Popular manufacturer The capitxnThe next virtual group is accused of plagiarism Stray childrenin particular a song by IN That member in the foreground Hyunjin.
At the end of December 2023, in a song called “Untitled” which presented Hyunjin, and quickly became a favorite by the fans and a special for the Fandom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-zxz7zc_ay
At the end of 2024, it was announced that the popular producer El Capitxn would debut a group of virtual idol in 2025.
Skinz, a new group of virtual idol produced by El Capitxn, announces their debut for 2025.https: //t.co/jdsomujrhk pic.twitter.com/jmxljlhcm4
– Kpop graphics (@kchartmaaster) 23 December 2024
It was made together with a debut video teaser.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ai_hl3gdrs
Recently, Skinz has released a mixtape on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4R40-Uxsji
In the video comments, Netizens shared their anger. Not only did they react to the plagiarism of the song, especially because it was promoted as written and produced by Skinz with the #Selfmade caption, but the Netizen also underlined the similarities with the name, since they thought that Skinz seemed very similar to the Hangulul used for stray children.
On social media, the Netizen tried to attract Jyp Entertainment’s attention, asking them to act and protect their artists.
The K-Pop Skinz group (스킨즈 스킨즈 스킨즈) uses the name Stray Kids (스키즈 스키즈) and their track mixtape, labeled written and produced by Skinz, is a plagiarism of in (FT Hyunjin) without title, written by in in & Hyunjin. Jype, please act to protect stray children@Stray_kids @stay_support @Jypnation pic.twitter.com/1vy2e2jntt
– Rachel ☆ (@Jeonggix) February 4, 2025
Did they really think that nobody would notice?
The K-Pop Skinz group (스킨즈 스킨즈 스킨즈) uses the name Stray Kids (스키즈 스키즈) and their track mixtape, labeled written and produced by Skinz, is a plagiarism of in (feat. Hyunjin) without title, written by Hyunjin. Jype., Please, act to protect … pic.twitter.com/enrk2vx0ze
– Ceé • 合 (@minhaley_y) February 4, 2025
The stray kids of plagiarism work and put it out there that they label it as “mappalti” is beyond me who is responsible must be fired immediately and Jype is better to take legal actions against them now this is going too far away
– filling ༄ (@onlybngchan) February 4, 2025
Neither El Capitxn nor JYP Entertainment made a statement.
