When Blackpink released a music video for its new song How You Like That, the all-female K-pop group quickly found out that something some of its international fans don’t like is having Hindu deities portrayed in a pop music context.
The fans’ uprising on social media got results, as the offending image was quietly edited out of the video June 30, although the scissoring wasn’t widely recognised until this week. Some are still demanding an apology.
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