BLACKPINK Lisa’s Fans Furious With HYBE For “Stealing” Fandom Name, More Criticism Ensues

Fans of BLACKPINK‘s Lisa have found an issue with the fandom name of a newly debuted HYBE group.

BLACKPINK’s LIsa | Elle Japan

While K-Pop groups will be given an official fandom name, more often than not, fans of each member will assign themselves a name for just their favorite member. For example, NCT fans are known as NCTzens, but fans of Taeyong are known as TyongFs.

NCT’s Taeyong | SM Entertainment

The same goes for BLACKPINK, with Lisa’s fans going by Lillies/Lilies for many years. Lisa has also acknowledged this, calling fans this name on multiple occasions.

Even lisa knows her fandom name is lilies

LILIES FOR LISA pic.twitter.com/bvi4lI16E4

— ⋆.˚༘⋆ (@lislytherin) April 21, 2024

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— lilismm (@tryithoeuwish) April 21, 2024

Many of Lisa’s fans have found the newly announced fandom name for ILLIT too similar to that of the BLACKPINK member.

ILLIT | BE:LIFT Lab

On April 21, KST, the group hosted a live broadcast on Weverse where the five members revealed the fandom name letter by letter to spell out “LILLY.”

OUR FANDOM NAME IS ‘LILLY’ OMG pic.twitter.com/2ZYR3NdhI2

— rune 𓇢𓆸 (@willibeit) April 21, 2024

While fans liked the choice, netizens were not as into it, criticizing the name for several reasons, including it being the actual name of NMIXX‘s Lily.

NMIXX’s Lily

Lisa’s fans have joined this criticism, expressing their anger at HYBE for choosing a name similar to the existing ones.

Lisa = lilies
Lilies = Lisa

I'm sorry but that company is weird as hell, literally everyone knows that Lisa has had a fandom for years called LILIES even other companies and brands

Lilies for Lisa

@wearelloud pic.twitter.com/DF8YVCFo04

— 是 (@GliuSo97) April 21, 2024

Lisa is focusing more on her solo career now and even after bp disbands she needs a official fandom name and that's lilies like why qrts saying it's not official fandom name. This name has been used by only us for all these years and suddenly hybe stealing itfck off hybe https://t.co/eVpP6C0g4Z

— 𝐃𝐚𝐟𝐧𝐞❥︎ (@fantasylisa05) April 21, 2024

LILIES is a globally known fandom name of Lisa, nominated and won awards, have always trended, and recognized by Lisa’s brands and the media. HYBE should’ve done their research better like that other company who avoided it despite being in their fandom choices.

LILIES FOR LISA pic.twitter.com/rbup3iwqfJ

— 엘라 (@Mhannwella) April 21, 2024