A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 376

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 376

I learned another piece of my past at New Born that I didn’t know about. This time I should be grateful that I heard it from Gyeon Hajun’s mouth instead of Choi Hyeonmin’s.

“I told Yehyeon Hyung about it. You’re really tight-lipped, hyung.”

Seo Yehyeon already knew about it? I wondered if Gyeon Hajun had shared stories from his New Born trainee days with Seo Yehyeon.

“In what context would I tell someone else about that kind of thing?”

Seo Yehyeon awkwardly scratched his cheek, glanced at me, and added.

“And if I told Yoon Eden, he’d probably go crazy and run straight to New Born…”

“What exactly do you think of me, hyung?”

I grumbled and leaned back comfortably against the sofa.

“Why would I run to New Born? I should make them come to me. Their basic attitude about apologizing is all wrong. The one who needs to apologize should come in person. So who was it, Jun?”

I have enough Initial Heart Points, so a few curse words should be fine. This is why I maintain my Initial Heart Points.

“It’s okay, he must be really busy right now so it’s awkward to call him over. Back then he was supposed to debut with us, but now he’s just someone unrelated.”

Gyeon Hajun waved his hand dismissively as if to say it was fine.

“Hajun hyung, they say if you get called a stuck-up scholar by people like that, it means you’re living well.”

Kim Dobin’s eyes lit up as he quickly chimed in.

“And for reference, men who get called ‘genuine’ by other men are women’s number one target to avoid…”

Why are you looking at me while saying that? Why are you trailing off as soon as we make eye contact? Are you saying I’m the number one target to avoid right now?

“I don’t really care. I’ve never particularly thought I live like a scholar. They’re the ones living crudely.”

Even as Gyeon Hajun spoke calmly, there was an unmistakable hint of contempt in his tone.

“How exactly did that ‘ship scholar’ comment come about?”

I didn’t say “fucking scholar.” I just combined “ship” meaning boat with “scholar.”

If you deduct Initial Heart Points for this, System, you’re really a ship bastard.

“They were talking dirty, so I cut them off.”

“Oh…”

Seo Yehyeon let out a short exclamation filled with meaning. Kim Dobin, who had been rolling his eyes, asked carefully.

“But didn’t Eden hyung say he was friendly with everyone…?”

“Did you not know they were like that? They didn’t do it in front of me, so I didn’t know. I really hate that kind of stuff.”

I replied with an irritated sigh. Seo Yehyeon shook his head with a disgusted expression.

“From Yoon Eden’s previous descriptions of his New Born trainee life, it sounded like a harmonious and happy paradise, but the hierarchy there was really severe too.”

“It was that kind of atmosphere. I just didn’t pay much attention to it.”

Seo Yehyeon looked at me with a very surprised expression and asked.

“Ah, so you were aware that kind of atmosphere existed?”

“I went through boys’ middle school, boys’ high school, and even underground crew life – no matter how oblivious I am, how could I not know that? I just never imagined that bastard or bastards saw him as beneath them.”

I gestured toward Gyeon Hajun with my chin and frowned.

If they treated Gyeon Hajun like that, maybe they talked shit about me behind my back too? That’s why they immediately started gossiping as soon as I debuted at that shitty company with that damn space suit and song.

Come to think of it, it was a reasonable suspicion.

Whether I was being serious or not, Seo Yehyeon openly sighed in relief and muttered.

“I thought the hierarchy was severe even in the very early days when we first gathered as a debut group, but compared to New Born, it was nothing. Phew, I’m glad I didn’t end up at an agency like New Born.”

I was about to correct two errors in what Seo Yehyeon just said, but then I realized one of them might not actually be an error and hesitated.

Even if it wasn’t one of the Big 3 agencies but NewBorn, wouldn’t they have signed Seo Yehyeon despite his dance, vocals, and rap skills being close to zero, just based on his looks alone, and then put him through intense training? I also got in back then even though my dancing was a bit lacking, right?

So I decided to correct only the one remaining clear error.

“Hyung, that wasn’t establishing hierarchy, it was catching your runaway skills. And I was actually holding back because I was worried you’d escape and ruin our debut.”

“What? That was you holding back?”

“That was holding back?”

Seo Yehyeon and Kim Dobin, who had been worked the hardest by me, had the most intense reactions.

“Then what’s it like when you really go all out?”

I asked Kim Dobin, who was cautiously inquiring, with only one corner of my mouth raised in a smirk.

“Why, curious?”

Kim Dobin flinched and immediately shook his head.

“They say curiosity killed the puppy.”

“It’s cat.”

“But I’m a puppy.”

“Get a grip, Dobin. You’re human.”

I helped Kim Dobin, who actually thought he was a real dog because everyone kept saying he resembled one, face reality, then checked the SNS reactions. Since entertainment news articles have a structure that doesn’t allow comments, I couldn’t see reactions on those article pages.

It seems like things have heated up enough now, so it’ll be time to explode soon. We just need to sit back and watch the fire from across the river.

The flames will die out before they even reach us.

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KICKS’ fandom, Keyback, was in chaos due to Jung Iseo’s sudden withdrawal announcement.

Today, just like the past few days since Jung Iseo’s withdrawal announcement, they were split into Jung Iseo’s individual fandom and the other members’ fandoms, 6-member KICKS supporters and 5-member KICKS supporters, fighting online by grabbing each other’s hair, when an even greater trial came upon them.

[Exclusive] Jung Iseo speaks out about reason for leaving KICKS…”There was bullying within the team”

-See, I told you there was 1000% a reason, so let’s stay neutral lololol

└How can you laugh when the kid says he was bullied?

-Oh my god, Iseo… I didn’t know and only resented him for leaving… I really don’t deserve to be called a fan…

-There’s still no evidence, so I’m staying neutral~

-There are other things to stay neutral about, but turning a blind eye to a bullying incident just to defend the bullies and attacking the victim is ridiculous

-How well did the other members take care of Jung Iseo, how does bullying as a reason for leaving make sense? Now that he’s out, he’s just throwing around random accusations

└Did you personally see what happened after the cameras turned off? You’re treating the victim like a fraud and insisting the bullies are innocent, you crazy bastard

└The crazy bastard is you for calling them bullies based on just one person’s word without any evidence lol

-Hang in there Iseo, I’m always on your side

-Justice will prevail

└We’ll have to see which side is justice lol

-In the idol industry, when a member exposed a bullying incident, it turned out to be false and the whistleblower was actually the problematic member <- How many times has this pattern happened? No learning ability whatsoever

-I’m curious about the intelligence level of kids who genuinely believe that manipulation lololol

Jung Iseo’s bullying revelation was thoroughly feeding resentment to supporters on both sides.

Former KICKS Member Jung Iseo Reveals Evidence of Bullying on SNS

A group chat where they completely excluded him and only talked among themselves, as if Jung Iseo didn’t exist.

Recordings of daily conversations where no one responded to Jung Iseo’s words.

Despite there being three rooms for six people, he had to use a private room alone because they didn’t want to share a room with him.

Transcripts of members openly mocking him behind his back.

Testimony from concert staff that when he collapsed from hyperventilation backstage during a concert, no one took care of him or worried about him.

CCTV footage showing members who had been ignoring him suddenly changing their attitude to take care of Jung Iseo when cameras turned on.

Three years’ worth of evidence of Jung Iseo being ignored within the group KICKS was fully revealed to the public.

This had now gone beyond the level of an issue that only fans could address. The general public also joined in and began to speak up.

HOT! [KICKS-Jung Iseo Bullying Controversy Summary (+Evidence)] [999]

HOT! [How KICKS Members Usually Treated Jung Iseo] [853]

-If someone is gasping from hyperventilation, even distant coworkers would help and take care of them. This isn’t just being cold, their character is trash;;;

-Birds of a feather flock together lololol Not a single one of them thought this was wrong?

-The pattern is exactly the same as silent bullying in school days. Are you still acting like bullies in your early twenties? Have some shame.

-It’s fucking creepy how their attitude completely changes once the camera turns off ㄷㄷ

-How is that looking out for someone? Anyone can see that’s just being a jerk ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

YouTube

[Moments of Jung Iseo Reading KICKS Members’ Moods.avi]

[Collection of KICKS Jung Iseo Bullying Evidence Videos.avi]

-These kids only learn bad things, tsk tsk

-This all happens because they don’t teach basic character education and just lock kids in practice rooms from a young age to only learn dance and singing, making young kids compete against each other. Before taking pride in global K-pop, fix the K-pop training system first!

-Ugh, they’re vicious. Those kinds of people shouldn’t be allowed on TV, kids might watch and learn from them.

Of course, except for a very small minority, the public sided with Jung Iseo, the victim.

-Just watching that makes me feel like I’m seeing my own past and it breaks my heart and makes me cryㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ I was in so much pain for a year that I wanted to die, so how did Iseo endure it for 3 whole yearsㅠㅠㅠㅠ

-Still attacking Iseo, truly like singer like fan

-I’m staying neutral until KICKS releases an explanation. You should always hear both sides of the story haha

-Being neutral means not commenting at all lol With all this evidence, turning a blind eye and insisting on commenting about being “neutral” is just shielding the bullying perpetrator Kicks

-Stop defending the perpetrators with nonsense like “it’s not bullying if there’s no violence or verbal abuse”

-No verbal abuse? Even if they mock him like that, it’s not verbal abuse because they did it behind his back instead of in front of him? What kind of logic is that?-Idol group=friend group X business O They don’t have to be close if they don’t get along

└Since relationships are one of idol groups’ major selling points, no matter how much it’s business, they should at least maintain basic decency toward each other

└They say the kids have such strong relationships but when it comes to times like this it’s all just business lol

-Downloaded all the hate comments about Kix as PDF, thanks

└You think you’re the only one who can save PDFs? I also saved PDFs of hate comments toward Iseo

-Guys, have a nice fall to rock bottom~ If you wanted to last long, you should have been nicer

-No, fuck, using a private room was supposedly the members’ loving consideration for Pome who’s a light sleeper and sensitive, but now that you guys sucked up to that narrative, it’s not even funny how it’s suddenly become cruel ostracism lmaooooo

└ And seriously, just looking at this makes it obvious that it all depends on how you frame and spin it, but manipulating the sheep is really easy lol

└333 I used to stan another group before switching to KICKS, and among my old favs there was a member sensitive to noise who always used a private room. By this logic, that group was also bullying that member;;

└Lee Seo directly said he suffered because of it, so that’s evidence of bullying. Trying to muddy the waters like this is so transparent

└The evidence is so clear but they think the public is stupid and gets manipulated. Everyone’s smarter than you, damn it

-Saying the victim must have done something wrong to deserve that treatment is secondary victimization. Learn it if you don’t know

New Born and KICKS’ silence, affirmation or denial?

KICKS Hyeonmin club sighting amid hot bullying controversy?

KICKS, badmouthing other groups and rating girl groups’ looks in group chat… The pathetic fall of top idols

-Isn’t New Born working? Release a statement quickly

-Why are there so many verified photos of Choi Hyunmin at clubs lol it’s like the club was basically his second home lolololol

-You went crazy stanning a club guy. Now I understand your bloody shield behavior all this time

-Thanks to that chat screenshot capture, all the male idol fans who were active during the same period as KIXS are about to come crawling out lol KIXS is fucked lololol

└If only they hadn’t badmouthed anyone!

└If only they hadn’t bullied Lee Seo, this wouldn’t have been exposed to the world. Sigh… it’s all their own doing

-Rating female idols’ looks is the most disgusting shit. How are you any different from those fucking assholes who used to rank girls in your class by their appearance back in school?

-What’s the point of saying you love fans with just your mouth when you’re probably rating fans’ looks behind their backs too

Neither the agency nor the artists showed any intention of opening their mouths, let alone explaining, and with KICKS’ blunders erupting every other day, even the fans were human and gradually getting exhausted.

Just before the accumulating fatigue completely covered the remaining affection, KICKS’ statement finally came out to the world.

KICKS finally speaks on bullying allegations “We were immature and short-sighted. We are very sorry to the public and fans for causing controversy”

KICKS’ explanation suddenly ignites ‘Jung Iseo parachute controversy’, typical deflection?

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