipulating fans into thinking that BTS never did anything wrong.
Drawing their conclusion from this sequence of events, the author of the topic said, “(The VCR) showed the acronyms for ‘Plagiarism Boys’ and ‘Chart Manipulation’. At the time, this community (theqoo) was filled with people saying that, although the chart manipulation allegations were wrong, BTS had admitted to the plagiarism accusations. Now that I think about it, there is no way that Big Hit (the original HYBE) didn’t know the verdict for the chart manipulation accusations and that the leader of their group had already apologized (for plagiarism). But they still made something like this to incite grief and anger in fans during the concert. Afterwards, HYBE has become a master at inciting anger and grief in fans.”
Meanwhile, netizens who saw the topic have been shocked with the lyrics plagiarism scandal of BTS, and many started to express their disappointment towards BTS and HYBE.
Below are some comments from netizens:
- When I first joined the fandom, everyone was saying that BTS was wrongly accused due to their rising popularity…
- I thought they only plagiarized one time? I never knew there were so many artists that got copied…
- HYBE is seriously evil…
- This seriously shocking… to think they swept this completely under the rug
- Wow, they really don’t have any conscience
So far, the topic has attracted over 44,000 views and 300 comments within a few hours.
Source: Krb, theqoo
