Fans talk about why IZ*ONE shouldn't disband

[My Everything]

The project group IZ*ONE is nearing the end of their contract term and will disband in April of 2021.

Recently, fans and netizens are discussing the reasons the girl group should not disband. One netizen posted on an online community the number of albums that IZ*ONE was able to sell during their promotion period.

IZ*ONE was able to rank high in the album sales chart despite being embroiled in the vote manipulation controversy. They have placed their names as one of the most popular girl groups as every album they released sold over 300,000 copies. Similar things were also said about the boy group Wanna One as they were disbanding near their peak when they sold millions of albums.

Netizens were amazed at the results that the girls were able to bring in a short period of time. They commented, "So they made three comebacks in a year, they worked super hard I guess because they're only promoting for a short term," "Wow, they can't disband because they're selling so many albums," "They began selling really well starting from their debut, and they're still selling well even after the controversy," and "Well even if they sold that many albums they're still excluded from the Golden Disk Award."

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[tipsy love]

that's the reason I don't stan project groups.  it makes me so sad that i know the exact date when they're gonna disband. but IZ*ONE is the only group that i was so near to stan, i liked all of their releases.

[Your Biggest Fan]

Considering everything that happened behind the scenes, I personally think they should still disband. Wanna One couldn't be saved from disbandment and neither should they. Besides, you don't how many trainees are waiting for certain members from Iz*One to return to their company so that they can debut in the same group.  There are a lot of factors that go into these scenarios.

[oden]

the only difference between project group and normal group is...the contract time duration ..., project group only 2 years while  the normal group 7 years...after 7 years we dont know if some of the member will continue or not continue...and even along the way to 7 years contract sometime a member will leave the group...so...yeah 2 years kinda short but at the end of the day the group will disband anywhere...or maybe some member will leave....the reason why i dont want to disband them...is because if they go to their respective group ...they will not be big..like they use to in izone..except everglow or maybe rocket punch...regardless every beginning have a ending...the question is what will happen to member that dont have a group prepared for them??? starship girl? stone ent girl? wm ent girl? obviousyly akb gir can promote as solo artist in japan ..but what bout minju and hyewon ??

[Lubbin]

Hopefully the AKB girls end up in a similar type of group after this. NiziU could use rivals

[abra]

They should disband, it's for the best

[Feary]

Those fans are smoking something. Let Iz*One disband! Stan Starship NGG!!~

[hynapia]

By that logic W1 shouldn't have disbanded either because they used to sell even more albums and even had bigger hits like Energetic or Beautiful. IOI charted pretty well too and probably had more public recognition and they disbanded in 10 months too.

Also, Starship 100% is gonna want Wonyoung and Yujin back for their next girl group.

[reiichi]

7 hours ago, hynapia said:

Also, Starship 100% is gonna want Wonyoung and Yujin back for their next girl group.

Don't forget Yuehua, Everglow needs Yena to gain popularity in Korea.

(people thinking she's not gonna join them... look at the group's choreos, formations often look like they're made for seven people with one of the spots empty).

Edited December 17, 2020 by reiichi

[Nev Schulman]

9 hours ago, Your Biggest Fan said:

Considering everything that happened behind the scenes, I personally think they should still disband. Wanna One couldn't be saved from disbandment and neither should they. Besides, you don't how many trainees are waiting for certain members from Iz*One to return to their company so that they can debut in the same group.  There are a lot of factors that go into these scenarios.

Nvm

Edited December 17, 2020 by Nev Schulman

[Sakura IS FEARLESS]

1 hour ago, reiichi said:

Don't forget Yuehua, Everglow needs Yena to gain popularity in Korea.

(people thinking she's not gonna join them... look at the group's choreos, formations often look like they're made for seven people with one of the spots empty).

Everglow will still not happen with Yena in the mix. She was never popular with their Korean audience and she shouldnt even be in IZONE in the first place. 

[Sakura IS FEARLESS]

IZONE and PD48 is nothing but a project of milking Sakura popularity, shes done more than enough for them while receiving very little throughout this long and rough several years. Its disgusting. They will and should disband, and the shameless trainees that made it unfairly should go back to where they crawled from and reflect. They will then debut in a new gg expecting they would receive as much success they once had with Sakura influence and force themselves to swallow the bitter pill that is the fact of their true value without Sakura. 

[reiichi]

4 hours ago, Sakuras back is hurting said:

IZONE and PD48 is nothing but a project of milking Sakura popularity, shes done more than enough for them while receiving very little throughout this long and rough several years. Its disgusting. They will and should disband, and the shameless trainees that made it unfairly should go back to where they crawled from and reflect. They will then debut in a new gg expecting they would receive as much success they once had with Sakura influence and force themselves to swallow the bitter pill that is the fact of their true value without Sakura. 

Stop putting the fault of the rigging on the girls' back, they had nothing to do with it.

[rushingriver]

Wanna One made way more money and they still disbanded. It is what it is.

[panqueque]

I like Izone, and tbh they shouldn't disband. I loved Wanna one and I.O.I, so I don't want the same future for them since they are doing really great now.  All the members who were in I.O.I, Wanna one and even X1 didn't do that well alone. Also they are in the group for almost 3 years counting produce days, this is far more cruel than the other groups since they lasted less. Wanna One and I.O.I, lasted  1,5 and 1 year respectively and X1 not even a year. While PD franchise did was bad, the girls didn't do anything. 

 

 

[hee_woo]

From CJ's business perspective it would make sense to make them permanent/extend their contract since they're pretty much the last PD group. So comparing W1 situation with IZ*ONE's is pointless imo, but yeah, I still think they should still disband though. If the controversy had never happened I would be wishing them to be together for a longer time. I'm excited for the girls future projects regardless.

Edited December 17, 2020 by _universo

[EXOSUS]

IZ*ONE is the highest level of girl group production in Kpop. I can't lower my standard to stan another group anymore 

[Sakura IS FEARLESS]

17 hours ago, reiichi said:

Stop putting the fault of the rigging on the girls' back, they had nothing to do with it.

I wouldnt say that when they happily practice evaluation song before every other trainee to present themselve as more capable than the other trainees, knowing very well that is prohibited. 

Enough. Stop acting like you know these idol and that they are all innocent as they appear to be, you cant be that naive? 

[reiichi]

35 minutes ago, Sakuras back is hurting said:

I wouldnt say that when they happily practice evaluation song before every other trainee to present themselve as more capable than the other trainees, knowing very well that is prohibited. 

Enough. Stop acting like you know these idol and that they are all innocent as they appear to be, you cant be that naive? 

The girls had no choice in the matter though, it's all their company's fault ? Wonyoung was 13 and Yujin 15, both kids doing what adults told them. Nobody held the Cravity boys responsible for their preferential treatment, even if the push was even more obvious.

And to be clear, I'm not defending the company at all,  Starship is a shitty company, but they know how to manage their groups and take advantage of the Produce hype. Cosmic Girls is the most successful post-IOI group, and Cravity had the best non-big4 debut of 2020. I don't doubt a second that their future girl group is going to do well and will be one of the most successful 2021 rookies, despite the controversies.

[Danee Danee]

IZONE is great group tbh. But tbh its for the best to just disband on time. They had great run with great ups but also downs and the girls deserve a break tbh. We will hear from most of them soon I think. At least if we talk about the Korean girls. If we talk about AKB... Im not sure if it will be easy to come back for them or if they will graduate. Especially talking about Sakura.

[hynapia]

4 hours ago, reiichi said:

The girls had no choice in the matter though, it's all their company's fault ? Wonyoung was 13 and Yujin 15, both kids doing what adults told them. Nobody held the Cravity boys responsible for their preferential treatment, even if the push was even more obvious.

And to be clear, I'm not defending the company at all,  Starship is a shitty company, but they know how to manage their groups and take advantage of the Produce hype. Cosmic Girls is the most successful post-IOI group, and Cravity had the best non-big4 debut of 2020. I don't doubt a second that their future girl group is going to do well and will be one of the most successful 2021 rookies, despite the controversies.

Eh, not really. The cravity boys were dragged to the mud too and even oneits called them the rigged members when they were in X1. Even recently, k-netz were talking about boycotting cravity because it's "full of rigged members" and called them a rigged group that shouldn't get any award, when cravity doesn't have to do anything with X1 anymore.

Edited December 18, 2020 by hynapia

[reiichi]

13 minutes ago, hynapia said:

Eh, not really. The cravity boys were dragged to the mud too and even oneits called them the rigged members when they were in X1. Even recently, k-netz were talking about boycotting cravity because it's "full of rigged members" and called them a rigged group that shouldn't get any award, when cravity doesn't have to do anything with X1 anymore.

The only 'oneits' dragging them for being 'rigged' are solo stans of other members and as someone who really liked the X1 boys and their dynamic I think this kind of people shouldn't call themselves fans of a group when they're so clearly antis of anyone that's not their bias.

And when you see Cravity's sales... any boycott wasn't that effective lol.

Edited December 18, 2020 by reiichi

[hee_woo]

4 hours ago, reiichi said:

The girls had no choice in the matter though, it's all their company's fault ? Wonyoung was 13 and Yujin 15, both kids doing what adults told them.

Agreed, I am really so done with this discussion and I have no intention whatsoever to quote that user and to divert the purpose of this thread, I just wanted to add something that not a lot of people have talked about. I don't know how Korean laws work, but in a lot of countries (and with good reason), when an adult encourages a kid to commit an offence (or in this case, to cheat), that's called corruption of minors. And the kid can't be blame for the adult wrongdoings, and may be even be deem as a victim. So yeah, honestly people who keep pushing this "BuT ThEy KnEw" card, sound extremely stupid and insensitive.

[hynapia]

29 minutes ago, reiichi said:

The only 'oneits' dragging them for being 'rigged' are solo stans of other members and as someone who really liked the X1 boys and their dynamic I think this kind of people shouldn't call themselves fans of a group when they're so clearly antis of anyone that's not their bias.

And when you see Cravity's sales... any boycott wasn't that effective lol.

It was still a lot of oneits and even to this day they still drag Minisong for being "rigged" and they say it's their fault that the group disbanded.

And their fans obviously buy their albums but k-netz were calling them a rigged group and saying they shouldn't win any award. There was literally an article here about that but I can't find it now.

My point is that the Starship boys were as dragged as Wonyoung/Yujin if not more.

Edited December 18, 2020 by hynapia

[reiichi]

6 minutes ago, hynapia said:

It was still a lot of oneits and even to this day they still drag Minisong for being "rigged" and they say it's their fault that the group disbanded.

And their fans obviously buy their albums but k-netz were calling them a rigged group and saying they shouldn't win any award. There was literally an article here about that but I can't find it now.

My point is that the Starship boys were as dragged as Wonyoung/Yujin if not more.

Daniel gets dragged for breathing, and he's one of the most high selling soloists in Korea... All celebrities get dragged by antis, ESPECIALLY idols from the Produce series because the show basically breeds solo stans, but it basically has no effect on how well they do commercially. Their mental health is another story though, if you don't like someone why spend so much energy dragging them down, rather than just... ignore them ? 

Edited December 18, 2020 by reiichi