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[🍚 @loveleewoozi]

A celebrity’s influence is not measured by how often they tell their fans to “be kind,” but by the culture they create. If your fans repeatedly weaponise your name to harass, insult, and bully others, it is hard to see you as an effective positive influence.

[star✮ @hannieisa_]

my biggest fear is dk coming back from the military and not being this goofy anymore 😭

[jae 🇵🇸 SAW ARIANA @seungkwanmeow]

i love how seventeen doesn’t turn into robots while dancing like they are just chill asf

[𝔍Moon𝔍 𝒾𝓈 𝒹𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂𝒾𝓃𝑔 @nebulamoonie]

Let’s take a deep breath and look at actual numbers together, because this narrative that SEVENTEEN was "saved from disbandment" requires a truly impressive detachment from reality.

Nobody was casually dropping 3 million sales in 2015 while "poor little SEVENTEEN was selling five albums." The physical market wasn't inflated yet.

Back then, EXO ruled physical sales with ~1.2M total, BTS was sitting around ~344K, and SEVENTEEN straight out of a notoriously broke company's green-taped basement clocked over 160,000 sales in their debut year.

Let’s track the official Gaon/Circle data step by step, nice and slow:

* 2015: Boys Be lands at #15 on the Gaon Year-End Album Chart (~122K copies). As a rookie.

* 2016: Going Seventeen hits #11 (~224K copies) and Love & Letter sits at #12 (~191K copies). Two albums practically gatekeeping the national Top 10 in year two.

* 2017: TEEN, AGE enters the Year-End Top 10 at #9 (~357K copies).

* 2018: You Make My Day holds down #8 (~390K copies).

* 2019: An Ode becomes the #2 best-selling album in all of South Korea (858K+ copies), with You Made My Dawn also sitting at #8 (475K+ copies). That is over 1.3 million Korean sales in a single year and an Album of the Year Daesang.

All of this happened before BigHit ever signed a contract with Pledis.

Now, about this imaginary "struggling group with zero live demand":

* Their 2019 HARU Tour in Japan pulled 175,250 people across 12 arena shows.

* The Ode to You tour brought in over 104,000 attendees in Japan and clocked 200,000+ globally, selling out KSPO Dome and international arenas.

* By late 2019, they had literally booked their first Tokyo Dome tour for May 2020 which was canceled by a global pandemic, not a lack of ticket buyers.

So let’s line up the timeline one more time:
* 2015: Monster rookie debut.
* 2017–2018: Consistent annual Top 10 seller.
* 2019: #2 biggest seller in Korea, Daesang winner, selling out 200k-capacity global arena tours.
* May 2020: BigHit acquires Pledis.

BigHit is a corporation, not an animal rescue shelter. In 2020, they were prepping for their massive IPO and desperately needed to fix their investor prospectus, which showed a glaring ~90% revenue dependence on one single group.

They didn't "save" Pledis out of pity; they bought out their biggest, most profitable independent rival to secure market dominance and impress Wall Street.

SEVENTEEN didn't become profitable because BigHit bought them. BigHit bought them because they were already printing money.

[JUN PHILIPPINES @moonjunhuiph]

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Exclusive Fairytale will air on GMA on June 15! 🐱🇵🇭

📝: #.ExclusiveFairytale #.Teaser: Handa na ba silang lumevel-up from childhood friendship to relationship?

Sure na kilig mornings ito dahil makakasama natin si Jun ng KPop group na #.SEVENTEEN!

Exclusive Fairytale premieres June 15, Monday on GMA!

#준 #JUN #文俊辉
#세븐틴 #SEVENTEEN
@OfficialGMAHOA

[LJE_🍭🌧💫 @LeeJeAe_]

“Marami sa’tin di narerealize na ganon kafar-reaching ang effect kung mag-away away sila sa senado —— hindi naman sila-sila lang yun di ba, ang epekto non hanggang sa laylayan, hanggang sa magsasaka.”

[aki ☁️ @_wonuwo]

"11 years down, a lifetime ahead"

pasabog! taob ang caption ng mga magjowa!

[‎ ‎ ‎muse 🪽 @museiie]

Never take stan twitter seriously
they will look you dead in the eye and call this a flop.

[JUN BASE @JunPOPbase]

Taiwanese Fans arranged a private screening party to celebrate the release of The Shadow's edge in Taiwan.

[🍓🍒🐈‍⬛ @jeonghannisms]

i cannot believe we are living in a timeline where jackie chan has been aegyofied

[mïngy🤘 @mingbop_gyu]

@loveleewoozi Congratulations!

[chil ◡̈ @seungchill17]

♡ cheers to youth ⟡
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[#seventeen #jeonghan #joshua #woozi #dokyeom #seungkwan]

[mïngy🤘 @mingbop_gyu]

Omfg yes!

[stewy @st3wyy]

Do we see the vision?

[kkuma @lalaliluvr]

forever the biggest back it up enthusiast

[bella @gyustarlit]

AURA.

[🌙 @17sruby]

no need lipsync, autotune, camera work and media manipulation

[meli🪽 @taeminjoestar]

“I think it’s our job as Artists to release music you would Want to listen to on repeat and not because you have to”

[sergeant hoshi 🪖 @hoshieverytime]

anyway here's seventeen singing live with live band to cleanse your ears with some 1080p pure talent

[ash 🕸️ ia @fmleechann]

“The mic is on” WELL KEEP IT ON

[🍚 @loveleewoozi]

i guess they need reminding that as per hybe's recent financials, pledis had only the 2nd highest revenue but the highest profits.. for those confused and those claiming seventeen's numbers aren't real, they actually make hybe tons of $$$$ money while hybe barely spends on them..