aespa member Ningning's choice of Instagram profile picture has drawn online attention.
The verified Instagram account associated with Ningning, operating under the handle "imnotningning" with 11.3 million followers, features a profile picture depicting a hand raising its middle finger.
Netizen Reactions
The sampled discussion shows a sharply divided public reaction to the profile picture, featuring contrasting viewpoints, criticisms, and defenses among users.
1. Why are the Chinese members literally all like that?
2. The ones bashing Ningning as a Chinese person are definitely those older male fans. I screenshotted comments written by them, and they always mock people like this. Their tone is basically a fingerprint—it's that signature old-man tone typical of male-dominated online communities (originating from the Girls Planet Gallery).
3. Male idols can literally flip the middle finger themselves in their own self-produced content and laugh about it without getting flak, but female idols get cursed at just for having a profile picture like that as a joke lol.
4. So vulgar and completely classless... They probably think acting like that makes them look confident and cool.
5. If you watch Ningning on 'Nothing Much Prepared', you can really feel what a great person she is. People on Pann just blindly trash her for being Chinese, but she's actually one of the few Chinese idols who has never posted anything about Chinese nationalism. She gets dragged on Pann just for being Chinese without having done anything wrong.
6. She didn't cause a massive scandal like drunk driving, sex crimes, or character controversies the way male idols do, so what does this even matter?? Or are people just upset that their favorite oppas are the only ones getting cursed at, so they're dragging female idols into it to get them cursed at too?
7. Just thought of this out of nowhere.......... If IVE members had changed their profile pictures to a middle finger, flipped off a friend in the fan seats during a concert, or made that specific face while flashing a V-sign for a music show ending fairy pose, they would've been blacklisted from the idol scene by now, right? ã…
8. Love it so much lmaoooooo
9. Male idols literally flip the middle finger themselves and people fawn over them calling them cute, though?
10. What is she even doing lol. Honestly, seeing public figures act like that looks so damn bad.
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