A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 448

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 448

-For real, C-house is a fucking freezing shithole

-They’re not just setting up the stage to bash the second floor, they’re practically banging the gongs for it

-Starting with this bullshit from the beginning makes me scared to see what horrible things are lurking ahead

-This isn’t lovingly taking care of them, it’s lovingly sending them to hell fuck. I was an idiot for being happy that they built a whole set just for our kids’ special episode

-Please, whatever choice the members make, let’s not criticize the members and only criticize that show. It’s the fault of the production staff who pushed them into that situation, the members did nothing wrong ㅠㅠ

Yoon Eden, who was at the crossroads of becoming a scapegoat, casually put down the remote as if he had been watching the viewers’ reactions.

[Eden: Wait a minute. Time is money, so aren’t we losing coins for the time we’re watching TV?]

The way he looked around the room with eyes full of suspicion was so natural that no one could think it was acting. His naturally born expression, which made you wonder if he had complaints about society/the world/the person in front of him when you stared at him, also contributed to the optical illusion.

-Wow, I felt this during DTB too, but our Eden seems to have evil edit avoidance ability as a passive skill

-wow he avoided this?

-Does Yoon Eden have a hell detection radar?

-Nah, it’s gotta be scripted or edited. There’s no way someone would suddenly get suspicious at such perfect timing and give up watching TV lol

-I was expecting sweet potato but got an unexpected sip of cider in my mouth

In the individual interview scene that came out after putting down the remote, Yoon Eden shrugged his shoulders as if it was natural.

[Eden: I think there were two themes to this social experiment. There’s no such thing as a free lunch, and time is money. The fact that coin prices were only written down with no place to pay supported that speculation. But the latter could become movie plagiarism if we’re not careful, so I was convinced it was the former.]

-That strangely off-point confidence… wrong answer but somehow lucky enough to head toward the right answer… faintly reminds me of DTB

-If that’s not scripted, isn’t he unintentionally screwing over the broadcast right now?

Then came the breakfast scene starting with 300 coins for meal expenses. Yoon Eden, who had been scammed out of 200 coins and ended up helping the first floor and basement in a perfect way, once again sparked script controversy.

[Yehyeon: The salad is 250 coins but the dressing isn’t listed. I’ll just play it safe and eat boiled eggs. Hajun, you eat what you want. We have 440 coins left. I think we can eat everything except the steak set?]

[Hajun: That’s too bad, I wanted to eat the steak set.]

[Yehyeon: Even if I starve, we’re 50 coins short for that.]

-As expected, Seo Yehyeon, the meme quote god of Proas…

Meanwhile, no one raised script suspicions about Seo Yehyeon, who chose boiled eggs instead of salad because of the dressing.

[Yuje: If both of you eat at the same time, the lights will probably go out? Let’s have one person cycle and take turns eating.]

[Doby: We can’t even eat comfortably, sigh. This pork rice bowl really tastes bad.]

The youngest line in the basement gained sympathy once again by not being able to eat comfortably due to the heavy duty of cycling to generate electricity.

-What the fuck are you doing to our maknae who may get scolded at the company but has never been treated poorly

-Ah, this is so heartbreaking I can’t watch. Our youngest line only committed the crime of making bad choices but they’re being treated like this. What kind of blessing is having a lot of screen time?

-At least let them eat comfortably,,,

-It’s so heartbreaking how they’re wolfing down their food just to reduce the burden on each other’s time ㅠ

-Does it make sense that I have to do doll eye-gluing labor again just to eat and drink water? At least give me water for free, damn it. This is Korea, not Europe, right?

Just when viewers were starting to feel not laughter but discomfort and pity toward the basement’s appearance and situation, the first mission to change rooms began.

[Hidden rule of the 1st mission!]

[Only floors that mutually choose each other can swap rooms]

[EX. Basement chooses 2nd floor & 2nd floor chooses 1st floor (X)

1st floor chooses 2nd floor & 2nd floor chooses 1st floor (O)]

[Doby: Wouldn’t the first floor be more likely to want to swap than the second floor? The second floor environment is much better than the first floor, so would Eden Hyung want to swap?]

[Yuje: Eden Hyung is alone right now, so there’s a chance he’ll come down looking for people. Let’s bet on that chance.]

[Doby: But what if Eden Hyung wants to go down to the first floor instead of the basement?]

[Yuje: The odds are fifty-fifty anyway, let’s just leave it to luck.]

[(Eden’s voice coming from the monitor attached to the basement): Being alone is lonely, so it’s better to go to a room with people. It’s too boring and suspicious here.]

[Doby: Wow, Ryu Jae. As expected, Eden Hyung’s copycat. He even copied the way of thinking.]

[Basement chooses 2nd floor!]

[Hajun: So if we choose the second floor, Eden will come down to the first floor and one of us will have to go up to the second floor and be alone?]

[Yehyeon: Then Hajun, do you want to stay with Yoon Eden? I’ll go up. I’m fine being alone.]

[Hajun: That’s true, Eden has been alone for several hours now, so he must be bored.]

[Yehyeon: Why are you worrying about a guy who’s always holed up alone in the studio being alone?]

[Hajun: There probably won’t be composition equipment on the second floor (laughs).]

[1st floor also chooses 2nd floor!]

[Eden: Aren’t you rushing people too much? This kind of thing should be chosen carefully.]

[Now the result depends on the 2nd floor]

[What will be the 2nd floor’s choice?]

The screen showing a close-up of Yoon Eden’s finger moving down over two choices was cut off and a 60-second commercial was broadcast.

-Fucking ads here

-Please please let the same age duo stick together

-I’m worried that Yehyeon will get criticized for being compared to Eden when he goes up to the 2nd floorㅜㅜㅜㅜ Any normal person would be suspicious and say he’s not just doing bodyweight exercises in Cheonji’s roomㅜㅜㅜ

-Eden, please save the youngest line, the kids are too heartbreaking to watch

-The most heartbreaking point is that… even if it works out, one person has to stay in the basement and watch the other’s luxurious top floor life on the monitor…

-Why is every single mission this blatant top floor scapegoating + member conflict making project?

After the 60-second commercial ended.

Just when it seemed like they would show the moment of choice again, they only showed a close-up of the touching finger and didn’t show the choice on the touched screen. When Yoon Eden lifted his hand, a loading screen appeared, and soon the result appeared on the tablet screen.

[1st Mission Result]

[Basement-2nd floor will be exchanged.]

Of course, Yoon Eden met viewers’ expectations by choosing the basement this time too.

-At this point, did they only give the script to Yoon Ri-da? ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-From the basement burden to breakfast and this mission, it’s so annoyingly obvious they’re provoking conflict, but I’m enduring it because Eden gives me a sip of cider each time

[Doby: I’m the hyung. So I should stay.]

[Yuje: Doby Hyung! I’ll try to control things so supplies get to the basement abundantly somehow!]

[Doby: Yeah, Ryu Jae! I’ll try to work things out here with Eden Hyung somehow, so go without worry!]

[Eden coming out of the 2nd floor and heading down to the basement, knowing nothing]

[Shortly after Yuje enters the top floor]

[Eden finally facing the basement scenery for the first time]

[3, 2, 1]

[Eden: What is this!]

The screen showing Yoon Eden’s face filled with genuine shock, Kim Dobin welcoming such Yoon Eden with his whole body on the exercise bike, the overall scenery of the basement, and the mountain of piled-up dolls transitioned to a personal interview.

[Eden: When I first entered the basement? I never imagined it would be to this extent. They even want us to generate electricity. And why are we attaching doll eyes? By any chance, are you running a separate doll business? Or where did you get all these from? You’re not just casually brushing this off as a mission, right? You’ll properly pay us wages for our labor, won’t you? I looked up how much this would cost in real money, not the broadcast currency coins…]

-Wow, thinking about it, all that is money but they exploited labor on the broadcast?

-Him asking if they’re running a separate doll business lololololol

-As expected, smart puppy!

└It’s not puppy, it’s Goyeong, don’t change his species

└Yoon Eden is not a baby kitten. Yoon Eden is a fierce-looking man in his 20s who is over 180cm tall with all limbs intact. Please stop the Yoon Eden baby kitten moe-fication.

But if Yoon Eden was paying for his karma after splurging on supplies and electricity on the second floor, that would be different.

Due to his severe paranoia, the only things he used in the room were the unavoidable kiosk, bottled water from the refrigerator, the bed, and the floor, which gave viewers a sense of pity and another kind of uneasiness rather than the refreshing feeling the PD had hoped for.

Since the lunch meal selection didn’t produce the desired outcome, it was edited to show Rev’s basement consideration and unity being completely swept away, temporarily leaving the hierarchy to taste equality.

It almost successfully got buried like that.

-That ricotta cheese salad with balsamic sauce is Yehyeon’s favorite food lol He made it so many times on live broadcasts lol

-But how did that exact menu come up? Unless he requested it himself?

-Hajun also said he likes grilled fish, so maybe they decided the menu based on what was written in their self-introductions?

-They even matched the prices to 100, how unusually well they treated lunch?

-Then is the ramen for Dobin?

-Doesn’t Dobin like pork cutlet and stir-fried pork more than ramen? Ramen would just be a snack for Dobin

-Yuje likes vegetable bibimbap? This is literally the first I’ve heard of it…

-Seeing that there’s sundae soup, since Eden likes soup dishes, it seems like their favorite foods are correct

-Huh Eden doesn’t like sundae soup, he said on a previous live broadcast that he eats all other soups but not sundae soup

-Oh right, Hajun is eating sundae soup and Eden is eating grilled mackerel

-The one who loves ramen most is Jaehee, putting rice cakes and blue cheese in it is exactly Jaehee’s taste

-These crazy bastards are playing games with food, PD check his passport, this guy isn’t Korean

-No matter how much it’s a class experiment, discriminating with food in Korea, the nation of rice? I endured everything else but I can’t stand this for real

-No, when I was young, just having side dishes I didn’t like for school lunch would ruin my appetite, but giving food they hate as a whole meal is what country’s manners exactly?

-PD you bastard, then you should eat the food you hate along with the basement

-Wow so looking at the basement eating ramen and grilled mackerel now, they knew the upper floors would hate it and cut it in advance, cutting that heartwarming scene damn?

-Huh doesn’t the first floor not know Eden went down to the basement?

-They showed the breakfast selection at length but why did they speed through lunch like that

-They cut everything out because they were afraid of getting cursed for their bullshit, so there’s no context and it’s all choppy

Underestimating the fans’ affection was a mistake.

The PD, who initially received excessive praise for providing good meals, got double the curses when fan data accumulated over 4 years revealed the members’ usual best and worst foods, plus the portion of deceiving viewers.

The curses related to lunch continued until the third mission, the item competition mission, appeared.

The item competition mission conducted by voting provided small laughs thanks to the basement monopolizing useful items.

[Yuje: I thought we should definitely give everything to the basement hyungs. Only with those could the hyungs endure in that harsh environment.]

-But if it’s a social experiment, why are there only personal interviews after every scene?

-Typical runtime padding

-Why, because our kids didn’t follow your thoughts so you absolutely can’t create the picture you wanted? lol

Of course, they ruined all that warmth with the last question.

[Who do you think should remain in the basement?]

[Yoon Eden]

[Kim Dobin]

-Don’t curse the kids X Curse the broadcast O Don’t curse the kids X Curse the broadcast O Don’t curse the kids X Curse the broadcast O

-The theme is social experiment, is this a social experiment? It’s just extreme greed for ratings, damn it?

-Showing the basement environment and asking to pick who should stay.. seems like they’re determined to somehow hurt the members’ feelings

-You bastards

-The production crew here doesn’t even know why they became popular? They seem to mistakenly think that anything provocative will get good ratings, but that’s not your selling point

-It feels like watching a loser who eventually crosses the line because we applauded saying it was fun (not talking about Rev)

-Filed a complaint to the Broadcasting Review Committee for violence and violation of public sentiment damn they crossed the line

-I thought it was getting risky from the dilemma experiment, but they were determined to cross the line this episode

[Hajun: Hyung, give one vote to Eden. I’ll give one vote to Dobin. Then at least our floor creates a tie. The problem is the second floor where Jaehee is]

[Yuje: What should we do? We can’t even split the votes? Ah, what? Why isn’t the basement showing on TV? Did it cut out?]

[The basement ultimately uses the phone chance]

[Eden: Throw all three votes at me. I’ll stay.]

-Yoon Rida was leader-like after a long time

-Really if it wasn’t Eden, fights would have broken out and that would have been enough, what’s with Eden’s hard carry today

-So proud and admirable how they considerately get through it together despite being pushed to fight each other, and whoever planned this should just die

Although it was revealed that whoever remained in the basement would receive the escape keypad, the problem was the last question where not just one person had to stay in the basement, but the members had to choose that person with their own hands, so the curses continued.

Just as viewers tired of the continuous frustration, especially Daydream tired of the blatant conflict instigation, were about to change channels.

[PD: Uh, wait! That shouldn’t blackout like that! The electrical connection…! (flustered)]

[Writer: He can’t leave like that? The mission, the mission isn’t over yet, hah… (losing it)]

[PD: Who would have thought someone would think to cause a blackout to the keypad to get out. No, he even touched and checked the keypad, calculating that it doesn’t run on battery. Ugh, this is ridiculous, man.]

[Writer: If he leaves, it’s over. What about our remaining missions…?]

[Keypad stopped working due to power outage]

[A situation the production crew never expected!]

Due to the basement becoming dark as the lights went out with the blackout, an infrared camera captured Yoon Eden’s figure. Yoon Eden’s lips curved up in a refreshing arc.

[Eden: In case, I don’t see ya. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night.]

The final scene of the movie where he bows and exits through the wall door overlapped with Yoon Eden opening the basement door and leaving, appearing on screen.

-I endured 35 minutes of frustration solely for this one scene

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