Grab the Regressor by the Collar and Debut - Chapter 329

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329. The End of Youth 靑春終末 (4)
Just as Windy had predicted, Ju Eun-chan’s fans openly vented their frustration about their bias’s limited screen time.
With rather aggressive wording, at that.
Miya
@mychaan09
A 2-minute cut
One person gets 21 seconds
Another gets 8 seconds lol
At debut they grabbed him by the collar and dragged the views up
And he handled all the aftermath from the accident too
And now this is how he’s treated??? lol
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Beomyang
@blackkittybaww
I’m just so upset
They say he was injured and couldn’t film
Then shouldn’t they have postponed the comeback??
We’re already sad enough that
he’s missing more and more content because of the accident
And now I can’t even see his face
in the official comeback they’re giving us???
If he’s that injured
they shouldn’t have done the comeback at all
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The kind of complaint they’d normally stay silent about, knowing they’d be called ungrateful.
But lately, Ju Eun-chan’s fans had grown so smug about JDZ being his backing—as if it were their own—that over the month when Eun-chan couldn’t join the busking project due to his accident, they’d accumulated a mountain of victimhood.
What had always been a fringe group—either young or chronically online troublemakers that even the fandom itself kept quiet about—were now slowly surfacing.
Of course, the other fans weren’t just watching this unfold with their hands folded.
Ha-rang
@dohajin_luv
What kind of clueless nonsense is this
Why would we postpone the comeback
We’ve already mapped out our 3 comebacks for the year
If we delay this one, it’ll overlap with SBN’s
and we won’t get a slot until next year or the year after
Do you delusional fans not have any sense??????
Would you rather not see your oppa at all?????
Beomyang
@blackkittybaww
I’m just so upset
Apparently he couldn’t film because he was sick.
….
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[Silver Spoon (Ju Eun-chan’s fan name) is a storage member??????]
These bastards got soft because Silver Spoon got hurt, so they’re letting things slide lately—did they really lose their guts?
This album—people who know already know that Captain (Kang Ha-jin’s fan name) and Bear Producer (Lee Do-ha’s fan name) were rotting away in the studio last year
getting lessons from Yupia 1st (Seo Tae-il’s fan name) and preparing like crazy, but now they’re asking to delay it lololololol
Originally they were planning a six-member comeback without Silver Spoon, but the members appealed strongly for a seven-member comeback, so what’s this storage member and discrimination member talk about
Please you idiots, if you don’t know, shut up, this is the perfect timing for us to rise up, you morons ahhhhh!!!!!
– Oh, what I’m saying hahahaha. If you don’t know, please shut your mouth and just spend the money.
– You really want to know about the storage member? Go watch a compilation of Yupia’s parts tlqkf
└ Seriously, what would we have done if our Yupia couldn’t dance…
└ It’s fine, he dances that choreography so damn beautifully
– But why did their heads suddenly get so big? They weren’t like that before
└ Don’t know, ever since the accident this time, a lot of weird people have attached themselves. Silver Kick (Ju Eun-chan’s fan name) even has crazy stalkers now, so many stalker photos were uploaded when he was going to outpatient appointments at the hospital, it’s so creepy
└ These kids are intoxicated by the “cold-faced but pure-hearted youngest son of a wealthy family” trope and are acting like they see nothing right now, basically they’re already his future in-laws^^
– We need to do some fan policing once and clean this up before the comeback, or else the atmosphere will be ruined even after they return
Following the series of incidents, Destiny fans who were immersed in the emotional appeal of Ha-jin’s tearful “Spring Again” MV reacted immediately. They’d been waiting for this anyway, so the response was even faster.
Even among Ju Eun-chan’s own fanbase, they sensed the atmosphere and quickly moved to distance themselves.
[ㅇㅊ also posted a post on Nemd (not Mapple)]
Bad Kids
@BaddieKiz
I’m so frustrated
I was just admiring our oppa’s visuals
and rewatching the control like 30482710505 times
because of those whore bastards
all of us Chan fans are getting lumped together and cursed at
Destiny fans, our Chan fans aren’t like that
Those guys are the ones who are always doing stalker stuff
a gloomy stalker group is what they are
Apparently the people being talked about now were a group that was already controversial among Chan fans
Some people have even gotten sick from skinship at fan signs, so you know.
Still, I’m relieved that those guys seem to have their heads on straight
– Wow, this is the first time I’ve seen Bad Kids curse like that
└ I’m a follower too lololol but I understand Bad Kids was really looking forward to this comeback so they’re pissed
– Is that person a Chan fan?
└ Yeah, they have like 20k or 30k followers, the one who created the slogan “My Precious Baby Kitten King”
└ Wow, so that’s the legendary slogan creator
– Chan fans were always nice, that’s why the bastards kept pushing them around. They should’ve beaten them down like Kang fans do, but they couldn’t… but it seems like this time all the pent-up frustration from Chan fans exploded
Still, some people blinded by “Ju Eun-chan’s control time 8 seconds” gritted their teeth and appealed their grievances. In Kairos’s fan communities, posts trying to flip the narrative kept appearing, like “But isn’t 8 seconds a bit much?” or “Isn’t preventing opinions from being voiced a form of censorship?”
– Ugh, I’m barely holding back and this is driving me insane
Then another faction rose up from a different corner.
– Can someone explain what it’s like to have your parts cut down???
– (Yoo Gun’s past activity song parts compilation.mp4)
From his debut song until now, Yoo Gun’s fanbase had always received the fewest parts among the members.
Risen Gun
@2uuu_gunn2
I honestly stayed quiet because I didn’t want to start family drama
I was being quiet lol
I’m genuinely speechless
Petty enough to count every single part
Before you bring out graphs to refute us, maybe whine a little less, yeah?
We’re staying quiet
What are they going on about storage for lol
Eun Diamond
@dmscksqndls0505
You keep bringing up the debut comeback
But that was the debut comeback
What we’re taking issue with now is
The part distribution problem in this comeback…
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After discovering unexpected rap talent through Miro Maze, Yoo Gun completely switched his position to rapper after debut. But even so, he’d only been seriously training for less than a year—still a fledgling.
To compensate for Yoo Gun’s inexperienced rap skills, his dancing was necessary, and when arranging parts that prioritized his dancing, his live-capable sections inevitably became relatively shorter compared to other members.
It was the same logic as Do-ha, who handled most of the rap parts, having relatively fewer center dance sections.
Still, everyone understood that Yoo Gun’s rap skills were lacking, and because he always received solid point parts where he could properly nail his one-shot moments, they’d been holding back their complaints despite the disappointment.
But when Eun-chan’s fanbase—who had far more parts than Yoo Gun and sometimes even took rap parts from him—started complaining, the pent-up frustrations from this side finally exploded.
By the way, Gun fans were the most notoriously fierce faction among Kairos’s individual fandoms. Even the typical fan posts they uploaded had a different, scarier tone compared to other fans. These people fundamentally operated on the premise of supporting their silver bracelet. (That’s what fan posts meant in this context.)
Not that they’d done anything particularly scary, but they had that vibe. Being the fanbase that got beaten up so much during Survival, their baseline combat power seemed formidable.
So these relentless dogs switched targets once again.
This time, more subtly and cunningly. Targeting someone who seemed relatively the easiest to attack, someone they could find allies to curse out with them.
[Maple] But honestly, I’m curious why the center was like that this time.
I saw the content, and if it was done to fill the gap because of that accident
Wouldn’t SMH or JSW actually have lower visuals in comparison?
It’s also like giving ㄱㅎㄹ the lead vocal and making ㄷㅎㄹ share the main vocal position with ㅈㅅㅇ…
I’m a fan of other groups, but it does seem like Miro’s main push is Do-ha, doesn’t it? I’ve thought so since Touch High
– Stop spouting nonsense, why would a fan of other groups know the detailed positions of their members
Hey, you know that guy who was writing 5 posts in the private room earlier, and when he got no responses, he deleted them? Look at him just copying that guy’s speech pattern now. Since we’re not empathizing with what they’re saying, now he’s trying to subtly shift the subject with a different angle, lolololol
– It’s not “lower” it’s “worse”; what do you mean lower, if it were lower there’d be more attached. Your vocabulary right now is the worst here
Since you sing well, I’m seeing for the first time people asking the main vocalist why they’re singing the main part instead of asking the sub-vocalist to do it.
– Wait, the music video hasn’t even dropped yet and just one comeback video came out, but are you really going to drag this out this much? Are you going to protest with trucks when the MV drops??
For Ha-ru’s fanbase, who had been unable to properly enjoy their favorite’s storyline due to the fandom atmosphere, this sudden development felt like lightning striking from a clear sky—and the lightning rod had snapped, plunging directly into their own backyard.
But when they discovered that this lightning was striking the neighbor’s yard—the very neighbor they’d been praying would get struck every single night—they couldn’t simply stand by and do nothing.
Ultimately, the Ha-ru fans, who had always been outnumbered compared to other bias fanbases and had merely watched their own corner quietly, declared their entry into the fray.
One Daydream
@haru_dream_
Regarding the current screen time discussion,
I’m muting and blocking everyone who’s liking posts about it.
I love all seven members,
but my bias is most precious to me.
Don’t write nonsense about push members
Please don’t let it appear on my feed.
We’re not staying quiet
because we have nothing to say right now.
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At this point, the Destiny fans, who had initially been filled with shock and anger, began to snap into focus. Fan wars breaking out just two years after their official debut, barely finished with the survival program?
At this rate, all the momentum they’d carefully accumulated would dissipate before they could even properly use it.
[Guys, we need to control this right now]
If this keeps escalating and turns into a full-blown fan war, we’re done for.
Stop fueling the conflict and just force ourselves to write positive posts. Let’s unite stronger among ourselves.
These kids are only in their second year, no matter how well they’re doing.
If we don’t establish the right fandom culture now, everything collapses in an instant.
Kang Ha-di
@kang_HD
On this joyful day,
don’t lose your energy dealing with nonsense talkers.
Just accept our gift instead♥
If you post screenshots of watching the concept trailer and liking it
with the hashtag,
we’ll draw and send you X-nel lipstick♥
Destiny 1st generation verification included♥
(Concept trailer like verification screenshot.jpg)
(X-nel lipstick exchange voucher screenshot.jpg)
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A tense atmosphere settled over the previously harmonious Destiny fanbase.
Knowing full well how crucial this comeback was for both the members and the fans, everyone was prepared to eliminate any risk factor that could even slightly damage this comeback.
– But we will prevail. As we always have.
└ ? What are you talking about?
└ Evil fans, I’m gonna destroy every last one of you bastards.
War against the evil fans.
Since idols first emerged in South Korea, this brutal battle had never ceased—and now, at last, it had come to the Destiny fans as well…!
…And.
While the fans ignited with fervor at the prospect of a comeback and the fusion of fandom, our protagonist Kang Ha-jin and his members faced trials no less formidable.
“…So.”
“….”
“…Who the hell are you?”
Kang Ha-jin sat across from the figure before him, his face drained of all composure, utterly bewildered.
Then Dan Ha-ru, his hair dyed a deep brown in preparation for the comeback, answered with a delinquent attitude and expression that suited him far too well.
“Dan Ha-ru.”
“….”
“Twenty-six. The same Dan Ha-ru who made you spin through regression loops like crazy and grabbed you by the collar.”
“…Good Lord, have mercy.”
Our Ha-ru had changed….
No, he’d transformed.
Witnessing our baby rabbit warrior undergo a complete personality swap before the comeback, Kang Ha-jin silently screamed.

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