‘GOT7 Guilty Pleasure' Earns Mia Khalifa Support From K-Pop Fans

KEY POINTS
- Mia Khalifa quit porn in 2014
- She revealed her “guilty pleasure” for GOT7 music online
- She trended on Twitter as K-pop fans came out to support her
Mia Khalifa, the former adult film star who retired 6 years ago, trended on Twitter after revealing that she was a fan of GOT7.
GOT7 is an active South Korean boy band with seven members. Their fans call themselves “Ahgase” after the abbreviation of the Korean pronunciation of their fandom name, “iGOT7.”
Recently, she released videos on the popular short-form video app TikTok to talk about the impact making porn had on her mental health and discouraged young girls from pursuing it as a way to earn a quick buck.
Please please please think about this if you are considering the sex industry. They make it impossible to rectify your regrets should you have them in the future. https://t.co/yPYJf7xpA4
— Mia K. (@miakhalifa) June 23, 2020
“That hourly dissociative attack from remembering hundreds of millions of people’s only impression of you is solely based on the lowest, most toxic, most uncharacteristic 3 months of your life when you were 21.”
Fans of GOT7 began calling to support her after she publicly revealed that she was a fan of the popular boy group.
https://t.co/fLcVOwcV6N pic.twitter.com/8ZYlEkTnlR
— Mia K. (@miakhalifa) June 25, 2020
User @Omgitstamz called for Ahgase and “Armys,” the fans of popular South Korean boy group BTS, to post fancams of the boy groups to porn sites to make Khalifa’s porn videos “disappear.”
I feel for Mia Khalifa. Her story is so sad. Im hoping all the #Armys and ahgases spam the porn sites with fancams under her name so her videos disappear #kpopstans #kpop (shes an ahgase!) pic.twitter.com/E5AmLTbdA4
— tamz⁷ (@omgitstamz) June 25, 2020
Another user, @96hochi called Khalifa “a victim of abuse in the porn industry” and demanded justice for her after finding out she listens to GOT7.
justice for mia khalifa though she’s a victim of abuse in the porn industry pic.twitter.com/2iDZIh8Bmr
— pop loves u (@06hochi) June 25, 2020
Khalifa expressed astonishment that going public with her preference in K-pop music would result in so much support online.
“I did not now being public about my got7 guilty pleasure would result in my dignity being restored on the internet,” Khalifa said in a post on TikTok.
Other Tiktok users rushed to her support. User Mainstream Meenachi wrote, “I’ve seen a woman make to reclaim their ownership and autonomy of their sexuality. We love to see it ma’am.”
Another user lamented at the way Khalifa received criticism for speaking out against porn after doing porn. “That woman should be listened to. Wtf is wrong with humanity?” Brandon Morse wrote.
Khalifa had previously said she only earned $12,000 over the three months in 2014 when she actively made adult films.
The move is reminiscent of the #whitelivesmatter hastag that K-pop fans took over in May to drown out racist sentiment on Twitter.
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