My thoughts on this (no hate to anyone):
I've been OT6 + 1 since March 15 and I wanted to share my thoughts on what jungwon said today.
Honestly it's kind of sad that he even had to say this in the first place. I think it's pretty clear that enhypen has been trying to move forward as 6 since March and people aren't letting them. I've seen so many people twisting his words and saying that they're still gonna fight for OT7 and Enhypenis7 regardless of what jungwon said. I'm honestly convinced most of these people didn't listen to a word he said 😭. So many people have been saying that the company forced him to say this when he literally said that he was speaking on behalf of the members, noone forced him to say this, AND that anyone who claims that the company forced him is not a real fan to him. When I saw the video this morning, I was shocked and proud and lowkey glad that he was able to speak up. Then I continue to scroll on social media and see a bunch of people claiming that he was forced and that jungwon "would never say that", like WHAT😭😭??
I also see a bunch of people making the point that the members were smiling during the OT7 chant in Brazil and Peru. But has no one considered that 1.) They were just happy to be in Brazil or 2.) They were just happy to hear fans cheering for them?
People are also saying things like "why is he saying this now?" and "why didn't belift release a statement earlier?" and stuff like that. But 1.) Jungwon has already talked about this topic before and asked fans to stop and 2.) Belift DID release a statement; people just chose to ignore it and erase it from their minds because they didn't like what it said.
Belift has talked about Heeseung's departure and made it clear he wasn't coming back. Heeseung also released a statement about how he chose to leave but people chose to believe it was AI based on nothing but delusion and overanalyzing handwriting (because obviously everyone's handwriting stays the same their whole life and couldn't POSSIBLY change in a year 😭✌🏾). Jay has spoken to fans, begging them to stop the fanwars and spamming and just support them as 6. Jungwon has done the same. TWO TIMES NOW.
And yet, boycotters are still adamant on not listening to him and believing everything but the truth that was given to us. Multiple times. The remaining 6 members could literally scream into their microphones on stage about how Heeseung chose to leave and how fans should please support them as 6 and people would find a way to do anything but listen. Enhypen, Belift and Heeseung could release 12378 (BND reference anyone? 🥹) statements about this and people would STILL find a way to twist it and not believe them. Because in a lot of people's minds minds, enhypen is an image; a perfect image of their 7 vampire prince boyfriends. And now that the image is ruined, people can't accept it and will do anything, even hurt the boys to get that image back. Parasocialism is a horrible, scary thing.
Anyways, I hope people start to listen someday and can learn to support Enhypen as 6 and Evan as 1.
Also sorry if this sounds a bit harsh, I've just seen so much delulu and lowkey disrespectful content today that I had to vent. (Like I've literally seen someone outright say that Jungwon didn't tell us not to say the ot7 fanchant and that they were gonna keep fighting for EnhypenIs7. Mind you, Jungwon begged us to use the ot6 fanchant and told us to stop fighting 💀. Like did they just choose not to read or listen to what he said???) (I've also seen a lot of people point out that he said the company doesn't want the ot7 fanchant or fighting and use that to make it seem like jungwon was forced. Mind you jungwon said "the company doesn't want it, the MEMBERS don't want it, and the fans don't want it." but sure let's ignore everything else he said and focus solely on the company 😔. Like they're just ignoring the members atp 😭)(oh oh oh AND I saw someone make the point of"oh why did jungwon go live right after the concert if he wasn't forced?". And that genuinely confuses me because idols go live after concerts ALL THE TIME. Like this is not a rare occurrence at all. Also the reason could simply be because ✨he wanted to✨)
Anyways this is actually the end now. And like yeah, I was just kinda upset seeing so many continue to talk about fighting for ot7 when jungwon literally asked us not to. Again if I sound rude, I really don't mean to. No hate to any side. You can support whatever side you want and you can give whatever opinions you want.
I will delete any hate comments though 😁
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