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EXID has 5 members. EXID is a 5 member group. Solji is still in the group. Solji is the 5th member of EXID. She’s been out of promotions since December 2016 and there’s plenty of answers on Google if you are confused as to why. I also have a FAQ where I answer this question, and other blogs have talked about this. She’s still in the group and has already been confirmed to be in the Japan debut so just chill and don’t tell people she’s leaving or believe the randoms that come out of nowhere to tell you she’s leaving. 

EXID is not pronounced exit. EXID is pronounced E-X-I-D. ee-ex-eye-dee. 이엑스아이디./iː ˈɛks aɪ ˈdiː. There’s nothing wrong with it being a habit you can’t break to pronounce it like exit but y’all need to know it’s supposed to be E-X-I-D. 

Jeonghwa and Hani are both the official visuals. Hani is just more popular so people think it’s only her and then people think it’s only Jeonghwa because she was considered a visual member since debut and Hani wasn’t. They’re both officially visuals. There can be two. It’s not common but it’s possible just like there can be two main dancers or vocalists if the group/company decides that. 

EXID are all hardworking girls with different charms/strengths. 1.Solji debuted in a duo in 2006 and literally released 23 albums (including single albums obviously and idk why some people think that that’s still not possible but like you could easily look up 2NB’s discography on Naver or smth and count like?google. anyway.) She wasn’t making enough money but she didn’t want to stop singing so she became a vocal trainer and worked in 2NB at the same time until 2012 when she went from EXID’s vocal coach to Main Vocal after the group split. 2. LE was an underground rapper right out of high school before she was asked by Shinsadong Tiger to join his group (EXID). She has had a part in writing every single EXID group song and has composed many as well, she’s also written for other artists and was Hyuna’s rap mentor and wrote 3 songs for/with her. (French Kiss, Troublemaker, and Now + they have a duet called Blacklist you should check it out). 3. Hani literally takes actual notes on everything including what exact angles make her look best while dancing, she literally saw that dancing was a weakness and fixed it the best way she knew how and ended up doing it so well that a fancam of hers went viral and saved the group from disbandment. The girl is a perfectionist and that can make her sensitive to fans criticisms sometimes but it’s also one of her best strengths and is the reason she’s so great on stage/in performances. 4. Hyelin literally came into EXID with a background in more hip-hop centered dancing and a great voice that she didn’t really have full control over and she managed to not only take over Solji’s lines when Solji suddenly had to go on hiatus but she also handled her own and now has the highest note in an EXID song (see Lady). She went from being EXID’s most underrated member with very little lines to handling super tough lines and she’s become more popular, too. Bout time y’all realized she’s iconic honestly. And let’s not leave out that the girl got a part time job in secret when EXID wasn’t doing well and brought the members the leftovers she would get from the cafe. She also co-wrote her solo track ‘Foolish’ and you should all listen to it. 4. Jeonghwa is the youngest but she debuted the earliest as a child actress in 2004. She trained as an actress for 5 years with JYP but she was cut and then she joined EXID and became EXID’s “most promising member” even though she was only 17 and had only trained for like a year as an idol. She’s always bright and cheerful but is also the member that makes the other girls stay later to rehearse and she takes her work seriously. She told fans to not skip meals and to exercise when asked how to get a body like hers (or EXID’s). She works on her dancing with her friend who’s also a choreographer, she’s gone from being just their weakest singer to someone who’s used in harmonies and to help with adlibs and backing vocals of high notes, she’s still studying English and improving in that even after @tmz let a staff member mock her English :) and she studies Chinese as well. She’s been working with a producer and the two have a whole mini album’s worth of songs together and she co-wrote and co-composed her solo track ‘Alice’. None of these girls don’t have a place and all are not only charming and funny but they all also work incredibly hard to improve and become better at what they do. 

EXID not only work hard to improve and do well as individuals but they try their hardest to make fans happy and give fans what they want. With all the games and projects they do to give the fans what they want you’d think they’d have more. Please go watch EXID’s “해주세요” videos where they did random things that fans wanted them to (played games, went bowling, did covers solo covers of their favorite songs) and Solji also has a vlive voice show where she interacts with fans (please go watch Solji’s Voice on EXID’s Vapp thanks)

Hani speaks English very well and we all love her genius brain but this literally doesn’t mean she has to speak English every interview she isn’t completely fluent and it isn’t her first language leave her alone if she wants to speak Korean (as a Korean in Korea who’s first language is Korean) then that’s what she’s gonna do she didn’t learn English so she could understand you all bossing her around. 

Listen to EXID’s songs before you say anything to anyone about EXID’s songs. 

How Why

Junghwa’s loud ass laugh

How LE tries to act like a badass when in reality she is the softest and the shyest member of the whole band

Back before Up & Down took off, they were so broke that Hyerin got a job at a restaurant and didn’t tell the other girls, and would bring food home for them (years later, when Solji found this out, she cried)

How they all make heart-eyes at Hyerin when she sings

Todak Todak, Without U, 1M, I Know

Drunk acoustic performances

How they’re somehow ALWAYS eating?? They ate like 14 meals in the first episode of Showtime??

How LE writes every damn song that they sing

That Hani cut her hair into an iconic bisexual bob after burning half her hair off with a straightener she bought online

How LE’s Instagram comments are almost always in English for some reason?? Like…thank you but why??

How they all relentlessly make fun of each other

Solji competing on and WINNING the first ever episode of Masked Singer

Their karaoke contest in Showtime that resulted in a three-way tie for first and LE as the inexplicable loser

THEIR DOGS

That time Hani woke up, noticed there were snacks in her bed from the night before, ate one, then went back to sleep

How Why

Hyerin plays violin and Junghwa plays piano WOW what talent

How they split their earnings with Solji even  when she was unable to record or promote with them

“Butterflies in my mi-i-iii-nd.”

Up & Down’s original choreography being banned from KBS for being too racy (WAIT TIL YOU HEAR ABOUT CREAM AND VELVET, KBS)

That time they unanimously voted Hyerin as the prettiest member and she cried

THE BOREDOM SONG

How Hani is a brilliant multilingual genius with an IQ of like 145

How LE can mess with Junghwa but if anyone else messes with Junghwa, she’ll rip ‘em in half

“Voldemort sunbaenim.”

Hani’s gay goggles every time she sees a hot girl

Solji’s aegyo (I actually don’t love this but I do love how much the other girls hate it)

How Why

SOLJI SURPRISING THE GIRLS AT THEIR FIRST HEADLINING SHOW EVEN THOUGH SHE WAS STILL ON HIATUS AND JUNGHWA COULDN’T STOP CRYING AND HYERIN WAS SO EMOTIONAL THAT SHE JUST RAN AWAY

How hard LE worked composing STREET and how hard she cried when L.I.E got its first win

Are You Hungry

How close the maknae line is, how close the Ahn Sisters are, how close LE and Solji are, how close LE and Hyerin are, HOW CLOSE LE AND JUNGHWA ARE, HOW CLOSE HYERIN AND SOLJI ARE, HOW CLOSE THIS WHOLE BAND IS!! They genuinely love each other and go on friendship vacations together and they’d even be friends if EXID wasn’t a thing, they invented friendship 

How Solji used her time away from the band to take online classes and learn ballet, bettering herself while she couldn’t work 

Cream????

Velvet???¿¿??

Whoz That Girl

How EXID literally started from the bottom, almost disbanded twice, dealt with lineup changes and promotional issues but still stuck together and continued to work hard and love each other and love the music and love LEGGOs and how they’re still so humble and still cry when they win and still remain so grateful and so genuine and it doesn’t fucking matter if they’re not one of the “big bands” that gets lots of wins or gets MAMA nominations because this fandom is small but it’s devoted and we fucking love these girls and want them to be healthy and happy and fulfilled creatively and I CAN’T BELIEVE THE RETURN OF OT5 IS UPON US, I LOVE EXID SO MUCH

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