Now that we know that hybe is spying on the whole industry and stealing private data, specially from sm and ador, would you be so surprised if they did so?
Out of nowhere, the year when NJs came back with a hip hop concept with How Sweet (the planning board was hip hop all the way), right before ssera came back with a hip hop concept with easy.
First and foremost, the one who have a history of following trends and lacking indenity or a clear artistic directions are ssera/hybe. the ones who had more than dozens of times copied winter's hair cut was chaewon and not the opposite (the orange bob). while njs and aespa are trendsetters unlike them and have a very distinctive sound and identity.
So thinking that the copying or even the influence would come from them towards ador or others doesn't make sense. it's obviously the opposite and now it makes even more sense since we have the proof that hybe stole ador planning board of njs and used it for illit.
so did he with easy and crazy. there is no mystery why both of these concepts are similar to NJs How Sweet and aespa's Whiplash. concepts which both are consistant with their identity unlike ssera who is more like a hybrid of trends mixed with some religious core or smth.
xg, rosalia, tyla, charlie or whoever, they never had a clear musical or even conceptual identity. it's clear as water that bang spied on both ador and sm and used their projetcs as a major influence to make ssera's 2024 EPs, and release them BEFORE even these groups could release their own things. (for aespa it was literaly just a month before! and njs was stuck in the dungeon)
Which if proven factual through proper investigation would be absolutely MADDENIG . because not only they would be copying, but also releasing the copied material before the original one even did! therefore appearing like the copycates were the ones who came up with the concept/direction. Which is INSANITY. Being copied before even making a comback like WTF.
How could aespa even copy crazy in one month anyway? do you know how much time it takes for a comback? bruh. the opposite seems far more likely. meaning a possible influence coming from aespa through spying form hybe.
I dont care if you don't believe me but it's just so obvious. and it makes far more sense that thinking that either ador or sm or xg gets inspiration from hybe or source LOL. they were NEVER trendsetters unlike the ogs.
Again it's another theory of mine, and i had to get it out at some point. maybe it will get proven right (it's half way is tho) like all my other countless theories .