#because they've already got all the member solos to highlight

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Clearly the people at JYPE have no idea what the fans want because so far I have seen pretty much near unanimous consensus that Bounce Back would've been a better choice for a title track

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In terms of Taenope, it's not relevant but it is condemning in showing how the company is willing to throw Tae under the bus for their own agenda and evidence to support the belief that they've been doing so for a while now

Especially when there's already a laundry list of complaints about his treatment from the company---like Heffen waiting TWO days after his album release to tweet about it or H/ybe 'conveniently' underestimated the stock required to fulfil his largest fanbase's preorders and then trying to blame VBar for the fuck up only for QueenV to pull out the receipts that they gave the heads up for estimated preorders two whole months before his release date. Someone please tell me how a corporation who's dealt with the group's biggest releases manages to 'accidently' fuck up like that?

And I know the fandoms fave counter when people try to highlight how weird and dismissive that company is when it comes to Tae's music and career is 'why would H/ybe screw their own product?'

But H/ybe knows the group is their bread and butter and we've all praised Tae's stubbornness and self assurance enough to be able to understand why H/ybe might want to put him in his place and keep him there.

Something is the milk is not clean when it comes to Tae's relationship with that company---or more specifically, their relationship with him.

Hi anon!

Oh, absolutely!

Tae’s treatment has been wrong from the start. Who knows why? Maybe just a personal dislike from BangPd, it can actually be that simple. He was made to be the hidden member before debut. Which must’ve been excruciatingly hard, because not only did he have to watch his other members already function as a group, part of him must’ve thought his place wasn’t safe. After debut, he was made out to be the ditzy weird one… not being taken seriously. He’s constantly been the member that was made to look weird, which is exceptionally cruel to do to someone who’s actually struggling with that. His mental health issues were made to be a talking point in a show that also aimed to cement it in people’s heads that the person he was closest to was actually distant. To this day Tae is made to be the outsider.

We all know the things mentioned are just a top of the iceberg. I don’t mean to say other members don’t also take shit from the company. I think the company sees all of them as products and has no trouble using them the way they please.. it’s just always in different ways. But I agree that Tae has it worst. And I cannot help but also connect it to him and Jk.

I think Tae and Jk’s relationship made Tae the most vulnerable member in BTS. I think it’s been used against both of them, but the company is imo more invested in making money of Jk than of Tae.

Taennie wasn’t needed, it was something the company wanted. I think they got inspired by Gurumi, possibly YG contacted them and they saw profit in there. It’s meant constant fandom conversation for years, also covering part of solo era (which is a tricky time). It’s also secured a cover for Tae and simultaneously Jk’s queerness. Tae and Jk’s feelings on this don’t matter to the company. It’s money and power.

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another loooong bitubi Affairs update for your pleasure(?): 4tob is doing a concert and 2 out of 3 dates overlap with both of subie's solo tour dates in suwon. 4tob announced their dates a month after ticketing for subie ended, so if you already have tickets for subie you have to cancel to see 4tob, yike

kmels were furious, not only for the implied disrespect against subie/fans who now have to choose subie vs 4tob, but for pouring fuel on the dumpster fire that's the fandom right now lmao

there were also fights about whether it's even a big deal to have clashing concerts, people saying it's nbd because it's just a few tour dates (suwon is subie's hometown show though...), and inevitable since the group is split between agencies.... others saying yes it's actually weird and uncommon for CONCERTS (as opposed to smaller schedules) to overlap within an idol group

AND there's a debate about whether 4tob should have a unit name. the argument is that subie/yook are bullied for 'disloyalty' every time 4tob promotes without them, and nonfans ask if they've left since it says bitubi but there's only 4 of them lmao. a separate name could help alleviate confusion and the blame game, I guess. kwang said before that they decided not to make one, but fans in favor say it should be reconsidered since subie/yook got so much hate this year

bitubi company then released a statement saying 4tob are ~protecting~ the bitubi name (many kmels hated this bc it's exactly how subie/yook antis talk) so they won't use a unit name, and that they'd planned the winter concert back when they made the company (but in july/august kwang said there was nothing in december and ticketing opened very late). it pissed off fans even more and I hear many of them are pretty much boycotting, while a lot of (korean) subie-biased ot6 stans quietly became solo stans

so now the 4tob concert is flopping, there's literally a third of the floor tickets left for all 3 days and I think it's only ~2k seats total per day 😬 additionally, bitubi company apparently really needs $$$ and jacked up ticket prices, adding ₩200k photo op/soundcheck packages like in overseas shows (which kmels are absolutely insulted by)

now there's a whole bitubi company stans vs haters divide, I'd say 95% of the haters are kmels, haters tend to be ot6 stans because most subie/yook solo stans gave up on the whole thing (but I think the fandom keeps trying to paint solo stans as the shit-stirrers...)

this all sounds so stupid written out, melody is even more in shambles than when I last wrote to you a few weeks ago lol. the fandom atmosphere is awful, some kmels seem to feel it's almost as bad as when runie left because holy shit has bitubi ever sold that poorly, and there's no resolution in sight :/

p.s. I'm 90% sure bitubi company's latest single cover art is AI lol

p.s.s. sorry this was so long!! I swear it underwent an editing process. don't feel you have to answer if it's too much!

yooo i always appreciate these, i don't mind the length! don't worry about it, thank you so much for taking the time to write this 🫡🥰

i hate to say this but i knew something like this is gonna happen... i'm checked out from the fandom news bc i stopped using twitter so this is brand new information™ like holy shit what a clusterfuck

it makes zero sense, is this self-sabotage??? who is giving bitubi company bad business advice hmmmmm

promoting after leaving og agency with everyone having a different agency (as in for example 7 members 7 agencies) must be easier than having 4 people in one agency named after og group and 2 others flying solo

even senior groups like shinhwa had hard time running their own company (was it 2 years ago that eric and dongwan were beefing on ig lmao) and i would go as far as to say they always had larger and more reliable fanbase. i always prayed on highlight downfall and tbh their numbers look okay but i wish there was an 'adjust to inflation' calculator for kpop albums...

now that () decided to continue being in blue box i bet there's a % of fans that regret that btob left... they have to build their own company from the ground up and it's not like "parent" agency isn't fully established if you ask me, it's backed by samsung iirc but samsung ain't doing too well right now so. pentagon is a different case cause cube gave up on them right at the start of 2022 and those who left are better off, they didn't hold big concerts or anything, meanwhile btob as more successful group had more to lose and welp

yea it does look ai-generated :((