Asian Junkie Asian pop. Without discretion.
Michael Cox is an Australian journalist covering horse racing in Hong Kong for the South China Morning Post, which makes him an unlikely candidate to have a run-in with K-pop. However, that’s exactly what happened when he took a picture with LABOUM‘s Solbin back on September 9, and it was apparently only found by many K-pop stans recently.
https://twitter.com/KemblaCoxy/status/906793419971768320
but it looks like you were the one trying to ask for a selfie ?
— ㅤaddie H (@aegyosoda) September 11, 2017
Solvin is my fan and you are just jealous
— Michael Cox (@KemblaCoxy) September 24, 2017
SOLVIN
Seemed to pretty clearly be a joke about himself more than anything … well except to K-pop stans, who got mad at a trolling Australian and it went about as expected (he even knows LABOUM’s fandom name, more K-pop knowledge than some who cover it).
shout out to all of my lattes in Seoul … woke up to some good 'uns this morning ? pic.twitter.com/49TKcS4CDx
— Michael Cox (@KemblaCoxy) September 24, 2017
Good lord.
Still, despite the abuse, he maintained a good sense of humor about it all…
The tweet that just keeps giving. #cracker
— Jason Tan (@JSLTan) September 24, 2017
can't really complain about the "white people are anoying" tweet either, can see where she's clminh from. More social comment than abuse ?
— Michael Cox (@KemblaCoxy) September 24, 2017
…and it didn’t stop him from shooting fancam footage for us all.
especially for you @JSLTan … getting a little bit stalker with the zoom ins but just doing my best for the fans pic.twitter.com/f3BkdPRYNl
— Michael Cox (@KemblaCoxy) September 10, 2017
pharkil dead in a ditch.
Of course, it was when he got SNSD involved as well that things blew up further.
If she's asking for a selfie then why is this picture on your phone? #pest
— LUCID (@realwhisper96) September 23, 2017
she shared with me on Kakaotalk
— Michael Cox (@KemblaCoxy) September 24, 2017
And why did you post it when you can just ignore it? If you're working and she's asking for a selfie you could just say no.
— Gom Seulgi (@iloveyouddeulgi) September 24, 2017
because K-pop princess harassment of racing reporters has reached plague proportions. Last week @ChrisRoots1 was chased by Girls Generation
— Michael Cox (@KemblaCoxy) September 24, 2017
enough is enough. It was time to speak up
— Michael Cox (@KemblaCoxy) September 24, 2017
enough is enough. snsd even probably didn't know you or that chris. delete your post about Girls Generation chase that guy.
— 소녀시대 (@dorkTaeyeonss) September 24, 2017
Who are they
— Chris Roots (@ChrisRoots1) September 24, 2017
Second Australian horse racing journalist off the top rope!
Who loves horse racing? Taeyeon loves horse racing, apparently.
Tell me the member's name because Girls Generation is a group and aint 8 of em following someone they basically don't know. https://t.co/mgurxVYNy1
— ʙᴜɢsᴠᴀɴɴʏ (@vanaxl57) September 25, 2017
it was Taeyeon mostly. She loves horse racing
— Michael Cox (@KemblaCoxy) September 25, 2017
do you have any receipts about this or did someone just tell you? can you show us?
— van (@vanaxl57) September 25, 2017
listen, i'm not going to go looking through rubbish bins at Randwick looking for her losing betting tickets, you'll just have to trust me
— Michael Cox (@KemblaCoxy) September 25, 2017
By the end of the ordeal, he was already spitting truth about K-pop fandoms.
already had low expectations of the average person's intelligence and ability to detect humour. Those expectations have been lowered #lattes
— Michael Cox (@KemblaCoxy) September 24, 2017
in a way I think you have touched on something that some in HK racing and the K-pop fandoms share ?
— Michael Cox (@KemblaCoxy) September 24, 2017
So I made him an offer on Twitter…
https://twitter.com/asianjunkiecom/status/912215775628234753
…and it turns out he had basically discovered the origin story of Asian Junkie.
I might just start writing about K-Pop … seems people have zero perspective about it
— Michael Cox (@KemblaCoxy) September 25, 2017
I stan.
