Jay Park Response To Tweet Asking “Wanna Date?” Becomes Controversial
Jay Park recently opened up his Twitter account to an #askJAYPARK session, where fans can tweet him any questions they may have.
#askJAYPARK right now lets go
— JAY BUM PARK (@JAYBUMAOM) December 12, 2018
One of the questions was a fan by the handle @heavenlyjjk, who asked if Jay wanted to date.
#askJAYPARK wanna date?😜
— bethany (@heavenlyjjk) December 12, 2018
Jay Park responded to the question by pointing out that the handle had the photo of a male (BTS‘s Jungkook to be exact) as its profile picture.
bro ur profile pic is a dude lol https://t.co/fuldS4pr4u
— JAY BUM PARK (@JAYBUMAOM) December 12, 2018
Netizens began criticizing Jay Park for his choice of words, suggesting that he was closed minded.
The heterosexuality in this post pic.twitter.com/3dM7SaalOf
— 𝑀𝑜 (@lovelyhyungline) December 12, 2018
Its 2018 jaebum get woke
— 🧁 mila (@taemjoon876) December 12, 2018
This ain’t it my man. It’s cool if that’s not your thing but your words… try harder.
— 💜Jen- BTSxARMY💜 (@JiminsBookmark) December 12, 2018
lmao so funny how can a man ever date another man hahah loving this humour amazing fantastic hahah lmfao so funny i cant
— 🏳️🌈 nookie the queer mess (@gulabjungoo) December 12, 2018
— hailbam ♡ xiao 🤩 (@2jaebamminuho) December 12, 2018
On the other hand, many fans defended Jay Park by emphasizing how he uses his platform to raise awareness for current societal issues.
before y’all even COME for Jay Park! He’s a woke legend who uses his platform to talk abt issues pic.twitter.com/lGh2UjCzoJ
— stan LOONA✨ (@Hipnlips) December 12, 2018
Despite the sparked debate, @heavenlyjjk responded to Jay’s tweet with the simplest question. Jay Park has yet to respond further to the thread.
and what about it?
— bethany (@heavenlyjjk) December 12, 2018
And @heavenlyjjk advocates that there’s no problem with Jay’s tweets, and is apologetic towards having caused a “controversy”.
i hate that i caused controversy https://t.co/qMp0OXx6VG
— bethany (@heavenlyjjk) December 12, 2018