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Fans defend Tsuki after Mirae’s Dohyun 'mocks' the Billlie member's viral performance

Dohyun has since then apologized and shared that he personally sent an apology letter to Billlie's Tsuki

Billlie’s Tsuki first went viral for her facial expressions during her performance of ‘GingaMingaYo’ on Simply K-Pop’s KCON. Being a Japanese idol before debuting with Billlie, fans were in awe that she made use of the cute cartoon-like expressions popular in J-pop. They loved how she changed her expression with every beat and expressed the song’s lyrics with her face. However, the very reason she went viral was used to apparently mock her by the boy group Mirae.

On April 4, three members of Mirae went on VLive to chat with fans while driving back from a schedule. When ‘GingaMingaYo’ was played, one of the members, Dohyun took to copying Tsuki’s performance. While the other two, Lien and Siyoung watched, Dohyun made exaggerated facial expressions as if he wanted to copy Tsuki by rolling his eyes and sticking out his tongue. Billlie’s fans felt that he was mocking her and so took to Twitter to reprimand him.

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Mirae’s Dohyun apologizes for mocking Billlie’s Tsuki

Billlie’s fans brought back the time that Tsuki had shared that she had been self-conscious of her face and trying out those facial expressions for her performance. Mirae faced quite a lot of backlash as Dohyun’s dancing went viral on Twitter on April 5. Following fans’ comments, Dohyun went on VLive on April 6 to apologize. He shared that he knew what he had done was wrong and so he wanted to apologize. He also sent a personal apology to Billlie and shared that would work harder to be careful of his actions.

Watch Dohyun's apology on VLive below.

'Mocked for no reason'

Upset fans of Billlie shared that it was up to them and Tsuki if they wanted to accept the apology. To those who asked fans not to hate on Dohyun, one fan responded, “And tsuki didn't deserve to be mocked for no reason in the first place so he can deal with it.” Another fan tweeted, “Tsuki will always be famous we love you :).” One fan joked, “Siyoung when hes forced to pose with dohyun after how he mocked tsuki.” Another fan shared, “Tsuki is happy, unbothered, staying in her lane, enjoying herself, performing with croissant hair.”

One added, “The entire billage turning into fbi looking for info abt that group member’s mockery of tsuki.” Another fan pointed out, “What mirae did gets even worse when you think about how tsuki is/was self conscious about her facial expressions and after never changing and embracing a part of her everyone loved it and it went viral and she knows about it. like to see someone mock a persons insecurity is gross.” One said, “Gg stan twitter coming together when its time to defend tsuki.”

A Mirae fan commented, “See? Holding someone accountable for his/her action is the only thing to do. Thank you, Dohyun for apologizing. It is up to the stans and those who got offended if they'll accept the apology.”

One fan said, “Honestly props to dohyun for apologizing super quickly... i knew he knew what happened when dsp had edited the vlive clip.” Another posted, “Its sad but we cant force other people to forgive him :( i just hope they wont openly hate on dohyun as he's in the middle of learning from his mistake.”

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