And netizens and saesangs taking a toll on their mental health 🐘🚪

Check ENO'Clock Episode 81.

Yeah... really really really miss Bangtan... 

That's an estimate.  You can check how it's calculated in my post in this thread which sources the application's methodology from the one who wrote it.  And then how trolls and online attackers can use this to manipulate the estimated dislike stats.

Clarification: They take the number of likes in the public like count. They know the number of users subscribed to the Chrome extension. Using that SMALL SAMPLE of K-netizens who subscribed to the extension, they calculate the ratio of like vs. dislikes... and THEN multiply it by the actual number of likes.

Hence it is very prone to distortion. What we do know is there's a lot of antis and troll accounts who did subscribe to that extention and can use that to manipulate the "dislike" count.

Obviously, the API didn't manage to hack the YouTube server with a cybersecurity/privacy breach.

Thanks troll, they did not. I am beginning to think that was for investors as they continue to pursue legal action.

 If you check my comment on the other thread, I believe that there’s a coordinated online attack going on that video and on multiple sites with a deliberate strategy to manipulate and misinform the public

it’s no different from the brainwashing tactics used by QAnon

Facebook has banned such content but Koop sites are under less scrutiny 

I rather not go into TLDR here.  Suggest you check the original video.  Most journalists add their own spin into things when publishing sometimes to attract views.

Hello readers, I found the answer on GitHub.  As this video was created after YouTube has disabled the dislike stats, it's an estimate that uses statistics on whether the users were already positive or negative to begin with, watching the video.

Conclusion:  There's probably a lot of anti-HYBE trolls watching that one.

https://github.com/Anarios/ret...

Which planet are you on?  It's pro-MHJ and BTS ex HYBE (at least for now).  It's just more subtle about it.  Koreaboo is just a lot more in your face.

Just installed that too.. thanks!!

Any idea how we know if that indicator is accurate and not an estimate?

I think they opened up a can of worms on Kpop. Essentially everyone is referencing and retrofitting everyone else. I have no illusion kpop is manufactured. Even BTS didn't like Dynamite that much but it was selling so they kept going until they timed out and gave us the IDGAF about charting tracks.

It tells me the market is hitting saturation, not only of the customers where sales are down, but also of ideas. That includes but doesn't limit to New Jeans which references western girl groups in the 90s with a Korean ideal type makeover. I mean how many audition programs have we been through by now?

I wouldn't say that NJ was the protagonist in the video -- they were showing how ILLIT had very specifically avoided copying New Jeans. Whether people want to believe it is another matter.

Trivia: ILLIT was supposed to debut with six girls.  One of them allegedly was forced to quit just before debut.  She was a Source trainee.

I suggest you just listen to the actual video without any pre-existing bias. The whole thing was the normal day staffs who were in the creative, styling and operations teams, explaining their creative process, and putting out the facts that they were intentionally AVOID clashing with New Jeans concept wise.