On April 18, a media outlet directed attention to EXO's Suho, who had recently released his second mini-album 'Grey Suit' and held a fan sign event.
Top Star News quoted Suho and published an article with a rather stimulating title that said, "EXO's Suho makes an eye-catching remark that 'Idols these days are lazy'." According to the article's title, Suho pointed out how "idols are lazy these days." At first glance, it sounds like Suho is just criticizing the idols who have debuted recently, but there was a deeper message he wanted to convey, and also he said the phrase as a joke.
According to the full article, Suho explained, "To be honest, I don't think this is such a grand event. I thought this was an event everyone does. I think idols are lazy these days. Or maybe the agencies are the problem. Companies are getting bigger and the idol market is becoming crowded so I feel they (the agencies) can't pay attention to the details, which is unfortunate."
However, as attention gathered to Suho about this comment, fans went on online communities to defend the idol. These fans explained that Suho just said the phrase as a joke, and his explanation was sort of true.
These fans commented, "I first saw the title of the article and was like 'what?' but it was just clickbait," "Suho just said that as a joke. lol," "What he said is kind of true though, the market did get saturated and companies can't pay attention to the details either," "What he said wasn't that bad," "He wasn't saying that about rookie idols," "These trash journalists are so funny," "Wow, this post as over 2000 comments," "He was just joking, why are people attacking him so much?" and "It's so obvious that he said this playfully. Nothing to get mad about."
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For more context:
During his fan meet he made a 9 line acrostic poem on a pc. The fans at the fan meet were surprised and amazed because this was new to them. Suho was surprised that the fans were surprised because he thought other idols have done it too. He didn't think it wasn't something to be impressed about as he just wants to give fans happy memories and do everything he can to give a good experience.
In the context of this whole situation, I think he joked about idols being too lazy nowadays and joked about the industry being too crowded because fans shouldn't be blown away as something simple as a 9 line poem. He's implying that due to the saturation of the k-pop industry and with how quick the market moves, companies and idols alike are starting to pay less attention to small details such as giving fans a genuine great time.