Brand New Music is planning to take legal action against the malicious spreading of an edited past photo of one of YOUNITE's members, Hyunseung. As a result, the entertainment company he belongs to released a statement.

"Hello, this is Brand New Music.

We've confirmed that the image of our agency artist currently circulating on social media was maliciously edited.

As a result, we plan to take strong legal action for the spread of false information, defamation, personal attacks, insults, and malicious slander against our agency artist. If you find related instances, please refer to the bottom for mailing steps and send information to bnmusic2011@gmail.com.

We thank fans for their endless love and support and request your active cooperation.

Brand New Music will continue to work to no end to protect the interests of our agency artists in the future too.

Thank you."

YOUNITE fans are reporting the alleged edited photo to stop its further spreading. They are helping the company track posts containing the said photo.

They are also helping the company track and report malicious comments made toward Hyunseung.

YOUNITE Member Sexually Harassed TWICE Chaeyoung?

In the alleged edited photo, it is seen that the YOUNITE member edited a picture of TWICE's rapper with the words "Kimochi". The word is known to be used by non-Japanese as something sexual because it is usually heard in Japanese porn videos.

(Photo : YOUNITE - Twitter)
Hyunseung YOUNITE allegedly past edited photo

Though the word literally translates to "I feel good" or "feeling good", it is not seen in that way, especially in the context of the photo. With the way his head is angled together with the filter of Chaeyoung's photo, fans are not having any of it.

International ONCEs are trending the words 'APOLOGIZE TO CHAEYOUNG' and '#KICK_OUT_HYUNSEUNG' because of the incident.

They want the male idol to be punished for the photo even though it is not yet confirmed if it is truly edited.

Meanwhile, on PANN, other K-pop fans are disgusted by the photo. Many are saying that the YOUNITE member is a creep for posting his photo. Some others are sad for the group itself since they just debuted and they have issues like this. They also feel bad for former X1 member Eunsang.

There are also comments like:

"The group hasn't even debuted for this long and one of their members is already a creepy incel. When will companies start to do a background check on their trainees?"

JYP Entertainment Not Responding To Posts And Rumors

Tons of tweets are now directed to TWICE's company, JYP Entertainment after Brand new Music released their statement regarding the photo and legal action.

Now, TWICE fans also want JYP Entertainment to do the same and take legal actions to protect the member, especially since she was a minor at that time.

"Onces, this is his company's response. This means we now have to urge JYPE to do something. We already did our part to let this reach his company and we got THIS. I am so disappointed but definitely not surprised.

PROTECT CHAEYOUNG"

How about you, what is your take on the issue?

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Written by Jaswin Singh