On January 28, a Bestiz post titled, "The thoughtless people who cursed at Girl's Day's faces today," brought attention to this fancam. In the clip shown above (note: the uploader of the video above has now replaced the original audio with music possibly due to negative comments), the members can be seen posing for the cameras on the red carpet. As they pose, people from the crowd are heard screaming angrily at them, saying various swear words such as, "Get out you b*tch!" as well as rudely shouting at them, "Hey, what are you!" and "Hey you!"
Some netizens have pointed out that the Girl's Day members appear to be uncomfortable in the video as if they are aware that they are being insulted. While Sojin appears shaken from the beginning of the video, Yura looks around nervously when the girls are taking pictures.
Other fancams of the same incident have also been uploaded. In the first clip shown below, at the 0:22 mark, a fan can be heard screaming, "Get out, get out, get out! (Naga, naga, naga!)" In the second clip shown below, at the 0:16 mark, fans can be heard murmuring Sojin's name as well as mentioning an "oppa." At the 0:23 mark, a fan asks, "How could [she/they] come out?"
The netizen who originally made the post writes, "The people who attended 'The 4th GAON Kpop Awards' red carpet, please apologize via Twitter or some online community. [To everyone else], reply with which fandom you think they're from."
While some netizens were unable to guess as to which fandom the swearing crowd belonged, the boy group EXO was brought up repeatedly among the comments. Netizens speculate EXO-Ls (EXO fans) were the ones swearing at Girl's Day due to recent rumors of Sojin and EXO member D.O. dating. EXO-Ls were also believed to have driven Sojin to make her Instagram private just a few weeks ago.
This speculated behavior is leading netizens to compare EXO fans to members of Ilbe, an internet humor site known to use its freedom of speech to say and do controversial things.
Netizen comments read, "I wonder if the EXO fans will come out again saying there's no evidence that it's them, just like with the ticketing controversy," "Does calling yourself a good EXO fan mean being comparable to an Ilbe member?" and, "We should call these fans EX-be (combination of EXO and Ilbe), what else could we call them? There should be a distinction between EXO-Ls and EX-bes. Those who sacrifice even their sanity to their oppas and will show that anywhere are EX-bes. EXO can cause this much of a social phenomenon."
Updated with original fancam from Daum:
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