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jTBC investigates digital sajaegi factories
Article: 'News Room' investigates digital sajaegi
Source: X Sports News via Naver
jTBC went behind the scenes of how digital sajaegi happens and found that sajaegi companies would use hundreds of cell phones in a factory to stream a song on top of using thousands of fake IDs that are only fans of one specific artist.
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1. [+4,256, -663] Honestly, the first singer they mentioned was a rookie boy group from a huge agency who ranked #1 in just an hour. They blurred out the album picture but it's undeniably iKON...
2. [+4,076, -1,076] It's iKON. YG's always acting so confident but look at them acting so dirty behind our backs.
3. [+3,765, -1,138] Judging by the album picture, it's iKON. No wonder their song sucked but it was still ranked #1.
4. [+3,023, -714] Don't know if it's iKON or not but the news segment made it seem like the large agency was operating this on a huge level... there were facts to it. Sigh, what a disappointment.
5. [+1,282, -280] I knew it was suspicious that no matter how big of an agency a rookie group came from, it's weird how they ranked #1 the minute their song came out because there are so many more digital users now...
6. [+1,101, -179] I really wish YG would clarify this, this is so disappointing if true
7. [+1,042, -134] I never knew sajaegi factories worked like this. Hundreds of smartphones...
8. [+1,149, -246] Hul... they go through all this just to be able to media play about that one moment their song was ranked #1.. basically a festival of who has more money
9. [+956, -88] For everyone who didn't watch the news segment, don't say that it's sajaegi when they showed fans streaming it ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ Son Suk Hee said that it doesn't matter if fans stream the song but it's a problem if companies are paying other companies to stream the song for them.
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Pann: This is the only proof they showed it was iKON on jTBC's digital sajaegi
1. [+136, -23] What iKON fans did was just stream as a group effort while the news segment showed that companies were paying factories to manipulate digital rankings. They didn't mention iKON at all but showed their album picture in a source screen which is why iKON is being suspected. People need to differentiate between fans streaming as a group and companies buying sajaegi.
2. [+121, -57] It's undeniably iKON
3. [+118, -57] Next sajaegi please
4. [+108, -7] Eh? Everyone's accusing iKON of sajaegi by just the pictures but iKON's picture was just used as an example
5. [+95, -6] They used iKON's picture as an example of fans streaming a song since their song is #1 lately. There isn't a fandom who doesn't group stream for their artist. iKON was never mentioned!!!
6. [+86, -2] Remember the industry went crazy last year because of sajaegi? And SM, YG, and JYP filed a lawsuit against digital sajaegi? That means it's impossible for the three to commit sajaegi themselves. iKON was used as an example of fans streaming the song...
7. [+77, -1] iKON was just used as an example in the beginning of fans streaming the song. Plus iKON's album cover has a white line in the middle of their album, not at the bottom.
8. [+55, -5] I'm worried about iKON's image at this point. Even if it's clarified later that this segment was a misunderstanding, people rarely read clarification posts. And that album cover has a white line at the bottom, doesn't iKON not have one? iKON was used as an example of fans streaming the album, which all male idol fandoms do...
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