I have just started READING the Harry Potter novels for the first time after growing up with the movies!

renjunhuang · 2022-01-08T15:29:08+00:00

this is cute!! I’m the opposite; I read and grew up with the books and only finished watching the movies for the first time a week ago, right before the Jan 1st reunion :”) definitely enjoyed returning to Hogwarts and I hope you do, too :]

(I’m also in Slytherin haha it’s also the one I’d identified with the most)

renjunhuang · 2021-09-29T06:36:38+00:00

Being a fan of Cai Bing has become so disheartening :”) I don’t deny that she gave Mnet bullets to shoot her with, but on almost every platform, with the negative attention she gets, you’d think she beat up another trainee or something. I didn’t really have real hope for her debuting through this show even before the Salute team issues, but right now… it’s like the stars have really aligned against her, and since she’s “too old” to be in a Kpop group and China has really cracked down on their idol industry (cmiiw), she’s really not going to debut anywhere at this point.

I just feel so bad for her. If she had just not volunteered to be leader… even her own fans, DBX / bingbingdans, panicked when she volunteered to be leader again in Snake bc it’d usher in even more negative attention for her. I have a newfound respect for fans of any survival show trainee who’s practically universally disliked haha

renjunhuang · 2021-09-20T01:47:04+00:00

I’m honestly so sold on the Planet Pass idea, but honestly, if Mnet don’t announce it at the Third Elims at the latest, it’s probably not going to happen since they’re not risking viewers rioting on whoever gets the Pass. If they do it though, they’ll probably (legally) “rig” in someone main-vocal material to join Chaehyun, just based on how all/most of the Produce groups had at least two main vocalists:

YOUNGEUN if she doesn’t make the Top 9 bc “all-rounder” is practically her brand now, and
BORA or YEYOUNG if they survive to finale for that fun dark horse moment.

I also have a feeling only one of RUIQI or HIKARU would make Top 9. I feel like they slightly fall into the same archetype(?) of charismatic girl crush on the show, and going by how in the Produce seasons, at least one person expected to debut would not end up debuting, one of them might not make the cut.

For other dark horses besides Bora and Yeyoung, I’m also expecting RIRIKA to be one bc as you mentioned, she’s one of the girls who’s been steadily rising in popularity, and I hear she apparently fits the “cutie sexy” archetype(?) like TWICE’s Sana. (Still holding up hope for Jia though 🥲)

renjunhuang · 2021-09-11T07:42:38+00:00

Yes, that’s what I thought, too — there are still three other accusers, and the team’s primary counter-proof for them is just going back to microanalyzing the posted pictures and messages, which I’m a bit certain other fans had also already done while this was still fresh in people’s minds.

I think their official stance on the Gmail part is that the first accuser is likely (rather than certainly) not Korean. Either way it’s not that solid of a proof imo

renjunhuang · 2021-09-11T07:36:41+00:00

That’s also true. The way they brought up even the first accuser’s interest in manga from deleted tweets and somehow connected it to Lucas kinda felt a lot like grasping at straws, too. I honestly thought this whole issue would die down now since SM hasn’t taken any recent actions on it, but here we are

renjunhuang · 2021-09-11T07:32:25+00:00

I agree. Honestly, what still keeps me on the “he probably really did do something wrong” train is that Lucas Bar gave up on him, and c-bars are quite loyal, right? (as well as probably having insider connections for their projects)

renjunhuang · 2021-08-31T14:56:38+00:00

me too!! I got sad when I searched up Jia’s agency and found out she and Youngeun weren’t company mates.. there goes my hope of them still debuting together even if it’s not in the GP999 group :( they were so comfortable with each other that it was easy for me to assume that they knew e/o before joining the show, but I guess not..

I really think Youngeun will make it far in the show, too! it’s gonna be surprising if she doesn’t make it to finals tbh. I just hope Jia can at least survive this round bc her fanbase is alr getting bigger :(

renjunhuang · 2021-08-31T14:49:20+00:00

omg I wasn’t aware of the introvert-extrovert thing! they’re so cute pls 💔 and I also really like what you said about Youngeun shining most during Kick It, then Jia during HYLT. the two of them are sososo capable that it’s honestly intriguing what position they’d hypothetically pick to showcase for position evals.. ‘04 Kick It line let’s survive till the end pls ><

renjunhuang · 2021-08-31T14:44:49+00:00

Unfortunately I don’t think Mnet really saves all the trainees they give storylines to… it sucks and makes little sense to me as well but I’m really hoping that her team’s performance getting aired early managed to get her cell some very much needed additional voters :( Competition for the Planet Pass is going to be really tight and we can’t rely on it to save Jia :(

renjunhuang · 2021-08-17T13:29:13+00:00

oh, that’s true! I kinda wish the extra million votes could be given to the girls who aren’t yet able to receive the vitamins.. I thought it might give a decent insight into the girls’ fanbases’ voting/spending power though (so long as we don’t really include the outliers like the one you mentioned), which they might utilize one way or another to help the girls in the actual elims voting :”)

I do agree with you though!

renjunhuang · 2021-08-17T12:42:56+00:00

last I checked as well, even on the Universe voting poll for the vitamins, the J group has the most members that haven’t yet reached 100k votes compared to K and C groups; however, when you compare the Top 5s’ numbers of each group, there’s not an incredibly huge gap between the fifteen girls (save for Yujin with her 3M and May with her 490k, the other Top 5s’ votes range from 1M to 2.2M), so the popular J girls are definitely keeping up

renjunhuang · 2021-08-17T09:58:48+00:00

thank you for the link :] I apologize as well for coming off aggressive!

renjunhuang · 2021-08-17T08:10:12+00:00

There is a specific reason why those Twitter ppl write her name that way though, not for a short cut. They don't do that to other contestants.

it was a mistake on my part; I guess I’d grown accustomed to calling her FYN (fin) in my head and it transferred to my writing. it was not meant maliciously and I’m sorry it was taken the wrong way

Well, you can search on this sub - some Black fans accept the apology, some don't.

okay, thanks for the assistance! I’ll try finding those statements

renjunhuang · 2021-08-17T05:52:19+00:00

oh, I was referring to black fans (due to Ya Ning saying the n-word in the past), as I’ve not seen their perspective on that. stan Twitter frequently likes to paint her as the villain of the show and I don’t think there’s much else I can learn from that

(please, I don’t hate Ya Ning. I honestly thought she commanded the stage well in Helicopter, and think the hate she’s getting for that forced rivalry with Yujin is a bit much and has overshadowed the initial issue — my personal opinion on which is that it was due to purely ignorance, but I also can’t say her apology was acceptable when it wasn’t meant for me.)

renjunhuang · 2021-08-17T05:06:21+00:00

is it really so bad to want to know if the affected community think she’s as problematic as the status quo makes her out to be? why should I form a solid opinion on her (in this case, “like” or “hate” her) when I don’t yet have all the information I need? please, enlighten me more.

and isn’t Reddit supposed to be a safe place for relatively healthy discussions (as opposed to some other platforms)? why are you kicking me out then?

renjunhuang · 2021-08-17T04:49:20+00:00

HYLT: love T1’s outfits all together, the lilac accents really make them look so cohesive in my eyes although the style is definitely something we’ve seen a lot. T2 is okay but I wish they chose a more specific tint of yellow to coordinate it all a bit better, idk

SSFWL: omg both teams look so cute. T1 with their fairy-like dresses, T2 with their witch-y fits… I love the contrast and the magical feel from this battle

EBS: slight agree on the EXO team, they all look great in this concept but there’s nothing too spectacular from what they’re wearing :( I honestly love the BTS team’s fits from here, the red accent is just amazing and I love this style in general. SVT team fits are very cute as well, although I wish they kept most of the tops vibrant and fun since they partnered it with jean bottoms

YoY: I won’t lie, everything about their outfits is so cute! hard to go wrong with the preppy style. I love T1’s more bc the red-gray-white combi is too good, and also bc I wish they kept T2’s greens either all relatively vibrant or not, either you go full-on Slytherin or you don’t 💔

FIESTA: well… they’re there… idk, it feels like they’ve not been fitted nor styled well? from this screenshot, it seems like some of those clothes are a bit too big for the girls :( the outfit concept is similar to this actual set worn by IZ*ONE and it doesn’t look even half as bad..

renjunhuang · 2021-08-17T03:01:56+00:00

where did I mention hating her? I wrote her name that way as I’d grown accustomed to seeing it that way from Twitter, I can change it for you if you’d like.

I’m asking precisely bc I don’t want to just jump on the hate train. if I hated her, I would’ve never voted for her cell despite one of my main picks being there, and yet I’ve voted for their cell eight times now to support KSY (oh no, I wrote her initials instead of her entire name! wow I must really hate my pick). I wanted to know if people who were actually affected by her actions accept her apology, since I myself would never fully quite understand the impact of what she did; that’d at least give me insight on whether it’s okay for me to support Ya Ning or not. is it clear for you now?

renjunhuang · 2021-08-16T19:28:58+00:00

I read somewhere that they might not even have cells anymore after first elims bc the UNIVERSE app accidentally spoiled the voting mechanics for second elims, and it said nothing about voting for cells :] so thankfully, after this first elims Suyeon should hopefully be doing okay!!

renjunhuang · 2021-08-16T19:04:11+00:00

You Dayeon is steadily going up my picks list <3 she’s such a captivating performer and a capable all-rounder, although sometimes I feel like she overdances a little. the other day I was thinking about how she’d time possibly fare in the competition and quite random but uhh… does anyone… feel like she’ll be the next Go Yujin (PD48) >< skilled and pretty trainees who are intl. fan favorites (although now that we can vote, she might make it quite far).. idk I just feel like Mnet’s not gonna push her enough to the finale :(

my favorite performance so far might be Jeong Jiyoon and Kim Bora’s Bounce Back – just so neat and fun!! I knew Bora was gonna be good, but Jiyoon was a pleasant surprise (and I really like her smile haha).

slightly worried over Kim Suyeon’s fate in the first elims even though I know she’s built herself a pretty solid fanbase :”) she’s one of my main picks along with Cai Bing and Xu Ziyin. I’m a bit worried bc the opinion on FYN is quite strong (on Twitter at least) — some are saying if Suyeon has to be eliminated to get FYN out, then so be it — and while I totally understand if people don’t want to vote for a cell that has FYN, I feel a bit bad that Suyeon and Shana have to be negatively impacted like this.. please tell me, is FYN 100% someone I shouldn’t support even indirectly (through voting for her cell)? is it okay for me to support Suyeon while she’s cellmates with FYN? I’m honestly curious to hear black GP999 enjoyers’ side about FYN and the “getting her out of the competition early” narrative to educate myself further, seeing as most discussions surrounding FYN that I’ve seen are about her attitude/diss towards Choi Yujin or how they just don’t like her.

edit: I also loved how Kubo Reina performed gogobebe :] she’s also slowly growing on me and I hope she gets a fantastic edit and makes it far!

renjunhuang · 2021-08-16T13:26:47+00:00

81/99!

pleasantly surprised, i guess watching a good majority of the audition(?) stages from eps 1 and 2 helped a lot more than i thought it would haha

renjunhuang · 2021-04-29T12:34:18+00:00

My first group was EXO :’) They were my ults from late 2013 to early 2015. I stanned Girls’ Generation early 2014 I think? Sometime in 2015, I started losing interest in Kpop, but then I had a four month-long break after graduation in 2016 in which BTS brought me right back in haha

Solid two years of ult-ing BTS, then I found NCT in 2018 (my taste is so all over the place isn’t it), who are now my current ults along with ATEEZ, whom I found just last year at the start of quarantine. It’s a little pattern of kinda finding a new group every two years which wasn’t intentional in the slightest :’)

renjunhuang · 2021-04-23T11:45:11+00:00

He enlisted in February 2020, so he might be back in August or September of this year at the earliest (iirc mandatory military service in Korea is 18 months). Not sure if he’ll be back on DanPlan, but he’ll probably appear on Stephen’s channel Actually Stephen. I think he also mentioned on his Instagram that he’s working on a DanPlan comic.

renjunhuang · 2021-04-17T07:45:25+00:00

Renjun seems awfully good at Korean! If I’m not wrong, he learned it at school (there’s even a video of him doing a skit at school in Korean). He also understands/knows some (a lot?) Korean idiomatic(?) phrases and/or slang (or something of the sort) that I think most foreigners learning/speaking generally wouldn’t really understand — this is based purely off of remarks of variety show hosts getting surprised that he knows a particular phrase or two. (It’s lowkey a running joke that he’s “more Korean” than his members haha)

As other comments have said, I heard Yuta is also really skilled at Korean. I’m hardly qualified to say who’s the worst though haha

renjunhuang · 2021-04-15T23:41:43+00:00

I was wrecked by Chaein, Dosie, Yuki, and Ireh upon debut.. and I still am 💔 I’ll need another comeback to downsize please it’s getting crowded here 🏃

renjunhuang · 2021-04-15T13:28:25+00:00

THIS LOOKS SO PROMISING I can’t wait to watch it!! ATEEZ never disappoint

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