I recently watched GP999 and the final episode shocked me. I can understand most of the pro-North Korea, pro-communist Chinese participants getting eliminated by the Korean votes. but the Japanese girl who was always on the #1 spot/top 9 getting eliminated all of sudden in the final? and some random talentless mixed Korean girl with very little screen time made it to #2 spot? If this isn't rigged, IDK what is.
"it would be really embarrassing for me if their companies decided to extend their contacts past their original dates" ;_; Anyways I wish the best for kep1er, and the two members who left in their future careers
tbh the members are very talented however the final line up was not so harmonious (not talking about their real life chemistry). I mean, imagine having hiyyih and hikaru in one group (both so great and unique, and a really good friend of each other) hiyyih fit elegant and bright concept more and hikaru fit darker bold concept. Their strong point was not highlighted as much because the company couldnt find the middle point for them to shine as much as a group, even tho I personally think MSVK concept was the most fitted for them. Their other concept and sound was either hit or miss for them. I love Kep1er with all my heart but their style just doesnt match each other well enough for people to “see” them shine in the war of girl groups.
I wad today years old when i learnt that kpop artists have to pay off trainee debts...I've been a kpop fan for long enough to have harboured a deep seated hatred for all the entertainment companies, even with my very limited knowledge about the industry. But learning about Loona and what they had to go thru definitely gave me a renewed understanding of how toxic and exploitative this industry is. Ive never purchased albums or merch bc I dont want to give even a penny to these money hungry big corporations, even though I would love to support the artists themselves financially Thank you for this very informative and well made video
still mad we didn’t get Sunwoo and Hyeonju together, they’d be such a strong duo and are both over 18, atleast 2 is all we need because atleast they have eachother, as much as id like 5-7/8 being over 18 it’s just no realistic at all 😭 the group clears has no main dancer, pushes Seowon and Nana wayyy too much and they have no interesting points vocally in Superwoman, Gehlee’s tone is amazing and she can sing but they don’t rlly give her any lines. honestly no.9 - no.16 honestly could’ve made a great group!!
Not Mashiro and Bahiyyih are better dancer than Yujin. Yujin dance is always underappreciated. She was the lead rapper of Clc before Eunbin and the lead dancer.
I think a HUGE showing of semi rigging in the show was letting elisia perform in the finals when she was already a confirmed member. bc shes a producer fav she got majority of the lines and stripped away chances for other contestants to shine. this is just more proof that f&f already knew who they wanted to debut and didnt care about anyone else.
I've just started watching the video but you already went so wrong with the positions, in so many ways. You're objectively wrong, you cant hand out positions like they're free real estate and also not give it to people who deserve the positions. It's such an imbalance of skill for people who have the same positions you assigned them. As much as I hate the no position thing, Kep1er can pull it off, it's probably why only the main positions have been confirmed. That's why your positions don't make sense
Ok first of all, your only taking Jiyoons side and making up a story to back up Jiyoons side, look nobody knew who voted for who okay? And Fuko didn’t vote for Jiyoon either, But she’s still besties with her. When your in a group more the less in a survival show, you can’t really carry burdens which Jiyoon admited to (which is good that she took responsibility) Also this is clearly evil editing on Jungeuns side and i don’t get how nobody fell for Jiyoons evil editing, But now are eating up Jungeuns evil editing🤷♀️
How come you support Gyuri, a 15 year old, after yapping about minors debuting in the industry in nearly all of your Universe Ticket review series? Personally you made me question the topic back then and it's same reason why I'm not rooting for Gyuri despite how talented she is. I was pretty shocked to see you, of all people, root for her.
I did have a complex about it early on in this show but my cut-off has always been 16 at the youngest and Gyuri is turning 16 in October. It's not ideal but this show does not have any contestant over the age of 19 and barely any over the age of 17. She's the only one in my top3 I would be fine with not debuting. I can understand if you feel I'm being inconsistent with my own morals but the 16 minimum is consistent because that's also a cultural thing (end of compulsory education here). You can choose not to support her for her age and I will cheer you on in that because I do still think the minimum age for debut should be 18, but I've also been clear that I think the first step towards that should be a 16-year cut-off. This show also doesn't have a huge bias against contestants older than 16 and, in a weird way, it makes me feel a bit better about supporting one contestant (whose debut chances are on the lower end) at the very end of my lower limit. Also "yapping about minors debuting" is very dismissive of real concerns people have about exposing very young kids to the industry, especially when most idols who regret debuting young did so at 15 or younger.
@@into_orbit I get it. I do believe tho, in your UT series you expressed that 16 was THE LOWEST, as in, you were not proud of adding Nana to your lineup at the last 2 episodes, merely bcs there was literally no other option, and it's true, there was fr no other options, I even remember you saying you felt kinda weird supporting 17 year olds, and your ideal limit was 18. I'm sorry if this feels like I'm calling you out on every little thing you said, but at the time you were so severe and it really felt like you were so angry with everyone for supporting underage contestants, kinda like you were telling us off and really imploring us to vote for adults, which ofc, after making a whole awareness segment about it, made sense. So yeah this does feel inconsistent, specially when Gyuri is still a minor, and was far from turning 16 most of the show (as I'm aware, part 1 was filmed really early this year). Also yes, yapping is really dismissive, but it felt a little hypocritical to be continuously serious about a topic and reproaching people for not following that same ideology, and then switching up, hence why it now feels like it was all yapping. But I do apologize, and I get where you're coming from with both shows having different circumstances and approaches to underage idols. Thanks for explaining.
sorry for responding but the difference between iland 2 and uni ticket is that all of the iland 2 trainees have little age gap between the oldest and the youngest (now that the 09 liners are gone), the oldest being 2004 and youngest 2008, not that big deal, but in uni ticket there were A LOT of older trainees, a huge age gap between the oldest and the youngest, and hella young trainees, 2011 is way worse than 2008. 2008 liners will be 16 this year so it's not like they're voting for actual children like uticket who the youngest was 11-12 at that time. ofc it's better to have an all-over 18 group but not even half of the iland contestants are over 18 yet. (unlike uniticket)
My current predictions for the final lineup are Jiyoon, Jeemin, Koko, Fuko, Saebi, and one more "Wild Card" which is most likely Sarang, Jungeun or Gyuri. My bet is on Sarang being the 6th member, but international votes could come to Jungeun's rescue, and Gyuri being consistently in the combined top 6 could be good for her. In the case that the group does end up being 7 and a producer pick, it would probably be Jungeun, even though mnet seems to be abandoning her.
I'm not really upset with Jungeun for the whole leader situation. I understan Saebi wanting to try her hand out as a leader, but we also don't know if she's relieved that Jungeun is taking over a bit to take some stress off her shoulders. And Jungeun is only trying to act as a leader so that they could have the best performance.
i definitely think that yuju should’ve switched parts with koko. saebi offered to give her part to koko which ultimately means part 4 will get a rap. because yuju wanted it for the rap, it would’ve been fair to switch because koko is obviously more outgoing with her movements and has shown improvements time and time again while yuju although didn’t have much opportunity to showcase the dancer position, still had a small freestyle part that she looks lowkey awkward in. but koko slayed so hard with her part that i’m looking at it like a blessing in disguise. side note: i think jungeun is just a natural born leader and couldn’t help but be a little frustrated because there was a timer that no one knew would end up being so she was probably trying to pick up the pace in case it was an important interim check. i do think she should’ve handled it better but i think she will have a redemption arc soon because saebi and her are very close friends anyway. (top 6: saebi, jeemin, jungeun, jiyoon, fuko, koko but i don’t mind gyuri or mai debuting)
I love watching your videos, I obviously have my own opinions and different ones too but your videos are usually the ones that I enjoy watching the most because while you may obviously be biased you have common sense which some RU-vidrs just completely forget when watching these shows Sarang has always been my number one but I’m glad you mentioned that she did better in the practice because I am really scared people will stop voting for her 😭 VOTE SARANG AND JIYOON ❤❤❤
The most unexpected performance on that entire show was Nan, imagine whole team went into low tiers but was on par or even better than high tiered team
