NICHOLAS

PPOP RISE 🇵🇭

[NICHOLAS @Polyjamarous]

Wasn't able to record everything bc I wanted to enjoy the moment since this is my first time ever seeing ALAMAT idk kelan na ulit mauulit. But you guys @Official_ALAMAT ARE AMAZINGG!! GRABEEE! LEGENDS OF PPOP INDEED!

They performed day & night, dayang, Noli, and Maharani!

[aimi ✨ @pablolbapSB19]

one thing I’m starting to hate right now is that everything feels like a competition instead of a celebration.

all achievements are reduced to whose name is bigger, whose stage is better, who’s first, etc.

where’s the genuine happiness for all these milestones?

[雑誌『anan（アンアン）』公式 @anan_mag]

【 #anan 2512号 表紙解禁】 #KingandPrince の #髙橋海人 さんが9/16発売の #ボーダレスカルチャー 特集 #anan表紙 に登場。歌手・俳優・芸術家としてボーダレスに活躍する髙橋さんの映像・クラフト・AIを駆使した #創造の海にダイブ！ #髙橋海人の美学

[SB19 Official @SB19Official]

We're honored to appear on anan Issue 2512's back cover for its #BorderlessCulture feature, spotlighting our music and journey as P-pop continues to reach audiences across borders.

Out September 16! 🇯🇵

#SB19 #UySB19 #ananBackCover 🐐🇵🇭

[雑誌『anan（アンアン）』公式 @anan_mag]

【#anan 2512号バックカバー解禁】9/16発売 #ボーダレスカルチャー 特集にフィリピンを代表するグループ #SB19 が登場！最高にクールな５人を #独占撮り下ろし 国境を超えてファンダムを拡大するSB19の勢いをグラビア&インタビューで感じてください！ #ananバックカバー @SB19Official

[Pop Planet 팝 플래닛 @PopPlanet_]

SB19 Hailed as the Blueprint of P-pop by VMAN Southeast Asia.

[᥅ꪖꪗꪖ 𖣘 𓃲 @anuraya777]

We flex that we stan self-managed, self-produced kings but lacks the awareness regarding the operational demands attached to their autonomy.

[Bogum’s Corner | ⚔️|🍭☀️ @BogumCorner]

Kinda agree. Alot of people wishing for things to be as they were 5 yrs ago which I find unfair. Grabe na ang growth ng boys since then. They are no longer just artists / performers. They are businessmen as well running a full-blown entertainment company nurturing new talents and fulfilling their obligations to MULTIPLE BRANDS. I can’t imagine the mental exhaustion these entail on top of being the CREATIVE FORCE of their outputs. Even if I enjoy their funny livestreams, I would rather they rest than do a live. Aug for them was one heck of a heavy schedule.

Relationship dynamics also change as they get older & have more people in their circle. That’s part of life. But what’s important is professionalism is maintained. And so far that has been consistent with SB19.

[ɪᴛʟ⦵ɢ ɴɪ ᴘᴀʙʟ⦵ 🥚 @olbapologist]

Kahapon pa ako nagbabasa ng mga hugot nyo.. Gets ko yung hinanakit ng bawat kampo. Valid naman lahat ng feelings na yan.

Ako personally, so far, happy pa naman ako sa fangirling life ko.😄 Siguro kasi somewhere along the way, tinanggap ko na rin na this is the price we have to pay for the kind of growth we've been asking for. Pangarap lang to dati, ngayon nangyayari na sya.

Also wag sana nating kalimutan na aside from being artists, sila mismo ang nagpapatakbo ng 1Z. And going global has always been part of the dream. OUR dream. We've literally been cheering them on for years na sana mas makilala sila outside the Philippines, sana mas maraming international opportunities, sana mas malaki ang stages na mapuntahan nila. So ngayon na unti-unti na nilang nakukuha yun, hindi rin naman talaga maiiwasan na mas maging hectic ang schedule nila and mas lumiit yung time na meron sila for us and even their families.

Actually, natatawa ako dun sa isang post na, "Gusto natin ng global domination, tapos ngayong papunta na sila doon, gusto natin bumalik sila sa dati." 😂 Hahaha Medyo ironic talaga if you think about it.

And honestly, malaking difference din talaga yung pacing ng releases nila ngayon compared before.

2021, Pagsibol.
2023, Pagtatag.
2025, Simula at Wakas.

Always my 1 year breathing room between major releases and eras. Ngayon, after SAW, parang wala na silang preno. SAW kickoff, SAW Experience, world tour, events, endorsements, local festivals, Fast Zone, SAW Finale, WAS album, WAS Finale concert, members’ solo releases, international festivals, more local events, tapos ngayon my OZF pa. And that's just the things we actually SEE. Hindi natin alam kung gaano karaming meetings, planning, rehearsals, production work, business decisions, and other responsibilities ang nangyayari behind the scenes. So honestly, sometimes naiisip ko rin, paano pa nila nagagawa lahat to? 😭😂

Hindi pa natin nakikita yung buong picture sa backend. Imagine being artists AND businessmen AND bosses of 1Z at the same time. Kung gaano ka-busy yung calendar na nakikita natin, I'm sure mas malala pa yung workload behind the scenes. Kung tutuusin mas marami silang time for fans kasi at least tayo, with all their ganaps, nakikita natin sila at nakaka interact tayo with them. Also, the contents they put out are for us. Sa likod ng mga ganap na yan, todo kayod pa sila sa 1Z lagi na kahit nga pamilya nila minsan nalang sila makita.

Kaya personally, hindi ko rin sila masyadong masisisi kung hindi na nila kayang magbigay ng same amount of time for mga random live and menpa tulad ng dati. BUT, okay din naman na napag-uusapan natin yung mga ganitong hinanakit. 😂 Kasi baka sa sobrang dami ng ginagawa nila, hindi na rin nila napapansin na, "Ay oo nga pala, ang tagal na nating hindi nakakapag spend ng quality time with A'tin." And maybe they need to hear that too.

Hindi naman kailangang maging either/or. We can understand how busy they are, be genuinely proud of their growth, and at the same time admit na nami-miss din natin yung dating closeness ng members. Both things can exist at the same time naman.

So go lang. Ilabas ang hinanakit pero wag tayong mag away2 kung iba yung opinyon ng bawat isa 😅 be respectful lang din sa replies nyo.

Personally, I'm still happy here. Medyo bittersweet, yes. But I'd rather see them busy because opportunities are finally coming their way than see them stagnant just so everything stays comfortable for everyone.

We asked for the world to know SB19.
Now that the world is slowly opening its doors to them, i guess we just have to learn how to fangirl through this new chapter too. 😊💙

[cornchiXX || 🐐•🍭 ☀️ @jksjpmeow]

buhay na buhay na nmn ung mga acc na inaraw-araw yung reklamo sa esbi..

yes gurlies its ur time to shine again🫢

[Noona’s Diary 🍎 @NoonasDiary88]

yung naka subscribe ako pero d naman nakaka abot sa live...

masyado lang talaga akong maraming ganap sa buhay but I will always be there to support them...

ako nga regular na tao, busy...

sila pa kaya. 😊

[diwatangatin 🍭☀️🇸🇬 🌳⁶¹⁸ @diwatangatin]

Why am I the only one who is not tampo with my awesome boys? 😅

A start-up is hard to run. They are both the faces of their company and the ones running things behind it. Just think about your own day to day. How much time do you have?

Now think about their day. They have to go to meetings, shoots, make music, etc.

[Kristine 🇺🇲🌽🐰 @kflau]

@keshbi19 @1zentertainment Maybe to a subset of fans but to a bigger portion (esp. outside X), that may not be the case. This fandom loves to brag that SB19 is self-managed. But do you guys truly understand what it takes to be self-managed? And the costs/demands of increased popularity in relation to time?

[🐐| This is Our SB19 @thisisourSB19]

SB19 spend the majority of their days interacting with A'tin. Whether it's on social media, concerts, fanmeets, their intimate solo events, meeting fans in public spaces even in their personal time, performing pop ups, holding smaller and free events, traveling so that A'tin outside the PH get a chance to see them and they never miss a chance to thank and show appreciation for everything we have done.

They even listen to our worries and concerns and try their best to satisfy them.

When will it be enough? When will SB19 who devotes their whole life to work and A'tin get to feel like they are doing enough?

#SB19 @SB19Official

[hungry_pilgrim @txpilgrim]

I’m a SaW-era A’TIN, and when I first fell into SB19, I really tried my best not to go too deep into the rabbit hole. Kasi I found out they were already going into their 7th year so naisip ko agad yung famous “7-year curse.” Sabi ko sa sarili ko, okay, kahit ano na lang ang matira. I’ll enjoy them even if I only get one more year. I was simply that blown away by their talent.

Then summer came, and nagulat ako. Ang dami pang lapag. Ang dami pang gustong gawin. Instead of looking like a group winding down, they looked like artists who were becoming even more intentional about where they wanted to go.

I think sometimes we forget that artists have a natural trajectory. In the beginning, mas marami talagang lives, casual interactions, at spontaneous engagement. Partly because they have more time, but also because they’re still building a community and figuring out their identity, their audience, and their niche. Look at XONARA now. Of course mas accessible sila because they’re still in that stage of introducing themselves and building that relationship with their fandom. They’re also still refining their artistic identity.

But eventually, if an artist succeeds, the very growth fans prayed for changes that relationship.

The schedules get fuller. The organization gets bigger. The goals become clearer and more ambitious. And ironically, the bigger the fandom becomes, the harder it is to create the same feeling of intimacy. Even something as simple as scheduling a live becomes complicated when your audience now spans multiple time zones. And as visibility increases, spontaneous interaction also carries more risk because everything can be clipped, translated, taken out of context, and amplified far beyond the original audience.

For SB19, there’s another reality: they’re now in their 30s -well most of them. I don’t mean that negatively at all. I think it makes this period even more interesting. They understand their careers better, they know what they want, and they probably understand more than anyone that the years when they can simultaneously sustain intense choreography, touring, individual careers, business responsibilities, and international expansion are not unlimited.

So naturally, the strategy shifts.

Maybe the question isn’t, “Why don’t they interact with us the way they used to?”

Maybe it’s, “What are they doing with the time they used to spend interacting with us?”

Because if that time is now going into creating music, building 1Z, developing individual careers, preparing bigger stages, entering new markets, and trying to build something that can survive beyond the usual lifespan of a pop group, then perhaps what feels like distance from the fandom side is actually growth from the artist side.

There’s a strange paradox in fandom: we spend years asking the world to notice the artists we love, but when the world finally starts demanding more of their time, we sometimes mourn the accessibility we had before.

And I understand that feeling. Something really does change.

But maybe growing with an artist also means accepting that the relationship has to evolve. The goal cannot be to keep them permanently accessible enough to feel like they still belong to a small fandom. The goal is to watch them become big enough that they no longer can.

Na-gets ko naman yung iba so this is just coming from the perspective of a fan who entered this fandom thinking, “kahit one year na lang”.

[𑣲en⋆ @_justjhoaiah2]

Ano pa bang pinag-aawayan? Nakapag-Coachella na yung walo, nakapag-Lollapalooza naman ang lima, at parehong nakapag Summer Sonic. Both SB19 and BINI have achieved incredible things and higit sa lahat, they both represent PPOP/OPM on international stages. #BINI #SB19

[ًdel @fanboytwts]

ikamamatay ko kung ipeperform ng esbi to bago matapos ang taon. LIKE PLS PLS GO BACK TO YOUR ROOTS 😭😭🤞🏻

nasa top 5 most fave esbi songs q to 🥹

[Sir Tres @Svqa_Fjks]

SB19 PENGUIN 🐧 They unconsciously magnet each other. 🧲

Pablo: *lumakad*
Stell: Saan ka punta Pau? Ano daw?
*sumunod*

Then Josh, Ken, Jah arrived. Automatically sumiksik kay Pau at Stell

SB19 PLAYS AT NBA PH
@SB19Official #SB19
#SB19_NBAHousePH2026

[Troj_GEN @aimaniohsa]

Ser naman focus tayo sa game. Hindi sa cru-

#kentell #kentellverse

[🍓 🩸 iSTELL aHERO 🩸🍓 @PREsaLABYU]

MISMO? 🙂‍↔️

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SB19 PLAYS AT NBA PH
@SB19Official #SB19
#SB19_NBAHousePH2026

[jhey 🦋 @jwritesuread]

kahit walang nashoot parang nanalo yung number 8 eh 🙂‍↕️