2 hours ago, JonginBey said:

What's tea?

He did a McDonalds campaign, just like Aespa, Riize, Boynextdoor, bts and a lot more but he is the only one getting hate 

 

not all 5 of them being able to speak great English

 

oh Big Hit constructed them to be global

 

1 hour ago, Dialamba said:

Welp katseye is getting dragged too 

Every day, I see someone posting that infamous pic of Daniela and it getting thousands of likes  

 

 

Edited November 17, 2025Nov 17 by Pluto6

@TheCal Well at least they can sell albums 

Prediction for 2026: It might not be until May until the next aespa comeback but when it happens, they're gonna shock everyone again. 2026 is going to be one of their best years yet. 

Should've been a title track!

 

 

no bts, blackpink, twice, red velvet, seventeen .. 

 

This AESPA solo mini delivered. Giselle eating up the other girls is a kii. She always gave me weakest link in the beginning but overtime is proving herself to be the dark horse of the group.

OMT is...great

 

 

A big step in the right direction!

1 hour ago, Pluto6 said:

BLACKPINK's power 

51 minutes ago, Rhyme said:

Prediction for 2026: It might not be until May until the next aespa comeback but when it happens, they're gonna shock everyone again. 2026 is going to be one of their best years yet. 

I want at least one pre release single in January/February/March if we really gotta wait that long for another comeback but hopefully next comeback is a full length album

EAT ZUCCHINI

6 hours ago, Asscatchem said:

 

 

how can anyone defend that corporation

 

 

Can someone explain to me why wasn't this part of the trial or was the trial about stuff not releated to this at all. Like what does this mean and why wasn't it done before. Idk much about legal stuff and I've been very OOTL of the NewJeans case.

You had to be there

 

10 minutes ago, SchmoodRing said:

I want at least one pre release single in January/February/March if we really gotta wait that long for another comeback but hopefully next comeback is a full length album

A Japanese single would be great since the schedule seems more lax than a regular Korean comeback, but I'm willing to wait to let their team really cook. Imagine if it's silent for many long months from them and they suddenly they drop something as good as Armageddon Launch Code.

Edited November 17, 2025Nov 17 by Rhyme

so cute 

 

 

37 minutes ago, Rhyme said:

A Japanese single would be great since the schedule seems more lax than a regular Korean comeback, but I'm willing to wait to let their team really cook. Imagine if it's silent for many long months from them and they suddenly they drop something as good as Armageddon Launch Code.

This is where I think SM is kinda losing it.

 

These girls clearly need a break and time to rest. This solo release could've been the perfect way to keep their names current while giving them a break.

 

SM should've really made this a physical release and had all 3 sets of solos on the tracklist (12 songs total). There also should've been performance videos for each aeXIS Line solo. If the girls were too busy/tired to film those, SM could've dragged the ae-members out of KWANGYA or wherever they are, to do it instead. I wouldn't even be mad at that.

 

It would've been a better use of resources than the naevis face morphs that SM keeps throwing money on...

 

Edited November 17, 2025Nov 17 by Zack

WINTER's solo giving me a 2000s romcom movie break-up before the inevitable make-up montage moment 

 

 

 

 

On 11/16/2025 at 4:35 PM, Rhyme said:

That's Kpop fans for you. They"ll moan about outfits and album shipments as mistreatment, but actual mistreatment is just overlooked as part of how it is to be a Kpop Idol.

The idea some users genuinely believe the corporation - the entity that solely exists to steal your money to enrich greedy old men and feed their ego, at your own expense - is the nice guy or is the victim over regular people is so absurd it's laughable.

 

Thank god Kpop fans didn't exist back in the 1800s and 1900s, otherwise we would all still be peasants beggars and slaves under kings and aristocrats.

Edited November 17, 2025Nov 17 by geniecantstophypeboy

Still struggling to wrap my head around the idea that Taeyeon, one of two hitmakers at SM Entertainment, has not dropped an album since february 2022, and has had 2 minis since then.

 

The other hitmaker, aespa, comes back every 4-6 business days and has got 5 minis, an album, a single album, and two digital special solo EPs in this timeframe.

 

 

There is next to 0 overlap in their sounds, so there's no problems with spacing their CBs out either. Taeyeon's solo sales have been stable or even grown since her debut year as well, she's not in decline yet, despite SM's best efforts.

Edited November 17, 2025Nov 17 by Sheep

We can drag Mark through the mud but the song kinda bop though. 

24 minutes ago, Sheep said:

Still struggling to wrap my head around the idea that Taeyeon, one of two hitmakers at SM Entertainment, has not dropped an album since february 2022, and has had 2 minis since then.

 

The other hitmaker, aespa, comes back every 4-6 business days and has got 5 minis, an album, a single album, and two digital special solo EPs in this timeframe.

 

 

There is next to 0 overlap in their sounds, so there's no problems with spacing their CBs out either. Taeyeon's solo sales have been stable or even grown since her debut year as well, she's not in decline yet, despite SM's best efforts.

SM owns aespa and the profits go to SM  So it's work work work work.. 

 

Once off a trainee contract, SM don't currently own Taeyeon -- they essentially work for her now.  So it comes down to how much of her money is Taeyeon willing to risk to increase her own profits plus those quality of life consideration.  Now, someone at SM should be continuously presenting her with proposals and demos and opportunities and whatnot as her management because its their job, but the decision and a lot of the risk ends up being hers.  And it's probably one of those situations where they fear to be too overbearing since she could just runaway.

1 hour ago, VelvetCrush said:

Can someone explain to me why wasn't this part of the trial or was the trial about stuff not releated to this at all. Like what does this mean and why wasn't it done before. Idk much about legal stuff and I've been very OOTL of the NewJeans case.

I explained it a few pages ago 

 

Yes it was used in court in the Newjeans lawsuit, but the judge ignored it. Judges prefer forming their own opinion and tend to ignore outside noise. The police investigation Min Heein VS Hybe has little evidentiary value in the Newjeans vs Ador lawsuit in which Min heejin isn't even the defendant, and is not a binding judgment the judge has to consider. It should matter, but legally it doesn't. It might still be used in the Shareholder lawsuit and countersuit, since it's the same case.

 

The Newjeans trial was done sloppily too tbh, only 1 real court hearing to present arguments and rebuttals, vs 3-4 for other lawsuits.

 

👇👇👇

  

12 hours ago, geniecantstophypeboy said:

This was presented in court in the Newjeans trial, along the rest of the police investigation report that was heavily referenced by Sejong during oral arguments, but the judge has no obligation to take the police's findings into consideration when making a ruling, and he didn't. The police investigation was not mentioned once in the 28 pages ruling.

 

It's important to understand those civil trials are not investigations and don't look too deep into all the details. Simpler civil lawsuits can be very narrative driven. The judge is asked to pick which story is more likely between 2 stories, and in the Newjeans trial, he picked Hybe's story after a quick look at all the evidences presented. Hybe's legal strategy to overwhelm the judge with selectively compiled kakaotalk proved to be effective here.

 

The only lawsuit where the evidence presented may be examined more carefully is MHJ's shareholder case.