A Blank Slate Regression for the Idol That Lost His Original Mindset - Chapter 540

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A Regression Guide for Idols Who Lost Their Original Intent Episode 540

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The moment when ‘Smile J’ became popular with the public through a cover song that surpassed the original.

While the public was enthusiastic about the cover song that revived the failed original to the point where it felt like a completely different song, what did the cyber wreckers focus on?

They all flocked to identify ‘Smile J’, which one cyber wrecker had initially latched onto.

Smile J cover channel, is it really just an ordinary amateur? Voice analysis results are shocking!

What is ‘Smile J’s’ identity? Evidence emerges that the cover channel’s protagonist is a professional singer!

Smile J’s identity, why would anyone in the industry know it?

Smile J, will it blow up before the identity is revealed? Clues uncovered by cyber wreckers

True to cyber wreckers’ nature, they latched onto one trending content piece, filled their video content purely with baseless speculation and unfounded guesswork without fact-checking, then slapped exaggerated and distorted provocative clickbait titles to induce clicks.

-Is Sanha really Smile J?

-You’re Smile J, right? When will you reveal your identity??

-Yol’s power is insane, shaking

-I think it’s Thursday, no matter how much I listen it sounds like Thursday singing with less power

└https://youtu.be/PoLkuyREqWx?si=HgfdaVbnaMqB2OIR Thursday is right here

The SNS accounts of singers pointed out in wrecker videos or in the comments of those videos were flooded with questions asking if they were Smile J, completely unrelated to the content they had posted.

◎thu_rsday

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You and several others liked this.

thu_rsday I’m reluctantly posting this because too many people are asking if I’m Smile J, but I’m not doing any YouTube activities. Even if I do in the future, I plan to upload self-composed singer-songwriter content, not cover song content. Please refrain from spreading speculative videos without evidence.

Some singers who were blatantly pointed out by several wreckers even posted asking them to refrain.

Despite all that chaos, one day on Smile J’s channel, which had been steadily uploading cover videos, a Q&A video was uploaded instead of a cover song video.

Smile J Q&A+Identity Reveal!

Smile J, who had stubbornly uploaded only cover songs without communication despite the countless questions in comments, identity speculation, and wreckers’ efforts to uncover it, finally came forward to communicate.

[Hello, this is Smile J. Today, instead of a cover song, I’m going to have a Q&A session for questions that frequently appear in the comments.]

Smile J, covering his lower face with a cue sheet in his hand, sat on a chair against the recording studio wall and bowed in greeting. Instead of his usual free style, he was dressed neatly in semi-formal attire.

[Q. Are you acquainted with G1?]

[A. To be precise, I’m not directly acquainted with G1, but a friend of mine is acquainted with G1, so I received help regarding venue rental.]

A hand with a ring, presumably the friend’s, suddenly appeared above the camera, waved as if greeting, then quickly disappeared as if it had never been there.

[Q. What’s that mask?]

[A. It’s a mask my friend made with a sketchbook and marker. When I said I didn’t want an overly conceptual mask, they said this looked the least like concept obsession? It’s better than an opera mask, isn’t it?]

[Q. Are you a professional singer?]

[A. Yes, that’s correct.]

[Q. Are you a famous singer?]

[A. Well, I can’t say I’m famous enough for everyone to know me.]

[Q. How did you start doing cover YouTube?]

[A. Recently I was in a state where my confidence had dropped, wondering if the evaluations I received were really based solely on my music and skills, and my family-like friend, hyung, and younger members suggested that I try getting evaluated by the public through YouTube, so I started.]

[Q. When listening to your cover songs, it seems like there’s some arrangement to match your tone and vocal range. Did you professionally learn composition or arrangement?]

[A. My friend specializes in that area, so my friend handles it.]

The same hand as before made a V sign this time and quickly went down.

[Q. Why are you covering your face?]

[A. Um… several reasons are mixed together. I wanted to be evaluated purely on singing ability, without any background or sympathy involved… and the songs I wanted to cover were ones that might cause some noise if I showed my face.]

Fingers in leather gloves scratched the cheek part of the mask.

[Q. Do you plan to reveal your identity?]

[A. I was planning to cover all the songs I wanted to cover and reveal my identity very late, if at all, but the identity speculation became too heated, with strange rumors spreading and other people suffering from wrong guesses, so I judged I could no longer hide it.]

After seriously finishing his answer, Smile J slowly got up from his chair and headed toward the recording microphone.

[Then I’ll finish this Q&A video by singing my representative song.]

As Smile J stood in front of the microphone, the intro to 【AND YOU】 began to flow.

Suddenly, as if removing vocal processing, his tone dropped by one level, and Smile J, who sang the first verse in a soft voice, refreshingly tore off the mask covering his face.

The camera smoothly shifted angles, moving from the angle that always cleverly covered his lower face with the pop filter, revealing his entire lower face.

Gyeon Hajun, who had finally fully revealed his identity, was delivering 【AND YOU】 with Smile J’s vocal technique and his original voice tone.

After the song ended, Gyeon Hajun, holding Smile J’s signature mask in one hand, smiled and greeted.

[Hello, this is Rev’s Gyeon Hajun.]

As if to confirm it was really him, he lightly touched the mask to his face, removed it, and smiled brightly.

[Now that I’ve revealed my identity, I won’t be able to visit as often as before, but I’ll still come back as Smile J occasionally when I want to sing a song. Think of it as a sub-character concept.]

The video ended with Gyeon Hajun waving both hands in Smile J’s signature ending greeting that had become iconic along with the mask.

Jun_Jun • 8 hours ago

Why is oppa appearing here…?

Was I fangirling over oppa’s sub-character too…?

3.7K likes

└Dream Mong

Here’s another Pine Tree Ilmong

└smilejsmile

How could this be, my second favorite and my top favorite were the same person

New MOment • 5 hours ago

All the wreckers’ guesses were wrong lmaooooo The one who said it definitely wasn’t an idol should bang their head lol

1.1K likes

Since the revealed identity was a celebrity famous enough for everyone to know, and quite unexpected as well, the content of this uploaded video quickly spread through screenshots and links.

[HOT] Finally revealed identity of cover YouTuber Smile J (really is a professional singer)

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Rev’s Gyeon Hajun

Comments 597

-Holy shit, never could have imagined this identity lol

-I was wondering if it was really him, but it really was Hajun. Even though he was all bundled up, the aura of my bias that couldn’t be hidden was flowing from those broad shoulders

-Looks like team leader Yuhwan missed Hyera because of the National Singing Competition and practiced singing like crazy

-He says he can’t answer that he’s a famous singer, too modest. Right now AND YOU is at 3rd place on the charts and it’s not just any group, who doesn’t know Rev…

└22 Honestly even my mom knows Gyeon Hajun, though she knows him as team leader Yuhwan, not his real name

-Seriously not lying, as soon as the AND YOU intro started playing I was so shocked I screamed

-Wait, I thought it was obviously Nam Sol just based on the skills, but it was an idol???

-What’s with Rev’s vocal lineup, the group that has both Yuje and Smile J

-During AND YOU comeback there was overlap with Parachute so I saw many posts hoping for justice and cheering for Hajun. If Hajun saw those posts, he might have thought he was being supported for justice rather than because the song was good…

-Newborn really has no eye for talent and is stupid. How do you put in Lee Seo and kick out Smile Hajun

-After pushing Parachute and then losing the acting-vocal idol & producer rap idol and even Parachute, it’s really like a moral lesson from a folk tale

-Those damn gossip channels, and the people who went around asking every singer if they were Smile J were also pathetic. I think it was good to reveal the identity before it got more heated

-Now that I know the identity, it makes even less sense. If you had to choose between someone who ruins songs vs someone who saves songs, isn’t it obvious? Please, Newborn officials, come forward and tell us what you were thinking. I’m dying of curiosity

-Listening to the same song really makes you feel the skill difference completely. Now I don’t have to hear Pomesurin fans’ bullshit about Hajun being kicked out because Pomesurin had better skills

-The friend that Gyeon Hajun (Smile J) keeps mentioning = Yoon Eden lol

└That’s right, someone who’s friends with G1 and can do mixing, mastering, and voice tone correction, that’s exactly Eden

-Isn’t it too shady to immediately reveal your face when Lee Seo’s song cover video becomes an issue…? Wasn’t this the plan from the beginning when you started the channel?

└You look more shady for putting that targeted creepy title on someone who just sang whatever songs they wanted to singㅠ

└You can see just from the main post that he had to reveal his face because gossip channels were bothering innocent singers. Read the main post before commenting

└To call it targeting Jung Iseo’s song, he was consistently uploading cover videos before the face reveal. Isn’t this too much speculation?

└Saying he started the channel to promote Parachute’s song cover is way too much self-consciousness from those fans lololol The first video that got attention was a competition song by a member from the same group

-Honestly, the Selfish cover should be given some consideration. He probably kept hearing the song anyway since their activities overlapped, and if Parachute was singing such a great song that badly, how frustrated must he have been. If it were me, I would have covered it even with my face hidden, even if I got hate, just for the sake of the song

-Instead of showing off as the original singer, Parachute should practice the song more tsk tsk. Just think of it as karma for stealing someone’s spot and hand over the song

-Isn’t Gyeon Hajun a victim of Parachute? Why are you hating on Gyeon Hajun? Even if he really did it on purpose, Parachute’s side has nothing to say

└Seems like sucking up to a shameless singer made the fans throw away their shame too

└They’re already calling it shady and throwing a fit, imagine how much more chaos there would have been if Hajun sang with his face revealed from the start lol

-But why do cover songs cause controversy?

└When you cover a competition song sung by a member from the same group, it gets tiring when fans start saying who’s better or worse within the fandom. The 19+ pop song had people going on about sexy songs this and that, and for Parachute’s song, just looking at the comments on this post shows why it’s called controversial

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A few cyber gossip channels made “Gyeon Hajun targeting Jung Iseo theory” videos by copying Jung Iseo fans’ claims, but the Smile J gossip videos that had already revealed the identity were completely drained of interest and didn’t get many views or attention.

Rather, the gossip channels were criticized for causing innocent singers to suffer and forcing Gyeon Hajun, who had no intention of revealing his identity, to go public.

As it was revealed that Smile J was Gyeon Hajun, the cover video of Jung Iseo’s song sung by Gyeon Hajun received attention once again.

Since he didn’t intentionally ruin the song and actually made it much better than the original, there were no particularly negative reactions except from Jung Iseo’s fandom.

The same song clearly revealed the skill difference between the two people.

No one was willing to side with Parachute, who had significantly inferior skills yet stole the position of someone skilled through connections, except for Jung Iseo’s fandom, which had now become unlikable.

Thus, Jung Iseo paid a hefty price for stealing someone else’s position and driving nails into someone else’s heart and pride, completely sinking. It was revenge after nearly 5 years.

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