{"id":150676,"date":"2025-10-18T08:02:33","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=150676"},"modified":"2025-10-18T08:02:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:02:33","slug":"exo-kais-most-recently-used-emojis-sparked-a-heated-debate-among-k-netizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/exo-kais-most-recently-used-emojis-sparked-a-heated-debate-among-k-netizens\/","title":{"rendered":"EXO Kai\u2019s most recently used emojis sparked a heated debate among K-Netizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>EXO<\/strong>\u2019s <strong>Kai<\/strong> is currently in the eye of the hurricane for his latest actions in a new YouTube video. The idol was sent immediately to the scrutiny of the K-Netizens for his \u201cinappropriate\u201d use of emojis with his close ones.<\/p>\n<p>New behind-the-scenes footage from Kai\u2019s solo tour, <em>\u201cKAION\u201d<\/em> was released. The idol is seen sending messages to fans on Bubble, with his phone screen momentarily visible to the cameras. The most eagle-eyed fans shared a screenshot of the clip on different Online communities to show off his keyboard, which displays the <strong>emojis he\u2019s used most recently.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-150677\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EXO-Kai-used-black-characters-in-his-emojis-.jpg\" alt=\"The idol is using all tone varations and K-netizens are outraged with Kai\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EXO-Kai-used-black-characters-in-his-emojis-.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EXO-Kai-used-black-characters-in-his-emojis--300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EXO-Kai-used-black-characters-in-his-emojis--1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EXO-Kai-used-black-characters-in-his-emojis--768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EXO-Kai-used-black-characters-in-his-emojis--1100x733.jpg 1100w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EXO-Kai-used-black-characters-in-his-emojis--680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EXO-Kai-used-black-characters-in-his-emojis--200x133.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The emoji that brought the controversy included the <em>\u201cMan Gesturing OK\u201d<\/em> emoji, including all in different skin tone variations;<strong> he used the light, medium, and dark skin tone options<\/strong>. Despite the screenshot seeming innocuous, the emojis quickly sparked a<strong> heated debate<\/strong> among the K-Netizens.<\/p>\n<p>Some K-Netizens explained that <strong>Kai appropriated the icon as a way to seem trendy or funny despite not being part of the Black community<\/strong>. However, other fans argued that Kai has used multiple variations of the same emoji, without taking any of these in particular in a funny way. EXO\u2019s Kai has still not cleared the air on the ongoing drama. Stay tuned for further news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EXO\u2019s Kai is currently in the eye of the hurricane for his latest actions in a new YouTube video. The idol was sent immediately to the scrutiny of the K-Netizens for his \u201cinappropriate\u201d use of emojis with his close ones. New behind-the-scenes footage from Kai\u2019s solo tour, \u201cKAION\u201d was released. The idol is seen sending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3102,"featured_media":150679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16,7],"tags":[939],"class_list":{"0":"post-150676","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"category-news","10":"tag-exo"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150676","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\/3102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=150676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=150676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=150676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=150676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}