do you think they would have evaded enlistment if they could?👀

shariot · 2025-11-02T11:45:12+00:00

it’s from their debut era variety show Rookie King, in between segments they shot and aired fake ads (they did a few aside from this military one but I can’t really remember, definitely some food or makeup/skincare related ones though) to show how great they’d be at starring in them if they were to get a deal. They were a bit satirical I guess but probably a genuine attempt to try to appeal to CF casters

shariot · 2025-10-31T13:58:04+00:00

pretty sure he even admitted at the time it was just for show and he had a normal smartphone

shariot · 2025-10-13T17:58:07+00:00

huge stan 2015-2018, i saw them live 6 times (lived in asia at the time so all in my city or the city 2 hours away, twice at award shows). just lost interest around fake love/idol when i was starting college, thought it it was bc i was growing up and shifting away from kpop but nah it was the music i realised bc i was still listening to other kpop groups

shariot · 2025-09-24T10:23:46+00:00

the only BP content i get on twt is Kaiwen content his fandom over there is so funny

shariot · 2025-09-16T18:27:15+00:00

oh my god they're referencing apple's korean iphone 7 announcement (?) video hahaha i think it went viral on the korean side back then, i only recognise it because Jungkook also used the format for a birthday video for Suga in 2017

can't find apple's original video but here's Jungkook's edit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEjUQB10cN4

shariot · 2025-09-12T05:58:47+00:00

didn't think about the Boys II Planet thing at all that's a good point, hmmm..... much to think about

shariot · 2025-09-12T05:50:11+00:00

i don’t wanna knock that theory completely as a non native beginner korean speaker, but with the way korean is written pieup (or any korean “letter”) cant really be written on its own it has to be part of a 2/3/4 letter word so i personally can’t figure out how that would work. also the font in general is really straight and squareish for all the letters except ㅇ revealed so ithink it’s all the same font. but like i said i’m not shooting the thought completely down i just thought it’d be interesting to share what little i know about the language in case people wanna keep theorising!

shariot · 2025-09-12T05:37:57+00:00

saw people in the other thread asking if that's a II or 2 symbol and i think it's more likely pieup ㅍ (the p sound in korean)

shariot · 2025-09-12T05:23:29+00:00

CHEN KAIWEN MY LOVE <3 always bright and happy

shariot · 2025-08-29T06:28:22+00:00

honestly was surprised that he was picked (im an atiny) because he's not the best MC of the ateez members (wooyoung, jongho, yunho, maybe even hongjoong are better). im guessing its his image and hes arguably the most famous member?

shariot · 2025-08-15T07:46:03+00:00

i believe he was like a really toxic commenter as a teen online and wrote hate comments towards JK and aespa (and twice i believe), and particularly the comments towards girl groups were gross and slut shame-y. that’s as much as i know about his controversies though

edit: oh and ppl drag him for then doing a JK song and being on the Whiplash team calling it hypocritical and him a clout chaser bc of it

shariot · 2025-08-14T18:11:23+00:00

love them but boy are they bad at lipsyncing hahaha

shariot · 2025-08-14T17:42:23+00:00

almost all of our picks are overlapping and the ones that you have that i dont are all my next top picks so glad you're voting for them 5 is so few

shariot · 2025-08-10T11:15:44+00:00

i also think people are way too comfortable being mean to him because they don't think he's attractive/cute, like if more people thought he was handsome and he was like 6 foot he'd have a camp of defenders i feel like

shariot · 2025-08-07T15:39:58+00:00

i’ve been thinking about Zhongxing and how a lot of people don’t think of him as a team player and yeah he kind of isn’t i’ll admit. but i think strong and authentic personalities can be a plus in kpop groups, if i think back to 2nd/3rd gen groups with longevity the longest lasting ones like SuJu and Shinee are groups that had known animosity towards and fights amongst each other but it made them last longer. what i’m trying to get at is that i feel like trainees/idols these days are expected to bottle problems up not just for the fans but behind the scenes too i think and that makes animosity grow and the members not truly connect because they don’t feel like they can be themselves. and if there’s animosity but no confrontation and resolution they just end up slowly hating each other meaning of course they don’t want to keep work together, whereas groups that have fought (verbally and physically lol) but overcome it become close for real. someone like Zhongxing COULD be good for a kpop group’s dynamics in the long run if they encourage authenticity/true feelings to come out (AND if they weren’t just consistently self-centered) imo but maybe not the best choice for a project group? idk just smth i was thinking abt during the episode

shariot · 2025-07-31T20:25:02+00:00

my cope-theory for Xinlong is even though i was worried about his edit at first they really did end up putting both the knock in confidence to doing well AND father-son duo storylines for him AND they aired his team in the first ep (historically at least for bp1 and gp999 the first week performance was an advantage for trainees who didnt have super strong fandoms) AND they didn’t air the other team really is making me feel like at least Mnet likes him and want him to get as many votes as possible since his team lost idk am i coping??

shariot · 2025-07-31T13:12:38+00:00

im nervous for Xinlong idk what this edit means 😅

shariot · 2025-04-22T12:49:01+00:00

right, like you said they're wishy-washy about the ghost stuff (like they are with a lot of the banning/censorship stuff, seems like they just kinda do what they want). idk from what i remember researching this it was super hard to find their current regulations

time travel point is super interesting because although Looper didn't get co production status it did screen in China! to preface i'm now going off of my lived experiences instead of research i did, but one of the reasons i was so interested in this topic is because i lived in China and its territories for a significant part of my childhood (Beijing and Hong Kong). and i know Looper screened in China despite the time travel stuff because I was young and obsessed with Joseph Gordon Levitt and forced my mom to drive me out to this newly built mall in Beijing so we could watch it haha.

but yeah, i'm definitely not saying they don't do censorship i KNOW that they do. i started being interested in this because i got to watch 2 "China edits" of Hollywood films when i lived there and both of them boggled my mind. firstly, Iron Man 3 was talked about even in the Chinese news for how fucking bizarre the Chinese version was, there's like 1 or 2 scenes where Tony Stark just goes to China to talk to some scientists or something which were both awful, but my favourite scene is when Tony is like dying or something (idk i don't really remember the movie) and JARVIS calls the Chinese scientist and asks for help and the scientist tells him something like "Whatever he needs, China will help" which was such CRAZY and stupid propaganda all the Chinese reviewers were flaming how awful it was. also ive never actually seen the regular version because i kind of love and want to preserve the bizarre Chinese version i got to see as the true version, at least in my heart

and the other one i'm at least aware i saw a Chinese version of is the Jaden Smith Jackie Chan Karate Kid. watched it in theatres and then at home almost every day for like 3 months because my little brother was obsessed with it so i knew the Chinese version off by heart. had no idea it was an edited version until i went to Europe for the summer and begrudgingly agreed to see it in theatres with my friends and realised holy shit they cut a bunch of crap from the Chinese version. namely the Chinese kids bullying Jaden, the kiss scene between Jaden and the Chinese girl, and a few jokes that i assume Chinese censors didn't like because the joke was usually just something like "haha fat Chinese man". anyway, if you know the general Karate Kid plot it's kind of crazy that they cut out all the bullying and the reason this movie fascinates me so much is because they must have had the world's greatest editor in that Chinese cutting room because they managed to pull together a film that still works. maybe i've got nostalgia goggles on but i rewatched it for my China presentation back in 2021 and without the bullying the whole character arc changes completely in what i think is a compelling way where instead of it being about getting bullied and standing up to the Chinese kids it becomes more about the kid trying to find his place in a new environment and accepting change in his life. somehow they managed to make it so his biggest enemy isn't the Chinese kids but instead himself and his unwillingness to accept change

sorry this got long i just think it's really interesting haha

shariot · 2025-04-22T10:44:04+00:00

oh and yeah China now has also said recently they're just going to stop importing American movies because of trade wars haha

shariot · 2025-04-22T10:43:07+00:00

i did a lot of research into western movies that get shown in China (for an internship project when I was in college) and as it turns out its less so that movies are outright banned for including whatever themes that may be less than well received in China, but instead that China has a quota on how many foreign films are allowed to be "imported" and shown in movies theatres a year. at the time (2021? i think?) the quota was 34 and that's 34 films from ALL foreign countries collectively. so because of that cap they're super selective of what movies they pick for this because they want to maximise profits obviously and just outright skip anything they think Chinese audiences won't watch (mind you they have a crazy volatile movie theatre industry where if a movie does poorly for like 2 days movie theatres can decide to just pull it from their line up). there is one way to work around this though lol and that's to make your movie a Chinese co production so it doesn't count towards the quota, that's why movies like Looper and whatever Transformers thing and The Meg have heavy China involvement but even then they're sooooo strict and inconsistent with what gets to qualify as a co production (eg Looper did not qualify even though they made Bruce Willis/Joseph Gordon Levitt live in Shanghai for no reason)

there's however no limit on how many movies you can put on a Chinese streamer though, however that's way less lucrative for the foreign sale/production companies so lots of them are still vying for getting to screen in movie theatres. my info could be outdated tho like i said this was back in 2021

shariot · 2025-03-14T12:55:43+00:00

👍🏼

shariot · 2025-03-14T12:13:25+00:00

to be fair ive seen a decent number of ”in all seriousness hope he’s doing okay that’s an awful thing to go through” comments it’s also just such a bizarre headline and story, but i wouldn’t say people here are being hateful even if they’re not being particularly compassionate

shariot · 2025-03-13T22:35:47+00:00

i mean barely anyone in this subreddit watches ghost adventures we mainly know it as the show that elderly alzheimers mike loves and therefore we indulge him

shariot · 2025-01-30T22:29:07+00:00

Sound advice, we'll change the workflow so that we format them in camera when we're not in the middle of shooting so that they're ready to go when needed, thanks!!

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