This is why I had the biggest WTF meme face when Jin was criticizing the whole voting manipulation thing like they haven't greatly benefitted from it themselves
THIS. I was thinking about that a few days ago. There is no way that groups or their companies don't actively keep up with the voting statistics before the actual awards are handed out. Therefor I assume they must be aware of it when some type of cheating is happening.
Since 2016 there have been so many instances that BTS won an award for which they did not match the criteria. Especially if it was against EXO and I have seen it with my own eyes.
I was actively involved in the voting process of the MAMA awards back in 2017. EXO was literally leading every poll they were nominated in. And they had the digitals and album sales to match the criteria. At that time they were still selling more albums than BTS. Literally everyone was anticipating big wins for exo. Even the whole venue was filled with EXO-L'S.
To everyone's surprise exo ended up taking home only one MAMA award. Someone said they saw some of the exo members crying backstage. And that's when that person knew something had gone completely wrong. But in front of the audiences they had to pretend everything was fine. Chanyeol, who had put a lot of effort in writing the lyrics on the Kokobop album was so hurt that he couldn't contain his tears. All their months long hard work had been disregarded in a single night.
That's why EXO doesn't show up to award shows anymore and the majority of EXO-L'S have stopped putting effort in voting.
The most unsetteling part of it all is that the BTS members were crying of happiness while receiving these "stolen" ( for a lack of a better word) awards with tears of joy. And there have been a few instances where you could clearly see the disbelief on their faces when they started winning many awards in 2016. There is no way BTS or Bighit didn't know that there was corruption.
To me it shows a deep lack of integrity and respect. I would rather quit being an idol than accept an award that I knew wasn't mine. The other groups worked hard too you know. Everyone in the K-pop industry has made their sacrifices. That's why I was so surprised that Jin was the one talking about chart manipulation. They contradict what they're saying by accepting those awards anyways.