Comments quickly turned malicious.
Koreaboo
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aespa‘s Winter has been targeted over her visuals.
aespa’s Winter | MBC
On June 26, local time, aespa arrived at Gimpo Airport heading to Japan for their appearance at the TV Tokyo Music Festival 2026 Summer.
aespa at Gimpo International Airport (GMP) heading to Japan for TV Tokyo Music Festival 2026 Summer.
They will perform at the event on June 28th. pic.twitter.com/dGZAk9ODmq
— 윈터얼트 (@wntrult) June 25, 2026
Rather than a usual airport appearance featuring the members dressed-up, aespa appeared in more comfortable clothing for the flight.
aespa
Media was still present, in particular, the well-known outlet Dispatch was also present, documenting the group’s departure. Dispatch shared content on its Instagram, featuring all of the members.
Currently, the photoset features group content, and photos of each member except Winter, due to a photo shared being deleted after negative comments. The photos of Winter is still present on Dispatch’s Facebook account, showing her with her cap pulled down.
Negative comments about her appearance, along with criticizing the photo being deleted, assuming that either fans or SM Entertainment took action. Some of the comments took an even more malicious edge, accusing Winter, and the other members of aespa, of plastic surgery.
so dispatch deleted aespa winter ugly picture on insta post after her fans harassed them https://t.co/tyZZmUCScd pic.twitter.com/xRUOtQ68vu
— 𖦹 (@minislawyer) June 26, 2026
#BREAKING 🚨 SM urges Dispatch to delete this vgly WINTER picture and they did. pic.twitter.com/fJQ9FQouCD
— KpopInsider (@KpopInside4rdi) June 27, 2026
🚨 Aespa’s Winter receives criticism from netizens after Dispatch removed an unedited photo of her following harassment from some fans toward the page.
— Some netizens were surprised by Aespa’s changing appearance over the years, pointing to a plastic surgery and facial changes. pic.twitter.com/Id0yyMNuWS
— KFlop Net (@KFloopNet) June 27, 2026
Idols have recently seen an increased amount of scrutiny over their visuals in “un-edited” images, including the instance below.
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