Do you think now that it wasn't Source fault that GFriend disbanded?

I don't really care about this tbh, but it does make sense. Other than that, probably all of them left so nobody blame the members that didn't want to pursue an idols life anymore.

You know, kpop fans is weird and can easily cancelling an idols even their own fav. Btw, I learn this by my own experience on how bad fans treated the members that choose to left their group.

I think that they might have had a sudden fall out with each other (maybe someone wasn’t that clear about the future and honest) and that’s why the disbanding was so rushed and maybe there was also structural change in Source/Hybe that made it worse. Plus, I think that they wanted to renew as a group until the last minute when something happened because they had content planned

Gfriend peaked like 5 years ago, their fans need to get over it.

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Gfriend peaked like 5 years ago, their fans need to get over it.

some fans don't just care about success though

Like some of us just want to see the girls together

Maybe it's because of their company

I guess we'll never really know though

Wasn't the members didn't know about the disbandment until it was on the news? Even if the reasoning makes sense, source music still didn't disband gfriend properly.

Its clear since the disbandment was so sudden, it was a financial crises as they were planning numerous things for them, I think it just simply that they couldn't pay them right anymore

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Wasn't the members didn't know about the disbandment until it was on the news? Even if the reasoning makes sense, source music still didn't disband gfriend properly.

Right. People want a black or white reason so much, maybe it wasn't all sources fault but that isn't a great way to announce a disbandment.

I obviously won't "side" with Hybe/Source as I won't side with a company, that's a sure thing and at the same time some of the sabotage theories felt like a lot (although I get it for buddies because they are the one who went through that and I'm sorry for them)

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Its clear since the disbandment was so sudden, it was a financial crises as they were planning numerous things for them, I think it just simply that they couldn't pay them right anymore

Really? Financial reasons I can get but couldn't pay them?!

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Really? Financial reasons I can get but couldn't pay them?!

I don't know how to phrase it, but artists have to get a certain share, but with the merge and other spending and stuff they may no longer can get them the right pay without Source going broke, so they decided to disband them against the company going into more debts

I believe that because it was so rushed that they didn't discuss with the girls

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The bottom line for me is clearly a lot has shown Gfriend didn't actually want to fully disband and clearly all are still interested in pursuing their idol careers, it kind of blindsided them and it was pretty obvious the members didn't think they were about to come to an end.

But from what I've seen Source wasn't making any money and the group wasn't really sustainable under a parent company like HYBE. Remember in 2020 Sumo made a loss over 2m. Really the choice for HYBE was either drip feed Source money to keep a non profitable situation going for appeasement of the group and fans or disband them and wind Sumo down.

Afaik Source Music have no active groups right? And their trainees will likely debut under the HYBE banner in the future.

The ex-owner and most of the staff which dealt with GFriend are gone.

It has become a Hybe sub label, to house people like Miyawaki Sakura for the time being until they debut, but I think its name will change since the name Source is too much associated with GFriend.

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In response to intense speculation regarding former IZ*ONE member Miyawaki Sakura joining Source Music's new girl group, a HYBE representative simply...

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Wow they dumped them out quick. It seemed pretty obvious from the start with how small a label Sumo was that HYBE wanted to acquire them for reason other than their active group.

It makes sense, apparently they have a stable of promising girl trainees and given BigHit at the time were looking to debut a couple of new GG's it seems true they wanted to buy Sources trainees.

That is true. Its sole male trainee of note, Kim Hyunbin, moved to WM (now part of RBW) but the female trainees were acquired by Hybe

will we ever know the truth unless a member discloses it way down the line...

they probably all have NDAs

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Wasn't the members didn't know about the disbandment until it was on the news?

what????wtf i didn't know this, srsly????gfriend members didn't even know???oh so this explains why umji was still doing vlive a few hours before the news, what