Music
What is Weverse, the “super app” that Ariana Grande joined?
SEOUL—Pop sensation Ariana Grande is joining Weverse, a superfan community run by HYBE, the production company behind K-Pop sensation BTS.
Here are the things we know about Weverse and the reasons why more and more music singers are using the app worldwide.
Describe the Weverse P.
An software called Weverse is dedicated to facilitating communication between musicians and fans. On the app, artists may sell products, livestream, and create posts. Weverse is a “super app” that provides machine translation in 15 languages, according to HYBE.
After completing his 18-month military service, Jin, the eldest member of BTS, addressed his fans on Wednesday. His first broadcast collapsed, but it later resumed and received over 2 million views in just ten minutes.
According to HYBE, the app, which was released in 2019, had an average of over 10 million monthly active users as of the third quarter of 2023. Nine out of ten users of Weverse are international.
ARIANA GRANDE’S JOURNEY WITH WEVERSE: WHY?
Without offering any other information, the entertainment company announced on Friday that Grande will join the app following her agreement with HYBE America.
Her channel hasn’t even launched yet, and HYBE wouldn’t say when it will open.
The firm also stated that HYBE America, the management organization for Justin Bieber and The Kid LAROI, will keep working with Grande’s cosmetics line, R.E.M Beauty.
The news of Grande’s breakup with manager Scooter Braun, whom she has worked with since her 2013 debut, was first published by Billboard last year. This new arrangement follows their split. Following a $1.05 billion merger between HYBE with the music executive’s Ithaca Holdings in 2021, Braun is currently the CEO of HYBE America
K-Pop fans on the internet laughed when Grande’s connection was announced.
One fan called her “Ariana unnie” on X, using the Korean term for older sister.
Yoasobi, a Japanese pop duet that accompanied Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to a state banquet at the White House in April, launched their Weverse channel earlier this month.
HYBE: WHAT IS IT TRYING TO GET?
Weverse President Joon Choi told Reuters in a 2022 interview that the platform’s users are “superfans characterised by passionate engagement.”
“They conversed elsewhere, watched films there, and purchased merchandise here. We were lacking a customer database. Thus, we started creating every service internally,” he stated in the interview.
The expansion of the app occurs against the backdrop of HYBE’s initiatives to expand as a label including its acquisition of Exile Music, a music label of Spanish language media company Exile Content, in its first major foray into the Latin music market.
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Tollywood
Post Kanguva debacle, Tamil Nadu producers demand ban of YouTube channels from theatres
This decision comes after the release of Kanguva on November 14, which saw a lot of negative feedback on the opening day from YouTube reviews.
On Wednesday, the Tamil Nadu Producers Council (TNPC) issued a strong statement requesting theatre owners to ban fans’ interviews by YouTube channels on theatre premises post the first day first shows (FDFS) and cooperate in doing away with this FDFS public review and opinion process completely. (Also read: Kanguva producer’s wife says Disha Patani’s role in film was to ‘look pretty’, deletes comment after backlash)
In a long four-page letter, the Tamil Nadu Producers Council has condemned ‘personal attacks and incitement of hatred in the name of film reviews.’ They said that films like Indian 2, Vettaiyan and Kanguva were highly impacted due to YouTube FDFS public reviews.
What the letter stated
This letter comes after the release of Suriya’s film Kanguva on November 14 which saw a tremendous amount of negative feedback from the audience in the first day first show YouTube reviews and opinion videos. The TNPC wrote that journalists have the right to criticise flaws in the film and talk about the positives and negatives but no one can engage in personal attacks and try to destroy the entire film in their reviews. According to them, this would lead to the downfall of the film industry itself.
The letter also stated, “Critics have every right to review movies. But we request all journalists to write film reviews keeping in mind that hatred towards a film should not be sown in the media because of personal malice. It is imperative that all the associations related to the film industry unite and stop this practice by not encouraging them anymore.”
More details
Kerala was the first state to establish this ban on YouTube reviews. In 2023, Mubeen Rauf, director of Aromalinte Adyathe Pranayam, who was supported by the Producers’ Association filed a case in court to ban YouTube reviewers from theatre premises as their negative public opinion videos were affecting the film business.
The Kerala High Court then issued a directive to the concerned authorities to prevent online reviews of films by social media influencers, YouTube reviewers, and bloggers for seven days following the release of a film.
The court went a step further and even issued notice to the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and the Central Board of Film Certification to establish clear and transparent guidelines for online film critics and vloggers. Producers felt this move would protect the industry.
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