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well that's a very silly comparison to make because ooo's hate for libido came from the choreography and the song title not the fact that it had guys in a river. Also because ooo were a new group most people assumed they didn't have power over the gay/sexual concept and were just doing it for noise marketing whereas Taemin has a more than 10 year career and obviously has a much larger degree of creative control.

I mean if the fans know and remember it than it's not like super obscure information and therefore can be used as fanservice. It's not really anymore effort than remembering a zodiac sign or MBTI of someone you know, also kpop lyrics love flower imagery.

I could definitely see Baby Baby being remade for the smngg since it's likely they'll have a more girls next door image than aespa.

Produce Japan has always had a pretty reasonable age range for auditions (15 to 27) maybe because they want to distinguish themselves from the typical j-idol image which leans very young. I was slightly disappointed by there only being one 90s contestant and only two my age ('00) but it's nice that everyone's at least high school age.

you'd seriously think she shot a child in the street the way they're talking about it .

ik in Oneus Hwanwoong has been suspected on here since Produce idk about the rest, and Cravity has been brought up here and a lot of people consider them one of the gayest 4th gen groups.

Even the woman Vernon is/was rumored to be dating (Rakta) is bi which is interesting as bi people who are straight relationships are often in them with other bi people.

I'm honestly really shocked that JYP actually debuted Kaylee instead of saving her for his next Korean group ig maybe he was worried she'd leave or something. Marketing a group with a '10 liner in the US will be difficult but I guess they're targeting a super young audience based on the song.

It'd be funny if kep1er is the one to be permanent considering the fans probably fight with each other the most out of any survival show group fandom I've seen.

I definitely wouldn't expect Irene to be the one to leave unless she's done with the industry entirely, with her scandal I find it hard to imagine she'd be more successful outside of SM/Red Velvet than inside of it tbh.

considering that there's decent amount of Korean Troye listeners who were absolutely freaked out by the Rush mv and every article about Sam Smith gets a 'hul..he's gay???' comment I don't think so. If they seem to be a really big fan maybe but just recommending a few songs seems par for the course for most k-idols.

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Key listed his favorite dongsaengs in his interview with Bambam and said 1. Renjun because he reminds Key of his younger self 2. Seo Bum-june 3. Ten 4. Bambam because he was there and asked to be 4th 5. Chenle because he'd get pouty if not mentioned edit: the clown? I'm literally just saying what he said in the video. Obviously being friends with a gay person doesn't automatically make someone gay but it's definitely more relevant than eye contact or skinship.

I could see that being Kevin Woo since he's moved into Broadway/the American entertainment industry and has also been openly supportive these past few years or the other Kevin if/when The Boyz disbands in 5+ years or so as he mostly has a international fanbase anyways who already see him as gay. Despite Key being pretty obvious and outspoken in some ways in other ways he very much tries to be the traditional Korean filial son plus he's still very conscious of the image of Shinee as a group so I don't see him being the first idol to come out barring very dramatic circumstances.

I think the only reason a idol might come out apart from the what's already been said would be if something really bad happened like a big celebrity being outed or a national headline type hate crime/bullying story could push gay celebrities to come out as a show of solidarity (I could especially see this pushing someone like Jokwon whose very outspoken). But I hope those things won't happen anytime soon.

Not going to comment on Joshua but who else in the korean industry do you think are gay?

Korean comments are say it's because of dental work he got done on to correct his overbite.

Key has been linked to other male entertainers more than most other 'obvious' idols. He seems like the type to initiate a lot and is somewhat intimidating but he's also obviously a very magnetic and life of the party type person so I think a lot of people would approach him as well. He's also in the sweet spot of having all the typical 'gay' interests/references but not being super femme the way a lot of gay guys don't like compared to like Woonggi or Jokwon. I also think Taeyong from nct would be popular and Astro Moonbin always had a ton of male fans probably more than Eunwoo even. I also think current suspicious line in zb1 (Jiwoong, Hao, Hanbin, Taerae) would all get attention as well I mean Jiwoong already had everyone throwing themselves at him and Woonggi was obsessed with Taerae.

After being falsely rumored for basically every survival show/nugu girl group. I truly thought that she had given up the idol life and would pop up in a couple years married with 2.5 kids but I'm so happy to see her again. I really hope jnetz like her

Apparently they announced last minute that only the top two girls would be decided by fan votes and the rest would be chosen by the judges/company and they made it so that kvotes counted for 70% and then had an additional round of live voting that only koreans could participate in (despite the show having basically no buzz over there) which meant that the lineup was guaranteed to have the visual members that the kfans liked and than whatever the company wanted (which was other teenage visuals/dancers). Honestly it sounds like they would have been better off not doing a survival and just releasing a predebut show since they clearly had a vision from the beginning that did not match what the audience ended up seeing.

Keita who was a Ciipher member competed on Boys Planet and was one of the most popular contestants globally and if not for kvotes having additional weight would have been a ZB1 member. There were a lot of viral tweets from the ZB1 fandom saying to not support Rain for his mistreatment of ciipher/Keita. 30 year old Taemin made the crowd go crazy.

iirc it was Yoongi who talked about writing fanfic as a teenager but it didn't involve bts members, but I could be thinking of something else

The creator of Hedwig and the Angry Inch called Key his buddy and said that he should play Hedwig https://www.picuki.com/media/3165690362449373735

I personally haven't really kept up with Somi since produce 101 when she was still really young so idk about her, but I've always thought Hyuna might be bi/flexible but yeah they're just playing around here.

yeah initially people were saying it was just an obsessive fan buying the same things to make it seem like they were dating (which tbf has happened before) but I don't think Joshua's mom would be hanging out with a random fangirl so that sealed it for me.