JBJ Fans Holds Silent Protest Begging For The Group’s Contract Extension
JBJ‘s fandom, Joyful, held a silent protest in front of FAVE Entertainment to plea for JBJ’s contract to be extended.
JBJ’s group activities are managed under FAVE Entertainment, which is a subsidiary of Loen Entertainment.
Throughout their promised 7-month contract, JBJ has had some wonderful achievements.
As a rookie group made of members from small companies, they sold over 130,000 copies of their first mini-album. Their second mini-album True Colors has already sold 110,000. JBJ won #1 on Music Bank 101 days into their debut, and sold out concerts and fanmeetings both in Korea and abroad.
The fans feel that they have produced results worthy of having the members’ contracts extended. The members themselves have expressed their sadness over their disbandment, and how happy they have been together.
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Fans have been working hard to trend various hashtags, to show Fave Entertainment as well as the individual companies of the members, that they desperately want JBJ’s contracts to be extended.
[‼️] OFFLINE + HASHTAG EVENT
Time: 2pm KST
Step 1 – Add "🌻" next to your name
Step 2 – write "절대멈추지 말자 우리" & your message OR bring different flowers to the event with hashtag #787년_연장해_바라기 (Hope to extend for 787 years) & post it on your SNS! #JBJ #FOREVER_787 pic.twitter.com/36I81skqnY— 🌻사랑해 JBJ🕺🏼크럼프소녀 🐿 (@roh_taedong) March 18, 2018
The hashtag “#FOREVER_787”, “#ONGOING_787” and more began trending on Twitter.
“We don't ask for forever. Please extend it to at least the end of the year as what you promised.” #지지않을별_787
— 둉🌻 (@don9HANS) March 16, 2018
To support JBJ’s contract extension #ONGOING_787 please put hashtag between sentences instead of elsewhere for better trending effect!!
— 喜欢可爱的龙国🌻 (@JlgYjsKdlPjh) March 18, 2018
The momentum continued with the fans’ silent protest as they gathered in front of the label with signs and flowers.
오늘 오프총공 폐회 직전 촬영한 영상입니다. 감사합니다. #ONGOING_787 pic.twitter.com/9MsGjWawNe
— JBJ 오프총공팀🌻 (@JBJ_notend) March 18, 2018
The fans held sunflowers, a nod to JBJ’s “Flower” and slogans that said “Request for JBJ’s Contract Extension.”
It’s clear that the CEO of FAVE Entertainment noticed them, as coffee was brought out for the fans — which they rejected.
[‼️] Some Joyfuls provided Vita500 for the other Joyfuls. They've rejected the coffee that the FAVE CEO provided. Currently, they'll be taking a break and will finish the last hour of protest soon. Good luck kJoyfuls 🌻💛 #후회없이_연장해
— 🌻사랑해 JBJ🕺🏼크럼프소녀 🐿 (@roh_taedong) March 18, 2018
The protest was washed out because of the rain, however they stood their ground for about 3 hours. They left the protest area looking pristine.
[‼️] So proud of kJoyfuls because this is how the ground looked like AFTER the protest. No trash, no garbage left behind!! Well done 🙌🏻🙌🏻 #후회없이_연장해 pic.twitter.com/jAaQK8csH4
— 🌻사랑해 JBJ🕺🏼크럼프소녀 🐿 (@roh_taedong) March 18, 2018
Although FAVE Entertainment hasn’t made any statements regarding the protest or a possible extension, the K-Pop community is in full support of the Joyfuls’ peaceful protests.
