BLACKPINK just got commemorative postage stamps, and then Instagram chopped a chunk off their follower count. So, yeah — today is giving iconic and chaotic at the same time. It's the BLACKPINK Daily Fancast, and we're somehow going from philately to follower fraud in one episode. Buckle up. Korea Post made them literal national icons, and Instagram did its bot purge. Those are two very different kinds of official recognition, and we’re covering both. Stamps are forever. Fake followers? Not so much. DigitalToday, with Jin-ho Lee:
Korea Post, an agency under the Ministry of Science and ICT, said on May 7 it will issue 10 types of Blackpink commemorative stamps on June 16. It will also sell a commemorative stamp packet. The packet will include stamps and portraits of Blackpink.
Korea Post is making it official — BLACKPINK commemorative stamps go on sale June 16, with ten designs and pre-sales starting May 12. When a government postal agency is in the mix, that’s about as official as it gets. Korea Post. The Korea Post. I need BLINKs to sit with the fact that your faves are getting a stamp next to national holidays and historic landmarks. That’s legacy behavior. Overseas BLINKs can pre-order through YG SELECT — English, Japanese, and Chinese sites — so this is definitely not just a domestic collector thing. And the packet with portraits? Yeah, that’s the one people are going to fight over. Twenty-five thousand won for the full packet is nothing. The real question is whether those portraits are individual member shots or just group-only, because that changes the pre-sale chaos a lot. Here's Morning Honey:
In a massive cleanup, many celebrities, including Kylie Jenner and K-pop girl group BLACKPINK, have lost millions of followers on Instagram. The Instagram bot purge happened overnight, and many big names lost followers. This is reportedly being called the 'Great Purge of 2026.'
Instagram ran a major bot purge on May 6, and BLACKPINK's account got hit along with basically every other mega-account on the platform — Ronaldo, Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Kylie Jenner, all of them. Everybody needs to breathe before they spiral. This is not a BLACKPINK-specific thing — Instagram just admitted a lot of those follower counts were fictional for years. Kylie Jenner reportedly lost around 15 million, which is the headline number everyone's chasing. But the real story is that every inflated count got audited overnight. Honestly, the fandom that shows up to sold-out world tours and crashes ticketing systems does not live in bot accounts. BLINKs are real, BLINKs are loud, and the number on Instagram was always the lie. If anything from today’s episode made you want the full context, we’ve put links to every story in the show notes. Take a look there and follow whichever threads caught your ear.
That’s BLACKPINK Daily Fancast for today. This is a Lantern Podcast.