After an idol leaves their group their fans no longer exist for them

Really?

That’s “free” fans aka less marketing budget to achieve sales.

she can't mention them

Kangta of H.O.T said he had 20% of his group's popularity as a soloist. That percentage is enough, I guess.

Edit: I don't think I understood this thread like others did.

Are they allowed to mention the fandom name of their previous group? Especially when in a different company?

Probably for legal reasons

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Are they allowed to mention the fandom name of their previous group? Especially when in a different company?

I'm guessing not? Especially for those bigger companies, I'd be surprised if the company doesn't own the fandom name the way they own the group name.

It also doesn't bother me. Once you leave the group, there's no guarantee that the fans are going to follow you. So many idols who were inarguably the most popular member of their group try to leave and go solo and no one pays any attention. It kind of is like they have a whole new fandom.

What did you smoke today? I have seen SNSD mentioning SONEs in recent years you really need to start posting only when you have something interesting to say and not post everyday just to meet a quota

I don't about the former SNSD membres but for Yujin she's under contract and and she's promoting as Kep1er's Yujin not clc's Yujin so it's normal that she would be mentioning Kepler fandom

out of group 2017

mentions Sones and her members 2020

do you honestly expect Yujin to mention her CLC fandom name when she is officially promoting towards an other official fandom?

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It looks like they told her to give them a message, she didn't do it out of her own will

your original post is already wrong

i just mentioned Seohyun only

should I dig some more to proof you wrong even more?

I know that if the group disbanded all together, then the members mentioned the name of the fandom. But if only the member left and the group is still active, the leaving member won't mention the name of their old fandom.

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Kangta of H.O.T said he had 20% of his group's popularity as a soloist. That percentage is enough, I guess.

Edit: I don't think I understood this thread like others did.

no. he said that's what he thought would happen.

“The arrogant thing about me was I thought that if I went solo, I’d have a fifth of the fans, but I ended up with less than a tenth. I learned that it is beautiful when a group is together. That’s why I’m jealous of Shinhwa.”"

Well, Starshit literally took down the original Vlive of Yujin's birthday celebration last year because she mentioned "Wizones" just once.

Now, they musta learned their lesson, maybe they got fan backlash K Dives who were/are also Wizones because we're seeing Yujin and Wonyoung freely and publicly interact with their Izone friends.

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she can't mention them

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Are they allowed to mention the fandom name of their previous group? Especially when in a different company?

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Probably for legal reasons

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Especially for those bigger companies, I'd be surprised if the company doesn't own the fandom name the way they own the group name.

I don't think this is always the case though, since I'm pretty sure I've heard Sunmi talk about Wonderfuls (Wonder Girls fans) after she left JYPE and went solo.

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I don't think this is always the case though, since I'm pretty sure I've heard Sunmi talk about Wonderfuls (Wonder Girls fans).

You misunderstand. I'm talking about people who win on these survival shows. Minhyun (NU'EST) couldn't mention LOVEs whatsoever during his time in Wanna One because his Wannable akgaes almost burned down the building when he accidentally mentioned his original fandom once (and he got called behind the scenes right away by a manager) so you know they CAN'T can't.