#EVERYDAY I MISS IDOLMAKER MAN FUCK

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CONGRATS! YOU GOT … TOB!

Time Of Bloom, mostly known under the acronym TOB [to-be], was a fictional south korean boy group debuted in early 2016 and disbanded in late 2017 under shell company Songflower Music, with the Top13 finalist of the fictional reality show Spring Teens, an attempt to compete with the rising Produce series and I.O.I. LINEUP (13): Irrelevant. Proved to be extremely manipulated. HITS INCLUDE: Fly (2016). Hard Carry (2016). Really Really (2017). Spring Day (2017). CONCEPT: None. NOTORIOUS MEMBERS: Hype, Hosung, Yoo Geon, *Jeonghun.

Oh boy… TOB. The biggest shitshow the Gioverse has ever seen. The group that makes LOOPiN look like a bunch of hippies.

Right out of the gate, hey, it’s Idolmaker’s Kim Hosung! Also known as my most tragic character to date, and everything involving them is obligatory living in my mind rent free. They were one of the many, many people rigged to make it into the final 13, which was completely chosen by executives before the show even started – Spring Teens was pretty much a test conducted by many companies on just how much manipulation they could get away with. Spoiler alert: a lot, but not all of it. TOB only managed to operate for a year and some weeks because a newspaper was threatening to start an investigation on their shady voting numbers, and not even a powerhouse like MBN - whom has TIES WITH THE GOVERMENT! - could contain it any longer.

Their shit is extremely dense and complicated to explain (13 people rigged in with their own personal agendas like, woah), but the most relevant of all: final guy Yoo Geon got very close with not final guy Jeonghun backstage, and as soon as he learned about all of Jeonghun’s trials and tribulations and catastrophic stakes if he didn’t make it as an Idol immediatly, this man crumbled in guilt (to put things into perspective he was a dozen even worse than J.J, fully disinterested in music and only there to quickstart his acting career) and told Jeonghun everything about the set final members, mind you, ON THE SPRING TEENS FINALE SET, RIGHT AS THE CAMERAS WERE ABOUT TO ROLL! Jeonghun, already a pile of nerves from the whole situation, didn’t take that well at all, obviously – he tried to fist fight an executive about it and got scouted out of the studio by security, causing enough of a commotion to get the live finale postponed by two weeks. It was horrible. 

As you might already know if you were around to catch Idolmaker!!! Hosung – before he was forced by his INSANE, ACTUALLY PSYCHOPATHIC older brother and manager Hojin to enlist in the military – tracked Jeonghun down and convinced him to sign with Furta Media/MBN and join IDMK’s third generation with him, as he was given enough power to handpick any trainees he wanted for that unit (at a big, big cost, Hosung nooooooo). That could be seen as a hard decision for someone to make, with the whole ‘if you can’t fight them, will you really go down low enough and join them?’, but not to Jeonghun: he was all about being rigged to make it now that he knew from experience that that’s how the game was played. He and Hosung went on to become best friends on the long run, actually inseparable, making ⅔’s of IDMK’s ‘blood pack siblings’, a.k.a SungBinHun (Hosung, Dabin and Jeonghun).

Which – unrelated now but in a couple lines you will see why – brings us to Hype, which my god, does this guy fucking SUCKS at a Kwon Dongwook level. But as I said on my talk blog quite a lot before, I still feel like I’m not done at all with IDMK, specially SungBinHun, and Parit is unfortunately a key person to get a lot of insight into my forever girl Dabin. But what you must know is: he’s a big actor now at a worldwide level (not exclusively BLs but a lot of BLs, which given his raging homophobia is kind of like, morbidly hilarious), he’s to this day pissed he couldn’t impregnate the biggest fansign he ever had because she’s a lesbian, he still thinks that Hosung ‘stole her’ from him when they only showed her who her Idol truly was (A MAJOR ASSHOLE!!!!), and that girl, my good folks, is Dabin.