Recently, G-Dragon of Bigbang has released the poster for his 2025 world tour and has made fun of his next complete album, both entitled “übermensch”. However, the name of his album and the World Tour, together with the design of the posters, aroused criticism.
In particular, the term “übermensch” was created by the Nietzsche philosopher, which represents the idea of ”ideal superior man of the future”. This term was used by Hitler and the Nazis in describing their belief in a biologically higher breed.
In addition, the combination of colors used by G-Dragon, along the “88” number and the character similar to a Gothic used-tutti coincides with previous elements used by the Nazis. Consequently, many Netizen, in particular those on the platform of the Reddit International Forum, express their discomfort, with some also G-Dragon of being pro-nazis.
“Nobody considered that” übermensch “was used by the Nazi party to describe the” Aryan race “and is still used to today by the Nazis Neo? Even the combination of character and colors makes it seem very Nazi. Do not say that GD is affiliated to the Nazis, but it is of great taste, especially for a world tour “he said a Netizen, while another said, “What’s the real F? The letters, the colors, the übermensch theme … sorry but absolutely not “.
However, there are many who have expressed their support for G-Dragon. In particular, a Netizen who claimed to be a history teacher made several points by confiring the accusations against G-Dragon.
According to this Netizen, the typographic character used by the Nazis was another created to replace the character used by G-Dragon, and Hilter’s party actually hated the character used by GD so much, they prohibited it in 1941.
Becoming not private as a history teacher to face this.
Nazi love as a typographic character is called Tenneberg, which was introduced in the 1940s to replace the typographic character that Jiyong is actually using, which is called Fraktur.
Fraktur was banned by the Nazi party in 1941. Https://t.co/lgktun5euu
– Haven ∣ Jay (@lightschice) February 6, 2025
In addition, “übermensch” is only a term used in philosophy, not necessarily associated with the Nazi, and the number “88” is considered lucky in Korea, as well as the birth number of G-dragon.
The Koreans consider 8 a lucky number and GD was born on 18/08/88, so it is particularly special for him. Red and black are its favorite colors and together with white are recurring colors in its albums/promotions. pic.twitter.com/6hpuaqfolt
– Son (@guerrililladsk) February 6, 2025
Therefore, it is a bit improbable to suppose that G-dragon is pro-Nazi because he used the above element.
