Big Bang alumnus Top (Choi Seung-hyun) was cut off by a 20-year fandom eight days after he quickly confirmed his relationship with After School alum actress Nana. The position is that it was not about his relationship with Nana but about Top’s neglect of fans and unfair treatment by his agency.
ChoiSeungHyun.com, known as Top’s representative fan page, posted a long notice on the 10th and said, “We have decided to end the operation of ChoiSeungHyun.com because we can no longer tolerate Top and TOPSPOT PICTURES’ ignoring reality, shirking responsibility and treating fans’ devotion as something owed.”
ChoiSeungHyun.com was Top’s representative fan page and had been operated for 20 years. Until recently, it actively shared Top’s solo album and activity photos and held fan events. But eight days after Top and Nana acknowledged their relationship, it announced the end of operations and effectively declared a ‘cutoff’ from Top, drawing attention.
ChoiSeungHyun.com gave various reasons for withdrawing support from Top, whom it had supported for 20 years. They claimed that Top and his agency TOPSPOT PICTURES failed to provide basic channels needed for fan communication and support, saying, “As a result, inquiries from overseas fans poured in, and we ended up taking on the role of the channel between the company and fans. We requested the opening of an official inquiry e-mail, but it was never implemented.”
They added, “The agency treated the fan site like an operational channel, requesting deletion and modification of posts and photos whenever it was convenient,” and said, “Fans promoted the album themselves, translated content and worked to announce his new start. However, contrary to his promise to show a stage to fans first, he did not perform on stage even five months after the release, and communication and content were lacking.”
ChoiSeungHyun.com also complained that regarding the recent exhibition cancellation notice, because it was not an official event but something prepared with personal funds and time on a personal fan site, they disclosed the reservation status to take responsibility for cancellations and refunds, but were blamed for the matter.
In the end, they said they tried to resolve the issues but were met with neglect and blame, criticizing the agency’s response by saying, “They tried to avert attention while ignoring the core of the problem, and even that lacked sincerity.”
They said, “Fans’ silence was not ignorance but consideration and affection, and urging him to face reality came from the desire for his success,” and added, “Fans’ devotion is not the right of the artist or the agency; it is not something to be swallowed when sweet and spat out when bitter. I want to ask whether an artist’s face is more important than the feelings of fans who spent 20 years, time and money, supporting him.”
In particular, ChoiSeungHyun.com explained the reasons for ending operations, saying, “<a href="https://comicvibe.com/how-to-watch-and-stream-below-deck-season-13/” title=”How to Watch and Stream Below Deck Season 13″>Watching him for five months after the album release, he was different from the person we had known for the past 20 years. Each time we faced the gap between his promises and words and his actual actions, we persuaded ourselves with thoughts like ‘there must be circumstances we don’t know’ or ‘I misunderstood him.’ To keep believing him, we repeatedly spent our own time, money and effort to find reasons to accept it and comfort ourselves. After what happened this time, we could no longer ignore that contradiction.”
They continued, “His actions and activities ultimately seemed to be only for himself, and fans felt pushed out of that space,” and said, “Finally, to Top: I hope you do not isolate yourself among people who only tell you what you want to hear. An uncomfortable reality does not disappear if you ignore it.” ChoiSeungHyun.com said they had believed the promise to “repay fans’ love” and waited, but were left bitter as resentment rather than repayment returned.
However, ChoiSeungHyun.com emphasized that the page’s closure was not because of Nana. ChoiSeungHyun.com said, “Many fans, including us, knew about the two’s relationship before the YouTube content was filmed, but we did not mention it because it was their private life. Because there was almost no content after the album release, we welcomed even that video, which might have drawn accusations of ‘deception’ if it had been another artist.” They argued it is unfair to conclude that fans’ disappointment and the exhibition event cancellation were actions of fans angry about the relationship.
In the end, it was Top himself who drove away the fans who had supported him for 20 years. More than the agency’s inadequate fan communication and support, Top’s attitude toward long-time fans was a major problem. Even with the first solo album said to be ‘made for the fans,’ fans did not feel his heart. Instead, they suffered emotional wounds from resentment that returned when he ignored an uncomfortable reality and faced the truth. Top appears to need genuine sincerity that can consider the feelings of fans who poured 20 years into him.
Top’s agency TOPSPOT PICTURES ultimately issued an official statement that day, saying, “We deeply apologize to the fans who have waited for not sufficiently delivering news of activities and communication, which caused disappointment and regret,” and added, “Going forward, we will listen more closely to the opinions you send and actively reflect them in the artist’s activities and overall operations.”
[photo] OSEN DB, ChoiSeungHyun.com SNS.
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