Early last year, I was on Instagram and saw a video of aespa's Karina dancing in just her underwear. I was like 'WTF?' and checked the account. It was full of deepfakes of Blackpink, aespa, IVE, QWER, IU, Suzy, and more. There were videos of them dancing in bras, stripping to show off their chests, deepfakes of them at concerts in underwear... it looked so real. No 'uncanny valley' vibes at all, just straight-up Karina and Jang Wonyoung dancing in their underwear.

Then I looked at the comments—English, Japanese, French, you name it. I translated them and they were all sexual harassment. So, starting from early last year, I reported the account every single day. I thought about sending screenshots to their agencies, but there was so much content and the thought of contacting every single company felt overwhelming. I decided to stick to reporting. Even as of a month ago, IG kept saying the account was fine and refused to delete it, but I just kept spamming appeals every single day. Finally, I got a notification today saying the account was deleted.

Look, I’m an ahjussi who likes NSFW stuff and I watch my fair share of porn, but this felt wrong, so I reported it.

TL;DR: 1. Found a K-pop deepfake account on IG early last year. 2. Comments were all sexual harassment in various languages. 3. Reported it daily, but until last month, IG kept saying 'no violation.' I spammed appeals anyway. 4. The K-pop deepfake account finally got nuked today.

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