Article: Didn't BTS do that too?
Source: Herald Economy
A new report is alleging that BTS was also disloyal to Samsung while under contract.
Following Blackpink's alleged iPhone scandal that's become a hot topic, attention became focused on whether BTS, who are also currently models for Galaxy actually use Samsung phones.
Last year, BTS was the promotional model for Galaxy S20 series phones and released a 'BTS Edition' phone however, a screenshot of one of their posts is catching attention.
On June 2020, BTS shared a tweet from their official account to mark their 7th anniversary however the words 'Twitter for iPhone' were caught sparking controversy.
The photo revealed that BTS also used an iPhone while under contract however nine minutes later, the tweet was deleted and re-posted using an Android phone.
According to fans, BTS were originally iPhone users, however, they all switched to Samsung phones once they became promotional models for the Galaxy phone.
Meanwhile, opinions are divided over the marketing effect of smartphones featuring celebrities especially following Blackpink's latest iPhone scandal. It could be counterproductive if its known that a celebrity who used to be a promotional model for a phone is using another phone.
An industry source revealed, "celebrity marketing is on the decline compared to the past. In the early days of the smartphone market, we promoted each model with its signature celebrity but recently there's been a growing tendency to promote with ordinary models because a model using a different phone may cause unnecessary controversy and adverse effects to the company."
- [+2,402, -133] When has BTS ever been captured using a competitor product while under contract or after the contract ended? What the ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ.
- [+1,460, -48] BTS always show respect to the company they're modeling for and make sure to leave zero traces even if they were to ever use a competitor's products. How can you compare them to idols that blatantly post pictures with a competitor product ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ.
- [+995, -37] Better than chodings who post saying "they barely changed it.."
- [+196, -3] Honestly, this isn't a good look for them either..
- [+167, -3] They're allowed to use whatever they want even while under contract. But to go on SNS and write to your global fandom that you "barely changed it" is basically saying you were forced to use a product you didn't like. Is there any company that would be ok with a paid model posting something like that? I hope Samsung never uses YG models ever again!
- [+130, -2] Huh..? Why are you suddenly mentioning BTS? Ridiculous.
- [+93, -3] What kind of article of this? Why bring up BTS while talking about Blackpink's scandal?
- [+82, -0] This is why we should stop elevating celebrities like they're such great role models. AI models would never do something like this.
- [+57, -1] Samsung even went as far as getting Blackpink their own 'Edition' phone but she wrote "she barely changed it..."
- [+23, -2] Why bring up BTS? And Lee Hyori who modeled for the company like decades ago? Gijanim, how much did YG pay you to write this?