It's ARTMS' agency, MODHAUS. (Yes, that crazy company)
To explain the situation, ARTMS has a fan voting system called 'Gravity' where fans directly vote to make decisions about various things
It's similar to how TripleS, who is under the same company, determines their units through voting. You know that, right? It's exactly the same system. However, ARTMS is an already completed group. Until now, they've been using Gravity to decide things like the fandom name, the location for their first group photoshoot, and pre-release songs.
However, Gravity has started to get strange.
During their tour, they're voting on which member should wear a camera to show the concert from their perspective... ㅎ
(Fans want to see the members, why would they want to see it from one member's viewpoint? It's making fans confused)
Of course, this is a vote to choose one member, and it’s causing dissatisfaction among fans.
Now, this latest Gravity has pushed fans to the brink of explosion.
This time they're filming the members having fun on their day off during the tour, with a 'pocket money budget vote'. The reason is because the first place gets 300 euros while the fifth place gets 10 euros.
The fans are dissatisfied because the Gravity system is ranking the members.
The voting also includes revealing intermediate rankingsㅋㅋㅋ
For your information, this isn't a one-person-one-vote system. Fans can vote for unlimited times^^
Plus, of course, it’s "paid."
The reason fans are even more angry is that ARTMS is a group made up of five members who barely gathered after LOONA disbanded. Fans know how hard the process of gathering them was.
The previous agency split the members, engaged in unfair promotions, and the fans were well aware of how disillusioned they felt, so pretending to care for the members while ultimately doing this with Gravity made them explode.
Reactions in the video comments are cold; both Korean and international fans are angry.
In fact, because the previous agency was so immoral, fans had been holding back their complaints, but they’re now reacting intensely, asking if the company only sees their artists as money.
They've been together since LOONA's solo era until they finally become a full group... They were the ones who createed LOONA, how could they do this...ㅎ
-This is really too much...
-They don’t know when to stop.
-Why do they have to decide such trivial things through voting and upset the fans?
-It's understandable for TripleS to have unit voting system since they have a lot of members. But here, it's very cruel of the company to do voting with just 5 members in this group... It's very obvious that they're just trying to rank the 5 members.
-I really hate this. And I bet the girls probably hate it too.
-I can totally understand why fans are angry... What are they doing?
-It's so obvious that the company is just trying to rank them
-They are obsessed with money.
-They really love voting.
-The company is making fans pay for unlimited voting? That’s insane.
-Why are they voting on such trivial things with so few members?
-Why are they doing such voting with five members? I really hate it.
-They've really crossed the line...
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