Top Girl Group Scenario Rewritten with My Own Hands - Chapter 113

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Episode 113
KingQueenSuper Kang Su-ah💖
Everyone listen up
Forget everything that happened today
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– KingQueenSuper Kang Su-ah💖
Honestly though, I’m not the one at fault
– KingQueenSuper Kang Su-ah💖
She’s not even my roommate and Seo Ji-on just barged in without knocking ㅡㅡ
– KingQueenSuper Kang Su-ah💖
She said she knocked????
– KingQueenSuper Kang Su-ah💖
I didn’t hear it because I was playing with everyone???
– KingQueenSuper Kang Su-ah💖
And it got caught on broadcast too..?
– KingQueenSuper Kang Su-ah💖
Yeah, Seo Ji-on’s version checks out ㅇㅋ
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The performances by Bellier and Ashcode, first revealed in Episode 1 of , received reactions that weren’t bad at all.
– Bellier? These are Kurz’s kids but they’re better than expected
– The song itself seems designed to be catchy, but did it get good reactions overseas?
└ Yeah, it went mega-viral on TikTok
– Wait, “Polish Falling Falling”—that was their song?
– Why does the live singing seem so unstable?
└ But honestly there wasn’t much to sing in the first place
– For rookies, this is pretty solid
Bellier, thanks to the peculiarity of being rookies and having their song recognized without the group itself becoming well-known, came across as refreshingly new on the broadcast.
Many viewers showed unconsciously positive reactions to the familiar song.
But the impact of the stage was too weak to leave a strong impression based on the performance alone.
Though the broadcast was corrected through editing, the live vocals wavered somewhat, and the Performance, while padded with camera work, showed gaps when just four members tried to fill a stage without backup dancers.
Even V-Net’s attempts to minimize the flaws couldn’t fully hide the technical shortcomings.
So it was difficult for Bellier to gain a strong reaction from the stage alone.
But.
[Bellier Lee Jin: If you ask someone to pick the least-known team here]
[Bellier Lee Jin: Wouldn’t everyone pick us?]
[Bellier Kay: Hmm…….]
[Bellier Kay: Realistically, we know winning is difficult.]
[Bellier Kay: Of course, if we did very well, it wouldn’t be impossible, but…….]
[Bellier Kay: Still, we know it’s hard.]
[Bellier Kay: We entered knowing that.]
– The members are all pretty realistic
– Yeah, unless they’re Rookie Award material or something, it’s tough for rookies to win a survival show
– They read the room so well it’s actually endearing
└ “Reading the room”? They talk like absolute assholes
└ But aren’t they right?
└ Their tone is so dorky, just get a life
Real positive reception came later, after the stage, when the post-performance interviews and the members’ pre-recorded interviews aired.
[Bellier Soo-yeon: We’re currently the group that debuted most recently here]
[Bellier Soo-yeon: Rather than winning, we wanted to learn more and grow by competing with our seniors, so we participated in .]
[Bellier Soo-yeon: We will definitely grow!]
[The youngest Bellier member confidently stating her ambitions]
[Bellier Elna: Even if we don’t win…….]
[Bellier Elna: We’ll learn a lot from performing.]
[Bellier Elna: And we can show what we’re good at, don’t you think?]
[Bellier Lee Jin: Still, we think we do well.]
[Bellier Lee Jin: At minimum, I think we’re strong enough that our seniors shouldn’t let their guard down.]
[Bellier Soo-yeon: We’ll grit our teeth and do our best.]
[Bellier Soo-yeon: Because we’re fledgling rookies.]
[Bellier Soo-yeon: We know we’re still lacking.]
[Bellier Soo-yeon: That’s why we’ll work even harder.]
[Bellier Soo-yeon: So we can finish the program hearing people say we’ve improved, we’re impressive, our stage was great,]
– These queens are fierce ㅁㅊ
– Honestly even if the live’s a bit shaky, their dance sharp as hell ㅋㅋㅋㅋ An idol without ambition, too realistic ㄹㅈㄷ
– Girls, just say you’ll improve AND win, you look so ambitious-less it’s sad
└ Seems like all members will have MB personality type T coming out
– Anyone know Bellier well? How old are the members?
└ All twenty years old, friends. Bellier fighting~~~
└ What? Really?
└ Yeah, all four are twenty and Soo-yeon is the leader
Underdog.
Bellier acknowledged their technical and recognition disadvantages early, carving out a position as the relative underdog.
The ambition to climb from the bottom up, singing earnestly despite their inexperience, and scenes where the members aligned all details in the Performance sections they could do well—
They’d grasped small but unexpectedly likable points well.
V-Net’s Idol survival show has a relatively large proportion of “Muggle” viewers—those unfamiliar with K-pop fandom.
Especially in an era when YouTube clips are thriving like now, even more Muggles are drawn in.
Bellier’s approach was geared toward attracting those Muggle viewers.
Why? Because without a fandom, you have to live off public favor.
It’s old news that female Idols have weak fandoms. But in periods when fandoms are weak, drawing the masses becomes the most powerful strategy.
Even if it doesn’t work immediately in group-based survival shows that generally turn into fandom wars, they created a likable image and set a direction looking to the future.
If Bellier targeted the uninformed masses, Ashcode targeted the masses with prejudices.
[Ashcode Jo Eun-bin: While we’ve been active, we’ve talked about this a lot among ourselves.]
[Ashcode Jo Eun-bin: Like, we’re really not good.]
[Ashcode Jo Eun-bin: Looking at other seniors or friends who debuted around the same time, we’re noticeably worse than everyone else.]
[Ashcode Yujin: At first it was a bit humiliating…….]
[Ashcode Yujin: But then I thought about it, ‘Should I even have pride to hurt right now?’]
[Ashcode Yujin: ‘Should I feel humiliated about having no skills to speak of?’]
[Ashcode Yujin: Those kinds of thoughts came to me.]
[The questions about Ashcode’s abilities raised since their debut]
The broadcast showed various controversies raised in different situations—from live singing disputes to the Cadillac collab lip-sync controversy—flashing across the screen as the members’ interviews played.
[Ashcode’s chosen breakthrough]
[Ashcode Ha-ryeong: Do well.]
[Ashcode Ha-ryeong: Just do well.]
[Ashcode Ha-ryeong: We don’t need excuses, so let’s get good enough that anyone would acknowledge it.]
Ashcode chose to confront it head-on.
From the members’ own mouths, acknowledging the shortcomings in their skills and promising to show they could improve.
[Ashcode Ra-eun: When we got the offer for , everyone was really happy.]
[Ashcode Ra-eun: This is our chance to show we can do well.]
[Ashcode Kaho: The singing is still difficult, but…….]
[Ashcode Kaho: We’ve practiced a lot.]
[Ashcode Kaho: Because I debuted as a singer.]
[Ashcode Se-rim: Opportunity comes to those who are prepared.]
[Ashcode Se-rim: So we in Ashcode will become those who are prepared.]
– These Ashcode members’ interviews are spicy lol they really did intense self-reflection
– Didn’t Ashcode have shaky live singing during the encore? But if you think about them being rookies, did they deserve all that hate?
└ Giving them a shield like that ㄹㅈㄷ they were genuinely bad
└ We decided to call it what it was: a failed live
– Honestly they were terrible, but they’ve improved a lot
– As a K-pop otaku, I think Ashcode’s problem these days isn’t talent but their comeback cycles getting longer as rookies, though I guess they’ve been pushing that back because of Pod Arc
– ㅅㅈㅎ admitting out loud that you sucked is the hardest thing to do
└ Real talk, the members are brave
Direct self-reflection is the realm of likability.
In reversing an existing negative image, there’s nothing better than showing the process of “acknowledging” and “growing” itself.
What Seo Ji-on had been most curious about regarding Ashcode’s participation was precisely this.
Members had felt their skill deficit keenly, practiced hard, and found a place where they could leverage that into image management. Wasn’t the perfect stage?
While the Ashcode members hadn’t calculated this far themselves, PN’s upper management had done enough calculation to approve this unusual move of a survival show appearance.
The more sincerity the members poured in, the more persuasive it became, so PN was exceptional enough not to edit the interviews.
– But did they actually improve their skills?
– If they mess up the stage after saying all this lol it’s really gonna be a mess ㅋㅋㅋ
Of course, for this kind of image-reversal marketing to succeed, there’s a prerequisite: they have to actually deliver on the parts they admitted were lacking.
The moment they fail to deliver, it becomes mockery instead of marketing.
But PN’s meticulous nature had reasons for letting Ashcode participate in the survival show.
– ????
– What
– Why are they so good
– What lol ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
– They’re good though???
At minimum, they had confidence they could turn the public’s negative gaze to something like “Didn’t see that coming.”
Slightly-corrected live vocals, the members’ stage presence, and a stage they’d continually practiced with the ambition of all members.
If the stage order had been slightly different, it might have looked regrettable.
But the previous slot was Bellier, a group of similar vintage with similar weaknesses. If comparison happened at all, it was Bellier with less major stage experience who’d be the one compared—unfavorably.
Several favorable factors overlapped for Ashcode.
– Jo Eun-bin, I thought she was in first-snow mode at year-end, but she sings better than expected, what’s going on
– They all have crazy good faces, pretty and all, but their expressions are insane
– ㅅㅂ I still remember the guy who said Ashcode members had no charm back then. Who did he think WAS charming that he felt like dunking on them lol
– Young ones definitely learn fast, Se-rim and Ra-eun improved so much
└ Yeah, they improved a lot, especially their singing
The public reaction wasn’t bad.
Actually, it was good.
Some of it was because expectations for Ashcode were low, but it was also because Ashcode delivered a decent stage.
And Ashcode had one weapon that Bellier didn’t have.
ⓜ @noahmygirl
Yo what are y’all doing
My baby leader just said she was lacking and then tore that stage UP, Jo Eun-bin hitting ad libs in the live singing
What is this insane growth narrative ㅅㅂ
(stage clip)
A fandom that would unconditionally be on their side.
For Ashcode, despite being rookie girl group, having already built quite a solid fandom, that fandom was their greatest weapon.
The members’ self-reflection and growth gave their fandom more than just public appeal—in some cases, it even gifted them anger and sorrow toward the public.
How much that raised the core density of the fandom, everyone knows without being told.
Twitter was ablaze with Ashcode after Episode 1 aired. To be precise, the fandom was angry, rehashing every instance of public mockery Ashcode had endured.
Episode 1’s stage reveal ended with Ashcode.
This was extremely fortunate for both teams, Ashcode and Bellier.
With a week’s gap before other teams’ stages aired, they could carry forward the positive impressions from Episode 1 rather than make direct comparisons.
Seo Ji-on, monitoring the response to Episode 2’s broadcast, thought this.
‘V-Net seems to be cutting PN and Kurz some slack here.’
There’s no comparison.
Evergreat, who took first place in the self-introduction stage, had no direct comparison point.
Even so.
– The kids from last week are all newbie-level too, why does only Evergreat’s stage quality feel different lol
– They’re seriously just so good, insane
– Evergreat’s just the type that does well once you set them up, that’s how they’ve always been
The internet response was burning hot.
It was just 30 minutes after Episode 2 of aired.
Rewriting Top Girl Group Scenarios with My Own Hand
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: Nam Seo-rang
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: June 4, 2026
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