GMMTV Terminates Contract of Teen Artist Justin Angus Moir After Fans Digs About his Controversial Reposts on TikTok
GMMTV’s teen artist Justin Angus Moir, who’s has been a part of cast of the ongoing show ‘When Oranges Fall’, a high school BL drama, has came up in a scandel of reposting malicious content on TikTok.
It has recently come to the vision of the fans that the new ongoing GMMTV BL drama ‘When Oranges Fall‘ cast, Justin Moir has have their TikTok reposts filled with vicious content against women, LGBTQ+ community and its rights, as well as in support of USA’s President Trump’s ideology.
Fans criticized as soon as the matter came into the light. A lot of fans condemned, that how a person being in queer space, working in one, have such wicked thoughts against the community itself. And not only that, there were multiple tiktok videos reposted which suggests of unaliving women, slut-shaming and sexulizing them. What is more, fans even highlighted that the recent reposts suggesting these issues were made in early this year, very close to the artist’s show, a queer show, which was then about to air.
Amid the controversy, the internet indeed got divided into two groups, one being against the artist’s foul thoughts and behaviour, and other part being considerate towards the artist.
While the majority there were, heavy number of fans who were highlighting this major issue with the actor’s behaviour, speaking about it, suggesting the company, GMMTV to take actions against such deed, there were many fans in support of Justin Moir, who were emphasizing about the actor’s age, and it could be the reason and as well the strong influnce by substantial virtual exposure.
Nonthless, the matter didn’t just subsided within the small fan community being just a controversial debate, about right’s or wrong, but the issue came to the view of many of fans of the community and reached vast audience, which at last turned into the actor publishing an apology statement on July 17.
However, this time the controversy was such a case which was non-negotiable to many. At last, just after a few hours from Justin’s apology statement, GMMTV, itself released another statement stating the contract of the artist has been terminated.
In the statement from GMMTV, it is said that the company has taken the critisism and concern into matter and they sincerely apologise to the fans for the dissapointment and distress that the incident has caused. The company does not tolarate behavior or content that ‘promotes violance, sexism, discrimination or hatred of any form’.
Many fans has thanked the company for taking immediate action against such behaviour of the actor, addiotionally many has suggested that the company should do a thorough inspection before recruiting talent into their agency to avoid these future jeopardy and distress.
