Thai Actor Prom Theepakorn Kwanboon’s Controversial Guesting on ‘Baddy 3 Friends’

2023-05-07
11:37

Prom Theepakorn Kwanboon, who recently played Pat, the drummer of Chinzhilla band on ‘My School President’, recently guested on the YouTube series ‘Baddy 3 Friends’, hosted by Mond Tanutchai Wijitvongtong, Ssing Harit Cheewagaroon, and White Nawat Phumphothingham.

A clip from this guesting went viral as it showed Prom Prom laughing about the time he inappropriately looked at kindergarten students in order to brag about it to his friends.

Trigger warning: mentions of body shaming, bullying, homophobia

Further controversy from the same guesting arose from Prom’s comments about being scared of big breasts because he believed that women with large breasts could kill men with them through suffocation, which fans found to be an inappropriate way to talk about women, describing his comments as a form of body shaming. The clips, as well as a translation uploaded to Twitter by a native Thai speaker, can be found here:

อยู่โรงเรียนชายล้วนแล้วไปส่องเด็กอนุบาล??? ปากบอกไม่ได้คิดอะไร แต่คือไปส่องทำไมอะ แล้วตอนนั้นตัวเองไม่ใช่เด็กเล็ก ๆ แล้วด้วยนะ ไม่ได้ปะ pic.twitter.com/72Oo75Ql3X

— 𝙢𝙖𝙥𝙪𝙢 𝙛𝙩. 𝙘𝙛𝙘 𝙢𝙤𝙙𝙚 ° (@mysunpilwer_) May 5, 2023

High school boy peeped kindergarten kids, just so he could make big talk with his friends. I'm so shocked ka. And he also mentioned that he scared of big boobs, bc he believes women can use it to kill men if they want to. Omg 🤢🤮 https://t.co/4cxhlMXRhO

— 🌈 D-dreamer ❄ (@daydreamerr98) May 5, 2023

Prom, as well as the official account of ‘Baddy 3 Friends’, have since uploaded apologies, with the ‘Baddy 3 Friends’ account explaining that they have since cut the controversial parts of the episode from the YouTube upload and that they will monitor the content they upload more strictly in the future. Both statements can be found below.

ขอโทษทุกคนด้วยนะครับ🙏🏻 pic.twitter.com/wvM7HWkQWu

— ppromxx (@ppromxx_) May 6, 2023

Translation:

translate : pic.twitter.com/lQYMPe6DW8

— 𝒹 (@dwynetzu) May 6, 2023

Trans:From the Baddy 3 Friends team

We learned of everyone's issues and concerns from The Godbrother's talk about "Kindergarten and Body Shaming.

We are not calm. So I want to apologize to everyone.and admit all faults

Initially,the team has cut the content from the clip https://t.co/2g5sNeQBfy

— อิแม่กรุง แม่ทุกสถาบัน (@kxungs4ol) May 6, 2023

The controversy did not end there, however, when someone claiming to have known Prom in high school coming forward with accusations of Prom having bullied LGBTQ+ students in their school, with some fans uploading translations of the aforementioned accusation. The same person also posted screenshots of Prom trying to contact them through social media after the accusations came out. As of the moment, Prom has yet to issue a statement regarding this.

ไม่ใช่แค่ตอนม.4 นะ คนนี้วีรกรรมมาตั้งแต่ไหนแต่ไรแล้ว ตัวเราเป็น lgbtqนะ อยู่ห้องเดียวกับนางตตป.1-ป.6 เราโดนแกล้งตลอดตตประถม แล้วแกเข้าใจป่ะว่ามันไม่ตลก มันเป็นเรื่องฝังใจติดตัวคนคนนึงไปเลยนะ #พร้อมทีปกร #ppromxx #TheGodBrother #เดอะก็อดบราเธอร์ https://t.co/3DmKrKvaCi

— ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ ft.🥱 (@milkaday) May 6, 2023

Translation:

prom is also a bully? if i read it right, he bullied these ppl for being lgbtq+ for 6 whole years, from elementary to high school. they cut their queues at the school caf and threw out their food. he only stopped when he became a gmmtv actor. god i have zero respect for this man. https://t.co/jnZbz8jIsH

— ً (@wingcfs) May 6, 2023

The issue further grew with an Instagram Story uploaded by Gemini Norawit Titichoenrak, who is currently in Japan with Prom and the rest of the ‘My School President’ cast for a fan meeting. In this now-deleted Instagram story, voices were heard in the background telling Prom to brush the issue off and that the next day, people would find someone else to be mad at, so he should not worry about it anymore and just delete Twitter in the meantime. Fans have speculated that these voices belong to Prom’s manager, as well as fellow ‘My School President’ actor Mark Pakin Kuna-anuvit, though this has yet to be confirmed as their faces were not seen in the clip. This resulted in many BL fans calling out GMMTV’s management as they wanted Prom to take responsibility for his actions rather than ignoring them. The Instagram Story as well as a translation by a fan have been uploaded to Twitter and can be found below.

เผื่อใครไม่ทัน https://t.co/GYU7IEdAcX pic.twitter.com/ruPQ4G5df8

— fah (@fah_nfah24) May 6, 2023

Translation:

note: in the background of the vid, are the voices of mae yui, mark and prom discussing the recent issue. translation in the pic below.

(disclaimer: bear in mind that this is only a cut of the entire conversation so we can only assume that the topic is related to prom's scandal) https://t.co/PzwAghKFYz pic.twitter.com/MBz6gqfRZ6

— tea🍃 (@leafluflyfe) May 6, 2023