[life stories] I CANNOT COMPREHEND HOW IU'S IMAGE IS SO GOOD

bypannchoa April 03, 2025
Honestly, when I look at the controversies surrounding IU, I don't understand why her image is so good. Starting from the hospital visit photo, to the Wooyoung sirloin incident, the unauthorized sampling of Britney, and the Red Shoes's plagiarism... the part in the end of 'Red Shoes' is almost identical to the original, but she acts like she doesn't know. The fan accusation incident at the concert last year was also something IU just ignored (t/n: a fan who bought the ticket, but the company didn't let her in). I used to think of IU when I thought about fan love, but after that incident, I was really disappointed. In my opinion, she seems like a celebrity who is all about image making.


t/n: At Wooyoung's suggestion to eat cheap samgyeopsal, IU said she preferred expensive flower sirloin, so they ended up having flower sirloin. Wooyoung felt bad and burdened by the fact that he was getting an expensive meal. Since they had ended there, IU would have been seen as the good person who should've paid since she proposed it, but she ended up going to the washroom. While IU went to the bathroom, she told Wooyoung, 'If you pay for this meal while I'm in the bathroom, you'll really be a cool guy.' Wooyoung then paid for over 600,000 won of the meal and split it with the company. However, on his way back to the dorm, he got about 10 texts saying, 'I was going to pay, but you're so kind. So kind. So kind. So kind. So kind,' which really pissed him off and made him feel tricked.
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1. [+307, -42]
But everyone around my age (I'm in my late 20s) don't really like IU that much... She seems fake, like the type who tries to act friendly... Of course, she's talented at her job, she's pretty and she's charming, but sometimes I get creepy vibes from her. I guess that's the best type of celebrities 

2. [+246, -17]
Her plagiarism controversy and her Sulli copycat controversy videos were legendary, but they were all taken down... 

3. [+222, -22]
She honestly scares me 

4. [+209, -11]
Ever since the hospital visit and the Jeje incident, I stopped liking her. She sure is good at image making

5. [+154, -30]
Does it feel good to have won against Heo Hyesun?
(t/n: Her+Hye+Seon + Winning)
> [+15, -2] For those who don’t know who Heo Hyesun is, here's a brief summary. Heo Hyesun - a person who did a deep expose on IU and then went missing. (The details of the exposure are summarized if you search on Google.) The person in the photo with ㅎㄷㅈㅇ(?) is Heo Hyesun. Later, she worked under the name HHS. She kept exposing IU and then was reported missing in Jeju. After that, IU released 'SHH.' If you search for Heo Hyesun on YouTube, you'll see both IU's 'SHH' music video and news from 11 years ago about a body being found in a trunk, which always comes up together. Both have a common point – a trunk and a woman. It feels like it's showing how the d**th occurred...
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The word 'name' appears five times in the lyrics of SHH, and the song description also repeats the word 'name.' People who are into art will understand that every word and every scene is intentionally placed with meaning. At this point, isn't it saying 'look up the name'?
"With her presence (F), I'm speechless (L) Forever a step ahead of me, her name is SHH"'

"This is not just a simple story of friendship.
It's not just a simple love story either.
Between her and me, there was something more complicated.
Names that defeat me every time.
Names that don’t fade from my heart.
Names that have guided me to who I am today,
Names that make up who I am, somewhere within me.
To those who will always be special and complicated to me."


If we get enough responses under this post, we will probably translate it in one of the weekend threads



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