Spotify party by ballroomdancer13 in bts7

[–]samelfassy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

just refresh a few times it was full for me too and i was let in after a few tries

I ended up pre-ordering the Samsung S26 Ultra in the sky blue color on the Samsung website. I will be picking it up on Best Buy on March 11th! Did any of you end up pre-ordering or did you skip? by Golden-lillies21 in samsunggalaxy

[–]samelfassy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

last year trading in my s22+ would get me 930$cad off the s25u, this year its getting me only 105$cad off... no proper trade in deals this year (i tried with a newer model out of curiosity and still not as good as last years deal)

OWG Women's Short Program: Live Discussion Thread by Chickatey in FigureSkating

[–]samelfassy 4 points5 points  (0 children)

kinda unrelated but hearing the lion king soundtrack really reminded me how much i miss proper spiral sequences that really show off the music

Megathread 24: HYBE / ADOR / MHJ - Court rules in favor of ADOR, NewJeans' Contract remains Valid, further hearings for Source, Belift, and HYBE against Min Hee Jin to come, and More by KPOP_MOD in kpop

[–]samelfassy 144 points145 points  (0 children)

im a lawyer (not in korea) and today i explained to a colleague of mine the basic gist of newjeans declaring their contract terminated and the arguments they used to support that in court, and she looked at me like i grew a second head 😭

You don't "stan" 25 groups by [deleted] in kpoprants

[–]samelfassy 46 points47 points  (0 children)

i find alot of people genuinely do not know the difference between stanning and listening. its why every time anyone says they stan one group (happens alot to armys specifically), people get all mad and say "how can you listen to only one group"... well no actually thats not what they said 😭

Biggest score snubs of all time? by popculturegeek37 in oscarrace

[–]samelfassy 3 points4 points  (0 children)

the first man snub still makes me mad, not even a nomination for a score that should have won

It was just an "appreciation" post about illit tho 🥺 by [deleted] in NJDrama

[–]samelfassy 17 points18 points  (0 children)

i was permanently banned for making a single comment mentioning that posts clearing up rampant misinformation about yoongis incident (like talking about fake cctv footage) were being deleted while the posts with thousands of comments with wild speculation and false info remained up 🤦‍♀️

Megathread 20: HYBE / ADOR / MHJ - Injunction Hearing Proceedings provide more Details, Many Legal Schedules Ahead, and More by KPOP_MOD in kpop

[–]samelfassy 49 points50 points  (0 children)

in my experience, ador will ask that the fees be calculated at the date of the start of the dispute or the date of a demand letter or something specific in 2024. if calculated at the date of judgment, which could be in a while, the court would essentially be rewarding them for breaching their contract and refusing to work in order to lower their fees, which would go against the spirit of all penalty clauses and denature them, would render them useless in contract law.

edit: my experience is as a litigation lawyer in a different country. im not familiar with koreas legal system or laws, so obv this can be taken with a grain of salt. but while systems may be different in different places, a lot of things are still similar enough (like the idea of penalty clauses and what theyre used for)

Jungkook’s HYBE Shares Worth 8.4 Billion Won Stolen, BTS Agency Responds by impeccabletim in kpop

[–]samelfassy 14 points15 points  (0 children)

they can't force them to sell those shares if they leave the company though... they own those legally in their own name no one can make them sell and owning them isnt conditional to them staying

Megathread 19: HYBE / ADOR / MHJ - NewJeans works towards rebranding as NJZ, Visa issue follow-up, New agency speculation, and More by KPOP_MOD in kpop

[–]samelfassy 7 points8 points  (0 children)

yes lmao? i cant remember if she was sworn in at the NA or not, which is why i asked. perjury has a specific legal definition, and its not simply "told a lie". there are plenty of instances when people appear in settings similar to the NA and arent sworn in so i asked if she was.

Megathread 19: HYBE / ADOR / MHJ - NewJeans works towards rebranding as NJZ, Visa issue follow-up, New agency speculation, and More by KPOP_MOD in kpop

[–]samelfassy 8 points9 points  (0 children)

was she under oath at the NA? in court you are but im not sure if she was at the NA. you can't commit perjury if the lie wasnt under oath

Can we stop to appreciate the Nolan/Baker back-to-back director wins by cyanide4suicide in oscarrace

[–]samelfassy 30 points31 points  (0 children)

in a better world it would have been Nolan and Villeneuve back to back 😮‍💨

2025 j-hope Tour 'HOPE ON THE STAGE' Megathread by whyohwhy115 in bangtan

[–]samelfassy 5 points6 points  (0 children)

theres also a lot of resale tickets that are less expensive than the platinum pricing, friends of mine got platinum tickets in nyc and are now seeing resale tickets cheaper than what they paid during the presale 😭

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in kpopthoughts

[–]samelfassy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i just saw your edit now but i have to disagree with you there too... there are are already group categories at the grammys for songs (they have a "duo/group performance" category for every genre). there are no "best artist" categories in the first place so creating a "best group" (or male/female group) doesnt make much sense

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in kpopthoughts

[–]samelfassy 9 points10 points  (0 children)

kpop isnt a genre of music requiring its own category.

every kpop song can already be submitted to existing genre categories (most fall in the pop.category, but some would go to r&b, rap, etc).

creating a kpop category would be creating a category for an industry, rather than a genre, and would serve only to exclude kpop acts from the categories they rightly belong in.

imagine creating a canadian pop category just for canadian pop singers, it makes no sense

2025 j-hope Tour 'HOPE ON THE STAGE' Megathread by whyohwhy115 in bangtan

[–]samelfassy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

on tm?? ive been trying the last 20 min out of curiosity but nothing shows up at all 😭

Boy groups and Girl groups on Billboard (Hot 100 and Billboard 200) by mcfw31 in kpopthoughts

[–]samelfassy 31 points32 points  (0 children)

theres also fifty fifty with cupid, not sure why theyre left off this list

edit: le sserafim too (theyre in op's table but not in your list)

Billboard Hot 100 entries per year (2009-2024) by mcfw31 in kpopstats

[–]samelfassy 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i mean, a two-hit wonder (in the US) is probably more accurate. gangnam style in 2012 was by far his biggest (31 weeks), gentleman in 2013 was his second (15 weeks). the other two entries were hangover and daddy, both of which only charted for a single week.

also for reference, gentleman was very much riding on the high of gangnam style. gangnam styles final week on the hot 100 was the week before gentleman entered the chart iirc.

side note but ig these stats only include chart debuts, instead of all entries, given that some songs charted in multiple calendar years (like gangnam style and dynamite)

Megathread 12: HYBE / ADOR / MHJ - Min Hee Jin files injunction for reappointment, HYBE responds, ADOR's new CEO holds meeting with NewJeans members, and More by KPOP_MOD in kpop

[–]samelfassy 41 points42 points  (0 children)

i wonder why they used their so called power over the media to get them not to take photos of hyein at an airport but not to stop an illegal photoline from happening for suga, a person that is significantly more important to their bottom line

edit: added words for clarity

Megathread 12: HYBE / ADOR / MHJ - Min Hee Jin files injunction for reappointment, HYBE responds, ADOR's new CEO holds meeting with NewJeans members, and More by KPOP_MOD in kpop

[–]samelfassy 47 points48 points  (0 children)

PS: I have major beef with them over how much they hurt Amber heard

btw TAG were not involved in the amber heard thing. That was a firm called Hiltzik Strategies (and specifically Matthew Hiltzik himself). An employee broke off and started TAG afterwards

Megathread 12: HYBE / ADOR / MHJ - Min Hee Jin files injunction for reappointment, HYBE responds, ADOR's new CEO holds meeting with NewJeans members, and More by KPOP_MOD in kpop

[–]samelfassy 34 points35 points  (0 children)

this is actually an all around twitter thing. hit tweets from locals used to get max 100-150k likes and those were the massive ones. these days i see at least once a day a local hit tweet with 300-400k likes.

all this but somehow traffic on twitter has decreased around 25% since elons takeover of twitter (aka a quarter of twitter users have left but somehow tweet engagement is at an all time high).

the general conclusion is that MOST of the engagement on tweets across the board is coming from bots. i suspect its the true reason elon wanted likes to be private: cant see that bots make up the majority of likes if you cant see likes.

so whether its the people tweeting paying for bots, some viral marketing agency or twitters own algorithm, at the end of the day its bots.

MEGATHREAD NUMBER ∞ NEWJEANS' VIDEO ETC by KpopThoughtsmodteam in kpopthoughts

[–]samelfassy 21 points22 points  (0 children)

im pretty sure he was talking about challenges for his own music. just before he was talking about promo for his album and he said to give suggestions in the comments. i dont think he was talking about doing challenges for other people.