Chapter 35: The Common Enemy

As usual, as soon as Jemin arrived at the dorm, he searched his name and the team’s name, almost dropping his phone.

“What’s wrong?”

Yunbin, who came in behind him, asked if anything happened, hearing Jemin’s startled noise.

“No, it’s nothing.”

Jemin hurriedly went into his room.

In truth, it wasn’t nothing.

Posts bashing Jung Woohyung did pop up periodically on community sites.

Every time that happened, Jemin wanted to point-by-point refute the exaggerated parts, but since a bit of truth was mixed in, he kept his mouth shut.

“It seems like things are getting too big, though.”

He went into the link again and closely examined the original post.

“It’s true that Jung Woohyung was completely in the wrong, but…”

No matter how much he couldn’t stand the sight of Woohyung and disliked him, Jemin didn’t want the situation to unfold like this.

Either way, he was in a team with Woohyung, and there was nothing to gain from individual fandoms fighting each other within the team.

In fact, something far scarier than an outside enemy was a malicious solo fan of another member in the same team.

Even looking at the current situation across all social media, that was the case.

• Honestly, Yoo Jemin’s fans shouldn’t act like this toward Jung Woohyung.

  When he was framed as a junior acting rude to RS, Jung Woohyung covered for him.

  └ Do you really think that was posted to defend him?

  If it were Yunbin, maybe, but Jung Woohyung just posted it without thinking.

  └ You’re the one without thought.

Watching the fandom situation turn into an absolute mess in real time, Jemin developed a headache.

“What should I do?”

Woohyung was almost certainly unaware of this situation.

Jemin rolled his brain to construct Plan A through Plan Z all by himself.

First method: Uploading a two-shot selfie while saying, “We’re actually close~”

: There is no two-shot selfie.

If I ask to take one, I don’t think he’d take it.

Second method: Turning on a Fan Live together, acting close, and communicating with fans.

: Even if we somehow managed to turn on the broadcast, what came after was even more of a problem.

They might cross a point of no return.

Yoo Jemin’s fans and Jung Woohyung’s fans would fight in real time in the chat box, and Woohyung might throw more fuel on the fire upon seeing that.

At this point, a real-time Fan Live was an absolute no-go.

Third method: Declaring “We actually severed ties~”

: That would mean admitting the malicious solo fans’ fight was justified.

If he did this, it wouldn’t end as an internal fandom fight within Eternity.

Reporters would definitely take the bait and crank out headlines like <4ever Discord? A Rookie Idol Legend Ending as Soon as It Began>.

He must not let other people know that their relationship was bad.

Fourth method: Pretending not to see anything and just passing by.

: Considering it an internal fight within the fandom, treating it as an area where they couldn’t intervene.

Since his relationship with Jung Woohyung wasn’t actually good anyway, there was nothing to clarify either.

Furthermore, if he made up excuses as a temporary fix and got caught lying later, the fallout would be even bigger, so judging that staying silent was better.

However, in this case, the malicious solo fan fight wouldn’t stop.

“The more I think about it, the more absurd it is.

Do I look like a guy who would give a back-hug to satisfy my own selfish desires in a place with so many people?”

Jemin muttered, finding it completely ridiculous.

Even if there was a situation susceptible to misunderstanding the day before, to think of him as a guy who couldn’t even separate public and private matters.

Just as Jemin fell into deep concern, a new post was uploaded and set the fandom on fire.

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  [4ever Controversy Collection Uploaded After Seeing Popular Posts]

  Writer: Anonymous │ 22:23

  Views 541,110 │ Recommendations 2545

I knew these guys would explode someday.

I’m saying this because it seems nobody knows, but actually this group doesn’t only have controversies with Jung Woohyung.

Still, since the most serious guy is Jung Woohyung, you should first look at Jung Woohyung’s controversies up on the popular posts.

http://…../gonglonhwa

Honestly, people stanning Jung Woohyung are at a level of having no self-esteem, lol.

A guy who does both fan-hatred and member-hatred being in the idol industry itself is a embarrassment to K-pop.

But this isn’t all.

First, the leader Yunbin.

(Photo)

High school graduation photo and past photo.

(Photo)

This is after debut.

It seems he definitely took muscle-building drugs…

A doping test needs to be conducted.

Next is the rapper James.

In a past interview, he mentioned he was cast while coming to Korea to watch an idol concert, gasp.

Seeing how they won’t let him say who it was, it’s definitely a girl group.

A girl group that had a fandom big enough to hold a solo concert back then would be either SPKS, SNM, or ED.

He’s probably 100% dating a member from there later.

Maybe he already is, lol.

And this guy also needs a doping test.

His mental state is a bit strange.

Seo Eunhan, who is picked as the visual member.

(Photo +4 pics)

Honestly, not sure if he’s a visual; isn’t this kind of face common?

And this guy is really an airhead.

He wrote ‘beautiful’ as ‘beautifull’.

Finally, Yoo Jemin.

It’s embarrassing seeing fans marketing him by saying his fan-love is insane…

Fake behavior is just smeared on every single word he says.

Guys like this are probably the most different front vs. back.

He also has a track record of blatantly doing business-gays-fan-service.

He seems to search his name a ton, so fans probably feel burdened.

K-pop fans, wake up and stan a proper idol.

Don’t do an un-stanning show while regretting later.

(Pros and Cons Comment)

• Gathering it all together, I see why Jung Woohyung is in that group, lol. Birds of a feather… That’s what small agencies are like. │ Recommendations 1618 Disrecommendations 1062

(Pros and Cons Comment)

• Personally, I found it absurd that a group like this suddenly blew up and got treated as a rival to PPP.

  A single fancam popping off is all they have, and there’s a huge career gap, so shouldn’t they come back after releasing at least three more albums?

  If you’re going to talk about beating PPP, you should first sell out a concert at the Gymnastics Arena.

  

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  It seems like they just got a lot of casual followers, and once the next album comes out, it feels like everyone will go back to their main groups, so seeing them act as if they’re right at PPP’s heels, I think their media play is insane. │ Recommendations 992 Disrecommendations 587

(Pros and Cons Comment)

• A post like this having recommendations in the 2000s…

  3P really took over this place. │ Recommendations 749 Disrecommendations 899

Only after checking that post did Jemin get a grasp of what the best plan was.

“Let’s put out the immediate urgent fire first and think.”

Jemin immediately turned on his laptop.

Then he clicked non-member post creation.

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  [Refutation Post to 4ever Controversy Collection]

  Writer: Anonymous │ 23:31

  Views 661,872 │ Recommendations 1829

Jung Woohyung member-hatred controversy post and 4ever controversy collection post.

Isn’t it strange that both spread simultaneously on the community?

Someone systematically spread them from somewhere.

And as all Eternities know, it’s unfolding weirder and weirder.

Starting from bashing Jung Woohyung, it gradually became bashing 4ever, and in the end, the claim of the people who exposed this is ‘instead of liking a group like this, stan PPP’…

Then who wrote such a post?

The answer is clearly visible, right?

First, I’ll refute them one by one.

First, Yunbin’s drug rumor?

Not even funny.

Do these guys not know what bulking up is?

And to say he exercised after taking drugs, it’s just nice-looking lean muscle, lol.

Second, James’ girl group dating rumor?

First, I saw your narrow view that sees stanning only as pseudo-romance.

James didn’t even say which group it was, so listing girl group initials one after another is rude to the girl groups and those idols’ fandoms.

And why do you keep telling them to do a doping test? Did 4ever secretly participate in the Olympics without my knowledge?

Third, Eunhan’s visual controversy, lol.

Thanks for taking the trouble to intentionally find bad photos.

He didn’t write ‘beautifull’, he finished it with an exclamation mark as ‘beautiful!’, so please take lutein and take care of your own eyesight first.

Fourth, Jung Woohyung fan-hatred and member-hatred controversy.

Honestly, there are things Jung Woohyung did wrong regarding this, but there are also exaggerated parts.

First, acting like a mess at the fansign is indefensible, and Jung Woohyung’s fans don’t defend that incident in the first place.

And sniping RPS, even if calling it out blatantly might not be great, the primary cause is the person who left such a comment on a Fan Live that members watch.

Above all, unlike the controversy post, there is absolutely no discord with Yoo Jemin.

http://tw…./hyungchive

As you can see in the video, the two are insanely close.

That’s why they’re the only older-younger pair dropping formal speech with each other.

They do tiki-taka because they’re close; if they weren’t close, they couldn’t do that.

This time too, if you look at the sped-up GIF, you might misunderstand, but looking at the original, he didn’t shake off his hand, he held him so he could get in the car first.

!!To prevent misunderstanding, I’ll say it again, Jung Woohyung did many things wrong! But this time’s thing is a stretch!!

Lastly, Yoo Jemin’s fake behavior controversy?

This just seems like jealousy.

Thinking of fans, cherishing them, and communicating a lot—if you feel that’s fake behavior, aren’t you a twisted person like a pretzel who twists everything?

Seeing how they act like a mess saying member-hatred this and business-gays that toward Jung Woohyung and Yoo Jemin, it seems like a side trying to lower 4ever’s group chemistry through gritted teeth.

One of the reasons 4ever blew up was their group chemistry, so trying to ruin chemistry by making forced controversies like this is obvious.

What would Yoo Jemin’s fandom have to gain by exposing this?

Look at it even now.

Only a 4ever bashing ground was opened up.

Let’s think about where profits would go by doing this.

(Pros and Cons Comment)

• Blatantly hyping PPP + marketing them, it’s transparent which fandom wrote the controversy post.

  If they were at least a Yoo Jemin fan, they couldn’t expose it like this.

  Are they trying to go down together? │ Recommendations 1378 Disrecommendations 1260

(Pros and Cons Comment)

• K-pop’s malicious fandom 3P never changes… When will they fix the habit of discouraging rookies right from the start? T_T

  At least Eternity has strong mentality so they can defend… Thinking back to my idol getting terrorized because their activity overlapped, I still cry tears of blood. │ Recommendations 997 Disrecommendations 812

(Pros and Cons Comment)

• Chilling fact.

  In the vote for putting up subway ad boards, the gap between Jung Woohyung and Jeokyeop wasn’t that big.

  Even looking at the trend, it was to the point of turning around.

  In fact, as soon as Jung Woohyung briefly beat Jeokyeop for 1st place, a Jung Woohyung controversy post came up, gasp. The checking is insane. │ Recommendations 793 Disrecommendations 519

Only after confirming the post did Jemin share the link to the post he wrote across his social media account made to look like a fan’s and places where fans gathered.

Without much trouble, that post became a popular post, and Woohyung’s fans and Jemin’s fans stopped attacking each other, uniting as one to focus on fighting PPP’s fandom, 3P.

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Is now the time to fight within the team?

I hope we think carefully about where the real enemy is…

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Jung-Left-Hyung @jungwoohyungisleft

It’s a kind of Trojan Horse…

Don’t think fans are dividing each other.

If you unmask those guys, they’re probably all 3P.

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My-Hyung @myhyungyourhyung

Nobody except reporter Kim Chunok wrote their debut article, but I scrolled down as soon as they said the media play was severe.

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JemJem @jemjemdoridori

Our-Hyung squad and Jem-Ki squad, absolutely unite.

Adorable Peach @apeach.jemin

Releasing photos of Woohyung that I took~

@4ever_members @4ever_official

#4ever #WOOHYUNG #Woohyung

Fortunately, the internal fight within the fandom was stopped, but that didn’t mean the relationship between the malicious solo fandoms had improved.

They had merely redirected the focus for a moment, and it was a situation that could ignite again at any time.

There was only one way to solve the fundamental problem.

“Whether it’s fake or not, we’ll have to show a close appearance.”

Would Jung Woohyung cooperate?

That was the problem.