History YMMV / Mamamoo

* BrokenBase: As of December 2018, Hwasa’s outfit at the [=MAMAs=] is a huge one among netizens: was it tacky, revealing, and too much for a South Korean pop star or was it cool, sexy, and worn well like a “foreign singer”, as netizens would put it? The controversy is given a tongue-in-cheek nod in "HIP," specifically of the "screw you" kind to the haters.

* BrokenBase: As of December 2018, Hwasa’s outfit at the MAMAs is a huge one among netizens: was it tacky, revealing, and too much for a South Korean pop star or was it cool, sexy, and worn well like a “foreign singer”, as netizens would put it?

* EarWorm: Like any other pop group, their songs tend to be quite catchy, such as the "Mamamoo" line in "Mr Ambiguous" and the chorus hook of "Oh Um Oh Yeah".
* BrokenBase: A minor one - are the girls' "beagle" personalities refreshing and cute, or are they going way over the top in an attempt to be relatable and instead being obnoxious and grating?
** As of December 2018, Hwasa’s outfit at the MAMAs is a huge one among netizens: was it tacky, revealing, and too much for a South Korean pop star or was it cool, sexy, and worn well like a “foreign singer”, as netizens would put it?

* InternetBackdraft: Oh boy.
** Wheein seems to get the most backdraft:
*** She often mocks Hwasa's skin tone in colorist tones. (Example: referring to Hwasa as [[https://www.instagram.com/p/4bitnsB5fY/ "black unnie"]] whilst referring to herself as "white unnie", likening Hwasa's tan skin to that of a black Egyptian, etc). Then, in summer 2015, she went on a fancafe and [[http://choisiwonthirstprincess.tumblr.com/post/121933966807/can-you-explain-the-mamamoo-hwasa-and-wheein-thing mocked Hwasa's hairstyle]] for their comeback by using [[http://suluism.tumblr.com/post/121826668955/why-do-you-find-whee-in-post-racist a picture of a black man]] [[http://whitewashedkpop.tumblr.com/post/121878619918/babyladiesshow-i-have-no-idea-if-any-black-kpop with curly hair]].
*** She's also faced criticism for [[http://netizenbuzz.blogspot.com/2017/06/mamamoo-holds-comeback-showcase-amidst.html posting a selfie]] that "mocked non-celebrities", and [[http://netizenbuzz.blogspot.com/2017/06/mamamoo-holds-comeback-showcase-amidst.html another post]] where she wrote that Mamamoo's song "Rainy Season" was a good song to listen to during [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Japan_floods Typhoon Prapiroon]] (a dangerous storm that killed one person in South Korea).
*** In [[https://pann-choa.blogspot.com/2018/08/enter-talk-mamamoo-wheein-controversial.html mid-2018, a post was made talking about a controversial quote of hers]]. Basically, she said Solar was quite good at singing a "cute" version of one of the lyrics from rapper Fatdoo's "The Girlfriend Torso Murder", and encouraged fans to listen to it. The song is quite misogynistic, as well as '''''extremely''''' gruesome and graphic in its descriptions of murder, dismemberment and cannibalism, and many fans took offense to the fact that the group would encourage young people to listen to it.
** Fans have pointed out how Hwasa and Moonbyul appropriate cornrows and braids whenever they do a rap/hip-hop stage but in the Ahh Oop! MV, an afro and dreadlocks are seen as part a montage of "ridiculous" hairstyles. Kind of...not a good look for the girls.
*** In early 2016, a video of Hwasa singing {{Music/Beyonce}}'s Irreplaceable surfaced on Youtube, with Hwasa [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3W1lpW0Wd8U singing the "n-word"]]. This '''really''' didn't go over well with fans and non-fans.
*** In 2017, they did a performance of Bruno Mars' "Uptown Funk"... [[http://www.asianjunkie.com/2017/03/03/mamamoo-did-blackface-at-a-concert-and-theres-not-much-more-to-say-really/ in blackface]]. [[http://www.asianjunkie.com/2017/03/03/rainbow-bridge-world-issue-apology-kinda-for-mamamoos-blackface-skit/ They did apologize]], but the damage has been done.
** Solar's kiss scene in "Decalcomanie," as detailed on the main page.

* {{Tearjerker}}: In the midst of the #Debttoo movement[[note]]A slew of celebrities have been outed as children of scammers or embezzlers, due to people coming forward and making claims. In South Korea, if one is the child of someone who committed a crime such as this, netizens believe this makes them responsible in some way as they benefited from the pilfered money as well. Some claims have been truthful and some have been somewhat fraudulent, claiming they were missing more money than they were originally given.[[/note]], someone claimed that Wheein's father scammed money from them and never paid them back. Wheein later issued an official statement explaining her family circumstances[[note]]She was raised by her mother and grandmother while her father was neglectful and drove their family into debt. After her parents divorced in 2012, she attempted to reach out to her father, but ultimately, they went their separate ways and never contacted each other again. Nonetheless, her father still used her name as a celebrity and expected her to cover his debts.[[/note]]

* {{Tearjerker}}: In the midst of the #Debttoo movement[[note]]A slew of celebrities have been outed as children of scammers or embezzlers, due to people coming forward and making claims. In South Korea, if one is the child of someone who committed a crime such as this, netizens believe this makes them responsible in some way as they benefited from the pilfered money as well. Some claims have been truthful and some have been somewhat fraudulent, claiming they were missing more money than they were originally given.[[/note]], someone claimed that Wheein's father scammed money from them and never paid them back. Wheein later issued an official statement explaining her family circumstances[[note]]She was raised by her mother and grandmother while her father was neglectful. After her parents divorced in 2012, she lost contact with her father and went their separate ways. Nonetheless, her father still used her name as a celebrity and expected her to cover his debts.[[/note]]

* Tearjerker: In the midst of the #Debttoo movement[[note]]A slew of celebrities have been outed as children of scammers or embezzlers, due to people coming forward and making claims. In South Korea, if one is the child of someone who committed a crime such as this, netizens believe this makes them responsible in some way as they benefited from the pilfered money as well. Some claims have been truthful and some have been somewhat fraudulent, claiming they were missing more money than they were originally given.[[/note]], someone named Wheein as a child of a man who scammed money from them and never paid them back. It was revealed by Wheein that she was raised by her mother and grandmother and never had proper contact with her father after her parents divorced, but he used her name as a celebrity and expected her to cover his debts.

** During a fansign,