what… has joon really not seen anything online? this is really not good. the criticism of him is not random. it really needs to be properly addressed
i was literally mad at diplo for that post… please joon…
ugh… why rm
I am so disappointed right now. I don’t know what RM is trying to do right now, whatever it is just stop please.
I really don’t get this
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Jungkook looks so young here
I just feel like crying every time they do something like this. WHY? Why Diplo, why someone who’s been accused of awful things – and he was definitely still dealing with the accusations when their collaboration started
This is…not a good look. I was already disappointed that they were working with him and Tedder and this doesn’t make me feel better.
This whole thing has got me thinking a lot. I personally didn’t know any details until I did my own research while the guys were in LA and I saw comments here. It’s interesting how people in power generally are able to slide under the radar for even me who is really chronically online.
I keep thinking about how Joon knows him in a very specific set of circumstances (I don’t want to excuse their friendship it has me uncomfy as hell for a lot of reasons) but I wonder how much of that is dictated by what this person who he sees in a studio and as a dad and what the people in the industry say about him. Just food for thought. Not to excuse it but proximity blinds a lot of things. I hope Joon grows from this as he just posted virgina Woolf last week so the disparity between the two is…. A lot for my brain.
Bruh-
This guy is probably going to be heavily featured in the documentary as well, isn’t he 😭
Diplo…..I really been struggling feeling excited about this comeback honestly, I’m trying my best but there’s too much other stuff going on and this ain’t it!
Joonie please, WHY would they do this like of all the people why didn’t anyone do some research on this prick 😭
Ugh. Five songs? I hate this so much. For an album called Arirang, why did they feel the need to work with a very problematic white guy? Just when I’m so proud of RM for reading Virginia Woolf and then he shares this?
I love BTS, but why Diplo
Found this in a post on another EDM sub:
* *In 2020, Shelley Auguste accused Diplo of recording sexually explicit videos of her without her permission, distributing at least one without her consent, and intentionally spreading an STI.* * *In 2022, Diplo won $1.2 million during court-ordered arbitration with Shelley Auguste. His team framed this as exoneration against Auguste’s claim, but it should be noted that the reward was partly for Auguste violating their mutual restraining order by continuing to speak about the case on her Instagram and Twitter. Diplo’s lawyer released a statement stating he was defamed by Auguste, but they never pursued a defamation case legally, which would have directly exonerated Diplo through a discovery process during which evidence could be verified by digital forensics. (*[*1*](https://pitchfork.com/news/diplo-accused-of-distributing-revenge-porn-in-new-police-report/)*)* * *After Auguste’s claim was made public, rapper Azealia Banks, a former collaborator of Diplo’s, came out on her podcast and claimed: “I used to have sex with Diplo when I was 17. Diplo definitely found me on f**king Myspace. I always give him credit for f**king launching my career off, but yeah, I had to give him some teenage p***y to do it. He’s always been preying on young ethnic girls.” Diplo would have been in his early 30s at the time. However, it should be noted that the age of consent is 16 in PA and 17 in NY, where Diplo and Banks resided in 2009, respectively. If this took place in California, where both frequently visited, it would be considered statutory rape.* * *In 2021, a woman accused Diplo of forcing her into oral sex. She withdrew the lawsuit ten days later. It’s not clear if there was a settlement involved.* * *In 2023, Shelly Auguste refiled her case with the LAPD after allegedly being sent revenge porn of herself recorded by Diplo. The case is currently being reviewed.*
I’m honestly so dissapointed, half of their fandom is the demographic this man preyed upon. don’t say you care about your fans if you are gonna do this, hybe seriously couldn’t do a check on if a producer has any past controversies…
Edit: Hope this is better :))
Nooooo Namjoon 😭
Yuck.
oh that’s not..
Brooo what are we doing???? I don’t fully understand the situation but right now is just not the time to be posting about him. Like cmon now
I love Namjoon but sharing this…and he’s on five songs too…ugh 😕
Does he not Google….
Hmm, I didn’t know much but reading the comments here, I wish they stayed away from associating with him, proven allegations or not. For an album named Arirang, they already had all they needed even without a mainstream name credited 😞
Ahhhhh, I love you RM but this is driving me crazy?! So many years of being an ARMY and I think this is the most upset I’ve ever been at something the guys have done.
Namjoon always tries to better himself, be socially conscious. He educates himself. But here we are.
Now, I don’t like seeing BTS get hate. Obviously. But this is something they genuinely deserve criticism for, and I really really hope that they’ll see it and reflect.
Namjoon shouldn’t have reposted this on his stories and given it validation. They’ve known him a long time, fine. But he should not publicize that relationship because it’s nothing to be proud of.
Comments on the actual post glazing and being kind to that pos too 🤮🤮🤮
I am…underwhelmed, to put it nicely.
I’m already miffed about the posts on insta etc that include the music of Chris Brown, because it kinda sends the signal of “doesn’t matter what the person does if they write a bop”, like yes it tells me that if something like that happened to me, you’d still listen to the bop the perpetrator published. 🤐
And with CB, it’s like…not that hidden history or alleged, we’ve all seen the fallout and/or it comes up regularly.
With Diplo, I don’t know about the court cases that were filed. I am a strong “always believe the victim first”, but due to my line of work, I also know that exactly this thinking can be used by people for their narrative. I know the system is flawed against the victim, too.
Its complicated. But I’m pretty sure it would be less complicated to find good people to work with who don’t have allegations against them.
Overall, …man, I am very much in the political left scene and know that esp men who talk a lot about women rights etc are somehow blind to the actual reality, when it comes to their friends / acquaintances being potential perpetrators, and I’m tired of women being forced into the role of the educator, and being positioned to explain why women are…people, persons etc.
So yeah…underwhelmed.
There are no excuses, Namjoon knows the language, is in tune with the industry and is far too intelligent to be posting this. I am extremely disappointed.
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well 😐
oh namjoon let’s not…..
what… has joon really not seen anything online? this is really not good. the criticism of him is not random. it really needs to be properly addressed
i was literally mad at diplo for that post… please joon…
ugh… why rm
I am so disappointed right now. I don’t know what RM is trying to do right now, whatever it is just stop please.
I really don’t get this
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Jungkook looks so young here
I just feel like crying every time they do something like this. WHY? Why Diplo, why someone who’s been accused of awful things – and he was definitely still dealing with the accusations when their collaboration started
This is…not a good look. I was already disappointed that they were working with him and Tedder and this doesn’t make me feel better.
This whole thing has got me thinking a lot. I personally didn’t know any details until I did my own research while the guys were in LA and I saw comments here. It’s interesting how people in power generally are able to slide under the radar for even me who is really chronically online.
I keep thinking about how Joon knows him in a very specific set of circumstances (I don’t want to excuse their friendship it has me uncomfy as hell for a lot of reasons) but I wonder how much of that is dictated by what this person who he sees in a studio and as a dad and what the people in the industry say about him. Just food for thought. Not to excuse it but proximity blinds a lot of things. I hope Joon grows from this as he just posted virgina Woolf last week so the disparity between the two is…. A lot for my brain.
Bruh-
This guy is probably going to be heavily featured in the documentary as well, isn’t he 😭
Diplo…..I really been struggling feeling excited about this comeback honestly, I’m trying my best but there’s too much other stuff going on and this ain’t it!
Joonie please, WHY would they do this like of all the people why didn’t anyone do some research on this prick 😭
Ugh. Five songs? I hate this so much. For an album called Arirang, why did they feel the need to work with a very problematic white guy? Just when I’m so proud of RM for reading Virginia Woolf and then he shares this?
I love BTS, but why Diplo
Found this in a post on another EDM sub:
* *In 2020, Shelley Auguste accused Diplo of recording sexually explicit videos of her without her permission, distributing at least one without her consent, and intentionally spreading an STI.*
* *In 2022, Diplo won $1.2 million during court-ordered arbitration with Shelley Auguste. His team framed this as exoneration against Auguste’s claim, but it should be noted that the reward was partly for Auguste violating their mutual restraining order by continuing to speak about the case on her Instagram and Twitter. Diplo’s lawyer released a statement stating he was defamed by Auguste, but they never pursued a defamation case legally, which would have directly exonerated Diplo through a discovery process during which evidence could be verified by digital forensics. (*[*1*](https://pitchfork.com/news/diplo-accused-of-distributing-revenge-porn-in-new-police-report/)*)*
* *After Auguste’s claim was made public, rapper Azealia Banks, a former collaborator of Diplo’s, came out on her podcast and claimed: “I used to have sex with Diplo when I was 17. Diplo definitely found me on f**king Myspace. I always give him credit for f**king launching my career off, but yeah, I had to give him some teenage p***y to do it. He’s always been preying on young ethnic girls.” Diplo would have been in his early 30s at the time. However, it should be noted that the age of consent is 16 in PA and 17 in NY, where Diplo and Banks resided in 2009, respectively. If this took place in California, where both frequently visited, it would be considered statutory rape.*
* *In 2021, a woman accused Diplo of forcing her into oral sex. She withdrew the lawsuit ten days later. It’s not clear if there was a settlement involved.*
* *In 2023, Shelly Auguste refiled her case with the LAPD after allegedly being sent revenge porn of herself recorded by Diplo. The case is currently being reviewed.*
I’m honestly so dissapointed, half of their fandom is the demographic this man preyed upon. don’t say you care about your fans if you are gonna do this, hybe seriously couldn’t do a check on if a producer has any past controversies…
Edit: Hope this is better :))
Nooooo Namjoon 😭
Yuck.
oh that’s not..
Brooo what are we doing????
I don’t fully understand the situation but right now is just not the time to be posting about him. Like cmon now
I love Namjoon but sharing this…and he’s on five songs too…ugh 😕
Does he not Google….
Hmm, I didn’t know much but reading the comments here, I wish they stayed away from associating with him, proven allegations or not. For an album named Arirang, they already had all they needed even without a mainstream name credited 😞
Ahhhhh, I love you RM but this is driving me crazy?! So many years of being an ARMY and I think this is the most upset I’ve ever been at something the guys have done.
Namjoon always tries to better himself, be socially conscious. He educates himself. But here we are.
Now, I don’t like seeing BTS get hate. Obviously. But this is something they genuinely deserve criticism for, and I really really hope that they’ll see it and reflect.
Namjoon shouldn’t have reposted this on his stories and given it validation. They’ve known him a long time, fine. But he should not publicize that relationship because it’s nothing to be proud of.
Comments on the actual post glazing and being kind to that pos too 🤮🤮🤮
I am…underwhelmed, to put it nicely.
I’m already miffed about the posts on insta etc that include the music of Chris Brown, because it kinda sends the signal of “doesn’t matter what the person does if they write a bop”, like yes it tells me that if something like that happened to me, you’d still listen to the bop the perpetrator published. 🤐
And with CB, it’s like…not that hidden history or alleged, we’ve all seen the fallout and/or it comes up regularly.
With Diplo, I don’t know about the court cases that were filed. I am a strong “always believe the victim first”, but due to my line of work, I also know that exactly this thinking can be used by people for their narrative. I know the system is flawed against the victim, too.
Its complicated. But I’m pretty sure it would be less complicated to find good people to work with who don’t have allegations against them.
Overall, …man, I am very much in the political left scene and know that esp men who talk a lot about women rights etc are somehow blind to the actual reality, when it comes to their friends / acquaintances being potential perpetrators, and I’m tired of women being forced into the role of the educator, and being positioned to explain why women are…people, persons etc.
So yeah…underwhelmed.
There are no excuses, Namjoon knows the language, is in tune with the industry and is far too intelligent to be posting this. I am extremely disappointed.