Rapper Swings clarified that he was not offended by BIGBANG’s T.O.P uploading a photo of him with doodles on it, after the image belatedly became a subject of controversy.

Last December, T.O.P had uploaded a cropped photo of Swings with doodles on his face to his Instagram stories without any further explanation. Recently, the photo resurfaced and some people criticized T.O.P for what they called disrespectful behavior.

On November 22, Swings responded in his own Instagram stories, first commenting that it had been about a year since T.O.P had posted it. Swings then wrote the following:

I wasn’t really upset about it at the time either, and personally I like T.O.P, since I find him endearing. I’m worried that people might see him in a bad light as this becomes a hot topic again. To be honest, I just felt great when T.O.P uploaded it because I’d made it to T.O.P’s Instagram, so I felt like I was awesome. Don’t criticize T.O.P about it. I was a meme king, particularly back then. LET THE BOY HAVE SOME FUN.

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The Korean Business Research Institute has revealed this month’s brand reputation rankings for individual idols!

The rankings were determined through an analysis of the consumer participation, media coverage, interaction, and community awareness indexes of 1,453 idols, using big data collected from October 21 to November 21.

BTS’s Jimin held onto his spot at the top of the list this month with a brand reputation index of 9,463,655. High-ranking phrases in Jimin’s keyword analysis included “BE,” “military service,” and “ARMY,” while his highest-ranking related terms included “charming,” “confident,” and “be together.” His positivity-negativity analysis revealed a score of 81.06 percent positive reactions.

Kang Daniel rose to second place in this month’s rankings with a brand reputation index of 7,491,445, while MAMAMOO’s Hwasa came in third with a total index of 6,421,285.

Finally, BTS’s Jungkook and V rounded out the top five for November at fourth and fifth places respectively.

Check out the top 30 for this month below!

1. BTS’s Jimin
2. Kang Daniel
3. MAMAMOO’s Hwasa
4. BTS’s Jungkook
5. BTS’s V
6. HOTSHOT’s Ha Sung Woon
7. EXO’s Baekhyun
8. BTS’s Jin
9. Ong Seong Wu
10. Girls’ Generation’s Taeyeon
11. Park Ji Hoon
12. BTS’s RM
13. SHINee’s Taemin
14. BTS’s J-Hope
15. ASTRO’s Cha Eun Woo
16. TWICE’s Chaeyoung
17. TWICE’s Jihyo
18. Red Velvet’s Seulgi
19. BTS’ Suga
20. Girls’ Generation’s YoonA
21. GFRIEND’s Eunha
22. TWICE’s Nayeon
23. Super Junior’s Kim Heechul
24. NU’EST’s Minhyun
25. BIGBANG’s G-Dragon
26. aespa’s Winter
27. aespa’s Karina
28. TWICE’s Jeongyeon
29. GFRIEND’s Umji
30. BLACKPINK’s Jennie

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