Asian Junkie Asian pop. Without discretion.
After I published my opinion yesterday about many K-pop fans bizarrely siding against journalist Jae-Ha Kim, journalist Tracy Robey chimed in by adding her experience in being threatened with a lawsuit by a Korean company for her reporting.
https://twitter.com/fanserviced/status/939920263730417665
It's mentioned in this article, which made it past Vox Media's lawyers. https://t.co/MPPHBQqshr
— Tracy E. Robey (@fanserviced) December 10, 2017
Just because throwing lawsuit threats into emails with journalists sounds absolutely batshit to YOU does not mean it doesn't happen. Korean media culture is apparently different.
— Tracy E. Robey (@fanserviced) December 10, 2017
If the idea of journalists being threatened with lawsuits for writing factual stories bothers you, please direct your efforts toward protecting free speech laws in your own country.
— Tracy E. Robey (@fanserviced) December 10, 2017
So as I said, the threat of a lawsuit in situations like this is used as a cudgel to censor speech companies don’t want, not as some kind of valiant protection apparatus for oppar/unnir. Thing is, I doubt anybody would go hard to stan for the beauty companie and against Tracy’s truthful reporting on the sanitation concerns of sheet masks, right? Hm, wonder why?
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Anyway, thought it was an interesting parallel from a different industry that could help K-pop fans understand my concerns.
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But honestly? The main reason I’m writing this follow-up of sorts is that at least a few people seemed to interpret her tweets as throwing shade at me, with one person even taking to OneHallyu to highlight Tracy calling me out (!!!) or something.
DAMN! WE GOT BEEF!
ASIAN JUNKIE GOT REKTTTTT!!!
Wait.
I was kind of puzzled how the tweets could be read any other way than how I read them initially, but after some mental gymnastics I could sorta see how it might’ve been shade and was intrigued to get the truth. So instead of starting a topic on a forum and speculating wildly, I shot Tracy a DM to ask about it and … yeah.
Oh.
To clarify, in case anyone got the wrong impression: I thought Asian Junkie's post was good and my intention was to add an on-the-record case of a k-company whipping out “lawsuit” reflexively the moment they encountered a journalist. This is not good practice; protect free speech
— Tracy E. Robey (@fanserviced) December 11, 2017
OH.
So, uh, that weird thing is settled definitively.
Anyway, thanks to Tracy for allowing me to use our convo and clarifying herself. Also, go read Tracy’s article, it’s quite interesting.
