Kep1er had the hype, people were tuning in, Wakeone heavily screwed them over. The hype was there at the time! Not as much as ZB1 and Boys Planet currently, but 150k album sales on their 1st day doesn’t sound like nothing. Their debut was highly anticipated actually. The sales of their debut album for the first day reached 150k and Le Sserafim was 170k, can you see how great they started their careers in the industry? While Ive, who debut close to them sold 56k in their first day for their debut album. And now, the table have turned for Kep1er and Ive. Wa Da Da almost has the same amount of views as both Energetic and La Vie En Rose despite those songs reaching their 5-6 year mark. All their performances had 1M + views. Dance practice and studio choom 20M+ views.
Wakeone's decision to send them to the Queendom really crushed Kep1er's reputation and popularity. Wakeone failed to give Kep1er quality performances, and unnecessarily overworked them, Chaehyun was literally rushing out of the hospital the day of the finale to perform. They gained 0 fans from the show, and it actually tarnished Kep1er’s image as weak performers. Fans left because of how terrible their company treated and managed them. Wakeone is incompetent, Kep1er bust and worked their ass off every performance. They were not given the right tools to succeed.