#also ive decided to make Ricky Zayn in this comparison

[shawolsos]

Okay this is SO niche and I feel like this'll only make sense to me but hear me out.

So I'm totally on the 1d/little mix/5sos to kpop pipeline (still very into all three of those groups btw) and I'm like obsessed with Boys Planet ATM and like, maybe this is just 2015 brainrot at work or smth

But haobin are so Jade/Niall coded and like there's layers to this it's not apparent until you overthink it

Cuz, like anyone who was there during the heyday of 1D and Little Mix will remember how both groups were marketed as direct counterparts to each other

And the fact that Niall had a hilariously obvious crush on Jade in the early days and tweeted about her in a way that only a teenage boy with an all-encompassing crush could ever do.

Everyone vote Little Mix. Jade is such a little cutie (or smth like that)

And whenever LM were asked who their favourite member of 1D was Jade would often say Niall because she thought he was cute.

And like, I don't think they were ever forced to do this, like I think they were genuinely friends who quite liked each other.

But marketing like jumped on it and suddenly their whole thing became

DIRECTIONERS IF YOU LOVE NIALL YOU'LL LOVE JADE and vice versa

And like even interviewers would compare them like

"Niall, isn't Jade like Little Mix's version of you?"

And like so many fans (including myself and I'm not ashamed) ate that shit up and we'd all go insane whenever they like stood in the same room

And I dunno there's just like a 🤌🤌🤌 about Hanbin and Zhang Hao's dynamic that like resurrected the 2015 Jiall shipper in me and she was like "Oh. Oh yeah, this is familiar. This has happened before"