The fanbase had previously been mocked for their mistake.
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A RIIZE Recently the OT7 protest went awry when the organizers accidentally sent trucks Discovery instead of National
Geographicalthe latter is a brand for which RIIZE models.
After their faux pas went viral, netizens started mocking them for their mistake.
International RIIZE fans mocked after protest against Seunghan’s departure goes wrong
After the mistake, other fans started asking the fanbase, GREAT USAto publish truck receipts. This is a common practice when funds are pooled. RIIZEUSA published alleged receipts after being pressured to do so for reasons of transparency. Their numbers set off alarm bells when fans realized the receipts contained a couple of errors.
First, for the item labeled “Street Light Banner”, 180 sets costing ₩278,000 KRW (approximately $202 USD) each would amount to ₩50.0 million KRW (approximately $36,400 USD), not just the ₩5 ,00 million KRW (approximately $3,640 USD) which was claimed. The calculations for the first receipt were grossly incorrect.
For the second receipt they mislabeled the total amount of money. While numerically the total was listed as ₩8.74 million KRW (approximately $6,360 USD), the hangul next to it instead read ₩6.60 million KRW (approximately $4,810 USD).
Fans began to raise suspicions about the legitimacy of RIIZEUSA.
to try to evade the accusations riizeusa presented receipts for expenses/donations (see the tweet below) made for fb but with approximate numbers; the total does not match reality and the acc misrepresents the amounts and total amount of money sent/spent to the fan base https://t.co/js03qfvJED pic.twitter.com/YQbSmfMSCM
— ً (@wontonaegi) October 31, 2024
Fans dug deeper, going to the Instagram link for RIIZEUSA. They discovered that not only had RIIZEUSA’s Instagram account changed its name 9 times.
They were also previously tagged in BTS photos and were found to be following various BTS update accounts.
BRIIZE began to suspect that the account was a BTS fan trying to sabotage RIIZE intentionally.
ATTENTION
They (@RIIZEUSACENTRE) were tagged in bts photos in 2019 !!!!!! this says a lot. https://t.co/7PKjWrccF0 pic.twitter.com/vHNjzyYhxw
— ً (@wontonaegi) October 31, 2024
Behind every evil there is always an army https://t.co/JzSSSumhA0
— 🍀 (@theeonlywon) October 31, 2024
Beware of fake RIIZE twt accounts pretending to be BRIIZE. 👀🙄🙄😬😬 https://t.co/kuwR3NkHqx
— !WinWin! (@WinWin_PC) October 31, 2024
Others took a more neutral stance, acknowledging that it was possible the account owner had shifted focus since the tagged BTS photos dated as far back as 2020.
Even granting that people’s interests change and that they might switch from being fans of other bands to briize, all this acc did was hurt riize. It doesn’t even deserve to be called a riize fansite. https://t.co/6aUZw3Cucd
— naomihee (@kkrmz2520) October 31, 2024
Even so, fans remain convinced that the RIIZEUSA account served to do more harm than help.
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