i think he does too. he’s known them reallyyyyy long, from before they ‘became hallyu kings’ so he watched all of that happen, so it’s obvious he has an idea of how famous they are internationally as well, but he also knows he can use them, like you said, for comedy, esp in korea where he knows their image isn’t as high as it once was, and it’s like he’s doing it for ratings which is beyond sad. i think rs has had other idols on it talk about how they’re stunned when they see things like sj spending 50+ weeks #1 on kkbox and other charts, and kyu brags about it on rs (lol) when they mention that stuff to him, so even if he had no idea then, gura def knows now. but it’s still frustrating to see, and it’s like his current go-to joke because other mcs do it too (like half of mamacita promotions were people talking to sj about exo and i was glad that one time kyu snapped on abnormal summit and was like, ‘did you fail at getting exo to come to your program or what’ bc seriously, wtf) so he knows other people will find it funny, but it’s just so so stupid. and now it’s at the point where what he’s talking about isn’t even factual, like sj has never been famously called “the lipsync group,” they actually do sing live most of the time and i bet he knows that.
