{"id":126268,"date":"2024-09-05T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2024-09-05T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=126268"},"modified":"2024-09-05T08:45:02","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T15:45:02","slug":"former-nct-member-taeil-goes-online-amid-controversy-due-to-sex-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/former-nct-member-taeil-goes-online-amid-controversy-due-to-sex-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NCT member Taeil goes online amid controversy due to sex crime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Taeil, the former member of NCT, has recently made his first online move following a huge controversy<\/strong>. On September 4, the idol took to<strong> Instagram<\/strong> and went into digital hiding, making his profile private. The account, which has approximately 4.9 million followers, has seen a rapid decline in popularity after Taeil&#8217;s involvement in a sexual offense case.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1831405893654925451\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Taeil has now made his Instagram private following his involvement in a sex crime case.<\/p>\n<p>He has lost nearly 1 million followers since the news broke. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b7MYtYh5uK\">pic.twitter.com\/b7MYtYh5uK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Pop Base (@PopBase) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PopBase\/status\/1831405893654925451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This virtual move also comes just days after <strong>SM Entertainment<\/strong> announced that Taeil would no longer be part of NCT due to the aforementioned criminal offense. The company made it clear that the former member would no longer participate in the group and confirmed the authorities are investigating the case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/truzfilm\/status\/1828733264787657155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/truzfilm\/status\/1828733264787657155<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Following this confirmation, most <strong>NCT members<\/strong> unfollowed Taeil on social media, and fan reactions were quick and intense. NCTzens (that&#8217;s the name NCT fans have) decided to collectively unfollow the idol, making the following number drop by over a million, several fan pages shut down and some others destroyed Taeil&#8217;s merch in protest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taeil, the former member of NCT, has recently made his first online move following a huge controversy. On September 4, the idol took to Instagram and went into digital hiding, making his profile private. The account, which has approximately 4.9 million followers, has seen a rapid decline in popularity after Taeil&#8217;s involvement in a sexual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":126273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[938],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-126268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"tag-nct"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126268","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\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126268"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=126268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}