u/Sweet-Code3011

I know this topic is taking rounds on twitter alot but i am genuinely curious what neutral people think who arent biased towards anyone. Initially in 2019, TXT was pretty well promoted, even BTS used to promote them, I remember jungkook taking their name in US promotion during MOTS7, seokjin mentioning their debut in an award ceremony, V doing a live with them etc. Then bighit did a debut showcase for them in several USA cities. They were doing good and I dont think they lacked promotions.

Now with all 3 groups having a comeback one after another in a short time frame suddenly caused fanwars, majorly from MOAs saying that TXT wasnt promoted or given equal resources even in their debut days and then they cropped some out of context screenshots from an interview which made people think bighit is being biased when if you read the whole interview, isnt the case.

MOAs have been specially targeting BTS as well saying they arent liking and reposting or making a tiktok challenge about txt comeback like they're doing for cortis, which made me think what even is the mistreatment in their eyes.

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And it bothers me. Lngshot's image initially was a group under jay park's new company which slowly became a group produced by jay park, then a group curated and made by jay park and with their last drop its literally "lngshot + jay park".

Jay park is a very problematic person which might not have ruined his own career but might harm a new group easily. Its good to promote them in korea since he's famous there but if he wants them to be promoted in west who are very critical to problematic pasts then he should reconsider this whole imagine building he is doing.

Take boynextdoor for example, i thought lngshot will be same as boynextdoor is with zico but NO. Jay park is literally promoting himself and group as a same entity which annoys me.

Jay park is pretty popular in korea and that's understandable since people in korea arent bothered by his problematic past as much but the songs/genres he is pushing or lngshot makes is more appealing to west and imo he should promote the group as an individual entity instead of promoting them as his child.

His "savage" replies to criticisms or pure fanwars arent helping the image either and its extremely childish to get involved in a fan war on behalf of a group who doesnt have an established fanbase yet.

Its more or less about how frustrated i am seeing TXT working so hard on their comeback just to not get good promotion, when i talk about promotion, i dont talk about sending them on music shows or wtv. Real promotion like sending them to festivals, to shows which have new demographic as audience and not the same variety shows whose audience is already aware of them.

I used to think maybe bighit in general sucks and bts is just doing good/did good in past cuz ARMY did the main job, which might be the case as well but seeing how good CORTIS marketing team is promoting them on new shows and letting them post on social media freely and not only those promotional collabs with other idols on their songs, sending them to actually promote and interact with GP and on american shows.

Recently their show about taking care of a toddler kinda pmo, like wdym you are making those 5 guys take care of a toddler and what is exactly the point of the show, i know in past there were shows like this but that was like 1-2 episodes and not a whole month. I am genuinely lost what their team is actually doing.

Cortis' music is something i would say that sounds surfacely similar to what skz, enhypen and ateez makes. I know other groups have different style but on a common scale they're all very beat heavy and hip hop songs, especially cortis and skz.

I saw how well cortis is doing on korean charts and international charts, i am more surprised by how well received redred is by korean people as much as to chart in top5 melon when I thought they didnt really like this kind of music.

Skz and enhypen have a huge fan base but korean charts have always been a problem for them and the reason given was always how this type of music isnt well recieved by korean gp so what changed?