Posts by throwaway2691

Quote from WhyKnock

Ah, the authors of the Asterix comic books.

Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt.

Quote from WhyKnock

When Julius Caesar returned from Gallia, he brought the Gaulish leader Vercingetorix in chains to Rome, paraded V across the city, before executed (either beheaded or strangled - accounts differ)

I believe the Romans always paraded the leaders of the countries they defeated in Rome before executing them.

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On June 09, the day before BTS' new album was released, everyone was very excited to see the return of BTS who would dominate KPop once again, and people like the Weeknd, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo and Lee Jieun watched it with very keen eyes even though they would not admit that. (I include Lee Jieun in this list because by that time, although she still remained domestic, she was basically the only person remaining in the entire world who still did not give up the goals of defeating BTS while others kind of learned to coexist with it.)

However, the new album Proof only had 3 new songs, all in K-O-R-E-A-N, and on June 15 something every KPop fan on the earth knows did happen.

Exactly 100 days after June 9, Lee Jieun enters the Chamshil (sometimes spelled Jamsil but I continue to use the older spelling) Olympic Stadium in a triumphal mode, like a conquering Empress.

Her concert IS the biggest concert held in K-O-R-E-A this year, because I learned Psy only used 2 floors of the stadium for his 3 day concerts, which means around 24,000 were admitted. 24,000*3=72,000 while it is estimated that at least 45,000 (initially 43000 but some seats where they can' t see the singer who didn't contribute anything to Kpop at the stage were released , it is about 45,000 plus.)attended for 2 days, it is 90,000, not considering the people who'attended' the concert outside of the stadium without paying for it.

Still this triumph is kind of limited, because she was not able to fulfill her promise to make it the "Golden Hour"

She was unable to summon Min Yoongi to sing Eight with her.

Today she summoned Itzy, who was in Palette, and it is said she will bring Seventeen tomorrow.

So, while she has become the primary singer of K-O-R-E-A, her triumph remains limited.

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Revisionist garbage- almost everyone knows Caesar didn't fully conquer Gaul due to a small holdout in the north, where villagers were able to withstand continued Roman siege as a result of sustained drug use on a scale that would not be seen until German usage of Pervitin in WWII.

Read up on the works of historians Goscinny and Uderzo, specifially "Le bouclier arverne".

probably the only face shot of garam (on the right)

I want haruka from yakuza to be on whatever the next produce is. Then kiryu comes over to seoul and fights yg, lsm, jyp, and hitman bang 4 on 1 in an underground cage match.

A person can dream

So the Kakao takeover is actually happening for real then?

Hybe tops 1 tril. won in annual sales, first in K-pop industry

Hybe has become the first K-pop management agency to surpass 1 trillion won ($838 million) in annual sales, boosted by successes of its artists led by global…

www.koreatimes.co.kr

The company's album sales rose 18 percent from the previous year to 378.5 billion won.

BTS was the leading factor behind Hybe's solid performance, as the album for the group's megahit single "Butter" sold 7.4 million copies. The song stayed on the Billboard's Hot 100 main singles chart for 10 non-consecutive weeks.

Albums by other South Korean boy groups under Hybe ― Seventeen, Tomorrow X Together and Enhypen ― also sold 3.7 million, 1.8 million and 2.2 million copies, respectively.

In addition, albums by Ariana Grande managed by Ithaca Holdings, which Hybe acquired last year, sold 2.4 million copies, and those by Justin Bieber sold 2.35 million copies.

Absolutely mindblowing, and not in a particularly good way either.

kakao takeover still on? company skullduggery always afoot

half this forum would go nuts if newjeans came out in ao dais

I have never been mistaken for bts

tell me where to find these ppl k thx

lakers games obv

Edit: And tacos. And Chipotle, ofc.

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3 eras?

Queen Beth of England dies at 99, after being a fairly good queen for 70 years, and she may or may not get an 'era', but a K-pop group barely an year old and not even 10 songs, has 3 eras..

Kpop and it is exaggeration-on-steroids lingo...pfft..

But anyway, yes IVE is definitely a top group now.. it will take a bad scandal, horrible mess up etc. to topple them of the top tier.

Even if the competition does extremely well, they have achieved enough clout that they will stay so for sometime.

As to comparisons with 3rd gen - BTS/BP etc., we will have to see.. longevity takes time- literally.

At this point they are look more like how Twice was in 2016.

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Nothing to do with kpop but just wanted to say lizzie DEF getting her own era 2nd elizabethan era cant see james bond swearing fealty to that knob CHUCKSTER DA THIRD

DUB DUB DUB DUB DUB DUB DUB DUB

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This repairing stuff can happen anytime know?

Youtube is a strength for kpop but not for others like wsg who were #1 everywhere but still got no PAKs as no #1 on youtube.

The repair thing I'll give you

But the weekly updating thing is too slow given how fast things change and imo its too easily manipulated for very high gain- basically blocking out other groups for a whole week.

To think that people were actually happy that youtube was added

Anyone could see that this was going to be an issue not seen since the cyworld/soribada days

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what other group has a j-line?

LSF might be the strongest contender purely based on members alone that AKB boost is no joke

Not that loser that got rekt by Pusha T, naw BP going with a REAL masterOmega_Ruby_Alpha_Sapphire_Drake.pngNot

Feast your eyes and ears on this masterpiece

Bermuda triangle is so outdated

Nowadays visual are so top tier its the whole set of polygons

Aespa a bermuda square

LSF and newJeans are legit bermuda pentagons

etc etc

EXPAND YOUR MINDS PEOPLE MATH IS BEAUTIFUL JUST LIKE THESE WOMEN

A group that only performs with AI characters once every 2 years in PUBG/APEX/FORTNITE concerts

Just throw me out of the battle bus without a glider in that case

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Their history is more convoluted than Metal gear solid

Hard to tell if those "random" passerbys are being cherry picked as well, after all the west can be super puritan about certain things.