Monica, who gained great popularity by appearing on Mnet’s ‘Street Woman Fighter’, was caught up in the ‘Poppin Controversy’ at an unexpected time. Capture of Mnet’s ‘Street Woman Fighter’
After the dancer Monica (Shin Jung-woo) explained the genre of dance on an entertainment program, the term ‘poppin’ is spreading as a controversy over other dancers. Hundreds of dancers posted posts on social networking services (SNS) pointing out that Monica’s remarks were incorrect. However, netizens are criticizing the dancers for cyber bullying (an act of group bullying or persistent bullying of a specific person on the Internet) towards Monica.
① Dancers pointed out “too much wrong information” in Monica’s dance description
In an entertainment program, dancer Monica mentioned ‘poppin’ while explaining the dance genre, but the dancers are being pointed out. Captured from JTBC’s ‘Knowing Bros’
Monica explained various genres of dance such as poppin, krump, rocking, and house in the JTBC entertainment program ‘Knowing Bros’, which aired on the 20th. Regarding poppin, he said, “All movements of pop are called popping, and they are also called poppins by subtracting the G from here.” He introduced the house as the only genre derived from electronic music.
On the 22nd after the broadcast, several street dancers mentioned the scene of the broadcast through their Instagram stories, pointing out that the explanation was incorrect. The dancers criticized Monica for telling the truth, saying that the exact name of the dance style Monica introduced as poppin was ‘popping’, not ‘poppin’. Also, contrary to Monica’s explanation, the essence of house dance is club dance, not street dance, and Monica said that rocking, which is 100 years old, started in the 1970s.
Instagram stories of dancers pointing out Monica’s remarks. online community capture
One dancer posted a screen capture of Monica’s broadcast, saying, “How can you give so much wrong information…”, while another dancer said, “Who wrote the script for Monica unnie?” “I am embarrassed because there is so much wrong information.” said “Most of them are non-street dancers” and “Please don’t recklessly talk about other genres if you’re a dancer who isn’t your main genre.”
② Netizen “Dancers create a nonsensical controversy because of their inferiority complex”
Netizens are showing negative reactions to the dancers who pointed out Monica’s remarks. online community capture
Netizens are criticizing the dancers who pointed out Monica in the untimely street dance genre controversy. The reaction to criticizing the dancers is fierce, with several related posts on various online communities becoming popular articles and more than 2,000 comments. Netizens reacted, saying, “The group is cyberbullying Monica by creating a nonsensical controversy.” Numerous dancers are criticizing one Monica by posting comments pointing out at the same time as if it were a coincidence.
Netizens commented, “Now, thanks to Supa, the dance itself is attracting attention… Such strange people are making a fuss with an explosion of inferiority”, “And what are you doing in a real group? Aren’t you ashamed of doing this like a bullying). In addition, the dancers who posted intellectual comments found SNS posts and lectures marked with ‘poppin’ in the past, organized and shared evidence that refutes the dancers’ claims, and criticized them for “creating a controversy with nonsense.”
③ Angry netizens and dancers wage a war of words on SNS
When netizens criticize the intellectual comments on social media, netizens and some dancers are arguing. online community capture
The controversy has sparked a war of words between the dancers and netizens. When netizens responded by sending SNS messages directly to the dancers, the dancers published them on their SNS, mocking them, and even wrestling with comments and messages. One dancer made the public opinion worse by posting, “Oh, I’d be halfway there if the public didn’t know about it.”
In addition, netizens in an online community made and shared a list of about 100 dancers who agreed with the point towards Monica. Some of the dancers mocked this, saying, “Please put me on the blacklist,” and mentioned the name of a specific online community. In particular, one dancer became controversial by posting excessively abusive comments to netizens who criticized her.
Some of the dancers reacted by shifting the blame to Monica when netizens strongly criticized the controversy. One dancer said, “Is it okay for my colleagues to not eat because of me?” and “If you have made the situation like this, please fix it quickly.”
④ Poppin Hyun-jun, even the creator of Popping, was summoned in the ‘Poppin controversy’
A video that dancer Poppin Hyun-jun posted on his YouTube channel about the ‘Poppin controversy’. Poppin Hyunjun Youtube Capture
Meanwhile, a netizen sent an e-mail to poppin Hyun-jun, a famous dancer, asking about the term ‘poppin’. In the reply e-mail released by a netizen, Hyunjun Poppin replied, “Everything is a problem” and “Popping or Poppin are both the same.” On his SNS on the 23rd, he said, “Popping can be written as poppin. You can also say ‘poppin’ by subtracting the ‘g’ from ‘ing’. I have to say,” he said.
In addition, he added hashtags such as “#what a doubleheondi” and “#poppindungeon” to the post to indirectly express that it was an unnecessary debate. On the YouTube video that he posted on the 24th, he said, “As a senior, I ask that you, as a senior, apologize promptly and respectfully to those who shot someone with cyberbullying.”
A message with the dancer Timothy Solomon, known as the creator of poppin, released by a netizen. online community capture
Nevertheless, as the controversy continued, a netizen released an answer to a question asked by an SNS message from Timothy Solomon, the founder of Popping Dance and a dancer known as Popin ‘Pete. A netizen took a screenshot of the direct message exchange and presented it as evidence, saying, “G may be disqualified due to silence, so it may sound like a poppin, but it should be officially used as ‘popping’.”
Also, when Korean dancers claim that they use ‘poppin’ in their nicknames, but ‘popping’ is correct as a dance term, he replied, “You shouldn’t use ‘poppin’ in nicknames as well.” Regarding the position that Korean dancers used ‘poppin’ interchangeably because the term was not established in the past, he said, “‘Popping’ has been ‘popping’ since 1977, when the genre was founded.
Hyerin Jeong Intern reporter
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