u/Gullible-Possible369

a middle schooler could answer these…

2, australia, 12

Intense parasocial relationships are common during all adolescence,ESP among teenage girls, who may form strong emotional bonds as part of exploring their identity and finding a community. Social media can intensify these bonds by making celebrities feel more accessible through constant updates, lives etc (something the KPOP industry does to increase this parasocialisam-forward narrative) .

Teenage girls can also be particularly difficult to reason with when emotions and identity are heavily tied to a celebrity or fandom, because strong emotional investment can make criticism feel personal and cause them to become defensive.

Maybe one day they will wake up, but for now arguing with them is pointless, itll just give them a hightened sense of purpose, "defending their helpess, clueless, aisan men"

too many people starting fan wars over concepts being done in all types of global media, cinematography and photography for years.

edit: before commenting about txt please see my comments related to it

>All these K-pop rappers try to pull up on me

This line is so superficial considering these boys, no matter how much they deny it, are kpop rappers. And id like to remind everyone "they can rap, but they will never be rappers"

No one is pulling up on you or your regurgitated hiphop concept, sorry.

i love their dynamic down so bad.. annoying younger sibling energy to eachother. Their australia En-dive showcased their friendship dynamic so well for the first time in awile.

I think they compliment eachother so well, but their duo is so overlooked in comparison to (for example) their respective duo's w/ sunghoon. In a world of SunSun and Jakehoon is anyone else a Sunjake stan??

Im SO sick and tired of people predicting The Sin:Bliss will flop, even if its framed like they are "scared for them". Or worse, hopium videos saying Enhypen is doing bad right now with the member loss.

I posted this as a comment, but i felt like it was worth it to post here too : so here is my quick research to prove they infact are NOT flopping (please feel free to add, or request sources)

1. 1 Billion Stream mark - Last year Enhypen amassed 1 Billion Streams in 176 Days, breaking their own previous records. This year, Enhypen reached the goal more than a week before on June 12th, 2026 ! Ontop of this Considerig that Desire Unleash was released on June fifth (156th day of 2026) their one billion streams was propelled by a recent comeback. Enhypen hit the goal faster this year, even with a really early comeback & member loss!
2. Daily Streams (ON SPOTIFY) On spotify alone (they are currently averaging between 4.3-4.5 million streams a day). This is completely comparable to their spotify streaming average of 4.7 Million streams a day in 2025. Also, comparing last years average streams to right now (a time of "drought" where we havent had a comeback in five months, and are expecting one in a month, isnt a good meter to tell that they are not doing well)
3. Rolling stone article about Enhypens surge in sales, even post Hee departure : article
4. Tour sales, during presale period and up until about a month ago, Enhypens US tours were getting "scary" looking, seeing as they were not selling as well as they did for WTL, however they have now gotten to a total 82.5% sales for all of North America, which is incredibly good consdiering the economy right now. Also - Dallas (which is the only NA stop they have visted so far) reached near 100% attendance a week before the concert, so as this week and next week's show carry on , if the trends continue San Diego and Tacoma (this weeks stops) will also rise atleast marginally.

It does look "bad" to some people right now, but "ot7's" are just louder, the boys are doing just fine :)

At this point , even after multiple members have spoken up , and Jungwon did the hard thing as the leader and directly addressed inappropriate behavior from both sides, this is just mental illness.

Even after Jungwon addressed how Enhypen is Six NOT Seven , verbatim some people are trying to twist his words.

We know it was a hard time for them making the decision for Heeseung/EVAN to leave. But what matters is that Enhypen chose us and eachother.

also on another note: if JUST because Heeseung left, a light dimmed inside you, and you can no longer go about your days. Ot7 won’t help, therapy probably will. It’s parasocial af

and if you can’t stan enhypen anymore beacuse you thing Jungwon addressed the fact he doesn’t wang his fans disrespecting him.. you have unfortunately, always been parasocial af a heeseung solo stan.

give me a boygroup and i will tell you my bias / the member that sticks out to me the most!!

lets see if we can find something in common + bonus points if you find a pattern in my biases because i feel like there is one :)

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