2PM were sent to Japan to tour for literal years because JYPE was in a very rocky financial position, which is also part of why their domestic popularity began to decline. They had Suzy accepting every CF known to mankind. Wonder Girls' U.S. expansion failed to deliver the results JYPE had bet on and contributed to the company's downturn, while miss A were already on the brink of disbandment.
TWICE debuted at the worst possible time for JYPE. The company was struggling financially and was even being outperformed by non-Big 3 companies. SIXTEEN (the survival show that formed TWICE) was, bluntly, a flop in terms of ratings and received poor reactions online. While their peers from SM and YG were debuting with 10,000 album sales, TWICE debuted with 700 and landed near the bottom of the Korean charts. They promoted their debut song for seven months just to get people to notice them.
Y'all are not about to rewrite history and downplay TWICE's hard work
t.o.p and taeyang singing in japanese when the backtrack is in korean, cl and daesung being two idiots, gdragon’s shocked face and then him falling and screaming into the camera, tablo promoting his twitter with a huge banner, everyone doing their own thing…iconic concert
i love concerts because no matter how shitty your life is at the moment, everything just seems to make sense in those couple of hours and you feel so alive and happy and there's so much adrenaline and happiness and all your problems just kinda fade away for a little bit.