So in today's video I'm going to tackle the much debated question, should Yena from IZ*ONE
join Everglow after IZ*ONE effectively disbands after their 2.5 year contract?
Now, I'm not gonna lie, when I first heard this was a possibility, I kind of thought
it was a joke.
I thought it was a little weird that someone could join an already established group like
this without it being an already predetermined factor when creating the group kind of like
AFTER SCHOOL.
There are just some groups that don't have a set number of members or a permanent number
of members from the beginning, but to me, Everglow never really gave the hint that that
would be the case.
SO let's talk about that, actually!
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And I know my channel is going to die eventually, YouTube already has declined to give me a
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So if you're not familiar with the situation, let's recap briefly.
Yena is part of the temporary group called IZ*ONE.
They have a contract of 2.5 years and this group was created through a tv show called
Produce 48.
SO basically you have a bunch of trainees from a bunch of different companies who come
on this survival type show to then debut in a group.
It was kind of rigged, but we'll get into that later.
So if you didn't know, Yena is from.... so if you didn't know, Yena is from the same
entertainment company as Everlgow.
And there is a rumor going around, and has not been confirmed, hence why I called it
a rumor.
*starts singing Rumor* that was dumb, I'm sorry.
There is a rumor going around that after IZ*ONE disbands, because they will inevitably disband
because they are a temporary group like I.O.I, so when that happens, people are saying she
would join Everglow since she was part of the original lineup originally.
SO what is the issue with this, really?
First of all, IZ*ONE has a controversy looming over their heads at the moment, and that is
it the Mnet rigging situation.
As we know, the votes for these produce series were manipulated, so the final lineup for
IZ*ONE could have been very different.
If you think about it, there are certain members who could have been part of the group but
then lost their chance because those votes were manipulated.
Now this isn't something that really bothers me because I've said in videos before, I don't
trust reality tv and I'm very critical of it.
I recognize that it's very rare that things are so perfectly planned or things are put
in a certain way that get a certain result that is desired by the producers.
But regardless, from what I understand, some people actually did pay some money to do some
voting, and even if they didn't pay money to vote, I understand the sentiment and I
definitely feel that people do have the right to feel upset about this and feel cheated
in a way because they were.
And so consequently, I know there are some people who have this sentiment towards IZ*ONE
that is not the most favourable.
And it's nothing against the girls themselves, but I feel like a lot of people have this
sentiment of "well, what would the group be like had this not happened, would this member
be in?
already going on a.
world tour, Everglow already have quite a few music videos, you know, it just doesn't
really make sense.
There's not really a predetermined system to add or take away members within Everglow.
So it just feels a little bit out of place as well.
Which brings us to the next issue, which is the sense of instability, which is something
that companies give their audiences sometimes when they play with member numbers.
And there are plenty of groups in kpop that don't have a set number of members or have
members that come and go and this isn't really the norm for a reason in my opinion.
Because it gives you a sense of no control.
I mean, if you love a member and they are your bias and suddenly they leave, I mean
that's a hard pill to swallow.
And likewise, if you're very content with the group, and someone leaves, you might feel
a certain way about that.
And my favourite example, well maybe it's not my favourite cuz I'm not really happy
about this, but I bring it up a lot: After School.
Nothing agains't' Kahi's rap in bang but Bekuh's absence just hits differently.
So to avoid making this video too negative, let's talk bout some positivity that could
come out of this.
Groups that have an even number of members tends to have choreographies that cover one
member to centre another one, and I made a video about this for blackpink, admittedly
it was a bit sensationalized but this is generally a pet peeve of mine when groups just - this
seems to be very much a 3rd gen thing because Sistar, I don't remember them ever doing this
and 2NE1, I don't remember them ever doing this as well, despite them being 4 member
girl groups, despite being an even number of members.
Yet, if we look at G-idle, or Gfriend or 2- Oh my god, I was gonna say 2ne1.
BLACKPINK!
And even Everglow, we see that they tend to cover each other and maybe this is just a
girl group dynamic, I don't see it too too much with boy groups, like Ateez has 8 members
and sometimes they cover each other but it's not as prevalent, I look into this more officially,
more scientifically.
Would you be interested in THAT?
If she were indeed to join Everglow, she would make their numbers 7, which would help the
choreography in some aspects.
Ok, so the last advantage we're gonna talk about is actually something I touched on in
my video about Everglow and Mia's favouritism, which you should definitely check out after
you're done watching this video, because you know, watch time.
But if anyone was curious, my watch time has actually gone up, so thank you for putting
me back in the green.
So essentially, there's this theory going around that the line distribution for their
songs are so bad because the company plans on giving half of Mia's lines to Yena when
she joins to the group if she were to join the group.
So I originally didn't agree with this under the premise that the line distribution was
bad to being with because she would inevitably join the group, however I can deffinetely
be on board with the fact that if she were to join the group, that the line distribution
may improve.
I'm not too sure though, because if the line distribution is bad to begin with, I'm not
sure it would really improve by adding another member, actually it could potentially go downhill.
Anyways, that's something that a lot of people are saying may improve, so I added that point.
So the last point that I have, I literally wrote "she won't be jobless" I don't know
how to elaborate on that.
I mean in this economy I think that's really important.
So lastly I asked you guys on my community tab if you thought that Yena should join the
group.
*reads comment #1* *reads comment #2* *reads comment #3* That's a really interesting point,
I think Yeri is
actually a good example of this happening in the past, I feel like her addition to red
velvet was quite random, like I tried looking it up, and I couldn't really find any concrete
reasoning on why she was added.
But it's a good point to show that even if the thought was weird at first, you probably
can't picture Red Velvet without her now.
So I feel like probably in the future if Yena joined Everglow, after a while, we'd be like
"I couldn't picture Everglow any other way" Anyways, that's basically all I have to say.
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I am a bit bummed about my silver play button, um, they weren't really clear, like I asked
them if it was the type of content I produce or if it's because of the copyright claims
and I was told it would be better if I got my copyright claims down to zero, so I had
like 21 copyright claims and I reduced it down to 3, but I just have a hard time letting
go of those 3.
It's my "all blackpink dances are the same" part 1 and part 2, and "all its dances are
the same", so I can reapply for the silver play button in like 90 days, um, but like
I don't know if I want to let go of those videos, like I would have to delete them,
but if I delete them and reapply and they are like "no bitch it's your content" then
I would have deleted them for nothing.