{"id":74317,"date":"2023-06-25T09:59:29","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T16:59:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=74317"},"modified":"2023-06-25T09:59:29","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T16:59:29","slug":"hybe-under-fire-for-excessive-editing-of-bts-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/hybe-under-fire-for-excessive-editing-of-bts-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"HYBE under fire for excessive editing of BTS photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>HYBE<\/strong>, a South Korean music event management and production company, and which through one of its subsidiaries, <strong>Big Hit Music agency<\/strong>, represents one of the most important groups in the K-Pop industry, <strong>BTS<\/strong>, for which it is currently under fire for excessive photo editing.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, the K-Pop boy group celebrated its 10th debut <strong>anniversary<\/strong>, for this important occasion the members surprised their fans by announcing their book titled &#8216;<strong>Beyong the Story: 10-Years Record of BTS<\/strong>&#8216;, a project that many were looking forward to.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74319\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/HYBE-receive-criticism-for-excessive-editing-this-BTS-photos.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" title=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/HYBE-receive-criticism-for-excessive-editing-this-BTS-photos.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/HYBE-receive-criticism-for-excessive-editing-this-BTS-photos-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/HYBE-receive-criticism-for-excessive-editing-this-BTS-photos-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/HYBE-receive-criticism-for-excessive-editing-this-BTS-photos-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/HYBE-receive-criticism-for-excessive-editing-this-BTS-photos-75x75.jpg 75w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/HYBE-receive-criticism-for-excessive-editing-this-BTS-photos-350x350.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/HYBE-receive-criticism-for-excessive-editing-this-BTS-photos-750x750.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although this release excited all of ARMY, some couldn&#8217;t let go of the excessive editing in the photos that the company made. The <strong>cover<\/strong> photo released of the South Korean septet&#8217;s book has received numerous <strong>criticisms<\/strong> on social media claiming that they look too <strong>white<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>For this reason HYBE is under fire during the release of their long-awaited book. Also, because the idols have been in charge of sharing unedited photos in the past where they show their natural <strong>skin<\/strong> <strong>tones<\/strong>, and they have been promoting self-love since their inception.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/meruroo_\/status\/1671503352335564801\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Is it so hard to not edit their skin tones&#8230;? :\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DsFV1Ij6ia\">https:\/\/t.co\/DsFV1Ij6ia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YDZwVkkday\">pic.twitter.com\/YDZwVkkday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; meru \u2077 \ud83c\udf83 (@meruroo_) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/meruroo_\/status\/1671503352335564801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 21, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/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 hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wayjks\/status\/1671173836589481989\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">STOP WHITEWASHING THEM<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PCKRWYhL18\">pic.twitter.com\/PCKRWYhL18<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Gqgk7SquqD\">https:\/\/t.co\/Gqgk7SquqD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud835\udca5 (@wayjks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wayjks\/status\/1671173836589481989?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 20, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>On social media, many fans of the group have responded to the agency&#8217;s post of the cover photo on BTS&#8217; official account, asking them to stop <strong>bleaching<\/strong> the boys&#8217; skin in their edits and that they wish to see their true skin tones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYBE, a South Korean music event management and production company, and which through one of its subsidiaries, Big Hit Music agency, represents one of the most important groups in the K-Pop industry, BTS, for which it is currently under fire for excessive photo editing. Recently, the K-Pop boy group celebrated its 10th debut anniversary, for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2817,"featured_media":74320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7,1361],"tags":[49,1414],"class_list":{"0":"post-74317","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kpop","8":"category-news","9":"category-social-network","10":"tag-bts","11":"tag-hybe"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74317","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=74317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}