[I Think I Found Something Weird]
What the post’s author discovered was purely by chance.
[What Is Hana Doing Today]
@today_Is_hanawhat 222,000 subscribers, 3 videos
A YouTube channel that was rapidly drawing in not only Seven’s fans but ordinary viewers as well.
> [SUB] Are We Having a Talk Today? (Feat. The Maknaez) | [What Is Hana Doing Today] Ep. 1 - 1.38 million views • 3 weeks ago
> [SUB] I’m Angry Because of This Girl Today (It’s Jeon Harang.) | [What Is Hana Doing Today] Ep. 2 - 1.23 million views • 2 weeks ago
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It had all started with a video uploaded a week ago.
A video of Hana and Seoyun wandering around Gyeongbokgung Palace and Jongno District, playing around.
As usual, the members had been chatting and fooling around during breaks between dance practices, and the topic of conversation at the time was the newly uploaded “What Is Hana Doing Today? Episode 3.”
[My usual hobby is reading, you know?]
[The spring weather is so beautiful. It reminds me of Kim Chun-su’s poem “Flower.”]
[Good heavens, no man in Joseon would dare leave me standing out here like this!]
All of her usual noisiness had vanished.
After putting on a hanbok, Kim Seoyun had spent the entire video pretending to be an elegant young lady from a respectable family.
—Wow, that’s awful.
There was no way Dohee would let that slide quietly.
Dohee posted a comment in front of the members, and Hana pinned it to help her channel’s growth.
📍 Pinned by What Is Hana Doing Today
Lee Dohee • 6 days ago
—Lady Seoyun = elegant? LOL
└Good heavens! Lee Dohee, stop right there.
└Stop slandering our Lady Seoyun.
└It’s true that Lady Seoyun is as elegant as a young lady from a respectable family even normally!!!
└LOL, Dohee, stop teasing your unni.
└The kids’ chemistry is insane LOLLLLL
└LOL, I love how they really seem like best friends.
└They’re so damn cute LOL
The viewers watched the members’ seemingly affectionate teasing with fondness.
Up to this point, it was nothing more than a simple little incident.
But then the author happened to come across a video that the algorithm served up.
[MV Analysis] There’s a YouTuber Who’s Gone Crazy for Seven... | Seven’s “Unsatisfied” MV Analysis
914 views • 2 months ago
Just 914 views, at most.
Under normal circumstances, they would have passed it by.
But the thumbnail—a group shot of the members—was exceptionally refreshing, making it impossible to ignore.
[There’s a scene of Dohee underwater... Aaaahhhhhh!!!! Why is she so pretty!?!]
Rather than an MV analysis, it was just a video rambling incoherently while exclaiming about how pretty everyone was.
“What the hell.”
Still, since it had at least gotten a faint laugh out of them, the author was about to leave the reviewer a comment saying it was rather entertaining.
Then they scrolled down and saw several comments.
Among them was one with a heart on it.
Lee Dohee • 2 months ago ❤️
—Thanks for the great video! I especially agree a hundred times over that Dohee is pretty! She’s seriously the prettiest in the world. Especially when she makes eye contact in the underwater scene—the look in her gray-lensed eyes is so dreamlike, and her hair shining in the light is so mysterious. You could really sum it up by saying she’s the prettiest in the world, right?
└Agreed, agreed!
“Lee Dohee?”
For a moment, they wondered if it might actually be Dohee herself.
“But there’s no way.”
The three-syllable YouTube nickname “Lee Dohee” was common.
It wasn’t a difficult name to come across, and Dohee’s fans often used it as their fan nicknames too.
“Still, they seem like a genuine fan. I wonder if they’ve uploaded any videos?”
The author clicked on the profile of the commenter who appeared to be a fan of Lee Dohee.
“Nothing?”
The user’s channel home was completely empty.
The only thing listed was the user ID, @user-xi2lm34d7k.
“Hm?”
There was a strange sense of déjà vu, as if they had seen it somewhere before.
The author entered one of the videos and clicked the user profile of Dohee, who had left the pinned comment.
[Lee Dohee @user-xi2lm34d7k]
And then burst out laughing.
“Ah, this girl is seriously driving me insane.”
The author immediately took a screenshot and posted it to the fan community.
They had no idea how far the snowball would roll.
***
The post on the fan community was quickly carried over to a women-dominated entertainment community.
[No. 1 Idol Who Knows She’s Pretty Way Too Well]
(Video)
https://youtu.be/S9aRsEyc214211258215
(Screenshot of the YouTube comment)
Who went and left that comment? LOL
—Huh LOL What is this LOLLLLL
—Ah, Dohee ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
—She’s seriously so cute LOLLLLLLLLL
—The video itself is hilarious too. They just ramble on praising Seven like crazy LOL
└LOL, exactly. From what I saw, Dohee probably just copied the video and wrote the comment without giving it much thought LOL
└Ah LOL, true LOL
—This is why fans go crazy LOL
└She looks so aloof, but she’s overflowing with mischief LOL
—Does she not know that humility is a virtue?
└She didn’t even say it openly on a broadcast, so what the hell does humility have to do with it?
└Separately, I don’t really think anything of it when pretty people say they’re pretty.
And it didn’t take long for the popular post from the women’s community to make its way to a male-dominated community.
[Dohee Caught Manipulating Public Opinion]
(Photo of the comment from What Is Hana Doing Today?)
(Photo from the MV video)
(Photo of the MV analysis comment)
Her fans are calling her Dorahi as a nickname now LOL. This is fucking hilarious LOL
—I’ve seen idols say on broadcasts that they’re the prettiest, but I’ve never seen one do this in the comments LOLLLLL
└She really seems like a middle-school brat, this is fucking hilarious LOLLLLL
└Fact) She is a middle-school brat.
—What does this girl even do? LOL
—But if you watch the video, you can kind of understand why Dohee left the comment like that LOL
└Link?
└https://youtu.be/S9aRsEyc214211258215
└LOL, so she copied the video LOL
—She really is insanely beautiful.
Just as the post was taking over the popular sections of communities all over the internet,
the production staff of “Just Choose Your Idol Season 4,” which had begun its first shoot, were distributing promotional articles.
[Exclusive] Just Choose Your Idol Season 4, First Shoot—“Full-Scale Boarding Begins”
[OSAA = Reporter Eom Dongju]
『It begins now. The first filming schedule for “Just Choose Your Idol Season 4,” commonly known as “Judyol Season 4,” has been set.
Mwave recently notified the participating agencies of the first filming schedule, and recording has begun. Season 4 had been surrounded by all kinds of behind-the-scenes stories, from its casting to production-related difficulties. In the end, however, filming was confirmed, marking the start of a normal schedule.
“Judyol Season 3” made headlines last year. Seven, the project girl group formed from the seven final contestants, gained immense popularity after sweeping the rookie awards at various year-end ceremonies.
Expectations are high as to whether “Judyol Season 4,” made up of male trainees, will achieve results comparable to Season 3.』
And, naturally, mixed in with these articles were rumor-like pieces designed to stir up attention.
[Exclusive] Big Four Agency ZY to Participate in the Male Version of “Judyol Season 4”
『ZY Entertainment will participate in Mwave’s male version of “Judyol Season 4.” However, unlike last year, the other Big Four agencies are reportedly not participating. As a result, Lefro, JS, and Haru will not be joining “Judyol Season 4.”』
But these rumor-style stories were usually posted in community forums in a viral format rather than as regular articles.
[ZY Trainee Participating in Judyol Season 4]
(Photo) (Photo) (Photo)
ZY’s publicly introduced trainee is named Baek Hwi, age sixteen.
Anyone who knows anything about trainees has probably already heard of him—there’s been a ton of talk in trainee communities about how damn handsome he is.
But apparently, he’s been childhood friends with Lee Dohee since they were little.
They even went to the same middle school, apparently.
—Whoa, he’s insanely handsome... But he’s childhood friends with Dohee?
└Yeah, apparently he was famous at school. They’ve been friends since they were really little.
└Huh? No way, seriously?
└Wow, incredible... They’re a handsome-and-beautiful pair...
—Whoa, at that level, didn’t they have something going on?
└222, I bet they really did.
└333333
└4444 They’re both pretty and handsome—how could nothing have happened?
—Am I the only one who thinks there was absolutely nothing going on? For starters, I don’t think Dohee was interested.
└Well, judging by that comment of Dohee’s that made the rounds this time, that seems plausible LOL
└Ah LOL, seeing this, I get it LOL
└Fucking hilarious LOL
Of course, since “Judyol Season 4” had yet to properly air, it didn’t mean all that much.
But somehow, Dohee had managed to put an initial stop to the rumor before it could grow any further.
***
The day of the university festival.
Since it was a festival where a rehearsal wasn’t possible, they finished the final rehearsal at the company practice room in the morning and quickly headed to the salon.
Seeing me take my seat, the makeup artist unni gave me a sly smile.
“Our Dohee, the prettiest girl in the world~ Why is your face so red today~?”
So she’d seen that post too...
“Don’t do this...”
Whether I wanted it or not, the makeup artist unni brought the back of her hand to my cheek.
“You’re running hot today~ Here, I’ll teach you what to do with your makeup when that happens. First, you use a pad-type toner like this to cool down the heat~”
I didn’t want to know.
“Stooop...”
“And for reddish skin, you counter it with the complementary color, green, like this~ Oh my, you’re already so pretty. You’re going to the first university festival looking like the prettiest girl in the world, aren’t you?”
“Stoooop...”
It was so unfair.
It wasn’t like I had gone around leaving comments everywhere with that alt account.
I had only unconsciously left comments on two videos.
The MV analysis video and Hana unni’s video.
The problematic comment had barely gotten any views, so I hadn’t paid it any attention.
And on Hana unni’s video, I had hurriedly left a comment because I wanted to tease Seoyun unni, then forgotten all about it.
‘But how did I even get caught?’
Maybe this was why public figures had to be careful about their conduct at all times.
Click—
“She’s so cute... I should upload this to Instagram... The tag will be ‘prettiest in the world’...”
You crazy bitch.
Go get your makeup done.
***
[Dohee’s Face Turning Red at S University’s Festival Today]
(Video)
After the first stage, we were greeting everyone one by one.
When it was Dohee’s turn, a male fan suddenly shouted, “Lee Dohee, the prettiest girl in the world!!!!” ridiculously loudly, so everyone burst out laughing LOL
Ah, Dohee’s face turning red is seriously hilarious LOL
—Ah, she’s so cute. No, seriously, why is she this cute?
—That guy’s lungs are incredible LOL
—Dohee, the prettiest girl in the world LOLLLLL
—This is fucking hilarious LOL
It was my first university festival, and one that had gained plenty of memories.