Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 112

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Episode 112
After Daylight’s flashy entrance ended, Pale Heart, the next team up, failed to draw much attention.
– We basically know all the teams, but Pale Heart is just a name we’ve heard
– I know their fandom is pretty big, but their songs have no mainstream appeal, how is it that I’ve never heard a single one
– Aren’t Pale Heart kids from a major company? What company are they again
└ Not major, and they don’t get much domestic support either
└ Seven Seasons isn’t major, but looking at what they do, they just learned how to act like a major company
└ ㅋㅋㅋ fr they’re only interested in doing overseas tours
The first reason was that among all the participating teams, they were the Idol with the least mainstream appeal, a fandom-oriented group.
– But this team’s kind of boring too
– Why are they so quiet, they seem like they can’t handle the broadcast format
└ All members are MBTI I’s…
└ But Pale Heart fans, you guys are Idols though
– I mean, it’s tough to give them a lot of screen time when they’re like this…
The second reason was purely that they weren’t entertaining.
Pale Heart is a female Idol group famous for the size of their fandom. They’ve become a hot topic for their visuals and Dance Performance, but they’re a group without any entertainment value or Self-Content, never having been a trending topic for variety skills or personality.
On top of that, their agency, Seven Seasons, keeps the members away from media exposure with an outdated Mysterious Concept, and they don’t bother with Self-Content either.
They simply pour massive amounts of money into their stages to produce high-quality performances, and they shift their focus overseas where their fandom is established, pulling in revenue through international tours.
[Pale Heart Ji-u: The number of fans who look for us keeps growing, but the general public still doesn’t know the team Pale Heart well.]
[Pale Heart Ji-u: I want to use this opportunity to make the team Pale Heart known to more people.]
Pale Heart wasn’t an unprepared team. Rather, if they were prepared at all, they were on the prepared side of things.
But TV variety is genuinely not easy. The less mainstream presence a group has and the less entertaining they are, the less airtime they receive—that’s the rule of TV variety.
Pale Heart’s screen time came and went without much fanfare.
Scattered complaints echoed among the fans, especially among international fans, but V-Net didn’t pay much attention.
Why? Because they weren’t entertaining.
If you don’t like it, come back as an entertaining team. That was V-Net’s infuriating editing rule.
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[Daylight Jung-yeon: Our Rival….]
[Rain Kids Hyun-ji: Should we pick the team we’re most wary of?]
[Ashcode Noah: The team we’re wary of, probably….]
[Beep—]
[The team that three teams named as wary of and their Rival?]
Evergreat’s first introduction was a somewhat hackneyed Rival role, you could say.
[Daylight Jung-yeon: Haha, speaking without jokes at all, it’s Evergreat.]
[Rain Kids Hyun-ji: Other members might think differently, but I’m picking Evergreat.]
[Ashcode Noah: Evergreat. All our members think the same way.]
After the three teams’ interviews, the broadcast cut to archival footage showing Evergreat receiving the Rookie Award at last year’s VMA.
After a long segment on the VMA, it briefly showed Evergreat being called as a Rookie Award recipient at other award ceremonies, connected in rapid succession—creating an edited sequence that seemed to explain why this team was receiving such caution from so many participating groups.
[Evergreat, sweeping the Rookie Award at every award ceremony they attend]
[Evergreat Seo Ji-on: Our Rival.]
[Evergreat Seo Ji-on: Um….]
[Evergreat Seo Ji-on: Honestly, I don’t think there’s a team we can’t beat if we just do well.]
[Evergreat Seo Ji-on: Our team just needs to do well.]
“Hey, did you really just say it like that?”
“That can’t be… I talked about Daylight, and I talked about Ashcode, and I talked about Rain Kids too. I said all of that, and then tacked that part on at the very end.”
“You got bad-edited?”
“I mean… bad-edited, sure….”
At my response, Sim Yu-jeong giggled and crunched on a snack.
On a leisurely Saturday afternoon, the first broadcast of , which had aired to great acclaim the night before, had been uploaded to the OTT platform, and this was where Sim Yu-jeong and I were doing our second monitoring session.
What you could tell from the broadcast.
V-Net seemed to want to sell Evergreat as “a team with skills, a team being watched, a team with strong pride, and a team that delivers on that.”
There’s definitely context to what was said, but the fact that they cut out just that part and aired it makes it seem almost certain.
It’s not completely different from the direction we were thinking….
I don’t know. Should I be grateful that the broadcast network is steering toward an image similar to what we intended?
Ah, of course, we did the first monitoring yesterday with the members. Everyone gathered in the Dormitory living room, and we even ordered late-night food for the occasion.
I’m not that cold of a person…. Of course I watched it with the members first, and I’m watching this now because I came by to discuss the Second Competition Round Arrangement.
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Damn V-Net really seems to hate cramming all the competitions into one day.
Whether it’s because they want to milk the buzz until the very end, they shoved team tension and introductions into episode one and only aired the performances from Bellier and Ashcode—seriously.
Apparently this competition round doesn’t affect the rankings (it seemed like the video scores were excluded from the voting tallying system), so they decided to split it across two weeks without a Pre-release, but I don’t really care about any of that—I just wanted them to show Evergreat’s self-introduction competition stage already.
Lim Ji-su, who had attended the First Competition Round audience viewing a few days ago and had seen something truly incredible, felt exactly that way.
The First Competition Round….
It was really something.
V-Net might not be great, but everything about that First Competition Round—the lighting, the temperature, the humidity—was all perfect.
The surreal quality pulled everyone in, and they all had to hold their breath and watch the stage without any reaction!
The only downside was not knowing how the camera could possibly capture that stage.
What worried me was… having only watched one episode, just how the broadcast was portraying Evergreat. Honestly, just that.
For any Evergreat fan watching regularly, there’s one thing you’d notice. Seo Ji-on doesn’t talk very little, but she has a very refined speaking style.
She tends to minimize words that could be misunderstood, and especially in situations where she becomes sensitive about every word, she adds a lot of hedging language to what she says.
What I mean is, that interview of hers must have had words cut from before and after. There were actually traces of interruption in the middle.
There must have been context to those words. It’s not her style to just bluntly say “if we do well, we’ll win without worrying about other teams?”
I’d rather believe that Kang Su-ah said something like this purely for provocation…! But that wasn’t the situation either.
At least from an Evergreat fan’s perspective, it was definitely bad editing.
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[Evr character is fun thoㅋㅋㅋㅋ]
Evr saying if we do well in the comp we can get 1st place ㅇㅇ character is confident and charming ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ seems like sth the Evr members can say since they perform so well, it’s actually charmingㅋㅋㅋ
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– When everyone’s being so careful it gets boring~ that’s when Evr’s interview started giving dopamine, so fun
– If they performed badly it’d be unlikeable, but they perform amazingly so it draws people in lots, and they swept all the Rookie Awards so idk
[Comp shouldn’t overthink it or it gets boring]
Once everyone starts holding back out of fear of bad editing, the fun party shuts down
Like, the rival interview isn’t disrespecting others, just saying if we do what we’re gonna do we can win, that’s not crossing a line or even a spicy take ㅋㅋㅋ
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– Yeah overthinking makes it boring
– Evr’s actually pretty tame tho ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ when you remember when seniors did the comp, the quotes went crazy, and everyone held back, that puts this in perspective
└ What’s tame about that, it’s just an objective goat interview
[But Evr really did well if we do well 1st place < < this is really it]
I attended the Pod Arc First Competition Round but skipped writing a review cuz I was lazy, but Evr were seriously insane
When the competition started there wasn't even a sound from reactions, everyone was holding their breath watching
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– I'm so curiosousㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ when does the First Competition Round stage come out
– The reviews all say insane so I'm dying to know what Evr did
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Fortunately, the internet community's reaction wasn't too bad….
'Once someone grabs even one complaint, the tide turns online, after all.'
If someone picks up material to drag Evergreat, they'll definitely pull out "that was intense too!" and drag this interview in again to bash them. That's just how the internet works….
While Lim Ji-su was flipping between internet tabs in her turbulent state of mind.
[Live on! : Doing a Live Without Telling the Leader (Got company permission!)]
A livestream with a very interesting title popped up at the top of Lim Ji-su's Mobile Phone!
***
Lately it feels like competition has taken up too big a place in my life.
Of course, life is a series of competitions!
But still, it's just so many competitions in a row.
…So thought Kang Su-ah.
In this industry, you always have to compete, that's true, but can't we sometimes just play peacefully with the fans?
Kang Su-ah wanted to give the people who loved her more joy than stress.
And the members working together with her too!
Kang Su-ah was already really good about checking in on Univers. She loved hanging out with fans and was satisfied when fans felt happy or experienced various emotions, so she frequently went on Univers and would draw attention, joke around, and use the platform well.
"Hi Evergreats~ Today I decided to turn on a live from my bed in the Dormitory. I already told all the members except Ji-on ahead of time, so it's fine! The roommates are all in the living room right now~"
These communication livestreams were the same.
Because it was joyful when the people who loved her asked about what was going on, and they'd get healed even briefly just by seeing her, from the comments.
"What did you do today? Well~ it's been a while since I had some time to rest, so I slept in, then did homework. Ah, is it okay if I brag about my plushie? This is a Penguin Plushie, it's cute right. My mom brought this back when she went to the mart a while ago because our oldest daughter liked it~"
Because Kang Su-ah loved chattering away like this, it was even more so. She was the type who liked to fill the silence alone with her own entertaining rambling.
"Ah, here? I use the top bunk of that two-tier bed. I entered the Dormitory the latest as a trainee…. I originally commuted from school housing, but when Ji-on moved in I came to the Dormitory with her, and the bottom bunk was already full, so that's how I ended up here. Ah, the bottom bunk that Ji-on uses, Jae-yi asked if she wanted to use the bottom bunk first. So Hyun Jae-yi's been regretting it every day lately. Hehe."
"MBTI? Wasn't that in the profile back with Prove Rookies? I'm still ENFP. Ji-on keeps waffling between I and E every time I suggest she take the test, but from what I can tell, I think she's an E."
The livestream, full of trivial gossip, easily went past thirty minutes. Right around when I was thinking of wrapping it up….
"Hey, Su-ah. Our competition selection…"
"Wait hold on stop a second wait I'm live on Univers right now so!!!"
"…Huh? Live? You talked about it before turning it on, right?"
"Of course I told the company…!"
"Why's the title like that. You're banned from going live without telling me from now on."
"Ah, seriously, wow, ugh…."
I almost caused a major disaster…!
And at the same time, Kang Su-ah felt wronged…!
(Of course, if I'm wronged, I'd say 'why didn't you just go live after mentioning it,' but it was fun!)
Rewriting the Top Girl Group Scenario with My Own Hands
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: Nam Seo-rang
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