{"id":10467,"date":"2021-08-03T15:21:27","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T22:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=10467"},"modified":"2023-03-06T09:57:28","modified_gmt":"2023-03-06T17:57:28","slug":"10467","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/10467\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACKPINK on Weverse: Why were there complaints following the girlband&#8217;s membership?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At noon on August 2 (KST), <strong>BLACKPINK<\/strong> made their official entry to <strong>Weverse<\/strong>, a fan platform that also hosts <strong>BTS<\/strong>, <strong>TXT<\/strong>, <strong>SEVENTEEN<\/strong>, <strong>ENHYPEN<\/strong>, and more. However, one incident sparked complaints from users from other groups.<\/p>\n<p>HYBE&#8217;s Weverse is a social network-type app created two years ago, whose purpose is to be a link between <strong>artists<\/strong> and <strong>fans<\/strong>. Each group and fandom has its own space so that the user only receives <strong>notifications<\/strong> from the artists of their interest. Although some users had already reported receiving alerts from other idols before, this error was massive after the entry of BLACKPINK.<br \/>C<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">i didn&#39;t really sign up for Blackpink&#39;s weverse but why am i getting notifications? im little confused <\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ? (@vgukayo) <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I thought it was Jin notifications but then i see blackpink and Jennie and I\u2019m\u2014- ????????? NOT A MEMBER OF THEIR WEVERSE HELP <\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \uafc0\uc82c nei\u2077 (@honeyjamnamjoon) <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Why tf am I getting blackpink weverse notifications when I&#39;m not even in their weverse. This is annoying ? <\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aaria\u2077 (@a_btspopper) <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The girlband gathered more than 500,000 <strong>users<\/strong> in just half an hour and reached a million followers in just eight hours, the shortest time among all the groups that host the app. To kick off BLACKPINK&#8217;s space on Weverse, Jennie greeted her fans with a post. However, in addition to BLINK, fans of other groups started receiving notifications from the girlband and expressed their <strong>annoyance<\/strong> on social media.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \u064b (@pinkshvts) <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The word &#8220;<em><strong>Weverse<\/strong><\/em>&#8221; was a trend on Twitter due to reports and some users speculated that it was &#8220;<em><strong>advertising for the new income<\/strong><\/em>&#8220;. BLINK also raised concerns about the danger that this bug could create unnecessary fanwar with fandoms who don&#8217;t want to receive alerts from BLACKPINK at all.<\/p>\n<p>Then, after three hours, Weverse administrators sent a <strong>statement<\/strong> explaining that the <strong>incident<\/strong> was due to a glitch in the system. Although they avoided mentioning the name of the affected <strong>fandoms<\/strong>, the platform <strong>apologized<\/strong> to its users and reported that the problem was fixed.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<em><strong>We are very sorry for the error in the Weverse community notifications. On August 2, between 12.00 p.m. m. and 12:48 p.m. m., a crash occurred and some Weverse users who had the push notifications feature enabled received alerts for a space they were not subscribed to.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience to our users due to a temporary system error.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Weverse began the task of correcting the system as soon as the error was detected and the notification system is working normally.<\/p>\n<p> We are committed to continually correcting technical errors and monitoring the system.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Again, we are very sorry for the inconvenience caused to Weverse users and appreciate your understanding.<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">[ WEVERSE NOTICE]<\/p>\n<p>We apologize for Weverse community notifications error.<br \/>?<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BTS ARMY Malaysia ????\u2077 (@BTSMY_ARMY) <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At noon on August 2 (KST), BLACKPINK made their official entry to Weverse, a fan platform that also hosts BTS, TXT, SEVENTEEN, ENHYPEN, and more. However, one incident sparked complaints from users from other groups. HYBE&#8217;s Weverse is a social network-type app created two years ago, whose purpose is to be a link between artists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":10470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[17],"class_list":{"0":"post-10467","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"category-news","9":"tag-blackpink"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}