The South Korean rapper J-hope came under fire for reacting to Crush’s apology post on social media.
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Crush was criticized for being racist towards fans during a recent performance.
On social media, the viral video of Crush (South Korean pop star) walking away from fans has gone viral.
Crush is seen greeting his fans while standing next to the stage, but he strays from giving high-fives to a section of the audience. Many accused Crush of intentionally stepping out.
Crush, however, took to his Instagram account on October 10, 2022 to address the issue and issued an official apology.
“Hi everyone, I just wanted to address the issue revolving around the audience interaction from my performance last night at the 2022 SOMEDAY PLEROMA festival. I have been away for roughly two years and being able to perform on stage with my dearest fans in the audience was such an unforgettable and long-awaited experience, so I naturally and instinctively walked towards and reached down to the crowd,” he said in the statement.
“To avoid further misunderstanding, I would like to explain that I had to refrain from giving out high-fives with the fans in particular sections as a safety precaution,” the artist continued.
Fans were not impressed by this explanation. This post was liked by many, including Jung Ho-seok (BTS member) who collaborated on it with Crush. Rush HourMany were furious.
J-hope’s reaction to the apology post has mixed reactions all over social media.
“Went on Instagram to see Crush’s ass apology for being racist and seen jhope like his post…can’t say I’m surprised,” one Twitter user wrote.
Another Twitter user defending J-hope wrote, “Crush didn’t address the real situation in the post so jhope doesn’t know what the real story .. he’s busy so what do you all peolpe what jhope to do .. to analys the real story ? As you all know, jhope has always liked crush posts since the colab. So he like the post even he’s not aware of it”
That whole crush stuff is so sick! I hope you enjoyed his post.😵
— ฿ ²⁸ (@yriwest) October 10, 2022
He liked EVERY post they have shared since the collab. This post is completely out of context. This is crush not jhope.
— 𝑼𝑮𝑯⁷ (@SunnNmoonn1) October 10, 2022
Jhope liking crush’s apology is him supporting and accepting the apology you can tell how harmful this act is by the flock of Armys starting to defend crush just to justify him liking the post y’all stop dumbing yourselves
— baeksusProtect (@baeksauce92) October 11, 2022
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