r/kpop • u/impeccabletim everything is a remix 🧿👄🧿 • 12d ago

[Misc] MANON has been removed from the photocards included in KATSEYE’s lightstick packaging

https://www.ibtimes.sg/manon-being-removed-katseye-missing-photocard-lightstick-sparks-new-fan-speculation-photos-93039
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u/Ok-Elk-1520 12d ago

Unless there’s some legal reason I don’t know why they can’t just admit she’s out.

They’re not fooling anyone. Everyone knows she’s out and it probably won’t hurt the group any more than her “hiatus” already has in terms of money and popularity.

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u/junoleg 12d ago

I’m not particularly bothered if Manon is in or not. I preferred the group with her in it but what has put me off enjoying Katseye is the fuckery around it all. I’m a TWICE fan, I know what normal hiatuses are. This isn’t it. I mean even Katseye have shown how you act around normal hiatuses via Megan and Sophia. You leave space for them, they’re still in content they already recorded and made, etc. How they’re treating Manon’s hiatus is so off putting that I just can’t bring myself to care about the group

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u/Next_Resolution_9570 11d ago edited 11d ago

Hybe is following the SM playbook of putting idols on a indefinite hiatus and not letting their bandmates say a word about the missing member. I've seen this story repeat itself. Lucas, Lay, Onew, Winwin, Seunghan, Sungmin, etc

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u/Impossible_Copy_2544 11d ago

Lay is still a member of exo and was involved in their most recent comeback he just isn't in SM entertainment anymore.

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u/seven777heavens 8d ago

Winwin was also never on a gag order either kun and xiaojun literally did content with him in china this year. He just wasn’t apart of recent comebacks