https://www.escapistmagazine.com/twice-chaeyoung-wears-swastika-shirt-qanon-apologizes/
K-Pop Twice Member Accidentally Wears Swastika Shirt After Accidentally Wearing QAnon Top
I can give her the benefit of the doubt on both of these, but surely there’s somebody on her team who would catch it.
…is what I’d say if I hadn’t actually lived in Asia before.
If they’re in another asian country that isnt as exposed to western culture, maybe.
south koreans should know better
I was in Japan, and I can promise you that nobody knew or cared what English was written on their shirts, like, at all.
Don’t these pop idols have highly cultivated personas? Is she supposed to be the edgelord member of the group or what? Why do these accidents keep happening to the same girl?
People are often very careless about that sort of thing, so I’m inclined to chalk it up to coincidence. I suppose it could be a thing where someone knew it would generate press but also that 99% of the audience wouldn’t care or see it as an honest mistake, but it could also just be an honest mistake.
Particularly with the one in the photo, there’s nothing that would cause anyone to give it a second glance unless they recognized it as being associated with Q, if they even knew what Q is. Not every person in the world is cued in to American politics enough to recognize that.
Lol I highly doubt she cares about Buddhism. It’s likely some bougie brand shirt like Vetements or some shit and she chose to wear it because she’s rich
Also, Nazis were allies with Imperial Japan, the Korean far right adopting Nazi imagery just doesn’t make sense.
I’m always willing to give non westerners the benefit of doubt in regards to ignorance of right wing motifs (well the Qanon bit more than the swastika). Like so not only are you constantly getting bombarded by western bullshit, you’re also supposed be aware of all the hidden layers?
Yeah I’ve been on trains in China and seen middle aged men wearing shirts that say stuff like Daddy’s Little Princess. Sometimes it’s just gibberish too, like I’ve seen shirts saying things like random strings of letters like XGJAYBNMV. Some people just wanna wear a shirt that has mysterious foreign writing on it
Idk if it’s as prevalent, but some Americans definitely wear shirts with random gibberish in Japanese because they like the aesthetic
Back when I was learning hanzi and kanji more often, I met a college classmate who had the character 力 emblazoned on his arm. White guy. I ask him, “So, what’s with the tattoo? It says power” trying to make conversation, and he looks at me like I just insulted his mother, his jaw drops. He replies, “It doesn’t say power at all. It says strength.”
I didn’t talk to him after that. I’ve also met people who had tattoos of characters that don’t say anything at all, like completely fictional characters made of random strokes
One of my Japanese friends tells the story of a white Midwestern exchange student at his university who one day proudly showed off his new Kanji tattoo. My friend looks at it and asks him “what’s it supposed to say?”
White guy looks confused and says “it says, 挑戦 (chousen) - Challenge”.
My friend nods and says “Yeah it does say chousen, but the Kanji is 朝鮮 - North Korea.”
That was the last time my friend ever saw the exchange student. He thinks he withdrew from the exchange program out of shame.
weird side effect of S Koreans fetishising anything American
Who would have thought after years of American colonization and evangelizing
Imagine if some random white kids just started using far right symbols ironically.
Like, can you see some Brooklyn hipsters doing the “Grey Wolf” at each other ironically? Or repping some Mexican cartel
Thinking back to how a lot of people in the punk scene used to have swastikas and shit.
