Jimmy Kimmel under fire for offending BLACKPINK fans

K-Pop has been growing exponentially for a few years, so it could be said that all kinds of people enjoy South Korean musical artists, however, despite its vast popularity, it has also been the victim of scrutiny and lack of respect.

At a recent BLACKPINK appearance on the US TV show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!“, before the girl group did their first performance of “Shut Down“, the host ended up offending K-Pop fans by calling them out and rating them children’s”.

“This is why all the kids are excited. From this album, titled ‘Born Pink’, here is BLACKPINK’s song ‘Shut Down’“.

Jimmy Kimmel disrespected blackpink by saying that the kids were excited for bornpink

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Despite seeming like a normal performance, many fans showed their discontent at being called “kids“. In addition, they mentioned how strange and ignorant it was to catalog a group of people of completely different ages with that term.

Jimmy Kimmel has been criticized in the past for making comments towards fans of the South Korean genre. Just like what happened in his conversation with actress Ashley Park, when she was talking about BTS and his fan group, ARMY.

When Ashley Park mentioned “ARMY”, Kimmel said:

“Yes, you have to be careful with an army because they can attack“.

When Park mentioned that she had COVID-19, the presenter added:

“Both are very dangerous. You’re lucky to get out of those alive“.

Jimmy Kimmel interviewed Ashley Park who did the cover of dynamite on the tv show ‘True Emily in Paris’ and namjoon + tae posted it on Insta -she was talking about how she got COVID afterwards then jimmy went ahead and compared BTS to the virus and said ‘they are both dangerous’+

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