hello!! i really wanted to get back into the ateez lore it's already VERY confusing and the fact that there isn't much explanation out there (or I couldnt find it) isn't helping.
so do you have anything that I could refer to??
thank you<33
I recently caught up with the lore with the help of these resources and a lore tutor who put together a very comprehensive syllabus that really worked for me! I've been recapping my journey through the lore under the tag #thirst gets lore-pilled but I have only written up to Fever Part 3.
I would start with ateezstoryline.com ! They have all the diaries and links to relevant videos. I suggest @atiny-for-life or @atinydetective for more in-depth coverage. @TinyBugInk on Youtube also has some great videos full of fun theories and speculating.
I'm going to borrow a bit from the syllabus that my lore tutor provided, since that really worked for me!
[technically the first series of albums, but they come later in the lore storyline]
WATCH Treasure Ep. 1 'Intro: Long Journey'
WATCH Treasure Ep. 1 "Treasure" teaser
WATCH Treasure Ep. 1 "All To Zero" Preview
WATCH Hala Hala performance video
WATCH Treasure Ep 2 Preview
WATCH Treasure Ep. 3 Preview
WATCH Wave - Overture [Kingdom performance]
WATCH Utopia (Japanese Ver.)
WATCH Treasure FIN teaser [all members]
WATCH Treasure FIN preview
WATCH Wonderland comeback stage [M Countown]
WATCH Symphony No.9 "From The Wonderland"
LISTEN Beginning of the End
WATCH Treasure Epilogue trailer
WATCH Answer performance preview
WATCH Treasure Epilogue preview
WATCH Answer comeback stage [M Countdown]
[prequel to the events of Treasure, showing the boys in World A]
WATCH Fever Part 1 Diary Film teaser
WATCH Fever Part 1 Diary Film
WATCH Fever Road [the clips that bookend each episode expand on the backstories of the characters[
WATCH Zero: Fever 1 Preview
WATCH Inception MV teaser
WATCH Fever Ateez comeback concert
READ: Fever Part 1 Diary entries
READ: Diary Version photocard stories
WATCH Fever Part 2 concept teasers 1 + 2
WATCH Fireworks performance preview
WATCH Fever Pt. 2 album preview
WATCH Fireworks MV teaser
WATCH Fireworks comeback stage
WATCH Celebrate special video
READ: Fever Pt. 2 diary entries
WATCH Fever Pt. 3 Preview
WATCH Eternal Sunshine MV teaser
WATCH Deja Vu comeback stage
WATCH Eternal Sunshine special teaser clip
WATCH Eternal Sunshine MV
READ: Fever Pt. 3 Diaries
WATCH Turbulence MV teaser
WATCH The Real MV teasers 1 + 2
WATCH Zero Fever Epilogue preview
READ Fever Epilogue Diary Entries
LISTEN: Outro: Over the Horizon
[we are in World Z now, trying to overthrow the government]
WATCH The Awakening of Summer (Kingdom performance)
WATCH World Ep. 1 Official Trailers 1 + 2
WATCH Guerrilla performance preview
WATCH Guerrilla MV teaser 1 + 2
WATCH The World album preview
READ World Ep 1 Movement Diaries
WATCH The World Ep. Paradigm preview [inst. ver]
WATCH Paradigm MV teaser 1 + 2
WATCH Limitless MV teaser 1 + 2
WATCH World: Outlaw official trailer
WATCH Operation: This World
WATCH Bouncy MV teasers 1 + 2
WATCH World FIN tracklist preview [instrumental]
WATCH World FIN track preview
WATCH Crazy Form MV teasers 1 + 2
WATCH World FIN "World A" Preview
WATCH World FIN WILL Outro
WATCH Crazy Form MBC 211231
WATCH Not Okay MV teaser 1 + 2
READ: THe World: To The End, extra diary entry
WATCH *Chung Ha, Eenie Meenie (there's a guardian!)
Spin Off: From the Witness
[where are we? when are we?]
WATCH Halazia MV teasers 1 +2
WATCH I'VE SEEN IT, WILL YOU？
WATCH Halazia Mnet 230112
WATCH Halazia inkigayo 230115
[Back in World A...or are we?]
WATCH Be: First x Ateez HUSH-HUSH teaser + MV
WATCH Work MV teaser 1 + 2
WATCH (once upon a time) #shorts
WATCH Special Clip: Empty Box
WATCH Birthday MV teaser 1 + 2
WATCH IOMT MV teaser 1 + 2
LISTEN Bridge: The End of Reality
I'm going to quote @loving-that-officey-feel who gave me some great disclaimers going into this process:
They have a habit of showing us things long before they tell us what they actually are. Which is why I put some things on the list purely because it has the sense of 'this is a loose thread that has not connected yet but we will probably see again'.,
This also means the diary entries are often talking about the stuff we've seen in previous mv's. Like stuff we see in Treasure is explained in Fever diaries. Stuff we see in Fever is explained in World diaries... so we know some of what's going on in Golden Hour, but I am 100% sure there are also other things going on that they're currently keeping under their hats,
the longer we go on, the more clearly important Halazia gets, but because we still know so little about how it fits in the universe/timeline, the imagery around Halazia is almost more important because that's the only thing we've got to go off of how it connects to everything else at this points,
they do a lot of storytelling just with their visual vernacular. Color temperature of light, repeating visual imagery, (which is why all lore-tiny's are kind of unhinged because the point is to connect 'I saw this thing back here which is now repeated in the new mv over there' and figuring out what the connection tells out about the story and the timeline. Which is why I always pay attention to all the trailers they give us, even if the surface it just seems like 'visuals pretty'. Nah man, everything is deliberate with these dudes,
once you get caught up on the storyline, you'll realize that every single song on every single album has essentially two meanings. The meaning of if you know absolutely nothing about ATEEZ and you are just casually listening to a song and take the lyrics at face value, and then an entirely different second interpretation where if you think about the lyrics in the context of the point in the lore to which that album belongs, it is about that part of the lore.,
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