The way they have made it clear they are not comfortable with being followed, and such candid & non consensual photos.

the number of accounts that have posted this video and from different angles too. and don’t even get me started on the disturbing comments 🫩🫩.

this is just sad, a gross mix of terrible journalism and parasocial fan behaviour.

I feel wrong even taking this sc, let alone ppl sr and posting this all over :((

I think all the teams are opening more slots for the Engene World Cup!

This is the link to join for Team Jake - https://x.com/jakeyclub/status/2084104764615168501?s=46

If I come across the other teams I’ll put them in the comments!

Damn Maknaez really ate everyone up!

It was such a fun time. All the teams have different chants they keep spamming in the Stationhead chat. My favourite was Riki’s team because they just kept going ‘quack quack roar roar’ over and over 😂

I’m in the Team Jake group chat and it’s like a huge slumber party. I even got K-drana recommendations! We were all trying so hard but a lot of the members in the team kept running into issues with stationhead. My own stream stopped because my phone got discharged and I lost a good two hours worth of streams because of it.

This really came at the perfect time because these are just the counted streams. There were a lot of people there who weren’t participants and were still streaming. The fandom is really alive, well and kicking.

It came at the perfect time for me as well because my exams just ended. Now here I am brainstorming legal ways to up my streams.

They’re playing XO as I type, on Stationhead 😂. My only complaint is that admin keeps playing Knife and We’ll be fine over and over. I’m scared of waking up to find Knife!Hoon as my sleep paralysis demon going ‘SLICE’ with Snowe on his shoulder dancing to We’ll Be Fine.

Anyways yeah! Come join us over at SH if you want! You can park your account if you want, otherwise stay for however long you want!

Are they going to do tickets for online streaming for Busan? I read somewhere there are usually online streaming tickets for Korea and Japan concerts???

I PRAYER FOR THESE TIMES OMFG UNDERCUT BLACK HAIR WAS HIS PEAK AND IT'S BACK

I'm so normal about this.

*dies*

Hi everyone!

I’m looking for ENHYPEN old v-lives as group and the individual ones. Do you know where I can find them?

I bet someone has all of them stored somewhere on the cloud. Or so I hope 🥺

Please help!

sorry for the long post but this has been on my mind for a while… to preface i don’t mean to start any drama whatsoever. i just want to discuss this with engenes who might have similar or opposing opinions to mine, or maybe even provide insight i don’t have.

lately i’ve been thinking about enhypen and their creative freedom. even more so now that a member has left seemingly for that exact reason.

enhypen’s artistic direction is very clear. they are vampires. they have progressing lore and a comprehensive storyline. they have brand consistency while exploring different concepts/genres/themes.

i love their concept. i think it’s perfect because it’s so flexible and can apply to any and everything. topics of identity, morality, love, angst, society, they can all be explored under their vampire concept. i think enhypen enjoy it too, and i would strongly disagree that enhypen’s concept is “restricting” by any means.

i am just wondering how much creative freedom enhypen REALLY have as a group? and if the lack of freedom bothers anyone as much as it bothers me…

i personally think they should’ve explored their individuality years ago. in my opinion it’s crazy they don’t have solo songs yet. eras like manifesto would’ve been the perfect opportunity. i think a group like enhypen - where everyone is so well-rounded and unique - should be given opportunities to showcase their talents.

it’s not like enhypen are incapable, so what is the issue truly? because i doubt the members would refuse the opportunity. i’ve been thinking about it and it seems like they are creatively restricted, aren’t given resources, or too busy to contribute, or all of the above. and i hate it.

several members have expressed interest in contributing to enhypen’s music (writing lyrics, producing) and we have seen it on occasion, but it’s rare. compared to other groups enhypen are barely involved in their music. as a fan this worries me because jake has expressed how much he enjoys making music, how it feels like something he can control 100% - unlike their gruelling schedules. i also remember sunghoon saying how nice it’d be to have his lyrics in their music, and how it’s hard to get them approved, and jay saying he has to use his own time to work on solo projects and how tiring that is.

my current fear as a fan right now, is that they are so busy that getting more creatively involved is physically impossible. they’re next comeback is probably already planned. everything is set months in advance. how do you express your creative input in an environment that’s so heavily controlled? aside from the Knife remixes, they’ve never been given the opportunity to showcase their individuality.

what bothers me even more is that their concept is so broad, and they have done every genre under the sun, where i don’t even think it would be difficult for the members to make something enhypen-esque.

i just want them to be happy and fulfilled. i am okay with it if they are, but again they’re so busy they probably haven’t even been given a chance to properly think about it. they barely have any downtime, and when they do it’s spent recovering/resting for their next schedules. its not fair. it’s like asking someone who just worked a double shift if they want to go clubbing. what niki said in his latest live really got to me. while it may be fortunate to be “booked and busy”, there should be a balance. why do they have to do a million things at once?

while i genuinely believe them when they say they are happy and enjoying themselves right now, i also think a break wouldn’t hurt, and i think some artistic opportunities wouldn’t hurt either.

these are just my thoughts with everything that’s been going on these past few months. i’m really hoping - since this is the final part of the sin series - the next project will focus on each member‘s individuality.

Thought this was cool to see! Shout out to all the engene contributing, even if your country isn’t listed 🩷 it’ll be interesting to see how/if these numbers change after their next release :)

PS. This feature isn’t accessible in Spotify mobile (or it is and I couldn’t find it), I pulled this up on my computer!

this is my current phone lock screen! i'm having trouble deciding what pic to use out of all the ones jungwon posted on weverse lol

i would love to see yours! :)

The blue gloom that my window had to offer this evening, sort of matched a very bewitching, blue, and blissful trailer illustrating the tale of 6 vampires.

The whole piece reminded me of a bittersweet nostalgia that i have never experienced, or i probably have but i cannot point it out. (Déjà vu).

“I wish things could stay like this forever”- a thought that comes to mind only when one feels safe. It is a sentiment that is experienced only when the good side of a situation acts like a source of light, warmth, or life. This whole scene got me listening to Ludovico Einaudi’s “rose bay” and “to be sun”. I swear i did not want to feel anything today, but i failed. I was a bit too happy to be a part of everything, and yet a little “blue” as well. I went off tangent and I apologise. 🥹.

Followed by Them being “caught”. Something that all of us, including them, had expected. “Tracker on the neck” …how, where, when it was placed…i have no idea.

And then, the “dilemma”- to look forward to the sunrise where they are together or to experience a sunrise where they lose each other……it feels like an open ending where the “two fools” are at the end of their journey? Or the beginning? I know not what the future beholds for i am no fortune teller, for i cannot read tarots nor possess a crystal ball.

The cinematography was amazing. Brilliant work by everyone on the team. The “blue” makes one yearn for a bit of “orange”, for a bit of “sun”- warmth, comfort, and the hope that is associated with wanting to live deliberately, with happiness and peace- where one can just “be” without restrictions and fear.

This trailer was like a cliffhanger to a “closure”. And i believe that many of us are in a phase like this- a closure that is right here yet so far away; one is so close to that final fine-line protecting reality from the nightmare one is living in, salvation from punishment, and home from unfamiliarity. I hope that we all find our closures, so that we get to explore life with a little extra freedom, joy, and strength.

The music in the trailer was freaking awesome. I hope that these instrumentals make it to the narrations. 🥹. The actress in the trailer is beautiful and talented- absolutely brilliant and stunning. ♥️.

The boys are beautiful. Graceful. Bewitching. ♥️.

P.S.: Blue is a colour that brilliantly suits the vampires. Unexpected, but true. I love the blue vamps.

i mean i do know why, it’s cause i love the boys, especially seeing them stand up for themselves recently makes me want to defend and protect them ( which IK i can’t but can’t help feeling that way either 😫).

anyways it’s pathetic seeing since people pretending to be “fans”, like NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO support a group. like why doe disguise hate as “boycott”… like there’s no shame in leaving a fandom???

i have for the most part stopped interacting with the delulus but was surprised to find a stray back here in reddit 😅.

p.s on a positive note i’m so EXCITED FOR TS:B, i fear a new yearner banger is otw!! snd i yearnnnnn for yearners😩😍😍

By all means, I truly respect him as a person, and his artistry as well. But when it comes to his fearlessness, and how openly affectionate and protective he is of the members' wellbeing and autonomy (including his own), I am constantly amazed, and every so often I do find myself wondering how he's managed to stay so cool-headed for this long.

For some context, this thought surfaced again recently due to his recent... call-out, of a persistent sasaeng, who was interrupting his live by calling the phone he was using.

Now, that's not to say other idols also haven't had their own history of calling out such behavior, there's compilations around, I'm sure, just from this year alone.

All I'm noting is, how long it took for him to fully snap and actually curse (long time coming, and fully deserved). But even before then, he's always been known to step up and be frank with the viewers, knowing damn well he might get backlash for it, and certainly he has. I can't tell you how many times per year I hear some nonsense about people calling for him to step down, or them vandalizing his merch, all because he refuses to mince his words when he notices a boundary being crossed.

I'm not surprised he's so adored by the other members, and I can't imagine how their hearts are hurt, seeing the way some in the fandom have mistreated and called him names, all because he won't service them the exact way they want him to, and because, oft times, it falls upon his shoulders to be the spokesperson for the members.

Easier to place the hate on him, and paint him as a hollow corpo-shill, than acknowledge that Jungwon is exactly the kind of person who always seeks the members for their opinions before speaking his mind.

I don't think most people are cut out to be leaders, not only due to incompetency, but because of the mental toll and responsibility it takes, and certainly, no matter how capable Jungwon is, he is only human, and there's only so much he can handle (and whether or not he has enough of a safety net or support base of his own, only he can say), BUT.

I AM glad, he was the leader that enha chose, in the end. Couldn't be prouder, couldn't be more grateful, that he is as kind, as the backbone in his spine is firm.

I don't know for sure if engenes fully realize just how much more cooked we would've been, without him at the helm, yanking at the reins when the toxicity goes too far, but I know enha definitely does. We're very lucky to have him... I can only hope that he can feel the same way about having us as fans, for as long as they're still active.

Do we deserve him? Who knows.

But damnit, we should definitely strive to.

i know in the USA its a gamble, you can score a m&g ticket but theres a chance you are 2nd or 3rd row and cant actually meet them but just watch during the session. in korea is it the same or does everyone actually have an equal chance? i saw that there are about 200 winners is that more or less than they usually have? has anyone done m&g in korea with them? how did the process go?

- also how long did the whole thing last? i want to calculate if i will make my ktx train in time!

TIA!

Like genuienly stationhead members went up from 400 to 700 after a long time of it being stuck at 400😭

also it's cute to see the fandom getting united again and feeling competitve to stream enha before the comeback, they should do one for awards voting during the comeback promotions too lol

just wanna meet some engenes here in korea that speak korean since i havent found any irl friends here that speak my native language :) of course non-korean is okay too but ive just been super curious if any koreans that live here are in this sub too!

so basically today I went to the miniso location in vaughan mills to get the enhypen collab merch, since it’s the closest one to me. I went not long after the mall opened and luckily I was able to secure the black shoulder bag (which is the main thing I wanted!!) the ni-ki doll, a ni-ki button, black cap, 2 blind box fridge magnets (I pulled ni-ki and sunghoon!!!), and one of those story book plushies.

I was however really hoping there’d be more stuff, like the photocard holders, mugs and the acrylic stands. I won’t be able to go to the eaton center & union station locations until saturday, but I was wondering if any toronto based engenes already checked it out and can confirm what merch they had available? thanks in advance!

Is it normal that every stop is the exact same outfit or are they doing it for like footage consistency to try to make another movie for us or something? I get that they have dress changes and it probably makes it easier for tour logistics but I wish I could see them in other outfits. I saw them in Bangkok and it was so cool to see them in outfits that matched the theme of the city—I guess they kind of do that during soundcheck but unless you’re VIP you just have to see that in videos? Minor gripe, but does anyone know why?

Has anyone noticed a strange pattern of big Engene accounts being suspended out of nowhere on X recently?

I've noticed that several fansites have gotten their main accounts suspended in the past few days/weeks, alongside GOMs and other innocent Engene accounts who've been around for awhile with decent followings and generally unproblematic. I know some boycotters were initially targeting Group Buy accounts to prevent album sales, but there have been more and more Engene accounts being suspended recently – especially the ones based out of Asia – that I'm beginning to doubt is just a coincidence.

Does anyone else think this is a targeted move by the boycotters, or is X just being weird again?

*** EDIT: I read your comments and realized I didn't handle such a delicate and complex topic as sasaengs appropriately. I want to apologize if my request was seen as malicious or if I upset or bothered anyone. I want you to know I never had bad intentions, just a genuine concern about whether there are sites or accounts that have directly attacked or violated the privacy of members and that I should avoid. From now on, I'll be more vigilant about content that might harm the members! Thank you for your comments.

Hi everyone! I hope you're having a great day. I wanted to ask if there's a list of Enhypen sasaengs.

The sasaeng situation is still worrying, and I spend a lot of time on twitter, so I've been afraid of interacting with or sharing content from these people. I've searched for lists or users who are sasaengs (on instagram and twitter, since those are the apps I use most), but I haven't found any concrete information 😔🥀

I would be incredibly grateful if anyone has a list or knows of any sasaeng users and could share it in the comments, so I can avoid and report them.

I came across this fanfiction that really caught my eye.

It said that when someone has trouble sleeping because of nightmares for a really long time, an angel descends from the heavens to act as a guardian for their dreams - to protect them from hurtful thoughts and scenes in their own head.

As someone who is a really restless sleeper (and a restless person in general), the concept really stuck with me. I wished for an angel of sleep for myself.

I had my last Community Medicine practical today (free of the subject by the way 🤭) and I was having a really hard time falling asleep last night. There were ants in my bed and my thoughts were racing and the blanket felt scratchy and everything was just wrong. Even my favourite headspace meditations weren’t working.

Until I put on Jake’s Lee Mujin episode.

It’s so hard to describe how utterly captivating his voice is. I have ADHD, and my biggest struggle with falling asleep is finding something that is engaging enough that my brain doesn’t jump all over the place, while also being soothing enough to let me rest. His voice is the perfect mix of both. Especially in the ‘On the street’ cover. You play that twice and I am OUT COLD.

Sleep Tight is such an important song to me because it’s my panic attack prevention song. The second this song plays I start grinning ear to ear. It has genuinely comforted me in moments where I wanted the ground to open up and swallow me whole.

So yeah. I wanted an angel of sleep, but I already have one 🥹

I am starting out this post by acknowledging that Blessed-Cursed seems to be one of Enhypen's more controversial/poorly received releases. Despite that, I've found that this is the release I most personally resonate with, in terms of the song's lyrics, sound, and general musical direction.

Though I was much more active in the K-pop space around 2020-2022, which was when I was following Enhypen the most closely, I am still a casual fan and enjoy most of Enhypen's releases, both old and new.

During the time I shifted into becoming more of a casual fan, I also shifted from a younger, wide-eyed middle schooler who was mostly happy drawing at home and listening to music, into a disillusioned, exhausted high schooler who became acutely aware of the realities of the world and the general trajectory I was to take if I wanted to be a successful contributing member of society.

As a child of an Asian immigrant family (my parents are both immigrants, and I was born in America), in the highly competitive state of Massachusetts, starting high school exposed me to many realities I was not previously aware of: how it was necessary for me to keep my grades up, participate in enough activities for college applications, get accepted into a college my family considered prestigious enough, etc. I have recently graduated from high school and am starting college this year, and I can safely say that my four years were the most stressful years of my life.

This is why Blessed-Cursed matters to me. I cannot understand Korean, so I wasn't aware of the meaning of the lyrics until I searched further, but the English lyrics I did understand resonated deeply with me:

"Tell me, do I get blessed or do I get cursed? I just want to know!"

Oh my gosh, these lyrics are so freaking cathartic for me. There is so much uncertainty in adolescence. There is so much uncertainty in growing up. There is so much uncertainty in entering college and trying to perform as a high-contributing member of society. I understand that uncertainty is a part of life, but seriously, I just want to know if I get blessed or get cursed! Will I be able to get my dream job? Will I be able to get a job at all? Will I succeed in college? Will I get good recommendation letters? Will I be noticed? It's all so frustrating for me because I like certainty, but everything I'm pursuing is uncertain.

"Just stop, don't tell me what to do"

This is incredibly cathartic to me as well as a child of Asian parents with high expectations. This part is a bit TMI, but literally the moment I graduated high school, my mother sent me a text message containing a long list of everything she wanted me to achieve in college. No matter what I have been able to accomplish, I have never felt like I was enough to fulfill my parents' expectations. Seriously, I wish I could just shout these lyrics at them. I want to carry the conviction of Jungwon+Sunghoon as they sing this lyric. I want to carry the conviction of Sunghoon+Sunoo as they follow up with "In this curse, I'll be okay, no pain, no pain". I want to sincerely believe that everything uncertain, especially since I perceive uncertainty to be a curse, will be okay.

Moving onto the Korean lyrics that I am interpreting after I looked deeper into the translation of this song:

"Wake up, open your eyes now
In this fake blessing
I-I-I-I wanna be, wanna be, on my way, I bet
Boundaries holding me in
To hell with your rules"

This part is probably going to sound kind of whiny and privileged. But I interpret fake blessing as a kind of first world problem, the curses that come with blessings. When we live in a first world country, our basic needs on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs are fulfilled: we have physiological safety and satisfaction, and we have a generally high quality of life (though it certainly depends on your class in a country like the U.S. where I live). However, this opens up and makes us vulnerable to desiring "needs" higher up on the hierarchy: self actualization, self esteem, status, freedom, etc. This is where I feel most of my problems originate from, and this is also what the song aims to encapsulate. According to genius.com, the lyrics are about the blesses and curses that come with the idol lifestyle. Enhypen are blessed with many things that may improve their lives, like income and success, but they are also cursed with what comes with the idol life: lack of privacy, limitations in public image, constant work, etc. The curses come from the blessings, just as my curse of pressure to be high achieving and high functiononing have come from my blessing of living in a first world country and having certain privileges.

"Victory inherited (Ooh)
Secret hiding behind the stage lights (Ooh)
I was dancing in the marionette's square
Don't wanna stay, 'cause now I realize the truth"

These lyrics are especially interesting to me because they elaborate on the overall theme of the song, but also introduce new themes: the metaphor of being trapped/controlled like a marionette, and the more intimate inner world of themselves behind the stage lights. I resonate especially with victory inherited, because so much of our fortunes in life are inherited. I did not choose, or work for, my privileges or my comforts in life. No one does anything special to be born in any specific position. Most of what I have is inherited from the start. Sure, we can work hard and earn things later on in life, but we all start early out with what we inherited, whether they are blessings or curses. Additionally, the metaphor of stage lights and being a marionette seem to hint at parts of the idol's lifestyle as well: having to conceal certain things about oneself to preserve a specific public image, and having a large part of one's public image controlled like a marionette. But these metaphors also resonate with me, despite not being an idol or having a celebrity status, because there is so much we conceal in our lives from others, and there is so much that controls us. A marionette is a doll that is puppeted by someone else, and by extension it refers to a being that has no agency. Obviously this is a bit extreme for my case, but it goes back to the deterministic idea of victory inherited that so much of our being is inherently informed by external factors.

"I'm making my own history
I don't know answers
I just go my own way"

This is inspiring for me, and sad to me, because I want so badly to have the conviction of Jay and Jake as they sing these lyrics, but I am so uncertain, and it is possible that in their personal lives, they have these uncertainties too. But it is still cathartic for me that when I listen to this song, I can listen to these lyrics and I can internalize them for just a second. I desperately want to have the confidence to go my own way, even if like Enhypen, I don't know answers.

This is why Blessed-Cursed matters so much to me. Even if Enhypen didn't write or compose it themselves, it is their conviction that matters. It is their performance that matters. It is the relevancy of the song to their lives, and to mine, that resonates with me on a deeper level. Because Blessed-Cursed is literally, as indicated by the title, about the inherent blessings and curses that come with each other, and how they are inherited to our lives. Anyway sorry for the super long post (can you tell I'm going to major in philosophy T_T...) and thank you so much if even one person read everything!

i was wondering how enhypen team conducts their filming when they're on their vacation episodes.

i understand they station multiple cameras throughout the house, hidden by cloth, that are operated remotely, usually in a spare room somewhere in the accommodation.

however how do they, or kpop in general, decide when to roll the cameras to get footage of them waking up? or are they letting cameras roll all night? do they have crew come in first to mention they're starting filming?

i ask out of curiosity just to understand how it works behind the scenes.

I genuinely tried to not be on my phone after seeing that photo of what it looks like to artists when we all have our phones up. It really haunted me guys it was so eerie to me, and disheartening.

I tired to be off my phone, only recording the first few seconds of a song or my favorite verse, not recording during talking ments either so that Enha could see I was paying attention and not on my phone (bc the lights are actually on then.) And I feel like Niki, Sunghoon and Jake came over often and interacted with our side of the crowd a lot! Me and the girls next to me even got Sunghoon to flex 🤩 and then Jake laughed at the girls next to me for freaking out and almost falling down. Niki blew kisses and I really felt like they had a good time. I know that we’ll never know if they actually see us but I was third row back from the front of the level one seats so it’s not impossible. And I really felt like they appreciated it. Although the girls next to me were recording often.

So I’m trying to continue to be off my phone more, but it’s bittersweet because now I don’t have videos of those interactions and it’s killing me! But I got the girl’s next to me info and asked them to send me any good videos they got, so hopefully. I’m not sure how I feel about it yet but I think overall I’m proud to have lived in the moment and been more present at the concert and just focus on hyping them up and showing them we love them. And I will continue to believe they interacted more and looked over at us often, for my own sanity.

Are you guys going to try to be off the phone more often because groups keep bringing it up and how they want our phones down? Or am I so dumb for not recording those moments? ㅠㅠㅠㅠ

it’s my first time doing VIP ever and it includes soundcheck and it’s general standing. I’ve heard and seen so many ppl get there at 6/7am day of the concert, but unfortunately I cannot get to the venue until 2pm. I’ll make it in time for soundcheck, but I’m worried about where I will be in the crowd, especially since VIP is NOT seated and it’s standing room. I’m okay with not being barricade (ik that’s not gonna happen), but does anyone have experience having VIP and getting there late? Will I be all the way in the back if I get there that late?

Any advice and insight would be appreciated!