remain; track 2

i love knk a lot. but this has literally been the longest and most frustrating 5 years of them and i've never felt like this about any other group and it's just disappointing how they have been treated and mismanaged and just idk? left to do things or try to do things by themselves all because of their company (and previous company) couldn't do that for them.

when ynb went under we honestly though like well that's the end of them it's been a great 2 years despite us not obviously knowing what went on behind closed doors and that was only really revealed when youjin spoke up after he left and felt comfortable enough to tell everyone.

we all thought 220 would be a better new start for them as it's literally their own manager who made the group to keep them going and we had so much faith that things would finally go well for them regardless if they gained the success we know they all have deserved for so long. it just meant that the person who has been managing them saw enough potential to invest in making a whole company just to keep them going but. where has that actually gotten anyone?

the most frustrating thing is that the two members who have left under 220 are the two who have never stopped showing how much love they have for both the other members and fans like. seoham and heejun basically never shut up about how much they love knk and tinkerbell lol

it's literally made seoham walk out of a group he so very much loved (and leave fans we know meant the world to him like he literally named us lol) because of the frustration he felt against said company because they weren't doing anything nor bothering to do anything. we all have pretty much just guessed that seoham left the company on bad terms and it's not surprising like i can't imagine how he felt knowing he has been in this industry since a trainee like 10+ years ago to then enter a company that just doesn't care to actually help their artists do their jobs?

it's now made heejun get to the point where he just saw nothing good to come out of it and leave as well. to leave the group where he is the youngest and literally has grown up with every member since he was a trainee and even longer with inseong and dongwon. like heejun?? one of the most positive thinking members? the one who loves music? left to just walk out because he wants to sing and wants to perform and 220 weren't letting him do that.

i cannot even start to imagine how the remaining 3 feel about the whole situation and their thoughts on if they should continue and don't get me started on what i can just imagine jihun is feeling having seen 3 of his members as a leader leave the group and we fully well know he's probably blaming himself.

i love knk a lot. like a LOT. but i have never once wished for a group to just disband already more so than i want them to do. i want them to be happy. i want them to go enjoy their lives and i want them to progress in their careers elsewhere regardless of whether or not they decide to stay in the music industry under another company that hopefully will treat them better. they mean the entire world to me and will remain that way and i just want them to be happy so much. additionally i've seen some people say that we failed them and like. no. we didn't. tinkerbells haven't failed knk we aren't the ones who manage them. we aren't the ones who release their music. we have done nothing but show our love and support for them this entire time through their active periods and inactive periods. it's their company who has failed them.

i'm just so sad and angry and frustrated for them and they do not deserve this whatsoever.

edit: adding onto this in march 2023 aka knk's 7th anniversay with now the news of jihun enlisting, dongwon staring in his first drama and the absolute mess that we went through with solo-seoham stans.

220 still hasn't changed and they won't and now seeing knk basically promoting with 1 member with inseong and jihun having enlisted/enlisting just hurts. and i know that they can't help needing to enlist it's the law. but i hate how 220 is handling things.

dongwon is now going to be starring in a bl drama, something they refused to let seoham do while under the company. and why does it feel like they saw what happened with seoham out of 220 and realised "oh we messed up" and are now realising letting the active members of knk go into the same acting industry will rank in some money for them?

i don't even want to comment on them and money lol like the amount they have been milking tinkerbells through fancalls and online events and just endless "exclusive christmas photocards!!!" "exclusive valentines day photocards!!" it makes me so??? especially after seeing what one of the "rewards" were for the valentines event they done lol they dont see the remaining keuns as anything but a way to milk money from the remaining fans that they have as they probably know how much tinkerbells are gripping onto the last slithers that exist of knk and know that any event any interaction anything will be grabbed in a heartbeat by fans and it's just ridiculous.

2022 was an awful year just us older fans having to go through solo-seoham fans and literally be bullied into things, threatened with stuff when it comes to any seoham related merch all because his new fans are "more deserving" now he's an actor and not an idol. like you don't deserve anything. you're not more special because you are an actor-seoham stan when some of us have been there since the start and been through everything with the keuns. i still to this day get dms and messages from people BEGGING me to sell my seoham pcs because they feel like they deserve it more than me and its mind blowing lol

watching the keuns go through their anniversary videos and seeing less and less people in them hurts and next year will be dongwon alone and i don't want to see that.