News AOA fanclub releases a statement on the alleged bullying controversy after a year (1 Viewer)

[Mangoey]

I first encountered this information here and here
Also, full disclaimer, I don't do threads like these often, so my apologies if it's not done well.

THE PRESS RELEASE:

Spoiler: The fanclub, "AOA Gallery's full press release

Press Release TLDR:​

• AOA members were silent not because they were guilty but because FNC didn't allow them to make any statements on the matter.
• Kwon Mina had either lied or over-exaggerated about several statements she previously made. The two main statements listed were those of her saying that 1. Jimin stopped her from visiting her late father and 2. Mina didn't get along with the AOA members.​
• Seolhyun's actions couldn't really be considered bullying.​
• Jimin never admitted to the bullying allegations. In her apology, she only apologized for not being a better leader.​
• The reason for Mina not filing a police report against Jimin due to financial reasons is likely a lie. As her case was reported to the police but Mina herself refused to testify.​

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HOW THE BOYFRIEND DRAMA IS RELATED TO THE PRESS RELEASE:

There is an additional incident that backs up point number 5 (last point in both press release and TLDR).
Recently, AOA Mina posted a picture of her with new boyfriend on instagram. This photo has since been deleted.

Spoiler: The photo in question

Essentially what happened is that someone came out and said that the guy in the photo was their friend's boyfriend who was cheating on her with Mina.
People started calling Mina a homewrecker and insulting her and Mina threatened to take legal action against the people saying bad stuff about her and her bf.

Tying this back to AOA Gallery's press release, why would Mina threaten legal action in this situation, but not in the bullying situation if it all boiled down to a financial issue? Her previous statement simply doesn't make sense in this context.

I was originally gonna stick the two threads into one, but it was getting really long and I couldn't make new paragraphs anymore, so I'll make an additional thread for the boyfriend drama in full.​

 

[VillageIdiot]

Conveniently when Mina is being dragged left and right and in the middle of a breakdown

 

[Mangoey]

Conveniently when Mina is being dragged left and right and in the middle of a breakdown

Yeah it's definitely interesting timing. I can't believe that after a year, there's still so much shady stuff going down for this situation.

 

[lexus]

I swear people are really doing what they can to tear this woman down.

I know that Mina isn’t a saint, and I do personally believe that there were some things that she exaggerated on when the scandal began. She definitely has her faults, but is it really necessary to keep dragging this on?

 

[VillageIdiot]

Yeah it's definitely interesting timing. I can't believe that after a year, there's still so much shady stuff going down for this situation.

I swear people are really doing what they can to tear this woman down.

I know that Mina isn’t a saint, and I do personally believe that there were some things that she exaggerated on when the scandal began. She definitely has her faults, but is it really necessary to keep dragging this on?

The logic is "she's lying now, therefore she always lied"
Suddenly the silence wasn't to save their own asses but out of consideration for her. Like FNC, the company that shielded numerous sex offenders, would prioritize somebody no longer affiliated with them over their biggest act

 

[RandAlThor]

The logic is "she's lying now, therefore she always lied"
Suddenly the silence wasn't to save their own asses but out of consideration for her. Like FNC, the company that shielded numerous sex offenders, would prioritize somebody no longer affiliated with them over their biggest act

ft island and honki are their biggest act but. right?

i was surprised but the fan cafe pretty much calling her a stone cold liar and drama queen is pretty crazy. While trying to toe the line of getting her help.

a few places i looked really seem to have turned on Mina also, normally the international sites are extra hard on the perception of mental abuse.

if i had to guess ppl have buyers remorse for accepting her story at face value.

i think over all companies are ready to trash any girl group if it becomes a issue. Much much faster than a boy group.

Which makes the April thing even more crazy.

 

[Abeamus]

Point 5 is simple to explain if you think about it as Mina never said she wanted Jimin punished at all and only that she wanted Jimin to give her a sincere apology whilst taking her to court would be attempting to punish her and the opposite effect of what Mina wanted. The statement overall is opportunistic and twists details that only people who closely followed everything would be able to verify like Mina saying she wasn't close to the AOA members is a lie as apart from obviously Jimin she only spoke negatively about Chanmi and Seolhyun while speaking positively about Hyejeong and Yuna but most people wouldn't know that.

 

[Ashla_K]

I know this is going to sound very simplistic but we wouldn't be into this "scandal revisionism", if someone had taken Mina's phone away from her. Like for real, the same tool that helped her to expose her horrible situation is now destroying her life further, to the point the tide is actually turning on Jimin and FNC's favor.
Tbh, I didn't take Mina's testimony as valid just because she's the affected one. People need to remember how lame FNC's responses were and how they all went to her house to try to fix the situation. They could've fight this if they wanted to, is not like companies are getting silent over bullying accusations and more idols are willing to defend themselves, so what was stopping them?
This will only get uglier, I am telling you...

 

[Mangoey]

I know this is going to sound very simplistic but we wouldn't be into this "scandal revisionism", if someone had taken Mina's phone away from her. Like for real, the same tool that help her to expose her horrible situation is now destroying her life further, to the point the tide is actually turning on Jimin and FNC's favor.
Tbh, I didn't take Mina's testimony as valid just because she's the affected one. People need to remember how lame FNC's responses were and how they all went to her house to try to fix the situation. They could've fight this if they wanted to, is not like companies are getting silent over bullying accusations and more idols are willing to defend themselves, so what was stopping them?
This will only get uglier, I am telling you...

Yeah I totally agree. Unless someone takes social media away from Mina, the situation is just gonna get worse.

 

[Panda]

I swear this sounds so manipulative. Then again, I don't trust Mina much more anymore either. All sides of this story just seem to stubborn tbh.

 

[VillageIdiot]

ft island and honki are their biggest act but. right?

i was surprised but the fan cafe pretty much calling her a stone cold liar and drama queen is pretty crazy. While trying to toe the line of getting her help.

a few places i looked really seem to have turned on Mina also, normally the international sites are extra hard on the perception of mental abuse.

if i had to guess ppl have buyers remorse for accepting her story at face value.

i think over all companies are ready to trash any girl group if it becomes a issue. Much much faster than a boy group.

Which makes the April thing even more crazy.

I think Seolhyun earns a pretty fair amount and name wise, she's the representative. Considering all that time and money FNC spent into rebuilding AOA and how they were letting her be an inhouse producer. I could understand if it was Yuna or someone but not Jimin and Seolhyun

Mina has had a very loud, messy, hateful mental breakdown over the last few months that's changed a lot of people's opinions on her. It's pretty obvious that she's beyond unstable and nobody's helping her but AOA fans are taking the opportunity to sow doubt and bury her. The timing of this statement is just too obvious and calculated to ignore

 

[VillageIdiot]

I know this is going to sound very simplistic but we wouldn't be into this "scandal revisionism", if someone had taken Mina's phone away from her. Like for real, the same tool that help her to expose her horrible situation is now destroying her life further, to the point the tide is actually turning on Jimin and FNC's favor.
Tbh, I didn't take Mina's testimony as valid just because she's the affected one. People need to remember how lame FNC's responses were and how they all went to her house to try to fix the situation. They could've fight this if they wanted to, is not like companies are getting silent over bullying accusations and more idols are willing to defend themselves, so what was stopping them?
This will only get uglier, I am telling you...

This

Like the public doesn't need to see her slitting her wrists or being exorcized

 

[Abeamus]

I know this is going to sound very simplistic but we wouldn't be into this "scandal revisionism", if someone had taken Mina's phone away from her. Like for real, the same tool that help her to expose her horrible situation is now destroying her life further, to the point the tide is actually turning on Jimin and FNC's favor.
Tbh, I didn't take Mina's testimony as valid just because she's the affected one. People need to remember how lame FNC's responses were and how they all went to her house to try to fix the situation. They could've fight this if they wanted to, is not like companies are getting silent over bullying accusations and more idols are willing to defend themselves, so what was stopping them?
This will only get uglier, I am telling you...

I'll be honest that I don't see her getting better as she seems to be in a pattern of self-destructive behaviour and people who get into those patterns generally have a real tough time getting out of them and with Minas mental health this seems like it will only end one way

 

[Hajima]

What's the point releasing this when the group has disbanded!! To protect Seolhyun image for her company to keep further milking her!! Just let it go and live quietly.

 

[VillageIdiot]

What's the point releasing this when the group has disbanded!! To protect Seolhyun image for her company to keep further milking her!! Just let it go and live quietly.

They haven't disbanded officially

 

[Darkseid]

Mina has proven to be somewhat of an unreliable narrator so I can see why some people have turned on her, they even found some of her slit wrist pics to be taken from Russian gore websites or something apparently.

That doesn't mean the bullying didn't happen, it's clear she's been suffering a lot but some claims do sound to be exaggerated, and the boyfriend drama hasn't helped matters either since she threatened the other girl's father and the other girl has shared screenshots and refuted some of those claims. So now netizens started questioning her credibility.

I don't think she made up everything but yes some events and stories have been modified to make herself more sympathetic. She has been caught lying in this boyfriend scandal though but oh well.

Anyway, the longer this goes the more toxic it will be, it would be best for Mina herself if she stays off social media for a while.

 

[Abeamus]

They haven't disbanded officially

Not officially but with just Hyejeong and Seolhyun left as vocalists and Chanmi as a rapper there's not much hope in them doing anything

 

[Abeamus]

Mina has proven to be somewhat of an unreliable narrator so I can see why some people have turned on her, they even found some of her slit wrist pics to be taken from Russian gore websites or something apparently.

That doesn't mean the bullying didn't happen, it's clear she's been suffering a lot but some claims do sound to be exaggerated, and the boyfriend drama hasn't helped matters either since she threatened the other girl's father and the other girl has shared screenshots and refuted some of those claims. So now netizens started questioning her credibility.

I don't think she made up everything but yes some events and stories have been modified to make herself more sympathetic. She has been caught lying in this boyfriend scandal though but oh well.

Anyway, the longer this goes the more toxic it will be, it would be best for Mina herself if she stays off social media for a while.

Even if you don't trust Minas word on the bullying incident because of her being unstable the problem with doubting the bullying scandal is there's nothing to support Jimin from it other than just not trusting Mina.

Jimin and Youkyung both made posts about the mess and neither gave a directly opposing narrative to the one Mina presented while Choa and Yuna haven't spoken about the issue and neither under FNC so they both could if you believe that.

You change your opinion based on evidence presented however right now people are changing their opinion on the bullying scandal just based on their opinion of her changing which isn't how you look at things objectively.

 

[Darkseid]

Even if you don't trust Minas word on the bullying incident because of her being unstable the problem with doubting the bullying scandal is there's nothing to support Jimin from it other than just not trusting Mina.

Jimin and Youkyung both made posts about the mess and neither gave a directly opposing narrative to the one Mina presented while Choa and Yuna haven't spoken about the issue and neither under FNC so they both could if you believe that.

You change your opinion based on evidence presented however right now people are changing their opinion on the bullying scandal just based on their opinion of her changing which isn't how you look at things objectively.

Yeah it's weird to outright deny that any sort of bullying ever happened, there have been no claims made by anyone to even suggest Jimin was innocent outside her first response where she wrote "fiction". Sadly this is how things go in the public eye, once your credibility on one thing gets questioned, people start stretching it to every statement you ever made and it's like they want to poke holes in your story. I fear the more statements Mina makes to clarify things, the bigger a mess she'll weave herself in.

Mina might have added/changed a few facts but Jimin giving her a hard time is probably true, although that might not mean every single incident she said is accurate.

 

[Abeamus]

Yeah it's weird to outright deny that any sort of bullying ever happened, there have been no claims made by anyone to even suggest Jimin was innocent outside her first response where she wrote "fiction". Sadly this is how things go in the public eye, once your credibility on one thing gets questioned, people start stretching it to every statement you ever made and it's like they want to poke holes in your story. I fear the more statements Mina makes to clarify things, the bigger a mess she'll weave herself in.

Mina might have added/changed a few facts but Jimin giving her a hard time is probably true, although that might not mean every single incident she said is accurate.

It's expected and if it was just her statements now that would be one thing however Elvis trying to take the opportunity to undermine peoples belief in Jimin bullying Mina could open the door for Jimin to come back into the industry which isn't something that should be allowed to happen.

If anything Mina said was an embellishment though then Jimin could have used that to sow doubt into Minas story by presenting what really happened and if it got backed up by even another AOA member it would destroy Minas credibility which would have been all she needed to save her career so the stuff about Jimin at least was probably all true although the stuff against the other AOA members did seem more just emotionally charged at times.