Have You Seen This Woman?

About

Have You Seen This Woman? refers to a series of ironic Wanted posters spread across Brazil with pictures of Chuu, from K-pop girl group LOONA, and the text "have you seen this woman? If you haven't seen it, now you have!". The trend became popular in August 2022, after some fans started to glue posters of the singer in universities across the country.

Origin

On August 22nd, 2022, the "Trojan Horse Chuu" trend reached college students from Brazil, who started to print wanted posters of the singer on walls of unusual places^[2], such as Brazilian universities and other public spaces. The poster includes her debut photoshoot picture, the text in Portuguese "have you seen this woman? If you haven't seen it, now you are!" and a Spotify^[3] QR code that sends people to LOONA's songs or Chuu's solo profile in the music platform.

Precursor

Trojan Horse Chuu refers to a series of photoshopped images that include a red arrow pointing at a seemingly random area with a circled picture of Chuu from K-pop girl group LOONA in it, mimicking YouTube clickbait thumbnails.

On September 26th, 2020, Twitter user @hwmhm posted an image showing a picture of a Trojan horse with a red arrow pointed at its head and a concept photo of Chuu from LOONA's first album "++" being used in the circle (shown below). While many expressed confusion over the meme's meaning, some Twitter users theorized that the idea of the meme is that prior to getting into LOONA, many fans will become fans of Chuu, only to later become LOONA stans. Others simply took it as funny that Chuu would appear in unexpected places. The post gained over 11,000 likes and 2,000 retweets in over a year.

Spread

The Korean singer's Wanted poster became a popular trend on August 26th, 2022, when Brazilian teacher @yeocopter^[4] shared an art project of Chuu's picture being displayed at her school. The post received 60,000 likes in one month and paved the way for other fans to print different posters of Chuu at schools in Brazil.

ta tendo exposição de arte com trabalho dos alunos na minha escola e eu juro por deus pic.twitter.com/Pb2GdMXRaA

— ִֶָ (@yeocopter) August 26, 2022

Students began to share on social media where they spotted new prints of the Korean singer throughout the country. For example, on August 30th, 2022, meme page @evamosde made a compilation post showing several versions of the poster. The post received 14,406 likes in three weeks.

According to a September 1st, 2022 compilation thread of Chuu's posters across Brazil posted by LOONA fan account @OrbitsBrasil^[5], there are at least 98 universities in Brazil with Wanted print posters of the singer.

Chuu For President

The same Twitter thread from @OrbitsBrasil included several prints of the Korean singer as a political candidate for Brazil's presidency with the following goals: 1 – end families; gender ideology; end religions; social class struggles and the Global Government.

The TikToker @mitoooou^[6] posted a video on September 9th, 2022, of the ironic Chu "political propaganda" for the Brazilian communist party. The post received 13,000 views in one week.

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