A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 449

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Initial Intentions Episode 449

-Even if it was just a lucky shot, it would’ve been satisfying, but they actually calculated it properly and screwed them over for real ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-Wow the Truman Show ending buildup was insane

-The PD getting flustered is so fucking funny lmaooooooo

-The production team got properly roasted by the cast ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-You’re saying that delivering that line in that situation wasn’t scripted? I find it harder to believe that it wasn’t scripted…

-Eden I believed in you!!!!!!

-Are you crazy, delivering that line with that smile and that voice in that situation is cheating

The scene of climbing the stairs and entering the password on the first floor stopped, and Yoon Eden’s individual interview appeared.

[Eden: When I touched the keypad, all four sides, there was no groove. There was no place to replace batteries on the outer surface. So this might not run on batteries but on external power. If that’s the case, if this room has a power outage, the keypad might also lose power. I thought there might be more escape missions… I thought about it, but as long as all roads lead to Seoul, right? I just needed to escape first.]

The image of Yoon Eden shrugging his shoulders immediately faded out and changed to him throwing the door wide open.

[Eden: I came to rescue you!]

[First floor surprised by the sudden appearance]

[Doby: No, how much time has passed since we had that sad farewell, and before I could even plan to rescue hyung, you escaped on your own.]

[Eden: On top of escaping on my own, I came to rescue you guys too.]

-The satisfaction of sweeping up his bangs and lifting exactly just the gray hair from his half-and-half hair

└Did he practice in front of a mirror…?

└If it’s Eden, it’s totally possible

[Meanwhile, on the second floor.]

[Yuje: Are you changing the password? I don’t know that password anyway, so you don’t need to change it.]

[Staff: Sorry, but if this opens now, you’d have to film a second season with a different theme…]

[Yuje: Is it over already? Who could open this? Don’t tell me Eden hyung?]

-This is really rigged…

-At this point, isn’t this the production crew’s master plan to praise Eden?

And then Rev’s passionate performance of putting their heads together to help Ryu Jaehee escape unfolded.

[Yuje: It was touching. If it weren’t for the hyungs, I wouldn’t have been able to get out of that room today.]

-Instead of spending time creating conflict narrative elements, why don’t they improve the quality of the problems? Our neighborhood escape room would be more sincere

-This also reminds me of the items from the item battle, so it feels like conflict instigation

-Just how many landmines did our kids avoid

-As expected from Seo Yehyeon, a history major haha You got the history question right away, didn’t you?

-Bird count…lololol are you kidding me? Even a Harvard graduate couldn’t solve this without hints, damn

[Eden: I think taking shortcuts sometimes isn’t bad either. But is the doll eye rental fee included in the appearance fee?]

[Yehyeon: Even the random start was a class society experiment. We can’t choose where we’re born. It seemed like a social experiment that made us think a lot.]

[Hajun: My thoughts? As expected, the middle class isn’t bad to live in?]

[Doby: The happiest moment was definitely when Eden hyung came up to the first floor? Actually, I felt so sorry leaving only Eden hyung in the basement and coming up. Escaping the basement wasn’t entirely pleasant.]

[Yuje: But why C-house? Ah, Class? Because it’s a class society experiment? But the result was…(laughs). It’s hard to call this a revolution though.]

After the individual interview scene where they shared their thoughts ended, the Rev members bowing in greeting appeared on screen. Along with the sky where the sun hadn’t set yet.

[Yehyeon: Thank you for your hard work!]

[Eden: Oh yeah, early dismissal-.]

[Doby: I’m really going to lie down on my bed as soon as I get to the dormitory.]

[Rev members leaving work with bright faces]

[NEXT WEEK!]

[What will be the next social experiment shown on Reality Test!?]

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“They cut the vegetable bibimbap! Vegetable bibimbap!”

“That’s what I’m saying! They cut the sundae soup? They cut our Jun’s noble sacrifice? Huh?”

“Well, it wasn’t exactly a noble sacrifice. The sundae soup was pretty edible too.”

“All my screen time got cut too! I only got the image of a weirdo obsessed with salad dressing!”

“To save screen time, sincere aggro is important. It was hyung’s mistake for lacking desperation and relying only on your face. And honestly, aren’t you actually a weirdo obsessed with salad dressing.”

“Honestly, even if you try to copy Eden hyung’s aggro, you can’t. That’s not the realm of sincerity but the realm of talent. Who would think to deliver the Truman Show ending line in that situation…”

“Who’s the weirdo, who!”

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A Properly Failed Social Experiment (Feat. Reality Test!)

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The class society experiment that Reality Test! cunningly planned

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While the upper class on the second floor and middle class on the first floor enjoyed capital, the working class in the basement suffered greatly to fill that capital

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Meanwhile, due to the choices of the upper and middle classes, one person from the working class successfully escaped to the middle class

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Now, if we give the working class member who suffered for the upper and middle classes but wasn’t chosen a key that can overturn society, what would the result be…!

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was what they hoped for, but

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Sudden power outage

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Sudden escape

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Going back and forth through the wide open class doors, collaboration between middle class and working class to help the upper class escape

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PD loses his mind

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-Even though it flopped, it flopped so spectacularly that it became both a work of art and incredible entertainment ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

-No, honestly wasn’t the real theme not a hierarchical society experiment but a role reversal between the production team and cast members lol

-Yesterday, seriously, if it wasn’t for Yoon Eden, I would’ve rage-quit while watching

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Broke through a route no one expected, skipped all the middle processes and still safely reached the final destination

??: As long as you get to Seoul, doesn’t matter which way you go, right?

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-The way he touched the keypad with such a serious face and then immediately cut the power to the room was hilarious lmaooooo

-Skipped all the middle processes and saved so much time, but even the result was better. A true capable person

-Having someone like this on your team is annoying but honestly convenient

-Not just this, he hard-carried everything else too. Paranoia and that kiosk coin scam, thought he’d lost it

-DTB that crazy bastard still isn’t dead lololol

└DTB’s attention-seeking experience doesn’t go anywhere

└Right, his face looked familiar. It’s chest valley guy

└Hey, you can’t just say chest valley guy. You have to say beret-rabbit-hat-chest-valley-crop-tee-kingsman-confession-attack-mountain-club-leader-Gung-Ye-falsetto-liquid-actually-plan-A-yandere guy

-Plus on top of that, even screwing over the higher-ups ㅋㅋㅋ there’s no other choice

Why the Truman Show ending trended on social media yesterday.twt

Gold Money @gold_gold

When our throats were blocked from sweet potatoes, they gave us small sips of cider, then when the giant sweet potato came out, they poured a whole 1.25L bottle of cider

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Midnight nightmare till dawn @ALK2ZIOH5SPMC

Breaking out of the scripted broadcast format while delivering the Truman Show ending line

His Hip-Hop Survival victory wasn’t for nothing

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Even marriage @evensoul22

It’s not like he got lucky after giving up on the cycle due to laziness, but actually using the power outage in reverse is truly insane

Touching all four sides of the keypad and checking there’s no battery or battery replacement spot was truly genuine…

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Production crew that was inciting conflicts between floors and exploiting basement labor got screwed over in reverse with the Truman Show’s final famous line

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【Reality Test!】 seems to be gradually losing its initial intentions

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Setting aside Episode 1 which was like a knockoff of X-Phone

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From the controversial Episode 2 to Episode 4, 【Reality Test!】’s selling point was pleasant social experiments you could watch with a smile without uncomfortable scenes or directing that crossed the line

Actually, even just looking at YouTube clips, compared to other similar programs, there were many comments saying the hidden camera-like experiments were good because they weren’t provocative or violent

But Episode 5 that aired this time has a completely different tone from previous 【Reality Test!】 episodes

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Blatantly inciting conflicts between participants with missions, the basement environment and rules that felt almost violent, structures that made upper floor participants inevitably appear unlikable – there were countless elements that made viewers frown while watching

Only a few scenes got good reactions, but yesterday’s broadcast itself didn’t get many positive responses, and even during the live broadcast, many people said this wasn’t right. I hope the production crew doesn’t get fooled by only looking at the good reactions and brings back their original selling point well

Writing a few words because I don’t want to see a variety show I’ve been following for a long time get ruined

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-Honestly, from Episode 4 it felt a bit risky. In Episode 5, they messed with idols with big fandoms and that’s when things really went wrong

-If they wanted to make others get hate, they should’ve been prepared to get hate themselves, but the mindset of ‘Don’t hate us, just hate these guys!’ was so blatantly obvious throughout the broadcast that I got more annoyed at the production crew than the cast

└ㅁㅈ The group that appeared there showed how they looked out for each other and stepped up to make sacrifices even in that situation, which made me feel even more resentful toward the production team for pushing them into conflict…ㅜ

-This episode was fortunate because it didn’t go according to the production crew’s intentions and failed spectacularly in the middle. If they had just continued showing the hierarchy with the basement suffering and them fighting each other, all viewers would’ve left and ratings would’ve been cut in half from next week. Thanks to the failure, even in communities, it became more of a topic about the production crew getting screwed over by the cast and the failed social experiment rather than the conflict-inciting missions that crossed the line

-That program won’t last long. The editing and everything, they don’t even know what made them popular and have no sense

-Is it the same PD as Episodes 2-4? Episodes 2-4 were fun because of good planning, but honestly this episode’s entertainment seemed to be entirely due to the cast’s capabilities

-Blinded by ratings and trying to make everything provocative, they’re completely ruining the program’s selling point…

-Everyone’s so naive.. haha That stuff is all scripted lol They get the script from the meeting stage before agreeing to appear, it’s all staged

└ㄱㄴㄲ Looking at what that leader guy was doing, it was obviously scripted to anyone watching, but people only get overly invested in the celebrities who get paid double what the filming crew makesㅋㅋ

└Nope~ The Rev members already clarified all the script controversies, saying they filmed without scripts to show realistic reactions~

-It’s not respectful to the cast they cast either;; The cast became likable here because they cared for each other and showed the Truman Show ending cider moment, but if they had fought as the broadcast intended, they would’ve been marked as unlikable by the public and had discord rumors. Especially important for idols whose public image and relationships matter

└I used to follow Rev casually, don’t know about now, but this fandom had many individual fans, so if that happened, there would’ve been real vicious fan wars and fans tired of the fandom’s hostile atmosphere would’ve left in droves…

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Less than a week after Episode 5 aired, we heard news about 【Reality Test!】.

“Huh, 【Reality Test!】 that we appeared on got cancelled.”

“I thought it would get cancelled someday, but this quickly?”

“Why? Did that many complaints come to the Korea Communications Standards Commission in such a short time? Was there some kind of complaint attack?”

“No. That level would end with disciplinary action, not cancellation. The reason for cancellation is… let me see. During filming, one cast member developed panic disorder and had an attack on set, so filming was stopped.”

Since there was a victim and the cancellation process was underway, it was hard to call this good news. This kind of thing doesn’t change whether before or after regression.

“That person sued the production crew, and with the level of violence during filming and the Korea Communications Standards Commission complaints from our episode piling up, it got cancelled.”

“What the hell did they do to cause a panic disorder attack on set?”

“It was the Stanford Prison experiment?”

When Ryu Jaehee, who was reading the article, answered the question, Seo Yehyeon muttered quietly with a face still full of questions.

“The original experiment also had problems and ended early, what kind of confidence did they have to do that?”

“Our episode should have had lower ratings for being provocative, but instead it became more successful because it failed, so word spread and ratings went up. They probably got the wrong idea that provocative content works.”

Thus, 【Reality Test!】 that almost sent us to hell collapsed on its own just like before regression.

Regardless of that, having successfully avoided the downfall ending, we had to start preparing our repackage album.

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