[talk] Icon, Hive girl group and fandom name friction

Recently, there has been a lot of buzz about the fandom name of HYBE's global girl group Cat's Eye~

This is because the group name of the male idol group iKON and the fandom name of Cats Eye, IKONs, are quite similar!

Moreover, the reason it's called ikon and not icon is because it's named after the k in Korea, but Catseye also spells it as k, which makes it even more controversial.

This has been an issue for months now, but Hive pretended not to listen, so this has finally come to a head.

In the idol world, this is extremely rude behavior.

There has already been talk of similarities between Hive and other groups in the name of the tour group, the name of the 2-Both fandom (changed), and the name of the Ailit fandom (changed), so the reaction is strong.

The icon fandom is said to be releasing a petition again~

Problems with group names and fandom names that are implicitly agreed not to overlap continue to arise.