Assistant Manager Kim Hates Idols
SS Chapter 73: Public Opinion Update (2)
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The symbolic animal issue was not the only topic. After the Fortune-Telling Octopus and Cat factions reconciled, the next agenda was whether spArk was a group of insubordination or one that valued seniority.
≫ Is KKY always this snappy?
It's starting to get on my nerves… They're all older than him.
└Seriously asking, if this bothers you, how do you even talk to people?
└[, you see a picture of our Kiyeon not even being able to sit down since the food arrived because he's busy opening all the delivery lunch box lids for his hyungs, and this is all you have to say???
≫ The spArk power map, which is said to be an inverted pyramid
The cute-but-fierce absolute ruler who came to conquer spArk with his looks, the cute youngest with an unyielding rock spirit, the leader position guaranteed by the company, the personal secretary for making citron tea, Father, please wake up
└Kiyeon's birthday is later, but Cheonghyeon has more power? lol
└Because no one can beat Cheonghyeon.
└How did our emperor end up like this…
└Look at them feeling sorry for him lolololol
≫ The harmlessly stubborn Park Joowoo and the hyungs who only know how to say YES
Park Joowoo: Sing rock for me, play the drums for me, play the bass for me, be a band for me, hang out with me. The hyungs: Okay (picking up their instruments)
└Don't they have the right to refuse? lolololol
└Can you refuse after seeing those eyes?
└ Pleading eyes (X) Commanding eyes (O)
≫ So Jeong Seongbin made a death note to control the members, and the hyungs were included. The first one to get his name written three times was the eldest, so they held an execution ceremony.
└Seongbin is always fair and just, even if his opponents are the hyungs.
└The hyungs can't say a peep to Seongbin and just grovel, but it's hilarious that only one hyung survived while the other couldn't escape judgment lol
└But honestly, if a junior or someone younger than me checked on me like that, I think I'd feel bad… lol. Like, 'Who do you think you are?' would be my first thought. He's supposed to play the leader role, not be an evaluator.
└My friend, let's just see the show for what it is… It wasn't something like 'buy coffee as a penalty'. It was content where they made him a young master and put him to bed. Why are you so serious?
Reactions to the idea that the youngest members held the real power were mixed. Some fans enjoyed strong younger members, but others were bound to dislike them acting tough toward their elders.
Others disagreed, feeling the personality analysis was wrong. Fans who cherished the older members' 'eldest hyung' moments preferred to see spArk as a group where love flowed downwards.
≫ Q&A: Seongbin and Kiyeon still have no plans to drop formal speech with each other (feat. Q&A)
He said it's partly because he's used to it, and it's not that the hyungs are difficult, but they took care of him so much since his trainee days that his heart won't let him speak to them like friends lol
└Seongbin is super strict about using honorifics… I was surprised to see him say things like, 'Have you had your meal?'
└I've seen quite a few idols who mix formal and informal speech, but in spArk, the ones who use honorifics only ever use honorifics.
└A well-raised blueberry yogurt is polite even when he grows up.
≫ As soon as Cheonghyeon said, "We'll get scolded by the hyungs if we do this," Jeho went, "When have I ever scolded anyone?" lolololol
└His expression looked so genuinely wronged lolol
└The hyungs say they've never scolded them, so why are they so scared TTTTT Poor things TTTTT
└Probably because they were babies who couldn't even eat properly while looking at their hyungs' faces.
└There is one hyung who nags a lot, a certain Mr. KKY.
└'That hyung' who comes running as soon as someone finishes talking.
≫ I knew Choi Jeho was good on stage, but his variety show image was so strong he felt like a weird, unemployed uncle, but it seems the younger members are surprisingly a little scared of him. The interviews where they say the hyungs aren't pushovers and that they go easy on the younger members suggest the real hierarchy is properly established.
└I don't think they're scared, more like they're being polite? I don't think they've ever crossed the line.
└If the ones at the top are by-the-book, the ones at the bottom tend to stay sharp lol. Like, 'The hyungs don't mess around, so where do the maknaes think they're going…'
└Setting all that aside, do Kim Iwol and Choi Jeho have the kind of faces you can mess with? Have you already forgotten the frozen faces of the SMG trainees?
└But Jeho doesn't scare the kids… Don't misunderstand…☆°
≫ Can you mess with a hyung who remembers a prank you pulled 1,000 days ago and pays you back in kind? Kim Iwol really does get his revenge.
└fr, didn't you see Seongbin just accepting his fate with resignation?
└If it were me, I would've cried and begged, "I'm sorry, I'll never do it again."
└It's a relief he was smiling. Imagine if that face wasn't smiling.
Opinions were diverse, and every side held some truth. The group was too close to be merely a business arrangement, yet they maintained clear lines, making them more than just an informal bunch.
This phenomenon was not unique to spArk. People often said that spending just five minutes in an idol fandom could give someone an ulcer, and there was a reason for it.
≫ How long do we have to watch LCH and KKY's forced energy… They have zero overlapping interests, so they have nothing to talk about. It must be torture for them to be grouped as the 'maknae line' and appear together every time.
└JSB and PJW are even more artificial. I've stanned a lot of idols, but I've never seen kids who seem this not-close.
└└You can tell from their conversations that they're just saying lines for the camera lol. It's so obvious they're awkward, I wish they'd at least practice, but the fans are all ^what a wonderful friendship^ so I guess they'll just keep at it ㅎ
└Fuck, so I wasn't the only one who felt it. CH, KKY finds you annoying TTTTT
Talk even arose about same-age members, who should have been close. A person could develop camaraderie with a colleague after just one year, but that assumed the colleague was normal.
Won Chaehee, for instance, had no desire to get close to Assistant Manager Cheon. It seemed unlikely for same-age members of a team that had all renewed their contracts to be awkward, yet speculation ran rampant.
The Sparklers knew they had to nip this groundless criticism in the bud and refused to stand by.
≫ Yes, spArk is a strictly business group.
Kim Iwol and Choi Jeho are people with the worst possible compatibility, not sharing a single letter in their MBTI. Jeong Seongbin and Park Joowoo can't even share a closet because their personal colors are different. Lee Cheonghyeon and Kang Kiyeon's friendship is a failing grade, not even scoring 50 points on a name compatibility test. These are all scientifically proven facts. You all have such amazing insight.
└You mean you still don't know about the 'Legend of the Maknaes' Morning Walk'?
└This came from 'I'm not that curious about it'. Is it true they can't share a closet because their personal colors are different?
└Still, there are way fewer posts saying Kim Iwol and Choi Jeho aren't close compared to before.
└└Let the hyungs join the business friends meeting too. Why aren't you including the hyungs?
└└└I guess they couldn't join the post about Mr. Kim discriminating against Mr. Choi to stage their friendship.
└└└└lolololololololol
└└└└└Even family won't lend you 100 million won after just waking up.
└└└Those two have a history of Rekka accounts creating public opinion about them…
└If you switch the order of Lee Cheonghyeon and Kang Kiyeon's names for the compatibility test, the score is higher, but they have no intention of explaining it, so they just used the lower score lol
≫ Kim Miheon …minam_hunter
My honest opinion. Unless it's one of two things, 1. Taking turns dating the same woman, or 2. Backstabbing and running from the company alone, the proposition that same-age friends 'aren't close' can't be true, even if they grow distant for a while. Even if one member leaves, even if they fight like hell during promotions, even if one of them has an explosion of inferiority complex, if you've known each other for 10 years, you'll meet up privately and even perform exorcisms on each other.
Won Chaehee's cyber neighbor, Minam Hunter, had similar thoughts. Though they had only met through a screen, the post was a masterpiece that revealed the kind of fan life Minam Hunter had led.
The fans knew best what spArk's internal atmosphere was truly like. There was a reason spArk could make bold comments on variety shows and act like their usual selves. They didn't nitpick each other, on or off camera. They never hesitated because they were confident someone would catch what they threw.
Take Won Chaehee's favorite, Kim Iwol, for example. Kim Iwol fought hard on broadcasts to make the other members look as good as possible. Kim Iwol was already famous for running around to prevent his younger members' strange expressions from becoming memes, which earned him the nickname 'Mosaic Enforcement Squad'.
≫ People really have nothing better to do than to say things about kids whose idea for self-produced content is 'running errands for the hyungs'. It's not just once or twice. Since their debut, the members have constantly brought ideas, and you know the reason why. They feel sorry they can't do things everyone else does once, like haunted houses or surprise hidden cameras, so they're always asking on BubblePop what kind of content fans want to see. If you're going to say they don't seem close to kids like that, well… I have nothing to say. Hmph.
└Why can't they do a haunted house? Not trying to start a fight, I genuinely don't know.
└They used to say they couldn't because there were too many scaredy-cats in the group, but later LCH said on his personal broadcast that they don't do it because there's a member who shouldn't be startled.
└KIW has a bad heart.
≫ If the group sucked, the members who got solo opportunities would have bounced long ago… Instead of being like Park Joowoo, who became a world star and is still all 'I love spArk'.
└'I love spArk' is Fucking hilarious lololol
└If they had a bad relationship, would they all have renewed their contracts?
└It's not just a full-member contract renewal, it's a renewal while all continuing to live in the dorm lol
└All members renewed? That's a relief TTTTT, but all members maintaining dorm life < this is what's truly amazing.
≫ KIW, who was criticized for being too strict with the younger members' discipline, never once properly promoted his own drama but always took care of his dongsaengs' solo promotions. Have you all forgotten that SM○, who was always coddling his dongsaengs saying "Our XX~ Our XX~", was buried for verbal abuse? It's tiring how you ignore the guy with real problems and only attack spArk.
└Who said they're not bashing SMG?? The point is that SMG has problems AND KKY has seemed shady since way back.
└The fact is that SMG was verbally abusive and domineering. The problem is that KKY seeming 'shady' is just your feeling. That's the point I'm making, friend;; Can't you read the context?
└If you said he seems shady because it looks like KKY reads malicious comments on online communities, I'd at least understand, but this is just… whatever.
└└Sorry to butt in, but this seems like it could be true, so I get a shady feeling sometimes too.
└└└lolololol T_T
≫ Go ahead and curse them out.
Do you think that'll stop Kim Iwol's fawning or Jeong Seongbin's lurking on BubblePop? While you guys are busy creating discord rumors, we'll just live our lives^^
└Two days after this was posted, Jeong Seongbin apparently quit BubblePop for a week. XX I'm sorry for provoking you. Please don't let Kim Iwol's fawning stop too TTTTT
└What's a breakup music video to make our leader suffer this much?
└Bring Jeho quickly so Seongbin can heal.
It was fine even if they never openly said they were close. The image spArk had shown since the first day she encountered them was more than enough.
This is basically family.
Won Chaehee didn't doubt their sincerity. For a fan to continue her fan life, this level of stability was more than enough.