5th-Gen Girl Group Gets Blasted Over “Disgusting” Comments About ILLIT

The members have stirred up heated backlash. Koreaboo Just now A recently debuted girl group has landed itself in a major controversy after directly mentioning ILLIT and making questionable comments about them during a podcast. ILLIT | @illit_official/Instagram The girl group in question is VVS, an independent girl group created by producer Paul Thompson that debuted in 2025. VVS | @vvssodvs/Instagram Recently, a clip of two VVS members, Lena and Brittney, talking to Thompson about ILLIT on a podcast went massively viral on X (formerly Twitter). The HYBE girl group was mentioned in the context of a past controversy involving the two groups when VVS’s Instagram account had made posts comparing scenes from their “D.I.M.M” music video to ILLIT’s scenes in the “Iconic By Mistake” music video. This had sparked massive online debates about whether the former group was accusing ILLIT of plagiarism. During the podcast, Thompson clarified that the intention wasn’t to accuse ILLIT, but just to play with an already circulating comparison between the two girl groups. He mentioned that after “D.I.M.M” was released, VVS was being jokingly referred to as “evil ILLIT” by some netizens. So, when “I...