It’s more of an appreciation post on how the situation was handled, but I genuinely think there’s a lot to learn for idols from this.
So basically, around a week ago Daesung from Bigbang was spotted at Mamamoo’s Seoul concert sitting next to two gg members, specifically Youngji from Kara and Hyojung from Oh My Girl. They very clearly were there together, which isn’t a brand new information, since they all know each other very well and are actually close colleagues. Fans’ reaction to pictures was wholesome: they just laughed over the fact that Daesung’s home-loving ass actually went out somewhere with some friends, overall they were happy everyone was having fun. There were some jokes about Daesung and Youngji who were sitting right next to each other and seemed pretty cozy, some fans even remembered that one time when Taeyang jokingly said that Daesung and Youngji should hit it off, but that’s it, very few people really believed they were dating or something, especially considering that they weren’t there alone (Hyojung was also there), so it wasn’t a date or anything.
Obviously, news outlets couldn’t miss out on such a story, and it wasn’t even 24 hours later when first articles started to appear and spread. They conveniently cropped Hyojung out of pics and made it seem like Youngji and Daesung were there on a date. Not even 12 hours later Daesung’s agency released an official statement denying any romantic relationship between these two, stating that the two are friends and they weren’t there on a date. One would think that would be the end of it, but no😭
3 days ago Daesung revealed that his agency didn’t even call him about the statement, they just released it, and Daesung learned about it with everyone else (mfs were absolutely sure his ass is still single😭). So Daesung decided to release a statement on his own terms.
On Friday, another episode of his Youtube show (ZipDaesung) was released, it was an episode with Mamamoo. This ep has a bonus scene, where Daesung decided to dissect the entire rumour by second (mostly to show how absurd he thinks it was, and to get some content out of this too😭). In order to do that he invited Youngji too, as well as her co-member from Kara, Kang Jiyoung. It was absolutely hilarious, especially considering that Jiyoung used to have a huge crush on Daesung back in the day. The three of them filmed a skit where Jiyoung learns that her crush went out with her best friend and demands an explanation on this betrayal😭 They made a whole K-Drama out of this shit. Plus both Daesung and Youngji explained to Jiyoung (and the audience) how they ended up at the concert, dissected every picture that was taken of them and spoke a little about the reaction to these rumours from people around them. There was absolutely no point in going so far in overdoing these explanations, and they certainly didn’t have to explain themselves even if they dated, because both of them are grown people and can do whatever they want, but by doing this they showed how absurd some rumours are, how big of mental gymnastics some people do in order to spin these stories, and filmed a hilarious episode to laugh together at this situation. So I’m happy they decided to approach this “scandal” from such an angle. Fortunately, no one got any hate over these rumours (quite the opposite actually), but I still think there’s a lot to learn from such a mindset.
If you want to watch too, search for ZipDaesung ep with Mamamoo and watch the last ten minutes of it.
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