โno one stanned herโ is an exaggeration but danielle WAS very under appreciated while she was newjeans letโs not erase history! marshmallows fought tooth and nail to get her equal treatment from (some) tokkis๐ญ
Happy 24th Birthday to the incredibly talented, gifted, handsome, breathtaking, dashing, magnetic, sweet, humble vocalist, rapper, dancer, songwriter, composer and lovable prince Jake of ENHYPEN!
i think everyone has become so consumed by the toxicity and resentment that have grown out of everything that happened, especially considering the amount of hate both enha and hee have faced, that even saying something as simple as โi miss the seven of them sometimesโ now seems to come with some sort of underlying implication. as if expressing nostalgia for what once was automatically means that your support is somehow superficial, or that you haven't accepted the reality of things. and honestly, it's sad that we've reached a point where even expressing a feeling has to be dissected, questioned, and turned into something negative.
it also directly correlates with how evergenes are treated within the fandoms. the moment someone identifies as an evergene, they're almost automatically subjected to judgment, as though they're expected to make a permanent choice between the two. somehow, the idea of appreciating, supporting, and finding happiness in both seems so impossible to some people. especially during award seasons. it's as if supporting one automatically means you're betraying the other, when that was never supposed to be the case in the first place.
i think people have become so caught up in drawing lines, creating divisions, and deciding who deserves their loyalty that they've forgotten where everything originally began. these are two separate paths now, and acknowledging that doesn't mean we have to erase the history that connects them. both came from the same starting point, from something that was once a whole, and just because things have changed doesn't mean every part of that shared history suddenly becomes something we have to resent or compete over. people spend their time over analyzing content we have had before march happened; trying to find some proof of โresentmentโ or โuncomfortablenessโ just because they still refuse to understand that they all can have their own paths and dreams that can change or can wish for more. that perhaps they actually didnโt leave on a bad note like certain people claim. like that idea seems so foreign to some cuz to them, something they love changing can only mean bad. it is a bubble they created themselves and if something leaves that bubble, itโs automatically bad. this counts for both sides.
what makes it even sadder is that something that once brought people together has become another reason to turn against one another. instead of allowing people to navigate their own feelings, grieve what they've lost, appreciate what remains, and support whoever they still hold close to their hearts, everything has become a matter of picking sides. you can miss what once was without rejecting what is now. you can support hee without wishing anything bad upon enha, and you can support enha without having to diminish hee or rewrite the past to justify it.
not every feeling needs to be treated as a statement of allegiance. sometimes missing seven people together is simply missing seven people together. sometimes supporting both is simply that. i wish people would stop treating every expression of affection as a threat to their own way of supporting them. there's already been enough hurt, enough division, and enough hostility surrounding this. we don't need to keep turning the things we once loved into reasons to hate one another.