I’ve been trolled by angry K-pop fans

This week on the bumbling adventures of Mel, I was trolled on Twitter by fans of a Korean pop band. That’s not something you get every day now is it? I woke up to thousands of notifications on Twitter.

K POP band Blackpink Picture: Supplied

This week on the bumbling adventures of Mel, I was trolled on Twitter by fans of a Korean pop band. That’s not something you get every day now is it? I woke up to thousands of notifications on Twitter.
I thought, either it’s finally happened, the ABC has come to its senses and I’ve been announced as a Play School presenter, or something has gone very wrong. Unfortunately, it was the latter.

How I came to be a target for the anger of pop fans is a bit complicated.
I appeared on a show called 20 to One (Mum was rapt). During the show some other Aussie comedians and
I commented on clips of the crazed fans of a certain Korean band. I barely remember filming this, but as the tweets flooded in, my words came flooding back. I’ve never been trolled before and I quite enjoyed my first experience. Your phone lights up and there is something juicy like, “You don’t deserve to live”, flashing on the screen. A small part of me enjoyed the attention, even though all these people are upset that
I am not a fan of their favourite band.

I imagine that in the past, all these tweets and Instagram comments would have been letters to the editor, or complaints published in the TV guide. Now the rage can be sent instantly online to the person who’s rubbed you up the wrong way.

The fans are calling for me and the others to apologise for our comments about the band. I didn’t apologise to Tristan in preschool when I painted his hair green on a whim, so I certainly won’t be saying sorry for not liking
a boy band. Of all the bad things I’ve said and done I really didn’t think jibes at a pop band would cause so much vitriol but I’m not replying to the trolls, as it would just make it worse.

I am, however, now going to own up to all the other bad things I’ve done, in case they come to light. I will get on the front foot and own it all here and now:
I threw a passionfruit at my mum when she wouldn’t let me watch Full Frontal,
I turned off the TV at my aunt’s house to get attention while Kieren Perkins was racing the 1500m in Barcelona and when I was very little, I used to look under the checkouts at the supermarket for dropped coins and keep them. There you have it, Mel Buttle exposed.

Mel Buttle is a Brisbane comedian