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Kwonaventure deactivated 😔💖 I think I saved it on the internet archive? Could’ve been someone else ofc but I remember doing it lol

TOP: Hello?

Kim Nam Gook: Hello?

TOP: Hello?

Kim Nam Gook: Yo TOP

TOP: …………Yo hyung!

Kim Nam Gook: Yeah….where are you? Where?

TOP: In Japan

Kim Nam Gook: In Japan?

TOP: Yeah

Kim Nam Gook: What are you doing?

TOP: Um…well BIGBANG’s concerts in Japan have finished now, and we’re still here for the remaining schedules. We’re eating right now.

Kim Nam Gook: Ah….eating now? Next to me is Moon Ji Ae (news anchor). Say hi to her~

Moon Ji Ae: Hello TOP-goon

TOP: Ah…ah….Hello

Moon Ji Ae: It’s nice to meet you! It must be hard working in Japan?

TOP: Ah, yes. I’ll work hard.

Moon Ji Ae: Ah well you know, Manager Kim Nam Gook went on this show to talk about BIGBANG members.

GD: KIM NAM GOOK! KIM NAM GOOK! KIM NAM GOOK!

Moon Ji Ae: ……this is?

GD: KIM NAM GOOK!

Moon Ji Ae: Excuse me but who’s this…?

Kim Nam Gook: It sounds like G-dragon

Moon Ji Ae: Oooh…well it seems you’ve all heard the news about Kim Nam Gook manager coming on the show?

TOP: Yeah, we heard about it. We really wanted to listen in on it but since we’re in Japan, we can’t….so everyone’s kind of depressed now.

Moon Ji Ae: Ah, I see (laughs)

GD: SARANGHAEYO KIM NAM GOOK!

Moon Ji Ae: Manager Kim Nam Gook….

GD (cuts in) THE ONE AND ONLY KIM NAM GOOK!

Moon Ji Ae: what are you to BIGBANG members?

GD: COUNTLESS CHANGES KIM NAM GOOK!

TOP: Um please repeat the question again.

Moon Ji Ae: Ahhh…..they’re so fun. What is Manager Kim Nam Gook’s existence like to BIGBANG members?

TOP: Um…..he’s like spiritual support for us? Well, he’s like family to us now…like our own brother. He always takes care of us. When we finish our schedules and we’re tired, he’ll take us out to eat BBQ meat. The members love it, love eating meat so he always buys it for us to eat.

GD: HURRY UP AND HANG UP THE PHONE!

Moon Ji Ae: Ah…..I see

TOP: He’s a hyung that always takes care of us.

Kim Nam Gook: I bought the meat because I did something wrong…

TOP: Secrets….he’s heard a lot of our secrets. Well, he’s really the best person to talk to about these kind of stuff.

Moon Ji Ae: Is there anything you want Kim Nam Gook to do to make BIGBANG work even harder?

TOP: About this…..mm…not really~

Moon Ji Ae: Ah…well…anything you regret?

TOP: No, nothing. He’s just a hyung that really takes good care of us.

GD: KIM NAM GOOK! KIM NAM GOOK!

Moon Ji Ae: Well then….we’re going to end our conversation with you two now (laughs)

Kim Nam Gook: Work hard ok? Come back soon, hyung’s waiting for you.

GD&TOP: …………………………

Kim Nam Gook: You guys should answer me once…

*BEEEEEEEEEEEP BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP BEEEEEEEP*

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Source: http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/qJxfvvL1cu4/?resourceId=0_06_02_99?fr=2

A definitive list of all the people in Jiyong and Seunghyun's lives who have made subtle but clear nods of support towards them as a couple over the years, because maybe we're all just old man yaoi fetishists together

Part 1 because there are just THAT MANY people to talk about

Takashi Murakami

Takashi Murakami is a veeeery famous Japanese artist, known for his blend of traditional Japanese art with surrealist pop culture. He is, if you can believe it... a close personal friend of Jiyong and Seunghyun! Shocking, I know.

And, wouldn't you know it, artwork by Takashi has appeared in Seunghyun's home and then, magically, in Jiyong's home/studio:

What's wild about Takashi is that, unlike Mark and Richard, he went an extra step further with his social media support for them by posting literal shipper fanart of them with his art:

He's also liked posts about the two of them as well, seemingly for no reason other than he just thinks they're cute:

One of the weirder GTOPxMurakami links is when Seunghyun commissioned Takashi to do a Doom Dada inspired work in 2023:

It was initially in the Busan museum of art, but for some reason, a blogger wrote about it and said the following thing:

That middle line starting with the number 5 says 'the work featuring TOP is in GD's possession'. Now, whether that was a mistake or what, we don't know, because nothing else ever got said about it. A few months after this post, Seunghyun posted about it to his Instagram stories to let people know it was home with him:

But, as we're all aware right now, that doesn't always mean anything lmao. These two have so many crossovers with the art their own and where it appears - as Threads user wilmon99 pointed out, 'There was a small incident with this painting: during the exhibition, a blogger wrote that the museum guide said the portrait belonged to G-Dragon, sparking much discussion among fans, though this couldn't be confirmed. However, according to T.O.P's post a few months later, it seems to have returned to his collection. But a chair he previously mentioned sending to a furniture warehouse appeared at G-Dragon's house, so ultimately, the painting's final destination remains unknown.'

Matt Carey-Williams

Man, I love Matt. Matt Carey-Williams is an art curator and gallery owner based in London, although he's also worked in New York, Venice and Hong Kong before now. He's gay, and not shy about it - his Instagram is full of photos of him and his husband, references to queer art, and his outspoken stance on important leftist issues and human rights. He's a close friend of Seunghyun's for sure - he posted about him for his birthday in 2019, and Seunghyun liked a photo of him and his husband in 2020.

It's worth noting that Matt also follows both Seunghyun's and Jiyong's private Instagram accounts, meaning he must be friends enough with Jiyong too to be able to do that. Interesting, considering he's only publicly friends with Seunghyun, huh? Almost like he's potentially been introduced to his friend's partner and they've continued a friendly relationship in private?

Matt, like the others, has also made hints towards his support of GTOP over the years. On a post about him and his husband's anniversary, he liked a comment about GTOP and replied with love-hearts:

He's also liked posts about GTOP:

The beginning of this year was a very fun time for us Matt-pilled gtoppers! Matt went to Seoul in January 2026 and posted the following things at the beginning and end of his trip:

Now, for someone who is such good friends with Seunghyun as this man is, would it not be insensitive for him to make so many references to the group he's left and supposedly cut out of his life for three years? Matt is not coy about things, as you'll see in a second, so I absolutely believe these were deliberate nods to the fact that a) he met up with Seunghyun and Jiyong while he was out there and b) he's slyly showing his support and knowledge of the fact that of course they're all still in contact. Then, utterly hilariously, a couple of days later he posted this artwork, which a few fans immediately latched onto haha:

One of my most favourite things about Matt is how intensely passionate he is about queer art, and how outspoken and in-your-face he is about queerness. His 'give a fuck' attitude makes me proud to be a fellow British gay hahaha. He'll come back up in the next section when we come to talk about Pierre and Giles, but I really loved this take from him when Still Life dropped. The way he talks about Jiyong is especially beautiful and very, very intentional from Matt: "There's no prouder a signifier than a #rainbow and #gdragon looks simply G-divine sporting his new feathery rainbow hair-do whilst spinning around with his prismatic parasol."

Frankly, there's no reason for Matt to be quite so invested in GTOP and how they subtly show their queerness if none of it was real - he's a man who lives, breathes and has worked with art for decades, he knows how this game works, and he also knows them personally.

Pierre and Gilles

Pierre Commoy and Gilles Blanchard, more famously known by their art duo name Pierre et Gilles, are not just collaborators - they're also romantic partners. Pierre is a photographer and Gilles is a painter - they met in the 1970s and began living together and working with each other. They're super well-known in the popular culture scene, working particularly with queer icons such as Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Tilda Swinton and Chi Chi LaRue. And, wouldn't you believe it... T.O.P!

Yes, Pierre and Gilles worked their magic with Seunghyun, and produced the following photography/painting masterpiece:

And here is where we bring back our old friend Matt, because he also posted about it and talked about it in that gorgeous no-bullshitting way of his:

I'm sorry... "#tttop is embraced by bejewelled blooms of red and purple that amplify the image's kitschy campness and which resists his #hollywood #badboy index. As does his #asian identity. That familiar sign of the smoking (anti)-hero - part #brando, part Sinatra - now signifies otherness and its power to transform. The stereotype of a caucasian, heterosexual star of the silver screen becomes a glitzy, lavish, exotic love letter to contemporary homoerotica." That's insane, right?! He's basically saying the whole gag of this piece is that he's supposed to look like a big hotshot 1950s movie star, but subverting it because they were butch, manly, heterosexual white men and T.O.P is a gay Asian man. Just in case we didn't get it, he also followed it up with #mcwqueer #bigbangvip lmao. Gay man gives his take on gay art produced by gay artists featuring the image of a gay man. Oh, and liked by that gay man's boyfriend's private Instagram account:

Oh and, of course, Pierre and Gilles have liked GTOP fanart, because of course they have. They've liked some really raunchy stuff too hahaha.