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Are Blackpink's leaked photos recent? Fans discuss Jisoo's Japan outfits saying 'protect them'

Fans demand YG Entertainment to take action in order to protect the privacy and safety of Jisoo as private photos of the Blackpink member leak online

SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA: After the V-Jennie controversy blew up, the last few weeks have been tough for fans of two of the biggest K-pop groups in history. As memes reveal, fans of K-pop think that the recent controversy will bring the two fandoms who are always pitted against one another together. The boy group BTS and the girl group Blackpink's fans, ARMYs and Blinks respectively finally united as one calling out the alleged leaked photos from Twitter and Instagram users, @gurumiharibo, @rattailbot, and @theh0ttea.

While there is no explanation in the form of a statement or official news reports about the incident, fans were shocked to see 'leaked' photos of Blackpink's Jennie and BTS' V (Kim Tae-hyung) together. Now as fans have concluded that the V-Jennie leaks were fake, they were led to believe that the other leaked photos featuring Blackpink's Lisa and Jisoo were fake too. However, recent developments in the issue deny this assumption causing concern amongst Blinks. 

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On September 2, new allegedly leaked photos were found online which featured Jennie and V while other photos also showed other Blackpink members like Lisa and Jisoo. Concerned fans initially asked YG Entertainment to take action but when it was revealed that the V-Jennie dating photos were synthesized, Blinks and ARMYs took a backseat to the dating rumor and started demanding the protection of privacy of the two idols. Fans believed that Jennie's iCloud was hacked which resulted in the leaks but it seems like Jisoo and Lisa are also on the radar of these hackers.

On September 4, fans posted recent photos from last week where Jisoo was spotted in Japan wearing a black outfit and a bucket hat that was exactly identical to the allegedly leaked photo featuring Jisoo and Lisa. Fans went into a state of shock and started worrying that since Jisoo was found wearing the same outfit in both the paparazzi as well as the leaked images, the leaks were probably real. Fans called YG Entertainment out on their silence and asked them to protect Jisoo as well as the other Blackpink members respectively.  

'This s**t is scary'

The violation of Jisoo, as well as the other Blackpink members' privacy, is concerning Blinks as one fan said, "So the l34ks were all real??! @ygent_official protect Jisoo and Blackpink." Another fan said, "This s**t in scary asl bec the recent jisoo photo around japan is so similar to the one lisoo picture leaked a few days ago. do something." One more fan said, "The fit so those lisoo pics were from japan even more recent!." Another fan said, "Lisoo pics have been probably leaked by a close staff or a friend who follow them on their priv accounts & has nothing to do with the recent issues involving that fraud." One fan said, "Oh. I have not seen from Jisoo, only from Lisa."

Another fan said, "This was what Chu was wearing on the leaked photo. same beret and same phone case." One fan explained, "All of the leaks are from gurumi’s small gc on telegram. that’s why all the leaks all look like this, they made sure the gc disabled photo saving AND screenshotting so people took a picture of their screens. they are all from the same." Another fan said, "So the leaked photos are legit, do something @ygent_official !!!!!!" One fan said, "These outfit and phone case are the same with those in the leaked photo.... Pray for them." One more fan said, "Turns out it’s actually leaked photo. though the ones with jennie are fake."

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