I haven't downvoted or upvoted this thread. I really want to upvote it because of how considerate and open the OP has been in all of his/her replies, but it's also pretty uncomfortable a topic and I don't want to contribute to it rising on the main page of this subreddit (although most of us have a bookmark to "/new" anyway, lol). So, as an extension of how I feel, I'd have to guess there's a non-negligible amount of people who don't necessarily disagree with the content but have chosen to suppress it anyway (by downvoting it) since they feel like overall it's a small enough issue that it'll hurt less to sweep it under the rug rather than to call attention to it and risk the discussions taking a negative and harmful turn which will, in the end, only serve to tire out the core of the fanbase, which we can't afford this early on in IZ*ONE's debut campaign when we should be focused on supporting them by getting them trending on all the digital streaming platforms and such (sans negative intra-fandom squabble) and making the biggest, best splash/first impression possible! **pant pant**