'Cause the players gonna play, play, play, play, play
And the haters gonna hate, hate, hate, hate, hate
Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
I shake it off, I shake it off (Whoo-hoo-hoo)
Heartbreakers gonna break, break, break, break, break
And the fakers gonna fake, fake, fake, fake, fake
Baby, I'm just gonna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
I shake it off, I shake it off (Whoo-hoo-hoo)…
(Lyrics from Shake It Off by Taylor Swift)
Hmm… if we can only shake them all off. If only it was that easy. If only it was not mentally and emotionally exhausting. IF ONLY…
However, the reality is far more different than the song lyrics. It is difficult to not get affected especially when they are swarming in your every post in social media, always have something not so nice thing to say in your every move. Lisa, with over 55.1M followers in social media platform Instagram receives many hate if not more from her own fandom, other member’s akgaes and other fandom as well. From spamming the comment section full of emoji to straight up racist, xenophobic, slut shaming, body shaming, including her family in their hate towards her and death threats.
May 11, 2012 – WHO’S THAT GIRL
YG Entertainment uploaded a video of this young girl dancing who by just watching without even knowing who she is felt captivated by her.
July 6, 2016 - BLACKPINK - DANCE PRACTICE VIDEO
A Blackpink Dance Practice was released via their YouTube official channel. Four beautiful and talented girl dancing to Rihanna’s B*tch Better Have My Money choreographed by none other than Parris Goebel. A blonde wearing Timberlands captured the attention of many. “Who is the blond girl wearing Timberlands? they asked. She is Lisa from Thailand. The first ever foreign trainee of YG Entertainment and from then on many were waiting to get to know her more.
August 08, 2016 – 붐바야 (BOOMBAYAH)
The song and music video where she gains a lot of fans. The infamous “BRRR RAMBO” made the song even more iconic. If you watch video reactions expect all of them repeating the lines and gets even more hyped up. This is the day Lisa became the stan attractor of the group.
Fast forward to 2018 because let’s be honest the group have more hiatus than comebacks…
June 18, 2018
A fan site cursed at Lisa during a radio promotion for their hit single 뚜두뚜두 (DDU-DU DDU-DU) because she is blocking a member when the fans found out what happened of course they were so enraged which they have every right to feel angry. Although, the fan site apologized and explained what really occurred but still there are people who were skeptical with their version of the story until to this day.
January 06, 2019
Lisa a member of widely popular and named as biggest girl group in the world by Vogue, Bloomberg, Forbes just to name a few attended the 33rd Golden Disc Awards looking so glammed up and ethereal in Celine’s 2019 Spring Summer collection along with her three other members Jisoo, Jennie and Rosé all looking beautiful however there were people or most commonly known as “the keyboard warriors” who chose to hate on her for no specific reason. They decided to hate her just because hence the #RespectLisa version 1 because there’s #RespectLisa V2.0 happened only last February 2,2021 but we will talk about that later, so yes the hashtag trended number 1 worldwide and her friends BamBam, Jackson and Nikki actually spoke up against it and YG Entertainment kept mum about it.
The group grew bigger and bigger as the time goes by and more hate are directed to her for no apparent reason. Say for example, an account in twitter posted a hate towards a certain group in while the said account is not a Lisa fan or a Blackpink fan, the username however has a word “pink” some fans most especially the toxic ones will immediately attacked Lisa. This has happened on many occasions. They involved her family and a death of a loved ones to their hate train agenda.
Calling her vile names just because she has the most lines during the group Ice Cream comeback resulting to many boycotting the song which Blinks even try to have a “re-do” and they even created a version without Lisa and posted it in YouTube and worst part is the haters are celebrating it in the comment section and gaining views. When a six second parts from a supposed collaboration song with DJ Snake was leaked a certain fandom said “she sounds so good. Who is she?” then a Lisa fan said “It’s Lis.” then the reply “oh never mind it’s an a*s” it makes no sense, right? Some even vilify her because of their ship, they hate her because she is shipped with the guy that they ship their bias with. Completely delusional. Writing comments such as “she did not deserve to be in the group” or “she is fatherless m*nkey” even called her Mom a sl*t just because they want and they can.
They accuse her of stealing rap parts from her co-member because she has the rap parts and delivered it well. They accused her lip synching and use auto tune because she sings well. She was called vile different names by people from different fandom. Now, this is not condoning what her akgaes have said and done to the other members but the issue should be talked about in general and not only to one specific person or stans. This is a wide spread issue. She has been a target for racist and xenophobic comments that it seems like it is so normal. Respect begets respect. This is a young woman who came to a completely different country, she learned the language and the culture which she respected it a lot. She deserved to be respected just like any other human being in this world.
A big solo stan fan account just posted a misleading screen shot of previous tweet by a Lisa fan account which has nothing to do with Koreans or Korea but the admin made it seems like it does and still refuses to listen that it is about some antis in their country. Most of these antis are pathological liars, they will make up lies after lies then when they are caught they will play victim. By posting such content with no thorough checking can lead to another full of racists, xenophobic, sl*t and body shaming remarks from both side. I wouldn’t be surprised if you will see it here as it seems like they are really trying to ruin her reputation everywhere.
https://twitter.com/LSGLOBALITGIRL/status/1250412902818795520?s=19
Those who are writing racist comments here are no different from any racist and xenophobic people around the world and that includes those who keeps on liking those kind of comments. We are fighting to stop Asian hate yet South East Asian people keeps getting hate from fellow Asian. Stop the hate. Stop being racist. Stop being xenophobic.
Now, I wonder will the hate train for Lisa will ever stop?
Still, the question remains why haters love to hate Lisa?
I guess we will never know.
