EVAN BASE@EVANPOPBASE
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As a fanbase, we think it’s important to acknowledge the bad as well as the good. While our account exists to support and celebrate EVAN, we can’t ignore the amount of harassment he’s faced since leaving ENHYPEN on March 10th.
Over the past 3 months, he has become a target to endless bullying and harassment. Hate tweets about him regularly reach tens of thousands of likes, encouraging others to join in on the hate trains . He’s been mocked for his appearance, sent death threats, had AI-generated deepfakes and gore edits made of him, and has reportedly been added to kakaotalk group chats where people shared this content to him firsthand.
Whether you support him or not, there are limits to the amount of hate a person can receive, and this has exceeded that limit. There’s a huge difference between not liking an artist and spending months bullying someone, creating degrading content about them, or encouraging others to harass them. At that point, it stops being criticism and becomes targeted abuse.
Behind every idol is a real person with real feelings. No career decision should result in someone being subjected to this level of hatred. The normalisation of this behaviour has gone far beyond fanwars, and it’s something that shouldn’t be ignored simply because the target is a public figure.
We’ll continue supporting EVAN and celebrating his work, but we also hope people take a step back and think about the impact their words and actions can have. Kindness costs nothing.
