Ayu bashed on TV
 

On japanese TV they're talking about some korean dude and Namie Amuro both donating like 70,000,000 yen to the stuff happening in Japan.. They state that Ayu 'only' donated 1,000,000 yen, even though she has the most money...



For starters, Ayu donated more that 1mil, and there are charity stuff coming up... and Ayu has been twittering non-stop, guiding people.. It pains me to hear people calling her selfish..

horrible :(

disgusting :no

What Japanese channel was this?

^ I'm not sure actually, sorry. also forget the korean dude's name.

That's alright! :)

It's upsetting seeing Japanese media bashing artists like Ayu. :headache
I wonder if they know bout the T-shirt or the Charity Live she may do.

its a story for them, media does stuff like that. I doubt Ayu would ONLYB dontate 1mil

I cant believe people are actually comparing how much people donate.. thats just disturbing.

Now what in the world is this? Is this quite an insult that Ayu is not donating as much as Namie Amuro, considering that Ayu has a LOT of money?

Even DREAMS COME TRUE donated more than Ayu's 1-million-yen donation, which is only $12,370.10 as of now!

^ Ayu donated 5 mil also, so far... the news states 1mil, but that is untrue!

Oh... Maybe this may have been some false or "outdated" reports... How did Ayu donate 5 million yen? (And remember - the charity T-shirts and the possible charity concerts soon!!!)

^Justgiving.jp lists her as their leading donator with 5million yen.

To these media pundits and tabloids: Journalism. You're doing it wrong.

Ugh, these are getting ridiculous. I admire Ayu for not having to boast about how much she donated.

They're making that up. Celebrities aren't going to make a big fuss about how much they've donated....unless they're desperate for publicity such as some people --no names mentioned.

Exactly. This isn't a race.

What the hell is with all the Ayu bashing? Is she the only one being so heavily criticized?

Wait... what? All that the major networks (NHK-G, TBS, Fuji TV, NTV, TV Asahi) have been airing are news and specials about the earthquake for days. I don't understand when they have had the time to speculate about Ayu and other celebrities. Unless it's on TV Tokyo channel, I heard they broadcast some regular program there.

^I thought this was coming from the tabloids, which from my experience with them in America are rarely true.
And I thought Ayumi was donating other things as well, like food, water, and clothing.. I pretty sure in a time like this people wante those three over money.

didnt ayu get bashed too in 2004 when they say ayu did not donate also

The Korean celebrity is probably Bae Yong Joon, the guy who was in Winter Sonata and started the whole Hallyu craze. He's very popular in Japan, that's probably why they mentioned him.

I think it's petty and stupid that people are even talking about this. "Who donated the most?" is not what matters. What matters is getting help for the people who need it the most along the eastern coast and elsewhere in Japan. :-/

Why is everyone so quick to start arguing over stupid things now? :(
Part of me still wants to correct the TV station for their mistake, though.

It's a damn shame that these disgusting people are using this tragic event just to bash Ayu. At least she donated something whatever number it was, the people who run this show and network probably didn't donate anything at all.

Exactly. The amount that was donated should not matter, Ayu has been helping and guiding people through this since day one. They really should stop with the bashing.

Ok someone is bashing an artist, this is not new

Ayu said she donated so I see no problem here

To be honest you gotta say while any donation is good, 5 million yen is paltry for someone like Ayumi Hamasaki.

What the hell is with everyone bashing Ayu? Why is it always her that gets so much stick from everyone? I don't blame her for not broadcasting it if/when she makes donations to anything, no matter what it wont be good enough for people anyway.

It's nice that ayu donated that much money, but I definitely see where the speculations come from that namie amuro donated a lot more than ayu even though ayu makes about 600mil yen more than namie annually. but any donation from anyone is very charitable.

I don't think ayu donate that few money

i'm sure Ayu will donate more if she hasn't already. not to mention she's teamed up with ViVi to make a charity tshirt and is considering a charity concert.

No offense to everyone...but didnt you guys see the Entourage episode, when Matt Damon and Lebron James wanted Vince to donate to the kids charity...and he only donated like $10k?

And they were like "aren't you making $20m this year? Come on man."

I don't think it's appropriate to bash people in public over the donating...and I wouldn't expect Ayu to just go around announcing her donations, so they really don't have a right to say anything about her, since no one really knows at all, and it's really really tacky to say anything about any donations really, large and small in public, omg.

But um in my honest opinion, if that's all she donated...like if it was already years later, and that was it...like they said on Entourage..."$10k? That's a little light."

But whatever. No one really has a right to say anything. That's completely a private thing.

^ too true, and besides she donates in other ways too.
I still think this whole thing is a shame.. but oh well, life will go on.

there country is in need and they talk about this, its a donation despite how much money ayu donated to start is still a hudge amount anyways + her helpful twitter posts and now charity stuff with profits going to it, and regarles the amount, how much did those reporters donate? it just horrible what some will say about someone

Next time something like this happens and she decides to donate, she should inform that she donated, but without giving the exact digits. This could be if she donates anonymously.


I feel disgusted at how people think others are as "good" as the amount of money they donated. I haven't donated anything so you can imaging what that makes me.


And other thing, funny thing to see people making like the rich people is guilty because of the consequences of this catastrophe, is not like she or any other rich person planned this, as they make it seem like, ugh.

I don't really see how this is an issue.

Besides, I'm pretty sure in a recent TA message she said something like she will continue to donate everyday until she can't anymore.

Namie donated 70,000,000 yen? yeah ****ing right.

^^Yeah like, the money doesn't have to be donated all at once, why are they making judgments already?? Can't they just feed enough from the catastrophe to get better TV ratings?? Sickens me so much.

It bothers people who really love ayu. But you cant make everyone happy, so take it as they come.

They should just be grateful that she along with others are donating.

@TA2004: Yeah, when it's like ridiculous bashing like this, I mean, you just have to ignore it.

Everyone knows they're just *******s.

No smart person would listen to people like this.

They should FIRSTLY be grateful that they are alive, second that the nuclear plants are still holding back yet, and so many other things in between before even thinking on how much and how less famous people donated. Seriously.

^
I completely agree.

Sadly, some people don't seem to realize that.

I think all of this is just misdirected anger and people looking for something else to talk about or something...

As the middle men, forgive me if I might say the wrong things. But first of all, considering her financial status, she really should donate more than just 1 mil yen. If she could spent so much on her shopping expenses, why can't more be made? Moreover, it's her own comrades that is facing the death. If, it was some other country or this was just a sole-tsunami disaster, this amount would be just fine, but to stress again, it's her own nation and citizens facing both physical damage and economical damage.

I know for sure someone's gonna start another debate against the paragraph ^ . But I don't wanna care about that.

It's already a good thing that she uses her influence as a form of help. I hope more people will donate more to the poor Japan, that is the only thing we citizens can do now.. Bless Japan.

Yeah, and because Ayu is always at the forefront of the media as a celebrity, it seems that she is often targeted. Who would want to hear a gossip story about a nobody?

I mean, how many other artists have been pregnant a dozen times, cheated on their significant other, gotten STDs, been rude to Thai royalty, and so on over the years? (according to tabloids)

I guess it's just one of those things that comes with the insane amount of fame Ayu has. And for the record, according to a TeamAyu blog, she donated not once, not twice, but three times. But she did it in private because she does not believe it is right to parade around and talk about how much/how many times you donated it publicly. That imo, is class. And suck on that, tabloids.

She did. And I think she did sums of a million plus more than once. Not going to say I'm sure since I don't really know 100%. I think this is all coming out of her own pocket as an individual, so even though it doesn't seem like much, she's a single person. (For example, this one Japanese company I know of donated 10 million yen, and as a company they probably make MUCH more than Ayu does individually.) Even if she did only donate a small amount of money, she is spreading awareness and encouraging people (including her fans) to donate. She has been considering a charity concert and now has a charity T-shirt that will have 100% of the profit going towards victims. That is above and beyond imo. (though I think Lady GaGa is doing something similar, haha.)

^:yes:yes
totally agree with you!

Get your facts right. Ayu has donated 5 million yen. She's #1 on the ranking.

http://justgiving.jp/ranking/support...ter_donate_sum

Namie is not even on the list. People are just speculating that she's donating more than Ayu.

I cant wait to be rocking my lady Gaga help japan and my Ayu tshirt!

BWAHAH!

EDIT:
Which by the way I just saw this:
http://www.tokyohive.com/2011/03/akb...saster-relief/

I cant believe AKB48 donated 6.2 million USD!! That is insane!

Also, this justgiving website, is this an official thing or what??

That was more of an effort of AKB -and- AKB's fans. That is a TON of money though.

ya she donated that much Namie has money get over it.

The article said that the money they announced today, the 6.2 million was donated by the members and there staff, which i started thinking about. is a little under 130,000 USD per person of the main 48...

Together its impressive, and i dont want to say, they should of done more because we are already going back and forth. Its still a private matter. Like religion and politics, lol.

I think people are putting why to much on how much certain people ahve donated... by i guess it can be takin as somewhat of a complement? I mean they expect more out of you because they respect YOU more..

I could just be grasping at straws though...

just because she not list didn't mean she didn't donated


I really hate people saying crap about Namie too.....

wow, thats almost a million USD.. not bad.. lol

I know you're annoyed about Ayu, but yeah she ****ing did, and she has the track record to prove it.

It's only one site for donating, so I doubt Namie hasn't donated. However, it was idiotic for the show to speculate a total for Namie's donations (when they don't even know if she did or not) while they say Ayu hasn't donated and Ayu's donations are kind of RIGHT THERE for everyone to see online. And suck it up about the Namie thing. I swear, people say crap about Ayu ALL the time even here on an Ayumi Hamasaki fan forum and it gets to you for a while before you realize it doesn't really matter in the grand scheme of things.

And if you read the AKB article a little more closely...

I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of the money came from fans.

this whole thread disgusts me

I was talking about this part
Unless im not understanding that part right??? I could be wrong of course...

I think this is precisely why Ayu feels the way she does about donating in the public eye.

Namie is known for donating large amounts to charity, so I wouldn't doubt it. She doesn't live a very extravagant life style either, so I'm sure she has the money to spare.

As for this whole thing in general though, I haven't heard anything about it.

If i had the millions of dollars to donate i wouldnt go announcing it, because you will have to group that starts stuff like this, where she didnt donate enough...
then you would have the group that says "she just wants attention.. an album is coming out..."
And then there is the always fan favorite.. 'I LOVE YOU!!!!"

I just wish the media would focus on helping people themselves instead of throwing how much celebrities donated towards the relief fund around. It's not really important how much they donated.

Cue the "How do YOU know?" questions from people.

I dont get whats their issue.

(and Namie donated 70MIL?! wow)

I think the fact Ayu has spent days RT all the helpful info she can & will not say how much she has donated shows that she has the kind of heart that probably donated beyond anything AKB48 can afford. Since donations can be made anonymously no one but her will ever know that amount.

The tabloid bashing her had her and many other japanese celebs listed as South Korean celebs and loses all their credibility there. JustGiving was obviously one charity her and Mika John both gave to using there names but obviously not the only one Ayu gave to.

Actually I don't get how all of this should be turn into a competition. This is really, disgusting imo.
I won't give a damn if Ayu has just donated 500 yen instead of over9000 yen, the most important thing is: she helps people as she can.
It's more easy to donate money and then don't care, than spam like a crazy on twitter for trying to help.

It might just be the fact that people need to talk about something else??
Who knows... I agree with you though, it doesnt matter how much someone donates, at least they did.

I really think these TV people are just...being trolls lol

It's a rumor that she donated between 50 and 70 million, but no one really knows how much.

Why do those people had the mood to speak that kind of stupid things while the disaster is still going??!!!!I think they are the selfish ones, the amount of money is not the most point, the point is AYU has been announcing some many things to remind and guide the people to get help, why can't they do the same thing instead of speaking words like idlot?!Really Angry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!

At time like this also, they can still talk bad about people. I don't even care if Ayu wasn't donate anything, because I know she will still donate something no matter what. It's Ayu by the way.

Not saying Ayu is wrong for not donating more or whatever. But people in the North of Japan need money a lot more than Twitter....

According to the rankings in just giving, no one ever donated in japan more than what ayu donated.
She can't save the world and she already does enough.

Again people focusing on the wrong things. God, measuring people's charity in cash...what a bunch of idiots.

Wow if Namie donated 70 million, I wouldn't even imagine that Ayu's personal fortunate is 70 million so I'm skeptic.

If she does a concert, it'll be worth so much more.

Also I have more respect for someone who donates little, but is helping out at the scene as opposed to someone sitting comfortably in some huge building, pouring money out of their pockets. I'm not saying either of them are, but I'm just giving those as examples.

I'd like to see the folks on tv who said it, how much they've donated, if we're going to all be foolish.

That ranking is just for that site, I think. There are other outlets that are not being ranked. I wonder why Ayu chose that place to donate of all the places to donate?

Agreed.

I think it does not make sense at all to even compare how much each artist donated...

ayu does tweeting a lot so that she can get followers to read the news and how to donate or do something~

Silly news.

They got it wrong.

Just wanting to cause a fuss around Ayu.

As far as AKB donating they probably mentioned it so fans can see and go well if they can do that so can I. Plus if they didn't people might think they didn't donate enough, or just don't care. Yet they announce it and people are upset too.

In the end it doesn't matter who donated more or less It's good they (Ayu, AKB and whoever else) donated. All that matters is everyone does everything they can whether it be, tweeting, donating, or just sending Japan encouraging messages.

not politically correct

Seriously Ayu donated is nice! & she did t-shirt because she knows that foreign people want to help too.
She's really so nice.
this TV is Really Stupid!!!

This is ridicilous. One of the towns in Southern Serbia donated $10 000 to the Red Cross of Japan, here that's a lot of money, compared to those 7 000 000 yen it prolly doesn't seem that much, but it will still help someone. Imagine how will less known people who don't have such "deep" pockets feel when they want to donate only a couple of hundreds or thousands of dollars after seeing people being judged this way. Any help should be more than welcome and everyone should donate as much as they can or think it's appropriate, as this indeed isn't a race.

And until there are actual facts and numbers on the donations everything's mare speculation. I think Ayu was right not to announce the exact numbers and the Korean guy announcing it only means that he wants more publicity.

Stupid, silly, sad.

They don't even have their numbers right.

-ignore-

Baffles me how a crisis like this can be happening, and there's still time and space to talk about how much people are donating and comparing?
Hmmph.

i don't think anyway it's right to judge the generosity of charity donations.
A donation is a donation.

precisely. I duno what the Japanese are thinking. They should be worrying about more earthquakes, radiation exposure and their future lives instead of complaining that ayu donated a small sum of money -_-

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It's unfair to judge someone like that, even if they have a lot of money. There are more rich people than just Ayu and the majority of them probably wont even donate.It was good of her to contribute.
I feel like im just repeating what has already been said xD but just wanted to throw my 2cents in.

Actually according to Time magazine they estimate her fortune to be around 400 million USD.
So the girl can afford to do a lot more, but im not judging (by the way, i dont know how much Namie makes). I think donation are personal and no one so be saying anything of how much she donated.

If she donated a 1.00 they should just shut up and be thankful she did that. She doesnt have to donate anything, she doesnt have to produce a shirt with all the proceeds to go to charity and she doesnt have to do a concert, if it happens.

Donating +1mil USD is a lot, even for someone really rich like Ayu... Being rich doesn't mean she produces money from her ass or that she has an infinite quantity of it...

+1.

That's terrible. It doesn't matter how much ppl donate, it's the heart that counts.

oh my -.-

How cool would that be if she could do that?! Lol.

SERIOUSLY, HAVE ANYONE THOUGHT OF THIS??:

Even if you earned so much money in a year, it doesn't mean you spend less money and save a lot of money.

Please take a look at Ayu's livestyle, it's obvious she spends a lot, not only for herself and also for her lovely pets and perhaps aother things that we are not aware of. True, her pay might not be constant monthly, but that doesn't mean she doesn't spend any money at all.. Come on, so what if people look rich, earn loads of money and all that, it might be an empty shell inside.. so what's the upset about?? and it is also common that most japanese don't save money...

Besides, does donating more money be only 100% beneficial to the victims? i don't think so, it is already so inaccessible to travel over to where the victims are, let alone provding them with the basic needs. So what, when you have loads of necessity and food but you are unable to distribute to the victims asap??

this whole thread has lowered my IQ

I'm surprised that.. they had time to have such a TV programme? :roflmao

I agree with Kagami,no matter how much she gives, if there are others who are donating, comparisons are gonna be inevitable.

Anyway, if she's doing a little or a lot for her people, that's a thought that only concerns to her, nobody else. The world is gonna spin round and round, no matter what.

Wow that tv station is pathetic

Annoying. But I don't let it bother me because I know ayu has done so much and I know she has donated a lot to her homeland.

A donation means giving something, not necessarily money. A lot of her twitters were information and advice. It just shows how materialistic some people are! How much did their newspaper donate? (Pro-rata, what percentage of their budget?)