Every year, several entertainment companies are established and later on launch new K-pop groups. As the artists are new in the K-pop scene, there will be fans who will pay attention to them to find out what music, talents, and visuals they have to offer. However, there were instances when fans were tricked into believing the existence of a few idol groups. Here are two fake K-pop girl groups that left many fooled.

2 Fake K-pop Girl Groups You Might Not Know About: Lion Girls, 6irly

1. Lion Girls

The first K-pop girl group that turned out to be fake is Lion Girls. Back on July 28, 2016, an "official" Twitter account of the group was made and announced that Lion Girls was supposedly managed by Hunus Entertainment (formerly home to ToppDogg, JBJ95, and ALICE) and would make their debut on Aug. 27. An "official" Instagram account for the band was also created, but it's now deleted.

On all of their SNS accounts, teaser photos featuring the alleged members of Lion Girls were uploaded, making many people believe that a new girl group was really coming. The members are allegedly Kim Stella, Park Yoona, and Yuki.

Aside from fans, the Lion Girls accounts also captured the attention of some popular K-pop news sites, which later covered the group's anticipated debut. There were also a few fansites for the group that emerged.

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However, after the teaser video was out, fans started to get suspicious of the K-pop girl group, as they realized that the scenes in the clip were actually taken from the music video for Megan Nicole's "Escape."

Not long after, the Twitter account appeared to have gotten hacked, with the posts being written in English and the poster saying different stuff. The person managing the account later confessed that Lion Girls didn't exist at all, saying, "I scammed my way into soompi, girlgroupzone, and allkpop when will you ever."

2. 6irly or 6irlfriend

The next K-pop girl group that fooled everyone is named 6irlfriend or 6irly. In 2020, a Twitter account for a group called 6irlfriend popped up. A tweet was then made, claiming that it was a new group formed by JCM Entertainment.

While the account didn't instantly gain attention, it eventually became a hot topic because of the fans of a different girl group, which is GFRIEND. The reason is that the fans were upset about the name of the group being quite similar to the name "GFRIEND." The account attracted other fandoms, who defended 6irlfriend.

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Following that, the Twitter account announced that the group would rebrand as 6irly. The dispute with GFRIEND fans concluded there, and the account garnered more than 2,000 followers in only a few days.

However, fans began to doubt the existence of the K-pop girl group after spotting many errors in both English and Korean in the following posts. But the suspicions declined after the account introduced the supposed members of 6irly.

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But then, one Twitter user discovered that one of the photos that the 6irly Twitter account claimed to be of its member "Im Da-Eun" was actually of an Instagram user with the handle @ryun_aa. Other than that, it was found out that JCM Entertainment was no longer operating and had halted all its activities after its last group, 4L, disbanded in 2016.

The person managing the Twitter account ultimately admitted that 6irly was not real and the owner just wanted to promote rookie groups once it gained a great amount of followers.

But soon enough, the account was deleted. Fan accounts for the fake K-pop girl group were already made at that time.

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Written by Maria Scott