An Argentinian Politician’s Past Xenophobic Tweets About BTS And K-Pop Are Going Viral

Over the past few years, K-Pop has become a global phenomenon, and BTS is one of the biggest groups in the world.

The members of BTS | @bts_bighit/Twitter

Whether as a group or soloists, BTS have released songs and taken the world by storm, playing at some of the biggest venues in the world.

Yet, with the rising fame, BTS and the K-Pop industry are also no strangers to malicious attacks.

In particular, a politician called Victoria Villarruel from Argentina has come under fire after past tweets about BTS and K-Pop have regained attention.

Victoria Villarruel | Bloomberg

The politician has always been known for her far-right views and is currently running for Vice President in the 2023 Argentine general election. Yet, her past remarks about BTS and K-Pop have gained negative attention as the election comes nearer.

In particular, the post that started it all off was a reply saying that “It sounds like a 𝑠e𝑥ually transmitted disease,” and many pointed out that it was replying to a comment about BTS.

While the tweet was from 2020, the post recently started gaining attention again, and it currently has over 4,000 RTs with very angry fans in the comments.

villarruel: voy a ser vicepresidenta
las armys: pic.twitter.com/bs5l1US4oB https://t.co/fYRQfddk9T

— male (@seokooss) October 24, 2023

Along with a few English comments, there were a lot of tweets in Spanish sharing their anger about the past comments from the politician. While one warned about the wrath of ARMYs and K-Pop fans, even reminding her of what they did to Donald Trump when they bought all rally seats so he was speaking to an empty crowd…

It wasn’t the only tweet from the politician that gained attention, with one saying about asking a green-haired Korean to throw a tranquilizer dart (although no names were specified.

In particular, a whole thread on Reddit started gaining attention with a look at all the problematic tweets shared by the politician.

Victoria Villarruel’s (candidate for Vice President of Argentina) xenophobic tweets about k-pop going viral byu/BoogieWoogieFengShui inkpopthoughts

For many netizens, they want the tweets to gain attention to show the true personality of the politician with her xenophobia.

Source: /kpopthoughts BTS