{"id":140330,"date":"2025-04-05T10:20:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T17:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=140330"},"modified":"2025-04-05T10:20:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T17:20:35","slug":"kiss-of-life-drops-thousands-of-followers-after-racial-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/kiss-of-life-drops-thousands-of-followers-after-racial-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"KISS OF LIFE drops thousands of followers after racial controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KISS OF LIFE<\/strong> has faced a backlash on social media, losing nearly 200,000 followers in just two days after a controversial April 2, 2025, birthday livestream. The group tried to showcase \u201c<strong>old-school hip-hop vibes,<\/strong>\u201d but critics and fans alike accused them of disrespecting <strong>Black<\/strong> and<strong> Latino cultures<\/strong>. Member Belle\u2019s Cholo-inspired outfit and her \u201cTaco Belle\u201d nickname fueled the outrage. Meanwhile, the rest of the members dressing up like black rappers caused major controversy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheFlopKpop\/status\/1907444055404908707\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheFlopKpop\/status\/1907444055404908707<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Within 48 hours, their <strong>TikTok<\/strong> was down by 100,000 followers, and<strong> Instagram<\/strong> reported a loss of 78,438. By April 3, they had already lost 56,172 followers, followed by another 22,266 on April 4. YouTube saw an 8,000-subscriber drop. Similarly, their fan pages on<strong> X<\/strong> and other sites decided to close. Some fans demanded a direct apology from each member, feeling the agency\u2019s official statement wasn\u2019t enough to repair the damage.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kiofsfilm\/status\/1907742506260816022\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">accurate translation of the company&#39;s apology. (english\/spanish)<\/p>\n<p>we can still ask for apologies from the members themselves. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DQYYvnCHkP\">https:\/\/t.co\/DQYYvnCHkP<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9JTKFTL33V\">pic.twitter.com\/9JTKFTL33V<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; kiss of life archive \ud83d\udc8b (@kiofsfilm) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kiofsfilm\/status\/1907742506260816022?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 3, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>S2 Entertainment<\/strong>\u2019s apology acknowledged the issue and said they only wanted to honor hip-hop\u2019s influence on KISS OF LIFE\u2019s music. Still, people believe the group needs to address fans more personally. Whether KISS OF LIFE can bounce back from this drama remains a big question for fans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KISS OF LIFE has faced a backlash on social media, losing nearly 200,000 followers in just two days after a controversial April 2, 2025, birthday livestream. The group tried to showcase \u201cold-school hip-hop vibes,\u201d but critics and fans alike accused them of disrespecting Black and Latino cultures. Member Belle\u2019s Cholo-inspired outfit and her \u201cTaco Belle\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":140334,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-140330","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140330","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=140330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140330"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=140330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}