MHJ sent 1000 pages!!! of evidence lmao.
Belift is being smart recognizing they might have copied NJ actually. There's no way they can win this, the only option they've left is trying to blame MHJ for something, anything, and if they win one of the random lawsuits they're gonna mediaplay it as much as they can. They chose the defamation since they know MHJ's press conference is the thing that made the most buzz about all this mess, and they know 3 fandoms are going to support them blindly in social media with anything they say about that against MHJ.
And honestly they might win some lawsuit, but... who cares at this point? I've noticed how they've changed their focus completely. Now everything they were saying MHJ did previous to April 2024 is barely relevant anymore, they're focusing on what happened after that. Like... Have we forgotten this whole mess is because of the illegal audit? And how MHJ called them out? And how she won the first injunction? And how Hybe might have to pay her 30B won for kicking her out illegally? Belift (and Soumu, Hybe...) are betting everything on DEFAMATION lawsuits against their groups that happened while this mess was ongoing, but apart from MHJ having to pay them some money (and the mediaplay they'd do as the "winners") there's no more consequences for her. It's also an amount of money way smaller than what MHJ might receive from Hybe, and probably nothing compared to the money she's making by herself now that her popularity blew up in Korea, let alone if she keeps working with NJ in the future...
I also have to mention it sadly, I saw several Illit accounts (including a big fanbase) spreading missinformation again regarding what the judge said. I know they want to defend their favs but I wonder how they've not yet realized how much all this is damaging the group. It seems it doesn't matter how much Belift messes up they're not going to blame them never when they're the ones that created the whole issue. Belift saying Illit is underperforming now because of MHJ, when the only thing MHJ did was calling out Belift's actions, is a nonsense, it's basically to recognize that they're doing now worse because the truth has been exposed, that they prefered everybody to believe their lies if that meant to make their group succesful...
Anyway like I said before, I feel the MHJ topic is more or less closed already. Some will pay the other some money but there's no relevant consequence for any side at this point, the interesting part is on NJ's situation. I wonder when we'll have news about what they're going to do next.