A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 312

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Regression Manual for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Chapter 312

“Yoon Eden, please give us a word about your victory!”

Without even a moment to get lost in sentiment, the MC handed me the microphone, so I cleared my throat a couple times and opened my mouth.

“First of all, I’m so grateful to our team producers who helped me reach this point in every way possible, and I’d like to thank D.I. hyung and Hajun who took on the featuring, as well as everyone who competed with me in good faith until now.”

As soon as they were mentioned, Gongchul and BQ9 waved their hands enthusiastically beside me. They had good reason to be happy since they’d probably get attention from contestants next season as the team that produced a winner.

When I slightly turned my head toward where the people I’d mentioned were standing, I caught sight of Yongcheol hyung, who had already given me the bouquet and stepped to the side area, and Gyeon Hajun standing next to him.

Both of them smiled at me.

One person gave me a smile that contained not a trace of dark or complicated emotions, just pure joy that he was proud of me to death, while the other person’s smile carried a hint of complexity and hesitation.

I don’t know why Gyeon Hajun is acting like that toward me, why he said those things, so it’s frustrating as hell. He should just charge in headfirst like his personality dictates.

I just realized something from this incident. As long as I have a past I can’t tell anyone about, Gyeon Hajun can never become someone who truly understands me.

I cut off my thoughts and continued with my victory speech.

“I’m already happy to have my name recorded as a winner of DTB, which I’m a regular viewer of, but I’m even happier knowing that when I watch in the future, I’ll have the added fun of wondering whether the graffiti I left behind will someday be covered over by someone else’s traces, or if it will remain forever.”

It’ll never be erased! I burst into laughter at the booming shout from someone in the audience seats and waved in that direction.

It was time to put a period on my story as idol rapper Yoon Eden, main rapper of Rev, who had carved some indelible graffiti-like mark into DTB.

I took a breath and shouted refreshingly into the microphone.

“Finally, thank you to Daydream for willingly supporting even my brief deviation! I’ll repay you with even better music in the future!”

Thanks to overcoming my slump, I was fortunate to be able to speak confidently with a promise I could keep, rather than just empty words.

Just like before my regression, I lightly embraced Skoen, who remained as runner-up, and we exchanged congratulations and consolations respectively before I came down from the stage.

The DTB main PD was beaming as he patted my back, saying I’d worked hard. I pulled in those ratings big time, so shouldn’t the PD split half his performance bonus and add it to my prize money?

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‘DTB 4’ wraps up with 4% viewership ratings

❘ Ratings show that ‘hip hop’ is the trend

DTB 4 sweeps fashion trends until the very end

❘ Rider jacket worn by Yoon Eden on final stage sells out, this fall’s trend predicted to be rider jackets

What prizes does DTB 4 winner Yoon Eden receive?

❘ 100 million won prize money + fight money Yoon Eden earned during broadcast (α), compact car

van반훠go @gnjrnj12

I thought rider jackets were safe enough so I relaxed, but this Yoon Eden disease isn’t about ‘rider jackets’ but about ‘the fashion of draping rider jackets over your shoulders’

Please, can’t you just put your arms through the sleeves?

Yoon Eden, hurry up and post a photo of yourself wearing the jacket properly and take responsibility for the ridiculous scene you created…

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Dream♥Daydream @revedream

Eden, congratulations on winning DTB

I don’t think your DTB appearance was a deviation, you just expanded your path, your world I was joyful and happy for two months thanks to you

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Dream♥Daydream @revedream

+No-dap power is legendary

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1001 Mong @thousandonemong

Shit is this for real when they said they were doing a Kim No-dap photocard group order I didn’t join thinking let’s see how far this fandom goes but with the concert tickets and everything was that really a lucky totem

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Newje @new_ujjjjjjj

Looking for photocard exchange

Me: All Reve members (I’ll match to whichever member you want)

♥: Kim No-dap

Please DM me!!

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Dream♥Daydream @revedream

Just clarifying in advance so we don’t look like we’re being biased toward our representative, but except when drawing lots, we normally use the Kim No-dap photocard as tongs for hotteok and pot handle grips

Daydream has eyes too, damn

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Come to think of it, there was one unusual thing about DTB 4.

Until now, what always caused issues was the Semi-Final stage, which had relatively long preparation time and was put together with great care, rather than the Final stage which had ridiculously short preparation time.

You could often see people mistaking the Semi-Final stage for the Final stage, which says it all. When picking DTB’s greatest songs, what always came up were the group music source mission songs and Semi-Final songs.

Until reaching season 11 before regression, this was an unbreakable, immutable law.

But in this season 4, that law was broken. For the first time, the Final received as much attention as the Semi-Final.

Of course, it wasn’t more than 【Masterpiece】, which completed the perfect narrative from season 3’s Semi-Final to season 4’s Semi-Final, but 【LOST part.2】 received tremendous attention for a Final song.

【Good Dawn】 with Gyeon Hajun was especially loved by Daydream, Reve’s fandom. Wasn’t it like a welcome gift that came when they hadn’t even had a single unit activity?

Moreover, since they knew the story between the two well, it overlapped with the reason Yoon Eden had mentioned on the broadcast, making it a song that received quite a lot of positive response within the fandom.

[1st place-new ‘Yoon Eden – Lost part.2’ ♥99,999+]

[5th place-‘Yoon Eden – Masterpiece(feat.D.I)’ ♥99,999+]↓

[13th place-new ‘Yoon Eden – Good dawn(feat. Gyeon Hajun of Reve)’ ♥99,999+]

DTB 4’s music sources showed a perfect finish to the end by dominating the music charts until the very last moment.

YouTube

(Video)

DTB4 [Episode 12] Good dawn – Yoon Eden(feat. Gyeon Hajun of Reve) @FINAL Round 1 EP.12 20XX0921

5.56 million views

☝60K ☟

8.9K comments

Tiniest • 1 day ago

The thumbnail is insane

Using a scene of brushing back bangs as the thumbnail is basically cheating ㄷㄷ

7.8K likes

poogom • 14 hours ago

The live version is definitely better than the music source. The music source is too refined, I guess?

5K likes

Retro Back • 1 day ago

If he hadn’t brought only his own member as featuring, he wouldn’t have lost to Skoen by such a margin

Honestly, using a member as featuring was Yoon Eden’s mistake

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└1Dream2

What the fuck are you talking about? Hajun’s part is fucking amazing and there’s no vocalist who could handle it more perfectly than Hajun. What bullshit about it being a bad move? Eden obviously calculated all that when he brought Hajun in. Who the hell are you to be judging?

└Park Jiseok

Honestly I was like “huh?” when the featuring came out, so even though I’m a Yoon Eden fan, I voted for Skoen

└Whether it’s Yoon or Lev

@박지석 Just admit you voted for Sco because you’re jealous of idol rappers lol

└Park Jiseok

@윤이든레브해 Butthurt??? If hip-hop fans were really that butthurt calling Yoon Eden an idol rapper, would Yoon Eden have made it to the finals??

└t_t

The song is good but the hate comments are really intense

So what’s the mistake? You just don’t like seeing Hajun, his groupmate, come up as featuring

└Bear pic

222 You want to praise rapper Yoon Eden but don’t want to praise idol Yoon Eden, that’s what this is all about, old man

But our Eden declared himself an idol on this stage? If you’re bitter, you should just stop being a fan, what else can you do

└Retro Back

Why won’t you guys admit it? Setting everything aside, the song was just weak

└Whether it’s Yoon or Lev

@Retro Back Yeah, 13th place on the music chart~

And look at you changing your tune now, saying the featuring is the problem lol

YouTube

(video)

DTB4 [Episode 6] LOST part.2 – Yoon Eden @FINAL Round 2 EP.12 20XX0921

10.12 million views

☝110,000 ☟

Comments 21,000

bisoj56 • 5 days ago

Congratulations on winning

I’ll cheer you on so let’s meet again in Season 5

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└Stay

He’s too talented to just appear as a producer

Let’s go for the first consecutive 2-time winner

└user-1436585

Would 2 consecutive wins be enough? He should do about 10 consecutive wins

└Kim Heesung

What are we really going to do about Season 5… DTB without Yoon Eden, does this even make sense?

└Cheplon

For real lol I rewatched DTB 3 recently and it was so flat and everyone was normal so it was boring, even though I definitely watched it as super entertaining back then

So Yoon Eden, take responsibility

MKDOILSF • 3 days ago

Raise your hand if you’re here for attendance today as always

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Immune • 1 day ago

Did Yoon Eden really fail that badly in Underground?

Just listening to the song, it feels like he experienced a huge failure and stood up again, but as far as I know, didn’t Reve become quite popular early on?

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└Pan VKS

It really was tough in Reve’s very early debut days…

└OJSKL777

I could understand it. I listened to the old mixtapes that were released during the plagiarism controversy, and back then he was more like someone who was good among mediocre guys rather than being exceptionally outstanding

Mainer • 2 days ago

Is it just me who thinks the rider jacket draped over his shoulders like that looks cool? lol

+Does anyone know where that rider jacket is from?

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DTB Should Allow Consecutive Participation • 4 days ago

This song is truly legendary

A song that I feel sorry to even label as sob story or emotional manipulation

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└Eoi Onic

Not having a hook was a stroke of genius, it felt like storytelling and really heightened the immersion

└lts0107

Yoon Eden is a legend

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“Wow, hyung, your Inbyeol follower count is absolutely unrivaled, isn’t it? How much did it jump compared to before DTB?”

Kim Dobin looked at my Inbyeol page and let out a genuinely impressed exclamation.

“Well, it tripled compared to before DTB started?”

I scrolled through the countless supportive comments asking me to upload daily fashion posts that were attached to my most recent post – the DTB 4 wrap party group photo – and replied nonchalantly.

On the outside I acted like it was nothing special, but inside I was grinning from ear to ear. It was worth putting effort into decorating my Inbyeol feed.

[Essential Condition – You who disappointed 30,000 fans, make 30 million fans happy! (2,969,018/30,000,000)]

The condition for ending this damn infinite regression that held my achievements and career built up until now as collateral had also increased by an incomparable amount since I last checked it.

“Thanks to that, I gained a lot of fans too. I guess that’s the power of a mainstream survival show.”

“That’s not necessarily a good thing though.”

Ryu Jaehee replied with a dark expression.

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