Let me get this off my chest
about kiof (kiss of life)
Under no circumstances is it ever okay to do cultural appropriation of any kind. I don’t wanna hear no excuses of “well its appreciation” NO ITS NOT WHAT THEY DID WAS WRONG, IGNORANT AND GOOFY WITH A CHERRY OF RACISM ON TOP. Black culture is not some costume it’s our day to day lives. As a black woman it’s very hard to get into kpop bc I always have to make sure I don’t get fooled on behalf of artist/companies making a fool of themselves. There is no apology or excuse that kiss of life could give. The year is 2025 and we still doing this sht?!?!?
It’s embarrassing and pathetic, there is no defending this 2 members are from America and on top of that one of them was already caught before saying the n word and had to apologise. And the icing on this shitty cake is that haneul also said before this livestream started not to leave the fandom. So you knew what you were doing was wrong but did it anyway?!?? “The company might have forced them” no they didn’t because Julie wanted to do this concept for her bday this was HER CHOICE OF A CONCEPT. So kiss of life just didn’t care and they know they have a big number of black fans they just truly don’t care and when ppl stop caring about them I hope they don’t act confused. Kiof threw it all away for a cheap stereotype concept that ain’t even good nor funny. Kpop companies have been testing the water to see what they can get away with as far as CA now that hip hop and black culture has been on an even more uprise and yall are getting a basic level look of how fare they are willing to go. I need yall to wake up and smell the roses and stop defending and letting sht like this slide.