Blackpink performing on stage during the 2019 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival in California. Photo: Getty Images
With Blackpink’s ‘protest trucks’, have K-pop fans gone too far?
- Active fandoms have long played a major role in helping promote K-pop globally, but social media fan groups are increasingly taking their activism offline
- In March alone, three convoys of trucks were sent to the headquarters of YG Entertainment – Blackpink’s agency – to demand changes in the way the girl group is managed
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Blackpink performing on stage during the 2019 Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival in California. Photo: Getty Images