It has caught the attention of netizens and officials at Gaon that there may have been some foul play involved in the popularity rankings chart for the upcoming Gaon Chart K-Pop Awards.
However, EXO-L's noticed something out of order around 3~5am KST on February 11, when there was a sudden increase in the votes for Big Bang, leading them to live capture this irregularity as it occurred in real-time.
Once this irregular voting process was finished, Big Bang's votes rose to nearly 75%, pushing EXO out of first place and topping the ranking in a matter of just a few hours.
EXO-L's, who found this abrupt surge in votes more than suspicious, submitted an inquiry to Gaon, who found that the irregular voting results was the doing of "Big Bang's Chinese fandom's unfair voting."
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Gaon immediately released a notice, which went:
"Hello, this is the administrator of Gaon Chart's '5th K-Pop Popularity Award.'
Around 1~5am on February 11, we confirmed that an area in China partook in unfair voting methods. We discovered that through abusing methods such as "Mission Charge" and "Fandom Mission," among others, at charging stations, they irregularly gained voting points.
Therefore, we will void all the points that are confirmed to be irregular votes, and afterwards, in order to prevent similar irregular voting from occurring, we will shut down 'Mission Charge' and 'Fandom Mission,' so we ask for your understanding.
We are currently in the process of working on revealing the number of votes obtained due to requests from numerous users, and starting at noon today, we plan to reveal the overall number and the daily number of votes for the third round of voting, so please take it into your consideration. Additionally, we would like to inform you that the Gaon popularity award app is being used worldwide, and the voting process in all areas will be accurately reflected according to the number of votes obtained.
We're incredibly sorry for causing distress to everyone who use the voting app.
We will take care of this mishap as soon as possible and revert the voting process back to normal.
Thank you."
The top comments on this post read, "If EXO-L's hadn't phoned an inquiry, then [Big Bang] would have won the award with the unfairly earned votes...forreals EXO-L's I really love you," "kekekekeke I can only laugh kekekekek," "Manipulation kekekekekekekeke it's already the second time," "Is it true that with Chanyeol's fans alone equal the entire Big Bang fandom in China?" "I'm an outside fan but really, this crossed the line. Congratulations EXO-L's!" and, "That fandom is always icky. Look at them using dirty means because they have no confidence in winning tsk tsk. I'm keeping my eye on you for the next time."
The 5th Gaon Chart K-Pop Awards is set to take place on February 17 at the Olympic Gymnastic Stadium in Seoul.
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