Trash accumulation and waste of sources are big points for Ok-Pop followers and corporations. This grew to become exacerbated by the rise in video name and offline fan indicators, which regularly run on a raffle foundation. As record-breaking additionally turns into a measure of the recognition of a bunch, followers are pushing themselves greater than ever to buy albums in bulk.

While inserts akin to postcards and photocards are nonetheless thought-about beneficial, the album shell and photobook usually develop into out of date. With followers unwilling to let the albums take up room of their home or lug them house from the shop, discarded albums are sometimes seen on the streets close to report outlets. In one case, Ok-Pop followers confronted main backlash once they donated opened albums with inserts taken out.

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With SEVENTEEN’s latest album launch for FML, they broke data by hitting over 3 million copies in gross sales throughout pre-orders. They grew to become the highest-selling Ok-Pop artists rapidly.

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Despite the incredible information, followers have been receiving criticism for leaving opened albums in public areas or on the streets. At first, Carats tried to influence their fellow followers to take accountability for his or her purchases.

#rt #please RT. Please don’t throw your opened albums on the trash disposal in entrance of Soundwave after taking out all of the photocards, bookmarks, and inserts solely to depart the photobooks. If you do that, Carats received’t look good to others. And don’t throw the opened albums within the trash luggage on the streets as nicely.

— Carat

You might marvel why this is a matter if the albums had been dumped at a trash disposal. Firstly, Korea is tremendous strict about recycling and trash disposal. Most of the time, every constructing and avenue has its personal disposal areas, and it’s frowned upon for one to throw their trash in areas not allotted to them. Public trash cans are a distinct story, although! This can be as a result of trash must be bagged and sure earlier than being left on the disposal space. Leaving entire containers of albums on the road is very frowned upon.

Some followers additionally untied current trash luggage to incorporate their albums or just left them subsequent to the luggage.

The fan who uploaded the unique submit was later criticized for “airing dirty laundry” and giving haters a purpose to tear down the group. Despite their good intentions, they’ve since deleted the submit and uploaded an apology.

Another fan found opened albums being left at a restaurant inside a report store. Although they’d left a notice to say “anyone can take the albums if they wanted,” they had been criticized for leaving the albums at a restaurant unrelated to followers or any SEVENTEEN occasion.

RT) To the one who took out all of the photocards and easily left 31 albums at Holly’s Cafe, please take them away. It’s not such as you rented out Holly’s or one thing — what crime did Holly’s commit? You can simply give them out in entrance of M2U or one thing as an alternative. Please acknowledge what you probably did was fallacious and take them again.

— Oopal0128

Not solely did followers go away albums in a restaurant, additionally they left luggage of albums by a public sidewalk in entrance of a report retailer. 

Someone simply left 20 albums in entrance of M2U — is there somebody who claims it because the proprietor? I took them with me as a result of it’s raining first, however if you happen to simply threw them away like that, it’s actually impolite of you. If not, contact me please and I’ll ship them to you.

— @oopal0128

After the matter blew up, netizens had been extremely vital of the irresponsible followers.

• Donation? What donation? Don’t even donate them. I’m somebody that works at a middle for the much less lucky, and it’s exhausting for us to deal with these too.
• This occurs to my idol too. I want [the company] would simply promote the photocards, please.
• I ponder why folks do that when it’s so apparent who’s fan threw them away… If you purchase them, then you must deal with issues correctly. If idols noticed their albums being thrown away simply anyplace, they wouldn’t be joyful too.
• I hope they make a regulation the place solely photocards are offered. The trash is so severe.
• Makes me marvel if the primary week gross sales are that essential when that is occurring.
• I believe if that is the extent of issues, album gross sales distributors ought to begin coping with the trash too.
• Although I don’t stan idols anymore, I don’t know why folks do that now and again then.
• What form of conduct is that this?

That being stated, the conduct of a bunch of followers doesn’t symbolize the complete fandom.

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