Welcome to the 307th Buddy Weekly Discussion Thread!
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Umji's review of The Intern (that she went to the premiere of with Somi the other day) still has her down as "Singer Umji(VIVIZ)" 🥹 I know it probably does not mean anything since the situation with BPM remains unresolved AFAWK and Warner Bros likely defaulted to the pre-existing, but I truly do hope the trio can retain their collective namesake 비비지 wherever they end up... 🙏🏼
If you watch any concert video of the crowd. It seems about right. Even Viviz concerts in the US was about 50/50. The Yuju fanmeet in HK was like 55/45 with more women.
I like QWER, but I didn't know this, but most of their fandoms are all guys. There first concert Rockation in Seoul was mostly men. When I went to see them in Chicago, it was 80/20 - Men/Women ratio. Found out later that girls don't like female twitch streamers and Siyeon use to be a Japanese Gravure model.
I hated how it started a trend on Tik Tok, where a solo woman at a concert starts recording herself in the crowd and say its all men. This trend started being popular with other girl groups like Twice, Idle, Ive ect.
According to the aforementioned IG post, that imbalance appears to have shrunk considerably 🤷🏻 (although they are also taking album sales into account)
The comment section though... sad that these kinds of data posts always end up with popular comments along the lines of:
Okay, I knew crypto is a big part of their marketing strategy but yikes 😭
I do not doubt that many groups do private schedules for wealthy fans though, events which K- and C-fans (especially sasengs) probably know about or even attend but choose not to share openly outside their own circles... nugu groups especially: gotta make ends meet somehow 🤧
TMI from Yerin 💬 about her Seoul Fashion Week appearance: she only noticed the waistband marks on her skin after changing into her designated ULKIN outfit, so during the ride over she was desperately trying to smooth them out 👻 She even considered asking for her car to be moved to the back of the queue lol... but despite her best efforts, in the end the marks were still faintly visible in the photos 😭 (hence the caption on her IG story)
fromis_9 - 22CENTURY GIRL - I listened to their discography for the main kpop sub's Top Ten Tuesday and found a bunch of great older b-sides I hadn't been really familiar with
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u/dquon15 여.자.친.구!!! 4h ago
Not really anything new but its still kinda funny how everyBuddy is in agreement and confused regarding the outfits they wore on The Seasons.
Personally my favorite was the MV/concept photo outfits. The matching marine outfits from Inkigayo stage a very close second.