According to an SBS report, fans of EXO are under fire for using illegal voting methods.
The 'Popularity Award' of the '33rd Golden Disc Awards' is solely decided on the number of votes. BTS was in the lead for the majority of the time but with only a few days left for the voting, EXO, who was behind in second place by thousands of votes, suddenly overcame BTS. Thousands of new IDs revealed to have been suddenly created in just a few hours for EXO votes. The fans would use stolen phone numbers and vote for EXO in the 'Golden Disc Awards' app.
As a result, EXO fans are accused of illegally creating IDs with these stolen phone numbers to increase votes. One of EXO's biggest fan club, EXO LAB with more than 170,000 followers, reportedly even encouraged others to use the illegal method to vote.
A fan of another fandom criticized EXO-Ls, stating, "The 'Popularity Award,' which needs to be 100% fair, was processed in an unfair way."
On December 31, the voting for 'Popularity Award' drew to a close. BTS ultimately took first place with 42.20% of the votes. EXO followed in second with 42.04%.
EXO did not win the 'Popularity Award,' however, fans of other fandoms are demanding an investigation into the matter. One fan stated, "Aside from the voting results, it's clear that the voting process was not fair. In order to revive the trust, they must carry on an investigation and make sure such an incident doesn't happen again."
Meanwhile, the '33rd Golden Disc Awards' is scheduled to take place on January 5-6.
SHARE
For Army who didn’t know what happened on the 31st December 2018. Yeay! we won the popularity voting for both GDA Korea (for k-army) and GDA Netease (for c-Army and i-army).
During the voting, exoL accused us on cheating by voting 11x per account. But exoL already know that the vip membership for netease account can vote 11x. Meaning, the voting 11x is LEGAL for premium account. Don’t worry Army, Netease Cloud has made statements that c-army and i-army didn’t’ cheat and have voted fairly in GDA Netease voting.
exoL hacked the gda voting system to vote illegally. ExoL violated the Korean Information Security Act including illegally stealing someone’s phone number. The person involved will hold legal responsibility for it. KARMA! According to the thread, ExoLab might be accountable for all these crimes and legal action should be taken. Eventhough BTS won, Army still want JUSTICE. exoL accused us because they wanted to hide their own crime.
c-Army said that they were also tempted to vote using ‘easier’ method but decided not to as this will only stain BTS. ARMY is the face of BTS. C-Army working hard for one month by putting honesty and integrity in the whole voting system. Statement from c-Army “EVERY VOTE IS FROM REAL HUMAN ARMY AND WE ARE CONFIDENT AND PROUD OF IT’. exoL spread rumors to discredit c-army’s effort. Losing vote is temporary but lying and and shading others after losing will just leave a permanent shade on your morality and character!
Shame on those who voted illegally and wrongly accused ARMYs, but please let's not act as if the whole EXO fandom is bad because of this or as if there was never any wrong done by ARMYs. There are stupid people in every fandom, so let's not always put the blame to or hate an entire fandom because of something like this.
I just don't want this to escalate into yet another fanwar.
If some ARMYs do anything that's wrong (which we sadly can't avoid from happening), you would surely not want other fandoms to generalize and hate all of us for the mistakes of others as well.
1 more reply