Grab the Regressor by the Collar and Debut - Chapter 394

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394. How This Idol Maintains Discipline (1)
【Over 12 hours of filming once again… Idol Athletic Games, harsh ‘power abuse filming’ controversy】
【An White’s Ki-young complained of ankle pain after ‘Idol Athletic Games’ filming… Red flag for comeback activities?】
【This year’s ‘hot potato’, Idol Athletic Games… The only breakthrough is ‘viewership’】
The Idol Athletic Games filming, which had caused quite the stir, had finally wrapped.
[Please, I hope the Idol Athletic Games gets abolished]
[Hotplace! ‖ Got treated unfairly during Idol Athletic Games filming and was kicked out (1,204)]
[Fans prefer watching our kids just having fun together anyway]
[I wish MBS would get rid of the Idol Athletic Games (subjective opinion)]
People raised their voices condemning the broadcasting station for creating such an atrocious program, cast sympathetic glances toward the idols who had no choice but to participate in such harsh filming, and yet simultaneously spent the entire day talking about nothing but the Idol Athletic Games.
– Final results of this year’s Idol Athletic Games (spoilers okay for those who don’t mind!)
– XX0801 selling Idol Athletic Games data, DM me…
– Truly objective Idol Athletic Games filming male idol first impressions comic (verified)
– Top 3 funniest Idol Athletic Games stories by my standards
Social media and online communities were flooded with reviews and amusing incidents from the Idol Athletic Games filming, and those who couldn’t attend satisfied their dopamine deficit by watching countless stories and videos.
No matter what anyone said, it was undeniable that the Idol Athletic Games was an incredibly entertaining content buffet thrown onto the barren Stone Board.
With so many reviews flooding in indiscriminately, the actual broadcast would likely lose half its buzz by the time it aired, but ironically, without even these reviews, the Idol Athletic Games might face an immediate existential crisis.
In any case, what mattered was that the Idol Athletic Games filming had ended, and with it came the unmistakable signs of another massive shift on the Stone Board.
– OMG Tae-ha and these guys got cast as guests on Action School Guys!!!! INSANE!!!!
– Please someone tell me who the guy in the white shirt next to Endway’s Park Woong is, the cute puppy-like one please
– Summary of the B-liver (So-cheon derivative group) fan deception controversy currently being discussed among fans
Some stamped their faces with the broadcasting station,
Others went from complete unknowns to earning the glance of “who’s that?”,
And some hit the brakes on what had been a successful trajectory.
Do well and skyrocket, get unlucky and plummet.
It was obvious, but Kairos also held a substantial stake in that massive wave.
[This year’s Idol Athletic Games best broadcast output]
(Endway’s Choi Yeon-woo and Kairos’s Jeong Si-u lined up on the scoreboard.jpg)
(Yeon-woo and Si-u two-shot.gif)
The Idol Athletic Games should hire this camera director as a permanent staff member immediately
– That director could use it as a portfolio and deserve recognition, seriously
– It’s frustrating this isn’t the Olympics, it was a golden opportunity to compete face-to-face with the entire world on looks alone
└ If you won’t make them a national representative, at least make them president
└ What did the president do, why didn’t we establish a constitutional monarchy in our country
– The fact that those incredibly handsome faces and that piercing gaze are watching over not a nation’s political situation but the rising members of their own group is unbelievable
Kang Ha-di
@kang_HD
https://www.itub.com/watch?v…
Idol Athletic Games mini-game party full version upload complete
If the newbies say they don’t know drinking games well, just show them this
It’s practically a game encyclopedia at this point.
Feels like they’ve played literally every game that exists.
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[Kang Ha-jin’s 400m Comeback Victory – Real Speed POV Fancam]
OnSamiro
@onsamiro
tlqkf My kid’s a cheetah apparently
(Ha-jin’s comeback victory scene shot on phone.mp4)
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kkwlsdgd Kang Ha-jin is a cheetah… he actually was a cheetah…
Am I the only one feeling distant from Kang Ha-jin right now?
– I was literally preparing to laugh at the Miro Maze athletic festival, and suddenly the Olympics showed up
– Who’s the bastard that lied about Kairos having no athletic ability
└ Kairos.
└ But they gave us 100m in 18 seconds and terrible badminton first! That was supposed to be official…!
– I can’t believe Kairos were rookie athletes who won 3 silver medals and 1 gold medal in their first Idol Athletic Games appearance
– It’s legendary that Joo Eun-chan and Lee Do-ha, who are the main running members, didn’t even run lol.
Beyond that, fan art combining Seo Tae-hyun and Ha-rang’s outfits, Dan Ha-ru’s bridge pose that earned respect from the wrestling commentator, and all sorts of other talking points sprouted up everywhere.
Whatever they went and did there, Lee Do-ha received an avalanche of public love calls from all sorts of idol soccer veterans, and Yoo Gun was apparently doing trash sorting alone in the Idol Athletic Games waiting room, earning him the instant title of “a gentleman’s soul trapped in a delinquent’s face” from the staff member’s review.
But it wasn’t just the Kairos members who became famous.
Kim Bong-pal
@Bong8Kim
Those unnies are no joke
Unlike the I-dea unnies who only react to their own husbands
Or the N-view unnies who react to any handsome guy
Since they usually eat Michelin-level stuff, they don’t respond to just anyone
They’re basically a beauty detector—they don’t care about gender, only reacting to ‘beauty’ itself
When those unnies gasped, there was always a reason, you know?
The beauty was justified.
Bong-pal, did you see the Destiny reaction video from this Idol Athletic Games?
My reaction moment is exactly the same as theirs lolololololol
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The “Destiny Beauty Detector” story that started with a mention from a famous SNS user threw another stone into the Idol Athletic Games wave that had been dying down. The origin of that story was a phone camera video shot by a fan sitting near the Destiny fan section.
There wasn’t much content to it—just a video indirectly capturing how Destiny reacted whenever someone appeared on the scoreboard or an idol approached the fan section—but what became a hot topic was the timing of Destiny’s reactions.
Unlike most fans who would fidget excitedly whenever a famous idol came nearby, Destiny didn’t respond to just anyone. Of course, they clapped and welcomed them, but their standards for the “admiration” that usually comes from seeing handsome or beautiful people were extremely selective.
They didn’t simply admire someone just for being pretty or talented.
Only when a moment transcending that was discovered would they genuinely murmur and praise that beauty and elegance.
For example, in Lanion’s Cha Min-seok’s archery scene where everyone gasped in awe, Destiny didn’t feel particularly moved. He was handsome, but after seeing Kairos’s visual three-kingdom era, it wasn’t surprising.
– Merriday’s Elena, who’s currently getting crazy beauty reactions at the Idol Athletic Games (the girl in that Destiny reaction video is the real deal)
In contrast, they gave massive support to an unknown girl group member whom everyone admired as pretty but didn’t really know, so they only whispered about.
She was the gold medalist in the women’s 60-meter dash, and the moment her victory was confirmed, a brief shot of her and her group members glistening with tears appeared on the massive display. Watching this pristine beauty clench her teeth to seize victory and shed tears of emotion, the Destiny fans applauded without reservation as if their own artist had won.
Moreover, whenever she passed near the fan section, they shouted ridiculous comments like “Your beauty is this nation’s future!” and “You’re so beautiful…!” and even captured and shared stunning high-definition fancams and photos…!
JeongShuCream
@ice_ciu
Not sharing something beautiful
is disrespectful to art
#YouWereSoBeautiful
#Merriday #Elena
#SecondJob #PublicInterest
(Merriday Elena Idol Athletic Games High-Definition Direct Shot.jpg)
(Merriday Elena Idol Athletic Games High-Definition Direct Shot.jpg)
In any case, thanks to the Destiny fans’ indiscriminate radar for beautiful men and women, the Idol Athletic Games sparked yet another wave of excitement.
On social media, memes and jokes emerged claiming that the Destiny fans were nearly as obsessed as their own group’s leader, or that they were true beauty finders only real fans could appreciate.
Regardless of whether that was true or not, one fact remained unchanged: Kairos and Destiny had once again firmly etched their names into this rapidly changing idol world.
“Ugh, seriously….”
Of course, there was someone who didn’t appreciate it.
“Is this the infidelity scene of my fandom I’ve only heard about?”
Who, you ask?
Obviously me!
“After seeing Jeong Si-u, Ju Eun-chan, and Seo Tae-hyun, my heart raced for other faces…?”
Is that even possible? The idol world really is difficult.
Actually, in this case, it was rather those three visual powerhouses that had raised the standards of the Destiny fans, so I suppose it meant our Trial’s visuals were working properly.
I switched the private account I’d been using to spy on my SNS timeline to the official Kairos account. Worried I might make an account mistake, I checked the conversion a couple more times before hitting the post button. Then I accessed the gallery where I could upload photos and deliberated for a while.
“…Should I post this now, or not?”
The most recent file in the gallery was a selfie the Game Pot members had taken together after finishing the Idol Athletic Games recording. I’d been about to upload it right after getting permission from our agency today, but of all things, our fans had revealed themselves to be such shameless visual enthusiasts.
‘Now I understand why the Endway seniors are always busy managing their fandoms.’
Honestly, I’d thought that in this day and age, fans who stuck with just one group were becoming rarer, so I figured it wouldn’t matter much to me. But now that it was my situation, the feeling was quite peculiar.
Praise for other group members was being posted on our group’s official account, and people who used to ask about other members’ updates during live broadcasts were now even worrying about members from other groups…!
‘Should I post it or not?’
After hesitating for a moment, I set my phone down.
In truth, I wasn’t really feeling a crisis about the fandom actually defecting over this. The Destiny fans who’d seen many other idols seemed to have realized just how impressive Kairos’s physiques and visuals truly were compared to what they saw every day.
However, there was a potential problem with this atmosphere continuing.
If an atmosphere naturally developed where mentioning other idols became commonplace, there’d be nothing good about it, and if it escalated into aggression, it was obvious that all sorts of fan wars and interaction broadcasts would be filled with comments and remarks subtly taking shots at us under the guise of inciting jealousy.
“Hmm, I can’t just leave it like this.”
I closed the SNS app for a moment and checked our schedule.
Confirming that the plans for our comeback set for September 15th were packed day after day, I checked what was coming up next and smiled with conviction.
‘You want beauty?’
Then let me show you.

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