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It's so sad that Onehallyu is closing down. The saddest thing to me isn't even losing our platform, because we can move to a new one and still have our silly discussions, but what about the almost 4 thousand pages of content? So much evidence and less known facts will get lost forever, and it was also useful to see the consensus on certain idols that we'd never be able to get anywhere else. I for one would never have known the dating rumours of 2nd gen idols and between actors outside of here. Is there any tech-savy user here who might know if it's possible to make a copy of this thread? I'd imagine not because of server costs and that kind of stuff, but who knows. As an active Reddit user, it's deeeefinitely a no, Discord is the better option any day. If anyone knows how to make those cute servers, please make one for us! I'm currently creating a forum with the free forum hoster that was shared above, I'll share soon when I finish organizing.

so uhhh, since onehallyu is closing at the end of the year, will we be transitioning to another platform? i find that there's quite literally nowhere else we can have discussions like this. i remember a few years back someone linked an lgbt kpop discord server which had a few onehallyu users in although that server hasn't been active in about a year. i could link it here to revive it (i'm quite unfamiliar with discord server invite links and such so if anyone knows the best way to go about that that lemme know) or someone else could start a completely new one?

Since OH is closing, any plans on transitioning to another platform? I've been lurking on this thread for years and it's been refreshing to see a place where idol PS can be discussed without any defensiveness.

first RIIZE (anton) receipts coming through

I have a mixed bag of feelings while reading the topic. While I don’t feel surprised, I still cannot help but feel disappointed that this was the decision that was ultimately chosen. It might be overly simplistic to say that the time spent that I spent on this website became only “memories”, when realistically the time I had spent here was also, and had actually become part of my life. At the same time, I do think the decision was probably for the best; and I think it’s also one of the most conclusive decisions that I’ve observed being taken around here. I have met some of the nicest and coolest people; but I have also observed, and conversed with some users, with whom I regret. I will be sad to see it all go.

exactly. even the eyebrow shape is exactly the same?? if this isn't karina: then so can't be any of these (which are all her obviously but also the girl in the top two pics) i get that she doesn't look her best in those two pics and it is annoying that ppl keep using her most unflattering pics to tear her down online... but that doesn't make the photos be someone else?

my fear is never finding a community like this on anay platform again like nowadays no one is mature enough online to have mature convos without getting butthurt about people talking about their fav's tripled in size lips like no but fr. everyone here can talk about procedures from such a neutral and unbiased POV and im gonna be honest, i have a fear of losing a community with such like-minded people

I think a discord is the best idea for now (unless someone here knows how to make a forum). Redditors are very hostile towards any gay speculation about idols, even in the supposed "uncensored" subreddit so it wouldn't be a good idea to go there. Any subreddit made for this would just get brigaded by trolls.

We should have an ultimate Onehallyu memories thread where we can reminisce on all the good times, and the funny moments, from users fighting with one another, to really iconic threads. It'll be a fun way to go out. We can also have something similar to a senior quotes in a yearbook thread where we can all have quotes we want to be remembered by or we can have a thread posting our final farewells to the website.

I'll offer that I am willing to bite the bullet and set up/pay for hosting a phpbb board (I know there's other forum services besides phpbb to look into it's just the only one I've ever set up before lol) if there's genuine interest from the people here of making a dedicated queer hallyu forum rather than trying to migrate elsewhere we might not be totally welcome. It's not free to start doing this though so there'd need to be significant interest from the thread regulars and lurkers for it to be worthwhile as a hobbyist endeavor. I'm not familiar with any of the free forum setup services but I'd imagine they're fairly limited.

Sadly it felt like the inevitable end we'd meet on the past few years. As I could witness first hand the behind the scene repercussions of the server crash back in 2019, I'd really like to thank @craZee for the incredible work she's been putting in this website. Zee, It's incredible all you've done all these years and how you dealt with many crisis. The staff has been wonderful trying to pull everything back together, but I felt like you deserve a special mention. On my end, OH has been such a wonderful journey. I met many great people, sadly lost contact with almost everyone but that's on me, and quite honestly my years being staff here had their impact on my professional skills. Wishing you all the best and remember to take care of yourselves. Farewell!

There are ways to save all the data from this thread, but the thing is, it would take a lot of storage and each person would have to download the data individually to access it. That or the harder way to access the information would be to just open up each file individually and view it one by one on your browser. The way it’s saved in the database isn’t going to be in a forum style reader. Basically what I’m saying is, all information on the internet is stored and recorded on databases that anyone can access online and go through, but you would need a database reader and then a zipfile reader to open up the information, and a thread like this would easily take up some storage space. I also don’t know how tech savvy everyone is so that could also be an issue. As for the discord, even though I haven’t been active on this thread for a while I would be willing to make the discord just so I could pop in every once in a while, but I do agree accessing and reading things in a forum format is just easier. Lastly, I would think it would be funny if the last post on this thread was like “All your faves are gay” or like “Bye gays” lowkey want it to be like “Siwon is gay” lol Anyways, if you guys have any questions on how to save data from this thread you can ask me.

I'm really going to miss this thread too. I feel like this is one of the only safe places to discuss queerness in kpop. So many places discourage talking about it and are outright hostile, so I was really happy to find a community like this. I think one of the best aspects of this format is the progression you can see while going through this thread - seeing users change their minds, new perspectives, old receipts, etc. over a literal decade - is a big part of why I like it here. It is constantly evolving compared to other platforms where a topic is brought up, discussed, finished and then someone will post about it again and the conversation starts all over again. I hope the discussion can be moved to a new platform because it would be a shame if it couldn't continue in a similar manner. I just realized how much I appreciate OH and everyone who posts their opinions here.

Really sad to see OH go. I've made heaps of friends like you guys and @kyulkyung I've been posting on both OH and H+ (hallyuplus) and I love for you guys to come over there and engage with my threads too so I hope to see you guys there!

Sana's lip fillers has changed the proportion of her face. It made her lower face appear wider compared to before.

asking out of curiosity because i saw people say this on twitter as well. when and how was that debunked? can someone send me a link/source?

I logged in for the first time in almost 3 years (spot the professional lurker). I do agree with the others that Reddit is a no-go, and the better options are another forum or a Discord server. Kpopsource is an active forum, but I don't know how well this type of thread will be received. There's also the option to make a Dreamwidth community, but not many people are on Dreamwidth. In the meantime, enjoy Vernon's, and I quote, 'gay ass music taste.' And his gay gromlins shirt by Charles Jeffrey Loverboy, a gay designer. I see you, boy, I see you.

i’m in favour of a discord server or some other type of blog but not reddit

Noooooo I'm heartbroken pls somebody start a discord or subreddit or something, I'd join.

Remember at the beginning of this year when SM Entertainment was having their internal war and Lee Sung Soo accused Lee Soo Man of delaying aespa’s comeback and wanting a song about planting trees? Well if not, that probably just means you’re sane, but for a brief refresher he pushed for key lyrics like these: Well, it’s been reported that aespa’s latest comeback with “Drama” is that song, and it took them this long to completely rework the lyrics and sound. “Drama” was confirmed to be the same song that former SM executive producer Lee Soo-man insisted on with the lyrics about “planting trees”. After the SM system change, both the melody and the lyrics have been reproduced completely. An official from the music industry told The Fact, “The mood of the song has completely changed as they changed the melody and rearranged to make it different from the original version, especially, the lyrics has been re-written”. Never forget what they took from us. “What U wanna do what U gonna do It’s all gone and I am back to be or not to be / Gotta get some new gotta get some new Start Paradigm Everything is Sustainability / Wind sunlight water Wind wind sunlight water Planting another tree with what we already have / Don’t forget to raise and see further with the word ‘co-prosperity’ This is the last call so what about” (Original lyrics of the chorus) I don’t care what they said about changing the sound, now I’m imagining some girl crush song about planting trees and it’s a camp classic. “I plant tree-e-e-e-e-ees!” Bars. Source

Would allkpop forums allow for this kind of discussion? Idk their rules that well but maybe it's an option. Personally i think it's much nicer and easier to keep up when you scroll on a forum than discord, that's why i'm not as enthusiastic about that option (and in my experience most smaller discords fall into fighting and cliques with time..................)

As someone who has been coming here for 8 years and been a member for almost 6 I am saddened. I had a lot of fun and met many good friends here. Memories for a lifetime. My love goes out to all who I have been in contact with here. Best wishes for the future of Kpop.

My account may be new but I've lurked on and off here for years. I adore forum sites and it's sad to see yet another one go, but maintenance and server costs are an inevitable roadblock. Thank you for giving ample warning to archive bits and pieces of the site!

I would be here too for discord, it would also be easier to link photos too.

COMING HERE TO WRITE ABOUT THE SHOCK OF ONEHALLYU"S DOWNFALL??? whatever will i do once a week at 12 am before i sleep when i want to get in my weekly idol PS dose of gossip ugh... ok but jokes aside im really sad. will it be archived or completely wiped? as for where to move, i really advocate for discord!! for one, its way more accessible by phone than onehallyu has been IMO and we can divide the channels by discussion topics! idk if ppl will recognize me lolol ive been here for years

RIP my angel. at its peak this forum was def the most entertaining place in the int kpop sphere, never forget all the fun and the drama. special shout-out to my favorite/most memorable eras/events/dramas: exol vs armys forum wars, fandom wars (the event), ohogwarts, forum games, broduce thread, mr jkpop exposé, darkchoa gate, the confession blogs drama, the OG rant thread, kpopvocalanalysis, badge voting wars, mv posting competition (remember 10+ threads of ppl fighting for that rep?), the trolls everyone loved to hate and many many more also thanks to many friends I made here throughout the years, most of them gone now but some remaining till today, love you dolls.

NOOOOOOOOO I'll never forgive that great server crash of OH for effectively killing this place. I hate that forums are dying out more and more, I by far prefer them to places like Twitter where it feels like you're screaming into a void unless you have a large following. Hul, I had so many memories being on OH, getting up at 2 AM for streaming the year end shows or comebacks when the release times changed. Or the months long wars over badges, campaigning and shizz. Well, it's been fun, I'll miss it. Hallyu+ is really GG Hallyu so I never really found myself attached to there so I guess I will have to motivate myself to get K-POP news from Twitter.

Really sad to see it go as I hold many great memories here, but I will not be hypocrite and say I've been using regularly for the past 3 months (in opposite to what I intended to do creating that one thread). It's just life and we move on. Thank you for the wonderful memories and learnings onehallyu, I've met so many great people here

Its sad to see onehallyu to go i had a lot of good times here but thank you for everything oh ❤

these aren't related but thought i'd post both at the same time

honestly idk if he realizes what "fruit" means in this context he's quite good at english but this seems uhhh very radical if it's on purpose??

I'm logging in after ages just to say that this forum was such a big part of my life at one point. I did what I could to promote my man Baekhyun over here, good times. I have to end my OH activity with this:

Hey, I'm a long-timing lurker here. Took me ages to find my account info. I'm sad to see OH going away too. I may have a solution to backing up this thread but I'm not sure that I can do it all by myself. I tried using a webpage copier program but it made hella huge files. I'm trying a webpage to PDF instead and the file size is much smaller. Links work but pics and twitter posts do not work. The webpage copier really works but I don't know where we could host those files because 8 pages was like 50+MB. It's literally a copy of each page here. You have to open the pages in your browser to see them. The copier program will take forever to download the pages though. It downloads from the first page and the last page and I guess goes inward? idk. It was kind of hard to understand how it works. I don't know if a different program would be better. If that looks like too much, we could archive off this thread by putting everything on Google Docs or something online that multiple people could edit. If we do this, we would probably risk losing a lot of info if it doesn't get archived before the site goes offline. If we go the PDF route, we could do the same so things are easier to read and we could add in missing pics and twitter posts. The PDF route might be quicker but we'd still need to backup pics and twitter posts somehow. I know it sounds like a lot of work but if anyone is interested we could give it a go? We could divide up pages or something. I know this is probably crazy but I wanted to put it out there in case anyone might be interested. Editing because I wanted to say with Google Docs we could have it sorted by actors and each group. If anyone wanted to archive off this thread straight to Docs, we could take a letter of the alphabet or something and pull all the info for each group in that letter and put it all on Docs right then. Just something I wanted to add in.

very confused about all the denial about the top 2 photos (which mostly comes from younger fans/PS deniers)... the hangul on the sticky note says 'SM연습생 갤' which translates to 'SM trainee gallery'. so it's not just some random girl (unless SM somehow has 2 trainees named yoo jimin... but c'mon now....) also she literally looks like pre-debut, taemin's back-up-dancer-era karina, just younger and before she touched her eyelids and nose. so where is the denial even coming from??? and she doesn't even look 'bad', i mean she's still a baby in those photos!

Companies are going to have a field day when this thread, the lesbian thread and the plastic surgery threads close. This thread is literally how I discovered OneHallyu (When I was first getting into NCT and Ateez some members were pinging for me but there was no safe place to ask for opinions? And when I started googling stuff this thread came up). I’m going to be sad to see it go Something that has been on my mind that I wanted to ask before this closes: Do you think some companies intentionally mistreat their LGBT members worse than others? Some companies like KQ with Ateez and I feel like even SM to an extent seem to not care if a member is gay and won’t mistreat them more than other members. But, recently I have been looking at how IST has been treating Kevin (I know he isn’t the most popular member but he’s a main vocal who never gets lines, they go out of their way not to include him in jobs or OST’s with other vocal members, they give credit to other members for writing on songs but purposely go out of their way to never credit Kevin for his work) and I’ve been wondering for awhile if part of the reason IST seems to have beef with him is because he’s probably LGBT?

I have been here since such a long time, it practically defined my early 20s. I wish that, in some way, we could have this place memorialized forever as there is such a huge amount of content that will just simply be lost like it never existed.. It pain me to think of it. Maybe It's just from my nostalgic nature, but it has been taken a toll on me since I heard the new. I didn't know quite how to put my feelings in words, but I'm very grateful for my time here. I actually learned so many skills that, like Nelkoya, use in professional setting as well. I joined this site when I was in a really dark place and it basically held my head over the water, thanks to the friends I made here, you guys are wonderful people. Thanks to all the staff who have been there giving their free time for nothing in return just cause they were passionate enough to see this place thrive, you guys are gems. It's been real. Spoiler doxing myself (or not really) but if you want to keep contact add me at @bella.som on insta. or my twitter @symerieyy although I use it even less I would be so happy to see familiar face and not simply lose contact forever

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I took that pic from here The girl in the upper right photo looks like the girl in the lower left photo. They have the same eyes, mouth, and proportions (eye spacing, nose width to mouth width ratio etc.) In any case, comparing the two pics in the lower half, it's obvious she did her chin and eyes at least. Still pretty in that high school pic. I'm curious now. I read people saying both Karina and SM denied it was her, but no source whatsoever.

Chanyeol has been giving a lot of hints since he left the military This is the Second time in the past few weeks that he talked about this same actor and adding the 'if i were a woman" to not look obvious he getting all emotional and touched because the audience made the rainbow colours with their eridibongs and saying that he really like rainbows and If you add all of this with his cover of "Sun goes down" the song that talks about Lil nas x's first struggles as a queer man.... Just conect the dots ( out of all the songs he could do a cover he chose this one )

Tbh, I don't see Krystal joining

Overall this is a pretty good list but Lana shouldn't be in there imo. Her music is all about being a straight girl with daddy issues and I don't count that one Summertime Sadness MV as representation.

Oh I’m so sad to hear this onehallyu was the reason I got back into kpop around 2015. It’s my favorite way to communicate with k-pop stans

I usually lurk, but I logged in to say goodbye. I have such good memories of this site during these 10 years, thank you all for keeping it up so long.

Wendy is looking like Miyeon in that picture, they could be twins

i like that its not overdone! it still fits him. giselle aespa on the other hand it was very noticeable that she recently topped up for the new comeback... also this side by side shows how much she's gotten done since debut

231111 Congratulations TAEMIN for winning 1st place on this weeks Show! Music Core with Guilty! #Guilty1stWin

this is a ps thread... we talk about ps. i personally don't want anything to be done to any idols' face anymore if you can catch the tone of my previous posts.

I think the biggest problem with double eyelid surgery is that it can actually fail, and you can end up exactly back where you started.

considering he's also the guy who started the Yeonjun noona agenda, I think he's just strange (<3) like this