After their commented appearance at the 2025 MTV VMAs, KATSEYE‘s Yoonchae receives criticism on networks for her reaction to a question about gays that even turns into homophobic accusations among fans and netizens.
During their way through the red carpet of the event that was held on September 7th, the girls were asked about what their message to the gay people was, to which Manon answered for all of them, saying, “We love the gays”.
The rest of the girls of KATSEYE support this statement by yelling with enthusiasm, but netizens quickly noticed that Yoonchae didn’t say anything and just kept it simple with a surprised smile at the reaction of her members.
KATSEYE SAYING THEY LOVE THE GAYS 😭😭😭 pic.twitter.com/ox3mQP3Ms3
— rin 𐙚 (@mycatzeye) September 8, 2025
On networks fans reacted with comments like “Well it doesn’t seem like they ALL love the gays..”, “yoonchae never beating the koreans are homophobic statement HDIFKFKKDKSK”, “yoonchae: we?”, “🚨YOONCHAE FROM KATSEYE IS HOMOPHOBIC🚨”, “Yoonchae be like “yeah we don’t do that in korea” 😭😭😭”.
While others defend the artist, saying, “yoonchae thinking thegays is the new hybe group”, “yoonchae’s just a lil shy 😭”, “Yoonchip’s just happy to be there”, “yoonchae’s face 😭 i’m crying i love her”, “it’s all fun and giggle but i can’t let y’all misconstrue my himejoshi queen yoonchae!!”.
