Do Not, Under Any Circumstances, Bad Mouth Virtual K-Pop Stars on Social Media

KPop Demon Hunters has dominated streaming and the box office this summer, but KPop Defamation Hunters landed a win in a different venue: the South Korean courts. The South Korean virtual boy band Plave, which is made up of five members who only ever appear as animations, successfully sued a person who made derogatory comments about the group online.

According to the BBC, the unidentified social media user made a series of insulting posts about the band in…