It started with a nail appointment. Korean YouTuber Freezia was getting her nails done, chatting casually with a friend, when the conversation turned to phones. Her friend mentioned her boyfriend uses a Samsung Galaxy Fold. Freezia didn't think twice before responding.
"Honestly, if my boyfriend used a Galaxy phone, I think I'd kind of dislike it."
She kept going. "My mom and dad also use Galaxy. But parents and a boyfriend are different, right? If I imagine him taking pictures of me with that phone, it would annoy me so much."
{img}The clip made it onto social media within hours. Comments came from every direction. Some viewers were genuinely annoyed — "It sounds like she's judging people by their phone," "She's looking down on Galaxy users," "Even if it's a personal preference, the way she said it felt rude." Others thought the backlash was completely out of proportion, arguing she was sharing a casual opinion in a lifestyle vlog and nothing more.
Here's the thing though. Freezia isn't just anyone having a private conversation with a friend. She has 760,000 YouTube subscribers and built her entire platform on aspirational lifestyle content — luxury fashion, polished aesthetics, the kind of life that looks expensive on camera. When someone in that position casually dismisses a product used by millions of everyday people as a romantic dealbreaker, it doesn't land the same way it would coming from a stranger.
Samsung isn't just a phone brand in Korea. It's a national institution. It's what most ordinary Korean families use. Calling it something you'd "dislike" in a boyfriend isn't just a tech preference — in this specific cultural context, it reads as something closer to a class comment. That's why it spread so fast and hit so hard.
{img}This is also not Freezia's first time navigating public controversy. She previously faced serious backlash after luxury items featured in her content turned out to be counterfeit. She apologized publicly, stepped away for a while, then came back. This new situation arrives while she was still in the process of rebuilding goodwill with her audience.
She did add one small detail during the conversation — when the Galaxy Flip first launched, she briefly wanted one because it reminded her of old flip phones. "It was really pretty," she said. That footnote hasn't calmed much of the conversation down.
{img}Freezia, whose legal name is Song Ji-a, gained wider recognition after appearing on Netflix's "Single's Inferno 2." She has not commented further since the clip went viral.