Posts by SerendipitousYun

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    now its pretty much guaranteed that there's no way newjeans members would be staying at hybe is mhj is removed

    This is without a doubt leaning towards the worst case scenario, and I wanna know who allowed them to say a word. That's not to shit on their freedom of speech, but them speaking up on their own removes all plausible deniability on where they stand.

    Someday that'll be me I hope :pepe-onions:

    If you don't mind my asking, what field do you practice

    It WILL be you. I'm not sure what year you're in, but if you're going for competitive law schools lsat+gpa is what you'll wanna focus on, and then make sure to apply to schools early and have good rec letters. I get the nerves though as I cried all of my senior year in undergrad lol.

    And I'm an IP attourney! It's not too bad and it's a pretty in demand field that pays well so I like it, and you only have to take one additional test after the bar (uspto). Don't do immigration or public defender unless you're truly passionate about those fields b/c the pay is not enough and debt is real (you'll always have a job in those fields though).


    edit: The LSAT subreddit is a good resource for finding advice of prep materials and general info. I used 7sage but everyone is different. Also sorry for the delay but I wanted to make sure my response was thoughtful, and I was eating dinner.

    I have to say that 45 pages in 3 days is impressive. It almost makes me sad I missed it unfold (unfortunately vacation is over and it's back to to the misery of billable hours ;( )

    Why are you manifesting drug scandals? That would put us in yge territory :pepe-shoooketh:

    No company will likely ever be as bad as YGE when it comes to drug scandals. At one point I stg you could blink and some idol under YG was having a drug scandal and YG's response was "hmm". Either way I'm also manifesting either a drug scandal or dispatch leaking that MHJ and BSH were secretly a couple and this is just a giant lover's spat. :meme-waiting:

    Ok I caught up. We need someone to make a summary every Monday ;( . I'd like to point out that ya'll managed to add an additional 4 pages while I was catching up


    I've wanted to get this off my chest for like a month, but FUCK HYBE and FUCK Belift too. I know a lot of ya'll don't stan Illit, but I do. I watched runext (I was only there for Yunah, Jiwoo, and Jeemin tbh), and decided to stan the group once Yunah made it despite not understanding the lineup completely. I have been annoyed since their debut b/c the group and fanbase have not been able to catch a break since the finale of runext and belift is shit at handling things. Thankfully they're in Japan right now (that was their target market from the beginning anyway), so they're removed from this, and they aren't receiving as much hate as you'd think (it's more than you'd expect for a new group but not a lot comparative to the hate lsfm is getting), but this situation is becoming more and more absurd. This is the first hybe group I've ever paid attention to and I'm starting to retract about 30% of the complaints I've had against SM (I'm only retracting my superm complaints tbh). I don't think LSM or SME have ever pissed me off this much with the groups I stan from them (this is absolutely false, but they have never pissed me off this early on into a group's career ).

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    Whew, now that I got that off my chest, if that interview is to be believed, putting those girls on a 1.5-year hiatus is evil. 1 year and they'd be ok (still shitty to do though), but 1.5 years is a length so long that they'd likely come back to their core fanbase and some straggler old men b/c K-pop is a fast-moving scene. They seem to want those girls gone, and that's so short-sighted considering that they are your biggest money-makers atm. Imagine if at the peak of Exo' s career (monster I guess), SM went "ok guys, see you in 18 months!" I'd be hiding in their walls with the saesangs ready to beat them up ngl. It makes no sense from a business standpoint and if it's true I have to wonder if they're truly so petty that they'd impact their bottom line like this. I'm a bit skeptical about whether this is true b/c I can't believe shareholders would agree to this, but god knows how anything is run over there.


    I do feel bad for njwns though. If they stay they're supposedly going into the basement for a length of time that will impact their growth substantially, but if they leave they might as well start applying to university b/c they will likely be blacklisted.


    The drama loving part of me loves all these new developments though I can't lie. :meme-popcorn:

    what you order?

    Mango sticky rice and pad see ew from my fav Thai spot 😋

    Beautiful. Let's get you into power right now. This is the kind of vision Hybe needs, but they seem determined to go down the pathetically petty path.

    They're awful at PR and too short sighted to think about how this would impact them (or maybe dumb enough to think it was never gonna impact them).

    This is way longer than it needs to be but I'm bored and waiting for my takeout that's late so here's my crack at it :spammerpepe:

    • modify MHJ's original contract so there are clearer terms regarding the length of the non-compete (a year with pay)
    • resolve the issue of conspiracy and confidentiality breaches
      1. If she did leak confidential information and plotted to sell, negotiate before it goes to trial with an offer to remain artistic director or njwns, but stepping as the CEO with completely restricted access to company data. The tradeoff is no jail time, fines, or no criminal record.
      2. If she didn't leak anything, Co-CEOs where both could have an equal share of ador shares and offer a higher percentage of shares (35-65 most likely, but maaaybe 40-60) as well as some sort of contingency for MHJ that this will not happen again unless there's proof and even then it will be handled the way it should have been (privately).
    • Find someone good at PR and if Hybe was in the wrong, look into sealing the court records (not sure of the exact laws in Korea, but trade secrets are sometimes enough to seal a case from the public), have MHJ sign an NDA (put that in the agreement for more shares and protection against trying to give her the boot again), and release a bullshit statement about the sealing of the case due to trade secrets and reaching an amicable solution due to valuing MHJ as a CEO as well as some nonsense about handling this improperly and learning going forward.
    • Keep Illit focused on Japan for a little longer as that has always been the group's target audience and they're being well received there. Their next domestic comeback would either lean more into the gamer aspect of their concept, or towards the darker side of their lore, but regardless it would have to be something a little more distinct from new jeans altogether. Maybe release a statement about it, but honestly why even address it unless it's directly brought up again?
    • Send lsfm on another tour outside of Korea. Hire a vocal coach and then drop a few videos or have a member do a live where they mention receiving some vocal coaching as ppl often respect effort being made even if the improvement isn't great (it also has the effect of making you look worse when you drag people who are visibly trying to improve b/c they've made the acknowledgment that said skill isn't the best).
    • Take a page out of SM's book and establish Hybetown (by a different name), so that there's a stronger image of legacy and "family" (even though they are just coworkers doing their job)
    • Pay dispatch to drop a scandal about another group so that the attention is taken off of them

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    I'm not sure what I expected from their full album but this is different. Like atropos said, after track 5 it deviates in sound. My quick thoughts are that Prologue has a similar melody to Dangerously by Charlie Puth (not the same, just a very similar melody in the instrumental to the chorus of Dangerously), Live My Life is something I'd expect to hear in a movie about a girl not like other girls (A Debbie Ryan movie to be specific), and Melody sounds like an OST (edit: Supernova sounds just ok and Bahamas feels similar in vibe to Better Things). Currently, I like Mine the most, but the full tracks might be different as snippets aren't always accurate to what the song will bring.


    I'm curious what the title track will sound like now, as the album as a whole seems like a mixed bag.

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    You know how sometimes people first hear a song through Glee? This is me realizing this is NOT an original song from the Trollz movie ;( (I had to watch it once a day when my baby sister was an infant).

    I am not into astrology. Obviously Moka would be more comfortable with Iroha since they speak Japanese, and cutting Youngseo really made Yunah awkward.


    I don't se a mention of Minju, but for all practical purposes she is now driving the group. Wonhee is not in a position to resist, so it would be probably MInju-Moka rivalry which will decide the group's future.

    Out of curiosity, what do you think the difference would be between Minju vs Moka would be for the group's future?

    But, Cupid success is not completely natural. At least, it was heavily bloated with playlisting.

    Neither the song being viral explains the astonishing physical sale.

    Do you seriously believe all articles about Moka so cute and Wonhee so pretty are organic?

    I never mentioned articles nor was Wonhee mentioned. I said, "outside of Moka going viral for being really cute, there hasn't been much about the members". That's on me for not clarifying, but if I had to be specific for discussion's sake, I suppose I was referring to fancams as Moka seems to have the most viewed fancams across platforms (and it's a pretty wide margin). That's not me saying she's a viral sensation, but rather that most of the interest I've observed from people who are not stans is typically in Moka due to her fitting the group's concept really well.


    You didn't refer to physical sales originally, just broad success, so I assumed you meant their digital achievements, my mistake. I'm not sure what a "normal" number is for physical sales, but I don't think 500k is really anything to balk at (I have also never, in my many years of being a K-pop fan, paid attention to physical sales outside of it being brought to my attention that someone sold 1 million copies, and even then it's in one ear out the other). What number do you think they're meant to have?