I cannot speak Japanese, so I will use English and Google Translate.
I will share my views about Piam situation.
Before the election, many members were already very stressed.
I believe Piam was already a bit stressed before the election.
One day after the election, something bad happened on Pantip.com, Thailand's most popular forum.
Some one created a thread called "What do you think about Piam's behavior?"
The post said "What do you think about Piam acting like a tomboy? What do you think about Piam flirting with members from other idol groups?"
Suddenly, the post became very popular and got many replies. It became the most popular thread with hundreds of replies. It even appeared on the homepage of Pantip.
The most popular answers were things like:
"It is disgusting. She is trying to make it look like she is a couple with other members, but you can tell the other members are uncomfortable with her" "Disgusting. This kind of people should not be an idol" "How would you feel if you were a company owner and your employee give free advertisement to your competitor's company? What a dumb girl." "Piam is stupid. She is being used. If she didn't have BNK48 after her name, none of these girls would even want to talk to her." "She is trying to be cool, but she does not look handsome. She looks like a child transgender." "She seems like she no longer cares about BNK48. All she cares about is Korean group. If she doesn't care about BNK48 anymore, she should leave the group." "This is no longer just being handsome like Cherprang or Namneung. This is 100% butch lesbian." "Piam is spending her effort on the wrong thing. She only spend efforts on writing fujioshi stories about K-Pop groups, but she doesn't make any efforts to improve herself. No wonder she is not popular"
These comments got hundreds of likes. I was very shocked to see they talk like this about a 15 year old girls. I was also shocked to see that so many people seemed to support these hateful opinions.
The same day this thread became popular, Piam posted on Facebook: "You will never reach your destination if you waste your time listening to dogs barking along the way".
Many people were shocked Piam responded and shared the comment. 0146名無しさん＠お腹いっぱい。 (ﾜｯﾁｮｲ 91b1-5VY3)2019/02/13(水) 20:35:06.94ID:j3/AfCJU0 However, 2 days later, another thread was posted. It showed evidence linking the creator of the post to a group on an anonymous web forum called fanboi.ch. Fanboi is an anonymous web forum (similar to 5ch). Because it is anonymous, people can say anything. Sometimes it can be very disgusting. There are many haters of BNK48 there, as well as other otakus who support only certain members and attack other members so their oshi can advance.
It turns out that Piam's post was a coordinated attack from a group from Fanboi. The person who leaked the evidence is a fake member of the group, so they knew what happened.
On the Fanboi forum, before the post about Piam was created, they discussed things like: "The target is Piam, after the election she is the weakest link." "Yes, we much drive her to leave. How can you have this kind of disgusting people in an idol group?" "What should the title be? Should it be 'Is it bad that Piam is a tomboy?" "No, make it sound more neutral, like "What do you think about Piam's behavior?" "OK, post it at 8pm so it is busy. I will follow to like the commen." "OK, I will follow up with this comment...I have 5 account ready" So from the evidence, it is clear that the incident was a planned attack. However, Piam fell for the trap by reacting. Many of the celebrated after Piam's comment on Facebook because they achieve their goal.
I believe Piam was already a bit stressed before the election, but after this incident, I think it triggered her depression.
Now that Piam is on break, I think the people who planned the attack on Fanboi are very happy.
According to an interview, it is Cherprang who approached management to request that Piam take a break for 2 months. I think as captain, she can tell that Piam is going through depression and wanted her to have a break to recover, since it is also announced that Piam will take a break from social media for 2 months.
My apologies I have to use English and Google Translate. My Japanese is not good. If anyone can translate English into Japanese, I will be grateful. Thank you. Please support Piam. I feel very sorry for her.
