Wait what happened? A fan posted something that got mistranslated and bbh apologized? I didn't see any of it happen so I'm confused...
⇾Here⇽ is a twitter thread that can hopefully help you understand the situation, because my summary probably won’t cut it.
But basically an EXO-L posted a lovely fan account of a conversation she had with Baekhyun at a fansign. They talked about her depression and Baekhyun said he doesn’t understand what depression is like since he’s never personally experienced it, while expressing a lot of concern and comforting her as best he could. (⇾Here⇽ is a translation of a detailed account of their interaction which she posted after things started getting ugly.)
An Army (and clearly an EXO-anti) who does BTS-related translations got a snippet of the audio from that conversation from a known EXO-anti twitter account, and translated it as, “I don’t know why people get depression and insomnia”, trying to make it sound like he was saying “depression is fake and ppl who have it are crazy” and effectively taking it out of context and butchering the actual meaning of what he said. AND she linked it to Jonghyun’s very recent very tragic death as well. Which is… perhaps the most disgusting part of all this.
People quickly jumped on it and corrected her and she issued the… “apology”(???) you can find in the Twitter thread linked above. If you can call it that… the most unapologetic apology of all time. And it would’ve been great if it could’ve just ended there, but uh nope, actual articles were written about it as though it was fact and Baekhyun’s being dragged through the mud for literally zero reason whatsoever, if these “journalists” writing these “articles” did one iota of fact-checking said “articles” wouldn’t even exist.
So journalism is dead and we already knew this but the situation is fucked up and Baekhyun issued an apology on his Instagram even though it’s SO not needed, the fan gained so much strength from her conversation with him, what he DID say to her is textbook “how to comfort someone with depression” shit, like he did everything perfectly, he was honest and kind and understanding and disgusting horrible people are trying to bring him down as per usual.
Nothing’s changed in 2018.
But what can we DO about it??
If you’re curious about this situation and itching to search for more info… please DON’T. EXO-L are at work trying to clear negative search terms related to this. If you wanna help with that you can follow the instructions ⇾here⇽ and ⇾here⇽.
Also leave plenty of nice comments on Baekhyun’s Instagram. There are a lot of nice posts floating around of great Korean phrases you can send him, even sending kind thoughts in your native language is great. Send him lots of love and hearts.
Kerries are asking that people do NOT spread the OP’s account, I apologize for spreading it initially, please delete my initial post if you reblogged it!
Don’t participate in fanwars. Continue loving and supporting EXO. Try not to give into ugly feelings and set a good example.
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