Having experience with prior games this seems like it would be doable with strategy, but i cannot get it to track for the life of me! Anyone else had this problem? Does it eventually track for them?
So everyone has heard about the Gunil situation, but if you didn’t, he used a misogynistic slur in reference to fans, more akin to c*nt in its original meaning than something like bitch, its DEEPLY offensive in Korea, and claimed he wanted to hit fans.
Less than 24 hours of this being leaked, Gunil was kicked out of the group and JYP issued a statement, it seems as if this was made immediately considering that just before this, Xdinary Heroes was said to perform at an event and a photoshoot of Gunil was posted onto the official page.
I do believe at first people were trying to hear both sides, but from what I’m seeing, people are saying that Gunil was wrongly kicked out of the group, and I have to disagree. Firstly, Korea has a STRONG misogyny issue with their being an epidemic of deepfakes being used against women, molka(hidden cams in private areas to target women), an anti-feminist movement, imagine the red-pilled movement here that’s been run by Andrew Tate but increased ten fold. Being able to use such language says a lot about a person’s ideas and actions. Of course I feel sorry that stalkers were harassing him, but when you see people do bad things to you, do you also say slurs? When you feel upset, does it ever come to your mind to target someone’s identity whether that be gender, sexuality, race? This wasn’t just the heat of the moment, he said something wrong and he meant it.
I would also like to add this wasn’t the first controversy Gunil has had due to sketchy friends exposing some stuff. The girlfriend has now gone private on twitter so i cannot link to her posts that have further context, but I do have screenshots. Just to explain a bit, the screenshots seem to be from the girls but were given to the ex girlfriend. The pink backgrounds are from the groupchats that they were in with gunil and the friend, the Instagram dms are the girls talking, and so is kakao message.
I know this is Korean, but the most in depth explanation has been wiped, though we have this for now which is an English translation of a a Chinese fan summarizing/giving their thoughts on the situation… I know it’s a lot, it’s a translation of a translation.
Essentially, Gunil had a friend who was very dodgy. He used Gunil and would ask for private schedules, information of where the other members would be, and Gunil would just give it to him. I don’t know exactly why Gunil gave it to him without questioning it, but he did. The friend used this to pick up girls, some underaged, who were fans of kpop/xdiz, putting gunil. He flexed that he was friends with a famous person and in exchange for these girls hanging out with him, they’d get information on xdinary heroes and special merchandise. This friend would also put Gunil in gcs with these girls, basically dangling the appearance of gunil in front of them, keeping them coming back to him(the friend).
Though this sounds like a case of Gunil not being aware and choosing a bad friend, it’s alleged that Gunil drove one of the underaged girls to their home after she was supposed to meet up with the friend at his shop, but he wasn’t there. In my opinion, feel free to disagree, this implies he knew about the situation. The girlfriend also alleges that the friend would bring Gunil to meet up with the girls sometime, even giving them an autograph in person. THOUGH we do not know if Gunil was made aware of that the girls would be there prior to and if this was a one time instance.
This accusation isn’t niche at all by the way, it was made in 2025 and has been HEAVILY prevalent in other language-speaking communities such as the Chinese and Indonesian side of Xdinary Heroes fandom but has failed to make any waves on the English side, most likely due to any reliable translations. Even Papago struggled a lot because of the amount of slang and different names used.
With this added onto his behavior of misogyny, I don’t believe it was all that unfair for him to be kicked out, especially after he was let go after such a big controversy because a friend basically grooming girls, using YOUR fame to do so, and possibly supporting it(whether he meant it or not) is very serious. He was seemingly given a second chance and blew it, I’m not a fan of people acting like he’s was treated unfairly.
There has been some rumors going around that Gunil was personally interacting romantically with the fans, this has not been said. He also did not drive anyone to his OWN home, he drove the girl to her house and nothing else happened. He WAS in group chat with them, but from what I know, he didn’t befriend them (though i PERSONALLY believe boundaries were crossed and he should have immediately left the chats when he saw what was going on)
It’s really easy, just complete games and level up. You don’t need to win to level up, you just need to play, and they have gem games for really cheap, 30 gems, and they’re generous with how much they give you. Watch the ads for the gems every 4 hours i think it is and you’ll stack up enough. my current strat is to leave games to gain one level, then play seriously to regain some gems, i usually do bingo as its only a minute and 30 seconds long and the easiest way to win is wait until last minute to call bingo and make sure you have a x2 multiplier. Bowling is also easy and kinda fun, the cooking game isn’t easy at all but i went to it sometimes for fun. The others are a waste of your time. The only reason i dont complete the bonus goal is because it’s so easy, i waited until the last minute, but this game does not work on weak data/wifi and it so happened i was in an outage for days. Otherwise, you can complete it.
Another note, the withdrawal requires an id and bank account number, no other way around it. you also have to complete 10 real money games to withdraw, but the minimum is 10 dollars to withdraw, so make sure you actually play games you’re confident in and choose the lowest cash option so you don’t get stuck below the minimum.
So I keep getting emails saying I’m completing goals, but it doesn’t tell me what goals and when I go into the app or website to see what has been completed, nothing is there? Does anyone know if this is just a visual glitch or how to possibly fix it? Or at least a way I can see what goal I’m completing through my emails so I can send in some sort of ticket after.
Tl;dr: I’m exhausted of k-pop because of the anti-blackness, but despite this I’m still a fan. Yet I’m annoyed that I’m still here and other non-korean, poc fans are too because it feels like a repetitive cycle of CA and blatant ignorance. If this is too short for the full picture, you can really skip to the fourth paragraph and read from there.
I’ve enjoyed kpop since 2018, but I fell really deep in 2019, so it’s been about 8 years. My whole personality was kinda kpop, I wrote about it, i only listened to it, I’d talk to everyone about it, send fancams in my group chats (keep in mind I was 12 8 years ago so mind my cringy behavior), make friends purely based on it, and even get into arguments about my favorite groups. It was only about 2020 because of the rise in social activism that I found out my favorite group, BTS, had a pretty racist past that absolutely destroyed me. I was so devastated that I confided in my mom (who now refers to kpop as a whole as “the music that hates black people”) and cried.
I then became really dedicated to trying to make kpop a better place by spreading awareness on why it’s wrong when idols culture appropriate, they say slurs, make colorist statements. It didn’t matter if it was again black people which is my race, or a completely different one, I just wanted to be the thing I absolutely loved and adored to be better. Then I realized that other people did the same thing too, I found solace in that… Until I realized again that it was mostly for fanwars and people didn’t care. I never stopped listening to the genre, I still watched every release, kept up with the groups I thought were safe. Like every time, this groups ended up not being safe, I called it out, but after facing intense backlash for “betraying” my ult groups, tackling slurs and threats, who had wrongdoing instead of just beating on the “usual suspects” in the industry, i deleted all my social media/went private and took all my followers off.
I stanned from afar since around 2023 since my favorite group disbanded and I didn’t find anyone else, plus hearing about scandals constantly about anti-blackness didn’t exactly help. I liked the music still, I have groups I might watch a variety episode or two of, but I don’t care to even know their real names, ages, or anything. Until 2025 when I stanned Xdinary Heroes. Looked at their history, okay some loose braids that I personally don’t even consider CA since they’re not box braids, but that’s it. I stanned so hard, bought merch because yay I’m finally an adult who can do that on a whim, got concert tickets, watched vlogs, it’s literally like i was in 2019 again! Then a member refers to eugenics, makes up stereotypes about black people, all of which is absolutely disgusting, and people are defending him like hell. Didn’t tell my mom this time around, but I was devastated once again and felt so stupid for even trusting this industry. I sold my tickets, stopped listening to them, and even cried a little bit because I genuinely realized at that moment, even after 7 years, that *k-pop is not made for black people.*
At this moment, I feel deeply frustrated and exhausted with k-pop. Every release sounds the same, I’m not excited to listen to anything because I can predict it’ll be the same 2 minute song with no bridge, everything follows the same trend, usually something black people made like hip-hop, r&b, trap, afrobeats, or even the recent rise of the ballroom scene being made reference to without actual black faces being attributed to it. And now I’m sick of hearing about another idol saying or mouthing the n word because yes, those are the same, wearing braids, culture appropriating, or saying something offensive. And now I’m especially sick of people complaining about it when they’re not a teen or kid anymore and have been a fan for too long, because if you care, why did you ever stan a group who steals from us? Why did you ignore their past scandals? What made you believe that even this “safe” “non problematic” group was okay to stan when the very industry is built on racism and taking from us?
None of this is to invalidate k-pop fans, I still listen to k-pop. Hell, in the west we have Ariana Grande, a white woman who boosted her career by walking around with a blaccent and tan ten shades too dark, collabing with black artists, and making r&b just for her to be in her soft girl era now and is suddenly her regular shade with blonde hair, and she has 87 millions listeners. But the fans were the best part, but now I’m just continuously asking myself and anyone who actually cares deep down about the anti-blackness of the industry “What is making you stay?” Because despite everything, I still have an attachment to my ults ATEEZ and P1Harmony even though they’ve had their share of ignorant scandals. I do get excited every time they have a comeback still, I take a small bit of pride of being a P1ece since their first album. But I can’t shake the feeling of, and this may be too harsh, disgust when I realize the industry I’m supporting. It feels pointless to complain or care about anything when it just keeps happening, this endless cycle. You start to say over and over “Oh, this sounds just like *insert black artist*” “Another hip-hop song, hope I don’t see braids or grills!” “Now we’re acting like gangsters for the trap song?” “Wow, that rap just had an unnecessary blaccent throughout the whole thing…”
Again, I’m not trying to invalidate anyone black who does stan intensely, but I’m wondering if anyone feels the same way? Like this almost disdain for the industry, but you can’t really part ways? But also you feel like this just… tiredness from the scandals and people just not parting ways with it, even though you aren’t completely detached either? Or even a part of the way I’m feeling? Sorry for the long post, but this has been boiling over for what feels like a year and now I’m so cynical about the industry and everything around it. I know the solution is to literally just stop with everything kpop, but I’m still attached? It just makes me sad. This is just a rant of my thoughts and feelings.