False advertising! I doubt RIIZE is included in your trip

(I cut some shopping parts - so don't expect the Korean to make sense all the time :p)

u/No-Advantage-579 — 5 days ago
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"Joe Biden is forcing me to be gay"

Was suggested this classic (by Jason Selvig)

u/Grumpy_001 — 6 days ago

How to Destroy a Reputation in Hollywood, as Told in 5 Women’s Lawsuits. Five women have said they were the targets of malicious public relations campaigns that were spearheaded by three influential players.

nytimes.com
u/No-Advantage-579 — 9 days ago

This sounds unhealthy and traumatic! (I-Land, Enhypen, &Team, Belift) It would be unlikely to result in the healthiest idols chosen. I don't think being able to immediately adopt a fake identity, lie to adults as a 14 year old, not communicate with peers is healthy.

Source is already tagged.

u/No-Advantage-579 — 11 days ago
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Ruka from AOEN

Thoughts? I think his official statement speaks for itself. He’s a weirdo for being caught hanging with a 13 year old. It’s obvous he knew her from 2023– which would put her age around 9 years old! whether they’re romantically involved or not (which i think he would clarify in his statement..) it is still so odd!! he took a 13 year old to drink for her birthday for fcks sake

u/No-Advantage-579 — 11 days ago

Some things are fun but cringe/facepalmy to watch from a distance, but if someone in your life actually did that, it'd be excruciating (Maki from &Team) :p

u/No-Advantage-579 — 13 days ago

"The dark side of K-pop's trainee system: Extreme diets, unfair contracts and very little protection, incl. against sexual assault" - The "no restrictions tied to agency employees' sex-offense records" is bloody outrageous!

>"Accounts by former K-pop trainees presented Wednesday at a parliamentary forum on idol trainees in Yeouido, western Seoul, revealed a common pattern:

  • extreme dieting that damaged their health during adolescence,
  • lack of schooling or an ordinary social life,
  • constant monitoring of their private lives,
  • unsafe shared housing that left them vulnerable to crime and sexual abuse,
  • punitive contract penalties,
  • depression and other psychological problems.

>“I was so underweight that my periods stopped for a year,” one female K-pop trainee said in an interview examining their working conditions and experiences. “The health consequences hit me later. I think failing to debut may have contributed to my depression.”

>“I had to please everyone, not just the head of the agency but its employees too,” one trainee said. “Some staff treated trainees as potential dating partners, and others told us to wear clothes that accentuated our breasts. Even when it made me feel sexually humiliated, I had no way to push back.”

>“I was told I would owe 100 million won ($73,500) if I left, while I heard a foreign trainee paid only 1 million won,” one interviewee said. Another said, “I saw what lawsuits did to my friends, so I gave up and accepted that more than five years of my life had been wasted.”

>The industry is built largely around minors, yet those who work in it face virtually no regulation, critics say. Current law requires talent agencies to have at least one executive with two years of relevant industry experience and the required training to register as a pop culture agency.

>The bar is low. The required training consists solely of 40 hours of online courses run by the Korea Creative Content Agency. In addition, there are no restrictions tied to agency employees’ sex-offense records and no minimum standards for capital or professional qualifications. Over the past five years, 6,588 businesses had registered as agencies as of June."

koreajoongangdaily.com
u/No-Advantage-579 — 13 days ago

PRO: Finally something not bland from Hyunjin x Dior! CON: Hyunjin - I'm over men celebrating serial killers of homeless men and sex workers! Plus: Bret Easton Ellis, the man whose name you're wearing has said that "MeToo went to far" and that Donald Trump is "not racist" and not that bad!

u/No-Advantage-579 — 14 days ago

Sisterwife of Nancy Young (real name: Nancy Dye Peterson Gustafson) of "Real Mom Real Solutions" YouTube channel (currently 80K subscribers) of the incest White supremacist polygamous Kingston Clan had her children taken away by CPS

Here Nancy Young unfortunately being featured in glowing terms on CafeMom:

https://cafemom.com/parenting/mom-of-17-shares-video-tour-of-massive-house

Her kitchen that she showed has a picture of her parents and her husband's parents on the wall - CafeMom doesn't show it, the video did. Nancy's mother Carla was 16 when she was married off to Nancy's father Hyrum, who was 50 years old.

One of Nancy Young's sisterwives had her children taken away by CPS a few weeks ago:

https://kutv.com/news/local/eight-children-removed-from-home-of-purported-polygamous-couple

Here what the article omits:

  • "Nicholas Young" is close to Don Trump Jr - Nicholas has a weapons company called "Desert Tech".
  • That's not really his name. His real (lineage) name is Nicholas Kingston Gustafson. (The Kingston Clan uses fake names to hide their incest, which is a religious tenet for that cult - usually uncle and niece or half-siblings or first cousin incest.)
  • Nicholas' parents were first cousins.
  • Nicholas himself is making babies with at least two first cousins as well - one of which is the woman in the article (Amber). Her real last name is "Mattingly Kingston", not "Stowell".
  • Amber Mattingly Kingston's mother was 15 when her father, who was 30, started ... SAing her. He later got engaged to her 14 year old sister as well - and started SAing her when she was 15. That sister lost her kids due to severe abuse. Two of her daughters, who were glad to be finally away, were the showrunners of "Escaping Polygamy".
  • Nicholas has at least 5 wives.
  • He has 17 children with his first wife Nancy, who is a youtuber doing bizarre videos on how to raise "Christian" children. (Glossing over the fact that her cult teaches that they are the only real descendants of Christ and for that reason have to engage in incest - to preserve that purity.)
  • As I mentioned, the parents of said first wife (Nancy) were 50 years old (father) and 16 years old (mother) when he started having children with her! (Her mother had to sign that she was agreeing to this.)
u/No-Advantage-579 — 14 days ago