'2022 Genie Music Awards' Cancels Over 1 Million Votes for BLACKPINK + BLINKs Enraged
BLINKs are expressing their anger on Twitter and calling for a boycott of the 2022 Genie Music Awards after the award ceremony revoked more than one million votes for BLACKPINK in one of the categories. Keep reading to know why their votes were reduced.
'2022 Genie Music Awards' Cancels Over 1 Million Votes for BLACKPINK + BLINKs Enraged
The 2022 Genie Music Awards will hold its first in-person ceremony for the first time in three years on Nov. 8 at Namdong Gymnasium in Incheon. At present, fans of each of the nominees are busy casting their votes.
Voting kicked off on Oct. 6 and is open to those with an official Korean ID or a Korean phone number until Nov. 3. While most categories are only open to local fans, the GMA (Genie Music Awards) Idol Plus Global Popularity Award is open to all fans around the world.
A total of 36 artists are nominated for the GMA Idol Plus Global Popularity Award, including BTS, SEVENTEEN, BLACKPINK, PSY, Stray Kids, ATEEZ, IVE, NewJeans, and many more.
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Amid the voting session, the 2022 Genie Music Awards released a formal notice, which upset many fans.
On Oct. 19, GMA announced that they will cancel votes for BLACKPINK and PSY, as Genie Music noticed "abnormal traffic" that they "recognized as fraudulent votes." As a result, they revoked 1,627,041 votes from BLACKPINK and 306,908 votes from PSY.
The decision led fans, particularly BLINKs, to feel furious as they have been keeping track of the votes for the "Pink Venom" singers and they saw how the votes had been consistently increasing over time, which appeared to contrast with Genie Music's claim that there was an abnormal traffic.
I wonder how 🧞♂️ came to the conclusion that BLACKPINK's votes were fake. It was consistently increasing since the votings started, even @BLACKPINK_BBU is documenting it. All those efforts down the drain 'cause BLACKPINK was almost winning.
— ken (@togejustvibin) October 19, 2022
BOYCOTT GENIE AWARDS
WE KEEP TRACK OF OUR VOTES WITH DATE AND TIME. WE VOTED EVERYDAY FOR 9DAYS STRAIGHT!! AND NOW CALLING US BOTS?! THIS IS GLOBAL VOTINGS AND NOT JUST LIMITED TO KOREAN. THEY THINK INTERNATIONAL BLINKS CANT VOTE THIS MUCH?! 1.7M VOTES DOWN TO 92K?! https://t.co/jkpz8NSr2u
— BLACKPINK BLINK USA UNION 🎡 (@BBU_USA) October 19, 2022
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Prior to revoking the votes, BLACKPINK ranked third with more than 1.7 million votes, but after the 2022 Genie Music Awards took away the majority of the votes, the quartet dropped to fifth place.
BLINKs were dumbfounded, wondering how 1.7 million votes could be considered an irregular high number when the poll was open to fans across the globe. And everyone knows that BLACKPINK is one of the global girl groups, so it's not a surprise that they'll earn more than a million of votes.
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After voting for BLACKPINK every day and yet seeing their hard work and efforts disregarded, BLINKs started to trend the phrase "BOYCOTT GENIE AWARDS" on Twitter and saying that the award show is rigged.
the genie award show is rigged. blinks worked so hard for the girls and in the end they call us ‘fraudulent’ when they can’t even spell the name blackpink correctly
BOYCOTT GENIE AWARDS pic.twitter.com/r7mgyLwD5G— honors lisa (@honorslisa) October 19, 2022
Cutting the votes
— ᴄʜᴇʀʀʏ ʙʟɪɴᴋ 💌 (@DARKXSTAR99) October 19, 2022
Reason not valid
Disrespecting the name of blackpink as blankpink??
BOYCOTT GENIE AWARDS pic.twitter.com/Fp1olykthh
Amid the outrage of fans, neither Genie Music nor Idol Plus has made any response about the matter.
BLACKPINK Takes Home Another Trophy for 'Shut Down'
In other news, BLACKPINK has successfully received another music show trophy for their latest title song "Shut Down."
On the Oct. 16 episode of SBS's "Inkigayo," "Shut Down" was nominated for first place together with IVE's "After LIKE" and NewJeans' "Attention." BLACKPINK eventually won with a total of 7,641 points. This marked the quartet's 10th time of winning in a music show with "Shut Down."
Congratulations to the girls!
Check out BLACKPINK's "Shut Down" music video below to celebrate:
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Written by Maria Scott
