The 2022 MAMA Awards released a statement regarding fraudulent votes due to suspicions that the votes of some Top 10 Worldwide Fans’ Choice nominated artists have been tampered with. See their full statement below.
2022 MAMA Awards Issues Statement On unfair voting in connection with suspected rigging
On November 4, 2022, the MAMA Awards announced an announcement on its official website. In their statement, they ask fans to vote correctly and reveal that they will remove the fake votes in the final roster.
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2022 MAMA Awards Issues Statement On unfair voting in connection with suspected rigging
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The full declaration is as follows:
“To ensure that the voices of K-pop artists and their global fans who cheer and support their favorite artists can be adequately reflected, follow proper voting practices.
The voting of the “2022 MAMA Awards” currently hosted by Mnet Plus is carefully reviewed step by step to ensure transparent and fair voting throughout the entire process from accession to voting opening and closing.
The entire voting process reveals the total vote and percentage of votes for an artist in real time for all K-pop fans around the world to see.
In addition, data identified as fraudulent during the monitoring process will be excluded from final aggregation.
In the Worldwide Fans’ Choice category, nominees are selected to vote by adding all aggregated data by Mnet Plus, Spotify, Twitter and YouTube.
Please work together to create an appropriate voting culture so that the voices of K-pop artists and global K-pop fans who support these artists can be honestly reflected in the voting process.
MAMA Awards will make every effort. “
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2022 MAMA Awards Issues Statement On unfair voting in connection with suspected rigging
The official statement from the 2022 MAMA Awards came after people suspected that the votes of some of the Top 10 Worldwide Fans’ Choice nominated artists had been faked.
Alleged rigging voting evidence for the 2022 MAMA Awards Surface
On November 3, an internet user created a post on the Instiz online community to compare the voting charts of some of the Top 10 Worldwide Fans’ Choice nominees. He pointed out that groups such as IVE, Kep1er, Dreamcatcher, LOONA and Brave Over the past few days, girls have seen a significant increase in the number of votes.
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2022 MAMA Awards Issues Statement On unfair voting in connection with suspected rigging
(Photo: Instiz)
2022 MAMA Awards Issues Statement On unfair voting in connection with suspected rigging
(Photo: Instiz)
2022 MAMA Awards Issues Statement On unfair voting in connection with suspected rigging
Based on the charts, it seems that these five groups averaged 5,000 votes in the first days, but then unexpectedly got over 10,000 views this week. This huge jump knocked all five teams out of the top 20, with Dreamcatcher and LOON ahead TWO TIMES, and all five groups had more votes than BLACKPINK starting on November 4.
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2022 MAMA Awards Issues Statement On unfair voting in connection with suspected rigging
(Photo: Instiz)
2022 MAMA Awards Issues Statement On unfair voting in connection with suspected rigging
On the other hand, charts for groups such as BLACKPINK, BTS, and Stray Kids show patterns that appear to be consistent with visible momentum.
(Photo: Instiz)
2022 MAMA Awards Issues Statement On unfair voting in connection with suspected rigging
(Photo: Instiz)
2022 MAMA Awards Issues Statement On unfair voting in connection with suspected rigging
Due to the irregular voting patterns shown in the charts for IVE, Kep1er, LOONA, Dreamcatcher and Brave Girls, fans believe there has been a vote rigging.
(Photo: Instiz)
2022 MAMA Awards Issues Statement On unfair voting in connection with suspected rigging
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(Photo: Instiz)
2022 MAMA Awards Issues Statement On unfair voting in connection with suspected rigging
In addition, another internet user shared a photo showing the votes for IVE and Brave Girls on TheQoo. You can see that both artists have the same number of votes in many cases, which makes Internet users more suspicious.
(Photo: Qoo)
2022 MAMA Awards Issues Statement On unfair voting in connection with suspected rigging
The Internet user also shared a chart showing the voices of Dreamcatcher, LOONA, Kep1era, Brave Girls, IVE and MAMAMOO. It’s clear that all six artists had the same vote levels in the early days, but then all but MAMAMOO saw a massive increase in votes on November 1 and 2.
(Photo: Qoo)
2022 MAMA Awards Issues Statement On unfair voting in connection with suspected rigging
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With a script by Maria Scott
