The fans who had been with Spark since their debut shared a few common traits.

First, compared to other rookie boy group fandoms, they tended to be older.

Second, many of them were working professionals.

Third, they weren’t easily swayed by external scandals.

There was a specific reason for this. Most people who joined the Spark fandom had come after stanning other idols.

Cheating scandals, cozying up to sasaengs, skipping schedules, power trips... There were plenty of idols who drove fans away, and even more reasons for it.

People who felt betrayed by their biases often vowed never to set foot in the idol world again. However, those who still held onto the good memories of supporting an idol eventually returned to the entertainment industry.

Wary of feeling that same rage twice, they were cautious. Even when their hearts urged them to become a fan, they hit the brakes and conducted a thorough audit. They checked if the idol’s speech was careless or if they had any underlying controversies. In the eyes of these people, Spark was a clean group with no disqualifying factors.

The perspective of those who had liked idols since elementary school also changed as they became adults.

Good styling and charming speech became secondary.

After being worn down by professional life, they just wanted their idol not to be the kind of person who power-tripped like a boss at work, or ditched responsibilities like an irresponsible teammate.

Having grown into mature adults, minor issues didn’t deal them much damage.

Getting hate in an award show vote was annoying, but it wasn’t enough to make their world crumble. There was no need to go through the hassle of sending faxes just because the agency was incompetent. They simply wouldn’t buy the merchandise. Their level of experience was that high.

Spark, which these veterans cautiously approached, did not disappoint. In the two years since their debut, Spark had never once said anything to their fans that caused disappointment or drained their energy.

If you asked how that was possible, Sparklers would point to one person.

≫ I know people say Spark doesn’t have any members who don’t get along

but when the members talk about Iwol, you can really feel how much they rely on him, I love that

The kind and warm eldest brother of the group. The eldest son who acted like he’d give his liver and gallbladder to his dongsaengs and saw that as the purpose of his life. A role model who led by example, upright and immaculate, never out of line.

Having a capable, straightforward eldest hyung wasn’t just reassuring for the members, it reassured the fans too.

Just trust Iwol. For Sparklers, this phrase was never once an empty promise.

Kim Iwol had been through many incidents. He faced misunderstandings and suffered accidents. When fans learned he had a complex history, it broke their hearts, but they also felt relieved. At least their boy was innocent. He had done nothing wrong.

But when the storm was too big, that flimsy sense of reassurance stopped mattering.

≫At this point, I’m just grateful that Iwol isn’t thinking anything bad and is holding on

Not in a "wow, he hid it so well" way

but because every single day must’ve been so hard

He should’ve had at least one place where he could feel at ease

That’s all I can think about now

Realizing that your idol, who you felt a kinship with because of how fiercely he lived, had actually been suffering this much, unable to tell anyone, and that he only forced himself to bring up painful memories because he could no longer hide them...

The sight of him feeling so incredibly sorry for that was a deep wound to the fans. It wasn’t a wound from pitying Kim Iwol. It was a sorrow felt because they cherished Kim Iwol as they would themselves.

Those who had turned from distant outsiders into Sparklers were still working in society and hadn’t forgotten their past stanning idols...

≫ Found why those troll channels were ripping Kim Iwol to shreds all this time.

...They weren’t shaken by small issues, but they knew exactly how to respond most effectively when a major problem arose.

≫ Turns out all these b*stards belong to the same company?

The professional savvy that Kim Iwol had displayed throughout his career.

That was a talent Sparklers also possessed in abundance.

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[Exposing the MeTube production company caught trying to manipulate public opinion beyond undercover advertising]

The Entertainment Detective Squad (Studio D) – The root of the incident.

If you’ve ever stanned an idol, there’s no way you don’t know this hate channel. Famous for making news out of rumors or cutting videos to make people hate the target blindly

Usually they focused on 1st-tier idol videos for views (especially girl groups), and they sold provocative videos through paid memberships. But during Idol Annals of the Dynasty S1 and in recent times, they have been uploading Spark’s Kim Iwol videos every day for over a month (This is the first channel that raised the suspicion that Iwol was doing drugs)

They’re money-grubbers, so they usually jump to another idol if views aren’t there, but they kept producing Iwol videos even when the views were lower than other content. At its peak, they uploaded several a day with provocative keywords.

World Beyond the Lens (My Media)

From here on, these are channels with high public recognition. You’ve probably seen them at least once while browsing MeTube.

After crossing the line with a "social experiment" that made the news, they pivoted to heartwarming stories and viral "faith in humanity restored" content, which blew up. They often post about people who leave large anonymous donations...

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See this?

A charity called On-Sarang Social Welfare Foundation appears very frequently. I wondered if it was a famous foundation, so I searched it...

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Over 90% of the photo sources in articles are from World Beyond the Lens.

Isn’t it strange? What’s so special about this foundation that people leave wads of cash there every year?

There is one peculiar thing.

When the Entertainment Detective Squad, the channel that trashes everyone, uploaded a video titled "10 Facts You Didn’t Know About H-N-T" when H-N-T was returning from a hiatus due to a DUI...

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The video claimed H-N-T had been doing secret good deeds, like consistently donating to a welfare foundation.

The video ended with a preachy lecture saying that everyone makes mistakes so you shouldn’t judge a person by one error. The foundation H-N-T supposedly donated to? The photo shows it’s the "On-Sarang Social Welfare Foundation".

Now, if you look at My Media’s job posting on a hiring site...

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You can see it’s divided into a "Current Affairs Journal" part and a "Social Issues" part.

The only channel listed on My Media’s website is "World Beyond the Lens" so why are they hiring for a "Current Affairs Journal"?

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Top: Business info for Studio D (producers of Entertainment Detective Squad).

Bottom: Business info for My Media (producers of World Beyond the Lens).

The Representative’s name is the same. The business address is the same building, just different floors.

You might ask what splitting the company has to do with manipulating public opinion, but here is the important part.

On-Air Korea (OnKo)

A channel many people think is a digital newspaper because of the name.

They actually post refined information and maintain a neutral stance.

The Iwol incident appeared here for the first time among idols.

They talk about how idol debuts have become a means to "launder" one’s past and how the younger generation is rotting, but the only example mentioned is Iwol. In a 40-minute video, 30 minutes are spent on Iwol’s family history and the handwritten statement from his family about suing him. They even mention the drug controversy, which wasn’t verified and didn’t even lead to a police investigation.

The reaction of people who viewed OnKo as a news channel? Terrible. This is the main reason the Iwol incident blew up so much.

OnKo didn’t disclose their production company or contact info separately, but the font + channel logo position + sources used here are identical to My Media’s videos.

If you adjust the opacity and overlap them, the logo, layout, and subtitle height are all in the exact same positions. Even the color chips—if you input the color codes—the brightness and saturation are the same; only the hue is different.

The only difference is the logo style...

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Confirmed in a portfolio that it’s the work of one designer. They outsourced to the same person.

It’s presumed they separated it from their existing business (which focused on gossip channels) because they wanted a "major broadcaster" aesthetic for the MeTube world.

Even this OnKo channel produced a video two years ago...

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About the On-Sarang Social Welfare Foundation winning a Social Welfare Grand Prize. (If you look at the videos listed above and below it, you can see the style is completely different.)

The Chairperson of the On-Sarang Social Welfare Foundation, which is so loved by all these "healing" channels...

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Is Kim Iwol’s biological mother.

And Representative Kim, the head of Studio D/My Media «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» and the person frequently referred to as the "Secret Investigator" in the early days of the Entertainment Detective Squad?

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Is the biological father.

The husband used all the production companies he runs to churn out videos to promote his wife’s foundation.

Plus, to bury Iwol, the father uploaded hate videos on his own channels to start the fire, then jumped on the public opinion.

During Iwol’s family press conference, the Entertainment Detective Squad, OnKo, and Representative Kim’s company channels all attended. When the reporters were filmed in the live video, the logos on the cameras were all captured.

Since their daily job is digging into celebrities, they put the same private eyes they always use on Jeho as well and handed the data to MYTH.

The operators of the troll channels (Beyond the Lens, Entertainment Detective Squad, OnKo) + Chairperson of On-Sarang Foundation = Kim Iwol’s parents.

They are human trash who even abandoned their daughter and abused their son

After Kim Iwol got famous, they tried to manipulate public opinion to squeeze a settlement out of him and got caught.

The family is currently destroying their child’s social image and threatening him just to get a higher settlement fee. I’m writing this hoping people see how disgusting this is... Stop consuming those channels, and if anyone was donating to the On-Sarang Foundation, please change your donation target.

++ Since the list of channels present at the press conference is circulating, they’re deleting all the livestreams. Friends who can help, please archive the live streams.

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In less than a day, the identities of the two individuals were revealed. It took less than five hours to uncover their past actions, embezzlement, and illegal activities.

≫ How to cut off monetization for Entertainment Detective Squad, Beyond the Lens, and OnKo

Link Kim Iwol’s press conference video and the press release about suing for spreading false information, then report them for malicious group harassment or violent content.

What MeTube catches most strictly is content targeting children and cyberbullying.

Say that they manipulated public opinion by simultaneously uploading false information across multiple channels, causing actual damage.

Especially for OnKo, since their goal was to look mainstream, we need to display their past so they can’t even dream of laundering their image.

This isn’t just an Iwol problem. A foundation that’s supposed to be transparent being promoted like that is wrong, and channels that tear down celebrities over nothing need to disappear, too

We have to kick them out so they can’t make money with these kinds of tricks. That’s the only way to ensure this never happens again.

≫ For those asking, "They really did receive awards and donations—what’s the problem with making videos about that?"

The problem starts with the fact that On-Sarang Foundation has a suspiciously high amount of cash donations without even a receipt.

If you don’t even know how much donation money came in, who knows how much was skimmed off? And notice how the donation news always drops around the same times.

With money coming in like that, no one can track who spent how much where. There’s no paper trail.

In the first place, the reason On-Sarang Foundation was able to receive awards and local government subsidies was because it was reported in the media several times as a "good foundation". Is it really okay that the husband was the one secretly providing that media coverage?

Even if the donations were real and the promotion was just for "family success", the fact that the Chairperson abandoned and abused her child is a disqualifying factor. They even said she strangled him recently.

By the time Kim Iwol finally woke up and checked the backlogged news, the financial pipelines his parents loved so dearly had all been cut off.