BLINKs express their anger on Twitter and call for a boycott of the Genie Music Awards 2022 after the awards ceremony invalidated over a million votes for BLACKPINK in one of the categories. Read on to find out why their votes were reduced.
The “2022 Genie Music Awards” canceled over a million votes on BLACKPINK + BLINKs Enraged
The first in three years, the Genie Music Awards 2022 will be held on November 8 at the Namdong Gymnasium in Incheon. Currently, fans of each of the nominees cast their votes.
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The “2022 Genie Music Awards” canceled over a million votes on BLACKPINK + BLINKs Enraged
Voting began on October 6 and is open to those with an official Korean ID card or Korean telephone number until November 3. While most categories are only available to local fans, the GMA (Genie Music Awards) Idol Plus Global Popularity Award is open to all fans worldwide.
A total of 36 artists have been nominated for the GMA Idol Plus Global Popularity Award, including BTS, SEVENTEEN, BLACKPINK, PSY, Stray Kids, ATEEZ, IVE, NewJeans and many others.
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The “2022 Genie Music Awards” canceled over a million votes on BLACKPINK + BLINKs Enraged
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During the 2022 voting session, the Genie Music Awards issued a formal announcement that upset many fans.
On October 19, the GMA announced that it would be canceling the vote for BLACKPINK and PSY because Genie Music noticed an “unusual move” they “deemed to be false votes”. As a result, they received 1,627,041 votes from BLACKPINK and 306,908 votes from PSY.
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The “2022 Genie Music Awards” canceled over a million votes on BLACKPINK + BLINKs Enraged
This decision made fans, especially BLINK, feel as furious as ever tracking votes for the singers of “Pink Venom” and saw the voices consistently rise over time, which seemed to contradict Genie Music’s claim that there was an abnormal movement.
I wonder how 🧞♂️ I came to the conclusion that the BLACKPINK voices were fake. It has grown consistently since the beginning of the voting, even @Blackpink_bbu documents it. All these efforts were down the drain, because BLACKPINK was almost winning.
BOYCOTT GENIE AWARDS
– ken (@togejustvibin) October 19, 2022
TRACKING OUR VOTES BY DATE AND TIME. WE VOTED DAILY FOR 9 DAYS STRAIGHT !! A NOW YOU CALL US BOTS ?! THIS IS A GLOBAL VOTE AND NOT ONLY KOREAN. THINK THE INTERNATIONAL BLINK CANNOT VOTE THAT MUCH ?! 1.7 million votes to 92,000 ?! https://t.co/jkpz8NSr2u
– BLACKPINK BLINK UNION # 1 (@BLACKPINK_BBU) October 19, 2022
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Prior to the withdrawal of votes, BLACKPINK came in third with over 1.7 million votes, but after the Genie Music Awards 2022 received most of the votes, the quartet fell to fifth place.
(Photo: Idol Plus)
The “2022 Genie Music Awards” canceled over a million votes on BLACKPINK + BLINKs Enraged
The BLINKs were amazed, wondering how 1.7 million votes could be considered an irregular high when the poll was open to fans worldwide. And everyone knows BLACKPINK is one of the global female groups, so it’s no surprise that they will win over a million votes.
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After voting on BLACKPINK daily, and yet seeing that their hard work and efforts were being taken lightly, the BLINKs began popularizing the phrase “BOYCOTT GENIE AWARDS” on Twitter and saying the awards were rigged.
the genie reward show is rigged. blinks worked so hard for girls and eventually they call us “cheats” when they can’t even spell blackpink name correctly
BOYCOTT GENIE AWARDS pic.twitter.com/r7mgyLwD5G
– honors the fox (@honorslisa) October 19, 2022
Cutting off voices
The reason is incorrect
Not respecting the name blackpink as blankpink?BOYCOTT GENIE AWARDS pic.twitter.com/Fp1olykthh
– (@ DARKXSTAR99) October 19, 2022
Anyway, BLACKPINK doesn’t need the fucking local Korean award, they are still top all over the world, hope you got the BLACKPINK name out of your mouth, they didn’t lose you, you lost them.
BOYCOTT GENIE AWARDS
GENNIE MUSIC AWARDS pic.twitter.com/vqzp1niPDw– BORN PINK 🔝 (@ BP_PT0W) October 19, 2022
Amid fan indignation, neither Genie Music nor Idol Plus gave any answer on this matter.
BLACKPINK takes home another trophy for “Shut Down”
In other news, BLACKPINK successfully received another music show trophy for the final title track “Shut Down”.
(Photo: Facebook: BLACKPINK)
The “2022 Genie Music Awards” canceled over a million votes on BLACKPINK + BLINKs Enraged
On the October 16 episode “Inkigayo” SBS, “Shut Down” was nominated for first place along with “After LIKE” IVE and “Attention” NewJeans. BLACKPINK ultimately won with a total of 7641 points. This meant that the quartet won their tenth time in the music show with “Shut Down”.
Congratulations to the girls!
Check out the BLACKPINK music video “Shut Down” below to celebrate:
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With a script by Maria Scott
