Giselle and a series of noisy mouths, discrimination of skin color, are considered "stepchildren" because of their rogue past?

Poor popularity since debut, so Giselle's entanglement in a series of noises and rumors made the female singer's career shaken. After a series of noises, Giselle owned few fans and was clearly discriminated against by SM, brands, and the media.

Giselle's real name is Uchinaga Aeri, she has two Japanese-Korean bloodlines and has lived for many years in the land of the rising sun, her father's hometown. The singer, born in 2000, attended Tokyo International School and Sacred Heart School before turning to pursue a professional music career in Korea.

As soon as SM company announced Giselle would be the 4th member of the aespa group, she was rejected and criticized by a part of fans. The reason is because many people think that the Japanese-born trainee has only trained at SM for only 11 short months, so it is not worthy to debut with the other members. Meanwhile, others criticized Giselle's lackluster appearance and slightly chubby body.

This wave of protests continued after aespa had debuted and created a certain resonance. Not only that, Giselle was later accused by some netizens of the "past". Many articles say that Giselle is a thug, uses drugs and has a messy life.

Giselle was later defended by a childhood friend, who confirmed that the singer was a great person and that the loss of contact with friends in Japan was due to her busy schedule when she first entered showbiz. In addition, this person added, Giselle's past "playful" photos were stolen and "manufactured" by those who spread false rumors. To date, there is still no evidence to confirm which side's argument is true.

And yet, Giselle's family background is also a hot topic of discussion on social networks. Someone has reviewed a post showing that famous journalist Cho Joo Hee once thanked her niece named Aeri (same name as Giselle) for sending a cake from Tokyo (Japan). The coincidence of the name and the location has sparked rumors that Giselle is Cho's nephew, a figure with a significant voice in the Korean entertainment industry, and a longtime "rumor lover" of the SM president. . Because of this detail, Giselle still has a reputation for being released thanks to her family relationship.

In October 2021, Giselle continued to become the focus of criticism when entangled in racist noise. Accordingly, a behind-the-scenes clip of aespa dancing and singing along to the song Love Galore, because Giselle was the only one who knew the lyrics, carelessly sang along but didn't notice that she had "lipsed" the whole sentence containing "N-word" " (words of racism, discrimination against people of color).

SM later hid this video on the YouTube platform, but this move was not fast enough to stop the storm of criticism from the international fan community, who thought that the young female singer insulted people of color and behaved unscrupulously. economic. In the face of a "storm" of criticism, Giselle chose to quickly speak up, through a letter posted on MXH:

Giselle wrote: "I apologize for uttering sensitive words in the lyrics in the behind-the-scenes video. I didn't intend to do it for any purpose but was swept away by the music of an artist's song that I didn't know. I love it. I sincerely apologize. I will try to learn and be more careful about my actions."

Not long after being caught up in the noise, a topic about Giselle (aespa) continued to attract attention on Korean social networks. Accordingly, netizens argued about a detail in Vogue's video when aespa toured the New York landscape at the Empire State Building, Giselle took a photo with her phone. She looked down and exclaimed, "If my phone falls down, I will go "follow" forever".

According to Korean netizens, Giselle used a sensitive word and avoided being mentioned in normal Korean communication. In addition, the fact that Giselle asked to "go" just because the phone fell also caused a lot of controversy.

Also because of the noisy series, Giselle gradually became the least popular member of the group because of few fans. Also from here, a series of controversies about Giselle being neglected and discriminated against by SM arose. On Korean online forums, posts show that aespa has a huge difference in popularity between the 4 members related to fancam views.

Accordingly, after 1 week, the leading member in terms of views is Karina with 591,000 views, the second is Winter with 515,000 views, and Ningning and Giselle have only 67,000 views and 52,000 views - equal to the fancams of the members. many less popular 4th gen groups. Immediately, a debate broke out whether this was an 'obvious' or 'harsh and unstable' difference within the aespa fandom.

It is known that fancam views are one of the clearest proofs of the popularity of Kpop idols. Some Knets think that maybe because Karina and Winter are Korean, they are more liked by Koreans. Meanwhile, Giselle has Japanese-Korean blood and Ningning is Chinese, so she will be more prejudiced and less suitable for Korean netizens.

Ever since SM released the initial images of aespa, Giselle was the member who received the most negative reactions and still is. For that reason, Giselle fans were extremely angry when the female idol was clearly discriminated against. In one, Giselle was even blurred by the press. Specifically, the article was about aespa on the way to the TV station and was supposed to just blur the faces of company employees. However, both newspapers carelessly covered Giselle's face because she was mistaken for an employee, not an idol.

Blurred face is not enough, in uploading aespa's performance photos, SBS failed to post pictures of only three members Karina, NingNing, Winter and forgetting Giselle. The female idol is also constantly being sidelined, even when performing on stage, she is much weaker than the other three members. There are comments that she is like the dancer behind the group.

In a promotional video that a big brand posted is 30 seconds long, but the scene where Giselle appears is only 1 second. Before that, another brand also misspelled the female idol's name as well as removed her hairstyle tutorial. Giselle's name was crossed out from the series of advertising images of two major brands.

Giselle also had to propose herself to SM about uploading her playlist to the music platform because fans couldn't find her name on the group's official account.

As a member of a big group from SM, while other beauties received attention and favor, Giselle was treated unfairly. Fans hope that next time, Giselle will be treated more fairly.