#trainee info

WARNING: LONG, IMAGE HEAVY POST

I’m really, really, honestly, terribly, genuinely, sorry I took AGES to answer this ask, anon buddy! I’ve been swamped by studying for finals + stressing over p101. 

I’ve watched through the episodes and took a look at sns and it seems to me that he’s close to Daehwi, Sungwoon, and Jihoon- although he’s friendly and goofy with the other kids, too. There’s probably more kids he might be close to but I found a lot of evidence for these 3. He’s actually pretty comfortable with his BIL team members since they shared a room together. Here’s a video of him goofing around with them.

Daehwi: 

They did the hidden box together and it was hilarious omg. 

Look at them being cute after the Pick Me broadcast: 

Them after the Pick Me baseball performance:

I cut off Sangbin don’t hate me krjeklejtker.

Sungwoon:

In this fancam Sungwoon says:   “The three of us are close” 

Samuel and Sungwoon have been on the same team twice now ahaha. Here are some photos of them being cute around town (Sam has the red hat on, btw)

Cuties omg 

Jihoon: 

They tend to sit together and have been in the same team twice. 

I wonder if that’s why Samuel did the bunny pose in Showtime??

They also sit with Guanlin so they’re probably all friends. Guanlin is friends w/ Dongbin and I think so is Daehwi (because they were both comforting Dongbin) so it’s probably a friendship circle among the young trainees and that makes me so happy??

Lastly, check out at these couple looks:

update: the picture - plus look at Dongbin being loved by his friends kejwrljwelkrew 

Hey anon buddy, here’s some stuff I’ve seen/read about our little diva:

He’s the center

According to this translation by the lovely jinbutton on twitter, a fan said “he was the focus of the stage, he’s like a real man,,he’ll go up in ranks for sure” bless

One fan said that the OLG stage was the prettiest

Minki, Baejin, and Jihoon all did the rabbit pose thing. :’)

The OLG team name is apparently “Slate”

There aren’t that many English translations of spoilers and I’m not very confident in my translations of the Korean spoilers, but they basically all say he stood out and people really liked him.

Lastly, here’s a post I made about HQ Minki pics (bless the kfans that pooled their money to buy them). 

At the start they were rooming by rank (and some ranks were mixed because there wasn’t even numbers of them). But when the song evaluations started many chose to room (or were told to room- we don’t know which) with their teammates which is why you see uneven numbers since the songs didn’t all have exactly 6 members. In this video you can see some of the other team rooms (like Justice League @ 1:05): 

I think they all changed rooms during the 2nd and 3rd evaluations to be w/ their new team members but some probably hung out a lot in their friends’ rooms. It could also be that some stayed in their old rooms and didn’t switch? We can’t be sure. But anyway here’s Jonghyun in the Downpour team’s room:

Hey, bud~ Maboy is a site Mnet set up so fans can help their trainee win prizes! Here is the link to the site and here is a good tutorial 

The prizes available are:

Level 1: Mnet.com annual ticket + headphones

Level 2: InnerB kit, HOPE vitamins

Level 3: MCM teddy bear

Level 4: MYCT 101 sweatshirt

Level 5: Food truck 

I’m answering these 3 together because they overlap~

Hello anon buddies, here are a list of articles that have to do with his situation- this happened about 2 weeks ago.

Disclaimer: The sites I am linking to do not represent my opinion. Keep in mind, though, that his came at the heels of the “girlfriend controversy” and after his antis basically went all out in dragging out any info- whether true or not- they could get.

here is a translated article about the penalty. 

Here’s the main part:

“We confirmed with the trainee through the company that he never talked about the song he wanted with his family members. However, since it was confirmed that his family talked with fans, he will receive a penalty in order to keep it fair. We are currently discussing the penalty method.”

Note: The form of the penalty was not mentioned but many people assume it’s that he won’t get the benefit points from winning. I apologize if I made it seem like I knew for sure that was the penalty. I’ll add a note to the post where I mentioned it. 

The background:

here is a translated pann article about knetz reacting to the “cheating”

here is the allkpop article about the “cheating” that resulted in the penalty, but allkpop is trash and you shouldn’t give them your clicks so I’ll copy what it says below.

copied from the allkpop bot on /r/kpop (note: they spelled it Lim, but Im is used more often for his name):

Produce 101's Lim Young Min, who many fans turned back on because of alleged girlfriend issues, has been accused of cheating and spoiling results. Fans who have turned their backs on the trainee revealed that Lim Young Min had done the same cheating that Kang Daniel, Kim Dong Bin, and Lee Ki Won had apologized and been penalized for. His brother told his friend to tell a KakaoTalk chatroom full of Lim Young Min fans that he wanted the songs "Never" and "Oh Little Girl", which is against the rules. However, because Lim Young Min fans didn't try to spread on SNS like the other boys' fans did, the trainee never got caught - until a former fan revealed it.

Not only so, a post by someone calling themselves a friend of Lim Young Min's girlfriend has come back up. Originally, it was a post attempting to salvage Lim Young Min's image, saying that they knew Lim Young Min and that he was a hard working, and incredibly nice. While the post was mainly ignored at the time, it came back up when people realized that the 'proof' the poster gave was by spoiling the results - that Lim Young Min would be #5, and Joo Hak Nyeon would be #10 during the most recent results. With both spoilers revealed to be true, now Lim Young Min has been accused of spoiling results to his girlfriend, which is against the rules.

There are other posts by fans claiming to be previous Lim Young Min fans who admitted to the KakaoTalk chatroom being used so the fans could plan together and actively bash high ranking trainees such as Kang Daniel and Kim Jong Hyun so Lim Young Min could get more positive attention. These fans showed screenshots of the Lim Young Min chatroom to show their 'proof' that they used to be fans.