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"WE are Pristin" to "WHERE is Pristin" to "WE WERE Pristin" sucks they couldve been big TT
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A lot of kpop group that could be BIG HIT come out every year, it is a very competitive market .
They could've gone real far. Best rookie group at the time
they would've definitely been the biggest non big-3 girl group
Dreamcatcher had a good enough music to compare with them, but they didn't get as much attention.
Yeah Dreamcatcher was above every girl group in terms of performance but because of their niche genre they didnt get attention.
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They were the most successful post produce grp at that time and pledis waste their potential đĄ
till this day I don't why pledis did that
it was a dumb decision...
imagine where pristin could've been rn...
when i watched their debut tho
my ears and brain just took it in so positively
They were self producing, multi talented and hilarious. On top of that rookie of the year! Imagine how big they would be now pledis is under bighit
Honestly pledis is one the stupidest and dumbest companies ever. I donât even know what theyâre doing anymore, they just exist and sometimes ruin their artists' careers for fun.
imagine if the fans actually bought their comeback after the rookie of the year run, then bought and supported the sub unit then they would be big, but fans didn't. so they're not.
@@Kharmatos13 that's v true but hiatus didnt help sales neither did missing members. Also kpublic prob "forgot" abt them due to lack of promo & releases
Lmao HINAPIA stands for Hi I'm Not A Pledis Idol Anymore
lol Hahahaha
LMAO
Hinapia just disbanded right?đąđą
@@Rieunni yeah.... I think they were on hiatus at first but that transitioned into them disbanding
@@Rieunni omg really?
can we talk about how trainees train for YEARS (sometimes even as long as a decade) and end up like this. Its also so sad that trainees train and never end up in groups or they end up in groups that flop:(
(Edit: Hey! I didn't mean to confuse anyone but personally I believe PRISTIN wasn't a flop, what I meant was that some groups sadly end up like PRISTIN where they initially had a lot of fans and potential, but the company didn't give enough attention and/or didn't give them enough comebacks/content to keep fans wanting to stay in the fandom.)
Siyeon basically grew up in the company, trained all of her childhood just to get disbanded.
i agree
the most confusing thing tho is that they were far from a flop, they were the most successful group to initially come out of ioi
EDIT: not necessarily because of album sales btw, at the time they were the most well known and talked about. a lot of people were fans without buying the albums (like myself) because we weren't necessarily in love with their music yet but were excited to see where they'd go because they showed a huge amount of potential, and people were just waiting for them to release THAT song, the song that would skyrocket them and really fit them.
@@glowinluna5742 literally they had a pledis family mv and siyeon was there .. like litterally you could see as a baby
@@bread3987 hey! i hope my edit makes sense lmao. I don't believe PRISTIN was a flop
Imagine debuting then disbanding then debuting again and disbanding again hinapia :(
Just some other things I wanna add as I am a HIgh since 2018:
-a member did show up to Xiyeon's graduation and it was Sungyeon yet still no manager
-Roa had a school play yet she was not accompanied by a manager but Yuha was there to support along with a group of HIghs
-we did the sticky note protest and thought it would work since Nuest fans had protested the same way and got the response they wanted while staff just ignored us (there was a rumor they were laughing at us from inside the building but idk)
-another rumor was that when pristin was still a group, they were receiving many sponsorships for items or being invited to shows but pledis ignored or rejected them all
-sungyeon is a talented songwriter and singer (pls watch videos of her singing you wont regret) and she has helped write songs for nuest!
-only after 1 year since the disbandment, we finally heard from yehana this year which worried all of us (thanks a lot pledis)
-pristin is the first group that pledis has disbanded officially as they just slowly ignored after school till all the members left so there was no official announcement
Anyway pledis sucks and hates women
@K.G yes omg I forgot to mention that thank you!! Even though shes not an idol right now, shes super hard working! I hope pledis and bighit debut her again
Bruh I didn't know until now that pledis never formally disbanded after school, like they just waited for them to leave?? That's like murdering someone and leaving their body right there to decompose on its own instead of just burying it :(((
We denounce everything Pledis stands for
Gosh theyre stupid. Why did pledis self sabotaging a very potential group? A group that won rookie of the year. Pristin could be so big.
imagine being high for 4 years
Great video. This is probably one of the biggest K-pop mysteries because they got the rookie of the year award and they were growing in popularity yet they still disbanded.
Something sketchy happened im sure of it.
The rushed sub unit made people think pledis were already planning to cut members out
maybe it was partly due to the continual fall in sales, however, if there had been more comebacks this might not have happened
@@bhav2671 Still doesnât make sense nuest was lacking in sales for 7 years and popularity was low yet pledis didnât disband them. Pristin had more popularity and had more sells than nuest yet they disbanded.
@@glowinluna5742 then I have no idea
@@bhav2671That makes no sense at all. They had ONE comeback, that's not enough to call it a 'continual fall in sales'. It's rare for groups, unless from HUGE agencies like SM/YG/JYP, to have confirmed growth from debut
I hate myself for watching this because I knew all this info but watched it anyways and got re-angered all over again
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Same, Iâm missing them a lot rnđ„ș
same. I'm so sad every time i remember all of this. sad and angry.
Pledis failed Pristin, then Hinapia failed because of COVID....I hope the Pristin girls will have bright futures ahead even after the huge mess Pledis did to them hhh
wait Hinapia failed because of COVID? I thought that they were on hiatus for some time which led to their disbandment?
baby_dino The video explains it but basically because of covid restrictions, the company wasnât able to make as much money as they needed to keep the group afloat. Small companies like that rely A LOT on busking (aka performing on the streets) and college festivals for money. Events like these unfortunately canât be conducted because of covid, so lots of small companies are losing out on money and have to disband their groups. Hinapia was just one of many groups affected by covid.
@@CeCe1066 ohhh ok. wow... that is sad... I feel bad for Hinapia
NO WHAT?! I was waiting for a comeback T-T
When your game plan as a company is to have these 7, 8, 9, 10+ member groups, that's a lot of members to support and you can't withstand comebacks that underperform. Then, if you've got songs and concepts that are hit or miss, it can be a quick downward spiral. This was a talented group that was mismanaged and undersupported. Glad that many moved onto better things but definitely a tale of what could have been.
I miss pristin :c they had so much potential to shine but were never given enough time to
Enough time to get the recognition. Does that finish your sentence?
Hi, please make a video about Chinese idols than go to China and never return. Each case is very interesting and different. Thanks
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Agree
We're unsure about MeiChengXuan (Wjsn), but Handong came back in October so not always the case lol
Sally is most likely not returning since Jellyfish gave up on gugudan. Smh
Thatâs cause they get wayyy more money in China (kpop idols donât get paid much). And theyâre more popular and comfortable.
vanillaicecreamcheoreomnogaborinin For the WJSN chinese members, they skyrocketed in popularity in China. I also believe theyâre a special case cause their contracts are different from the korean members since theyâre managed by a different company (i believe Yuehua ent)
As for Handong and other cases like Yanan from Pentagon, they unfortunately werenât able to really see much success in China, so I guess you can say there was no reason for them to focus on solely chinese activities. Itâs better for them and their companies money-wise to stay with their groups and do chinese activities on the side. But this is still a good compromise cause they can move onto china once their groups disband
I've always thought that Pledis' growing relationship with CJENM played a big role in Pristin's neglect. Pristin was promoted well enough in their debut year then slowly disappeared from the picture in 2018, right before IZONE debuted and after CJENM became the major shareholder of Pledis. If you remember, CJENM owns both Mnet and Swing records, the label of the Produce groups. And due to that, Pledis ended up handling IZONE and Fromis9 (also under CJENM), helping with production and providing other resources (room, staff, training) to the groups.
Basically Pledis had to prioritize IZONE and Fromis9 and, being a small company, they didn't have the resources to spare for Pristin. Thus Pristin had to stay in the dungeon but the longer they stayed there, the more they lost hype and fans. And so they ended up disbanding :(
this rlly makes a lot of sense
CJENM never became pledis' shareholder.
@@Orinoka666 I'm pretty sure they did. Like with Big Hit they first announced they were in talks over it, then concluded the deal a few months later. It just didn't get as much publicity as with Big Hit buying Pledis cause it's Big Hit
Edit: So i went and did some research and i couldn't find any articles confirming it. Hpwever, Pledis did upload An Ode's teasers on the Stone Music Entertainment channel which is kind of a confirmation in itself (Stone Music is under CJEM).
@@jadev164 Stone was only album distributor. When BH bought pledis shares it was said they bought shares from HSS (pledis ceo) and Sony Music (sony had 49%). CJ was never listed as a pledis shareholder.
Isn't Off the Record the company who manage IZ*One & Fromis9 management? As long as I know, pledis only lend them the training facilities, and Han Sung Soo the CEO of Pledis, produce the first 3 album. After Han Sung Soo and Pledis contract end with IZ*One, IZ*One practice in another building and don't go to Pledis building anymore for training. So yeah, Pledis never manage IZ*One management. And BigHit is the biggest shareholder for Pledis.
Shocking how little attention PRISTIN V got when Get It and its MV are flawless and the choreo is fantastic...
15:07 SEUNGYEON is actually active right now as a songwriter and producer with prismfilter and she helped make jamie (jimins) new song! shes now in the behind the scenes of the music industry
And one of fromis9 songs from lates mini album is her work
@@E.Bashmak yes mulgogi was done by her and the other girl in prismfilter!!!
She'll probably make more money that way at least (that is if she negociates her contract well)
Former Pledis trainee Leia who was supposed to be with Pristin, is now in Black Swan, their song Close to me is a bop!
I think she was more into being producer but sucks life!!! her voice was really good!!! She and Yehana would be a great duo singers đ
This is so sad. Nine years of training? That's like someone with a "regular" type job long enough to be proud to put that on their resume as well as prospective employers acknowledging that 9 years is a decently long job tenure.
On top of that she was *really* young when she debuted (she was 17 int age) so she was basically 8 (int age) when she started being a pledis trainee
@@nicolegoh9748 OMG that is crazy.. so basically she dedicated her entire latter childhood plus her most important teen years. It makes me sad for these trainees. I guess what I'm mainly hoping for is if there's a way companies try to somehow guarantee at least a decent career at the end of the trainee period and starting the official debut process.
@@johnkim4686 she's not the only one too, Jihyo of Twice trained 10 years and Jessica of snsd trained for 9 iirc, luckily for both of them they made it big but there's definitely more trainees who've trained for more than 5 years and sometimes they feel like they've been in this for too long and shouldn't drop out so they just carry on. But companies are not going to want to keep debuting trainees every year due to the oversaturation of the existing market as well as having their own existing acts to manage, so they just recruit however many they like and then only pick the ones they think are ready once they're ready to release another group. Everyone else either just holds on or just....drop out and go back into normal society or find a new agency or change career paths
Dang. I didn't know that. Well at least we got to see Jessica and Jihyo debut. I'm happy for them really. Thanks for the detailed info. I honestly thought training was just a few months then right away start promoting and photoshoots etc. I guess nothing is easy in life. Really I'm still in awe and shock.
9:02 Get It is a timeless BOP
YES! I wasn't a fan of pristin but I have listened to that song. I LOVE IT and it's such a underrated song
This is one of the saddest disbandment stories Iâve ever heard.
There's only one thing that ruined them. PLEDIS. That's all. Pristin was such a promising group. They already got the fame bc of IOI, they are very talented, they are very pretty, they are fun, they had it. Pledis totally ruined them.
I think riding on the fame of IOI is part of the reason why some groups cannot succeed. Fans were fans of the group together and if they are separated, it's highly unlikely will they support all members in their respective groups. They will choose only a few members to support.
If we're talking about produce group fame, nuest would have also skyrocketed since wanna one disbandment but aside from a few increase and new fans, we have to admit that nuest isn't as successful as other boy groups right now
@@NIzzah nuest has different outcome. nuest w garnered so much attention even without minhyun to the point of winning so much awards and sales skyrocketed. when mh came back, he didnt overshadow anyone even aron who didnt join pd101.
what confused me the most during the long hiatus was why pledis didn't just give the girls a comeback without kyla companies give their groups comebacks with missing members all the time (like for example twice) and I never understood but pledis in general can't manage girl groups at all
Also during Siyeonâs graduation, member Sungyeon actually appeared but was in a mask and big coat, kinda blending within the crowd but she hugged Siyeon and congratulated her.
Pristin and gugudanâs disbandments were so unnecessary
Wait, did gugudan already disbanded?
@@chelsea-tr5if yup, Sally was on the Chinese equivalent of Produce 101 and explained that they quietly disbanded last . The girls didnât see it coming, they were randomly told one day to leave the dorms and that was no reason to come back. I donât understand why Jellyfish hasnât an official statement because it was very much big news when the episode aired
pristin was the first group i actually fell in love with.. i think the lack of closure their disbandment caused me is something i might never get over
I completely understand, even today what happened with SNSD I am still heartbroken and itâs because we donât have a definitive answer as to why it happen, just apologies, pointing fingers and assumptions and it drives me nuts.
I didnât follow pristin much but I was so surprised when I heard of their disbandment, I thought they would go pretty far, totally sucks :(
After the success of I.O.I, it's really shocking that all the girls flopped or are now in only mid tier groups. Chungha is the most successful one, which makes me super happy, but my heart aches for the other girls. Project groups suck, they are not worth it at the end of the day (also looking at some other produce groups alumni).
Somi has some hits too. Sejeong starred in one of the most popular dramas this year too
Hinapia was fun, so sorry to hear them and all the girls had their dreams dashed, for some of them twice. I really enjoyed their music. Sympathies to all the girls.
bye im still forever sad and miss pristin
Why you gotta do this to me heart? I miss them so much. PLEDIS WHY đđđđ
pristin deserved so much better
it always confuses me when companies (any company, anywhere) decides to blatantly ignore the problems they are having. instead of making a statement they just act like nothing happened, do they believe the public will also ignore it? because it normally does the complete opposite, it becomes talked about and noticed more. then in turn it becomes unforgettable.
idk i feel like making some sort of statememt is better then a complete lack of communication. the public is what keeps a company going, without them you loose it all. so why would you alienate or ignore the people who keep you going...
just doesn't make any sense buisness or other wise.
I just really feel for these girls, they have trained for years and years to just be screwed over and over. they were done dirty. I hope all of them find success in whatever way that is.
Well... we haven't heard from Gugudan really since 2018 so it makes me nervous. I really thought their last comeback was such a bop but Gugudan worries me...
A Girl Like Me deserver a win. The boots chorus is god teir. The verses are awkard but they just needed THAT song
Unfortunately it seems like Gugudan shared the same fate as Pristin. While Sally was on Produce Camp 2020 she admitted that her company kicked all the members out of the dorm and told them not to come back. 2020 has been rough on a LOT of companies and forced a lot of groups to disband prematurely.
@@NinjaKittkatt that's so sad that her company kicked all the members out and told them not to come back.... it's also annoying that companies disband groups prematurely. Like- please disband the group properly. it's the least they could do and also disbanding groups prematurely leaves the fans in hope. It's really stupid and frustrating.
They are disbanding...
They really were the rookies of the year, they have it all: the voices, the visuals, the dancers, the producers, the lyricists. I'll always miss PRISTINđ
honestly, i think pristin could've been a very big group if they were given the right promotion and had better treatment. i'll never really understand why pledis basically gave up on them so early into their careers rather than try to help gain the girls more popularity. they had so much potential to be a very promising group, and i'll forever be angry at their wasted talent. i was such a big fan of them since debut so having to watch them go from having so much to basically nothing, really hurt and i'm still upset about it to this day if we're being honest. i hope no other group has to go through what pristin & hinapia as well had to go through
I used to like pristin alotttt and when this news broke out i cried non stop for dayss đ and now with fromis9 under pledis ent. i just hope nothing happen to my girls . i love f9 since their debut đ
PLEDIS... By this time I wonder how their future as a company. Even though they're under big hit wings, and stable group with Seventeen and Nu'est, they didn't have the 4th generation idol. With their current history of managing new groups, there is a lot to work on.
I always thought Pristin couldve been big. Pledis shouldve been patient with their success. They probably thought they would get instant no.1 and fell short of their expectation. But they were already doing great. Such a pity. I remember they were doing good covers of Seventeen songs.
I really loved We. It was such a great song.
Something definitely happened behind the scenes. No company would drop a group that has fans protesting for a comeback at the company's door. I mean Pledis had a money maker that was already popular and winning awards. Even if a few members left, a full group comeback would've done well with how in demand it was. I completely believe something happened between the girls and the company that made the company, for some reason, neglect and disband them. That at first the company wasn't going to disband them, just put them on hiatus, but it got to a point where they were so upset with the girls and dropped them.
I was literally listening to pristin all week, talking about how much i missed them and then i saw this video T_T I miss pristin so much
I've been waiting for a vid like this ever since they went inactive literally thanks so much for this- Nobody ever covers the FULL STORY and it gets on my nerves đ
i hope i could do it justice đ„ș
@@MidnightTheories You did dw dw, I love your content btw, you actually do research instead of stating the obvious and it's so satisfying to actually LEARN something from kpop history vids instead of well known info so tysm â€
i stanned them right after they debuted, even made a fan account and now i'm so sad :(
I love how if Pledis wants to terminate a group, they just terminate the contract but the artist can't terminate the contract for bad representation. Pledis may claim monetary loss....but what is the loss of youth, time, energy and social life worth?
Pristin was the first group i stanned when they debuted, so when they disbanded. I CRIED
it breaks my heart that they only had 2 songs as a group...the potential they had was crazy, they were so talented
it scares me what happened to kyulkung, what exactly did pledis do to make her want to leave so badly
It really sucks that HINAPIA disbanded directly because of COVID-19. I wish them and OSR the best in the future.
As a carat of 5 years, and a fan of After School, Nu'est, and Pristin.... Pledis really should not have any groups. They have no clue how to manage their artists and how to provide for them. I firmly believe the only reason Seventeen is as successful as they are is because they're self-producing, and when starting out, handled a lot of their own material (even designing album covers, for free).
Don't even get me started on After School and poor Kaeun. Loves (Nu'est fans) have also left notes on the Pledis building for the mistreatment of Nu'est, and I can't tell you how hard it is to watch SVT have virtually no freedoms as a senior BG. I really hope that they don't debut the trainees they have, and stop taking on more, just because nobody deserves to suffer from this company any longer.
That's quite weird, from what I see, they were doing quite well even though the sales dropped, 27,000 is great for a rookie group. I don't get why they suddenly went into hiatus.
I know groups that only sell ~2,500 ~3,000 copies for each cb and are still active.
I really loved Hinapia, they had a potential.
Iâve always supported rookies bc of how hard they struggle (esp ones not of big 3) and Pristin was SO capable and talented but if you know Pledis and how hard Highs tried to get the girls respect... it was hard. These girls were by far impressive. It sucks having to support them separately now.
When hinapia disbanded I was so hurt for the members they just wanted another chance
I miss Pristin so much đđ They could've been so big! If there's one good thing Pledis is good at, it's fucking up promotions for their top tier groups
Pristin had so much potential and they had a good start. If only Pledis didn't get discouraged & give up so quickly. I could definitely see them being super popular.
I think pristin could have been big if their company didn't give up on them. Look at oh my girls. Their company didn't give up on them and look what a success they hot this year.
This still hurts, Pristin's Wee Woo was the first K-Pop song I fell in love with. I was so excited for Hinapia too, I wish their company could have crowdfunded like Saturday do.
Their song Roller Coaster was such a bop, itâs a shame it was never released.
Also I can imagine Pristin singing Fromis_9âs Glass Shoes, since the song was co-written by Pristin members.
Iâd say itâs quite common for artists to have many unreleased music, but pledis was not only milking the members but also not paying attention and neglecting them.
I didnât want to trust pledis after what they did to Afterschool but I really thought the company had turned a new leaf, I guess old habits never change.
what makes me especially sad is the members who debuted with pristin
just to disband then debut in pristin v just to disband then debut in hinapia
just to disband again I remember watching an interview and seeing
Minâkyung cry about the situation really broke my heart
Pledis kept Nu'est for years even while mismanaging them until they got big on produce101 but they dropped Pristin so quick !!!??? It's not hard to tell Pristin would have been much succesfull if they were managed by any other company :(
I miss them. They had so much potential and Pledis messed it up
Honestly, I was under the impression that they were doing fantastic like in terms of numbers. They constantly had hits.
i feel like pristin is more famous now then they were when they were active
when 'get it' started playing i almost cried. im sad i wasnt there when they first debuted, but that song means a lot to me (+ it's a BOP) and i haven't heard it in such a long time.
if anyone is wondering, all of them, i guess with the exception of nayoung, are still in contact. you can look them up in their ig accounts and they still follow each other.
I think you got it right at the end. The fan support just wasn't there. If you get rookie of the year and all that then put out another comeback and do worse, it's already not looking good. then you do a sub unit, still not getting the numbers, then some of the members go to another group and try again there and that doesn't happen it's not the labels fault it's the fans fault for not supporting them. it happens all the time in music and movies and sports. somebody gets rookie of the year in a sport and then they fall off and are never heard from again. you get a one hit wonder in music and they're never heard from again. an actor has a hit in the movies or on tv and then they fall off too. Pristin is one of those.
sungyeon (aka shannon) recorded a lot of backing vocals for numerous artists after disbandment. I'm pretty sure she worked with nu'est and jamie but the list is def longer than that. yehana is getting her degree rn so there's not a lot of info about her but she's doing alright. not really sure why she would be still signed with pledis tho
the fact that pristin had so much potential and pledis destroyed it, that gotta be one of the most saddest girl group story ever
âdonât send hate to pledisâ
donât tell me what to do. /hj
The fact that hinapia didnât sell enough albums also shows why pristin disbanded in my opinion. Thereâs so much hype online but if you donât buy their albums and financially support them they canât just continue. It is what it is.
I am not trying to compare them with another group.
But Pristin and Hinapia album sales is high. Cuz if you look up to Dreamcatcher, their debut album just sold 2k. Next CB, got 4k album sales.
they were my favourite girl group and i was so mad when they disbanded! i was also heartbroken for siyeon who spent her whole childhood training with pledis i cried. shannon (who continued her contract with pledis) is now currently working as a producer! she helped produce one of jamie parkâs new songs! however sheâs undoubtedly the most talented vocalist out of the third gen idols, and definitely one of the best dancers in pristin so i pray pledis can debut her with yewon
I loved them so much and miss them so much. I still hate Pledis entertainment and I'm sad that most of the members stopped making music or being idols đđđ
Not I read the title like they sang it!! Pristin was the group I was sooooo hyped for after IOI ended. Pledis should not manage anymore female idol groups anymore seeing how they handled not only Pristin but After School too. Yes I understand that money talks and their album sales drop, but they were winning rookie awards left and right and that says to me that their popularity is still there if you manage them right. WJSN (debuting before Yeonjung joined) Weki Meki, Chungha and even Somi are slowly rising in popularity so itâs possible that Pristin couldâve achieved such popularity but Pledis is just incompetent not only with their female idols but heck with Nuâest and Seventeen too
I miss Pristin so much. I do think if Pledis kept going they could have had a break through like the other groups from the post ioi era (gugudan is worrying me too tho). But after how they treated After School and now Pristin? I don't trust them with girl groups. Theres already a really promising trainee from Produce 48 that is still with Pledis and we have barely heard anything from her or the other 2 girls from Pristin that's still with Pledis, I'm very worried that they will be just. Stuck in the dungeon until their contracts expire.
I dunno if you know but Jellyfish announced Gugudan's disbandment on 12/31/2020.
@@MrSuperjam789 oh I'm well aware :((
I miss them so muchđ„șđ
Another youtuber did a deep dive on Pristin and said that even though Pristin was popular, they didn't manage to bring in numbers even for their second comeback in this case, album sales or digital sales which is important. Without these, the company would have problems to promote the next comeback since their return of investment is low. That's why even if an idol is popular, if you don't have a steady fanbase that supports you financially, it's harder for small companies to continue. But honestly, Pledis just doesn't know where to go with Pristin. They don't know what concept could Pristin do that will compliment the group. Pledis perhaps suck at ideas.
Pledis lucked out with After School though because they had Kahi who has multiple ideas for group concepts. So while Kahi was there, the group was immensely popular, but when she left, unfortunately, After School started to fade.
I think pledis is just not very good at presenting ideas. A lot of their ideas flop so bad or get backlash. Seventeen got as far as they are because the members are the ones to throw in their ideas and what they want to do. Variety shows, music, comeback concepts, events, traditions in the fandom were usually all ideas from Seventeen and at times, their fans. Pledis just took it and make it come true. Or pledis gave rough ideas and Seventeen developed them and made it their own. Pledis really lucked out with Seventeen
Thatâs just not true, even with the drop in album sales, 27k was good back then, especially for a rookie girl group. Nuest was flopping harder than that.
if they only lasted long enough until HYBE bought pledis ...PRISTIN WOULD BE HUGEEEEEEEE
KPop stan who joined in the middle of 4th gen. And yes, Pristin is probably the biggest kpop mystery because there's no way the company just disbanded them because they weren't selling well. PLEDIS only had one job, and they did it terribly wrong.
This is so upsetting. It's clearly a case of mismanagement and greed on the company.
I feel so bad for Kyla.
Pledis shouldn't had debuted pristin in the first place. You can compare pledis to the kind of mothers that'll keep having more babies then they know what to do with, while simultaneously neglecting their needs. That company needs to stop accepting trainees all together if their not gonna do their damn job at managing.
*sees pristin*
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This hits my soul .. Pristin we need youuuu! And i hate covid!
itâs been years but pristinâs disbandment still hurts me :((
Pledis just didnât give them a chance and it is the most unfortunate disbandment ever I love the girls so much please support them individually
Imagine if they didn't disband they would be one of the best GG in Kpop
Post-Produce 101 era, the only members who are now really doing well in a group or solo are Soyeon from (G)I-DLE and Chungha IMO. Others could have been big but the groups they are in now, as you mentioned, are mid-tiers. Individual members say Sejeong, may be doing well but if we think of the groups, they are still finding their niche. đ
I hate Pledisđ from bottom of my heart. They have literally hurt all their groups.
I replayed and replayed their debut. I thought TWICE finally had competition. I really looked forward to them. I'll never stop being disappointed in what happened to Pristin.
I legit get depressed thinking about how pledis treated PRISTIN. ALSO I WANT TO KNOW, if they had stuck it out for a few more months when Big Hit acquired pledis... HOW WOULD big hit have managed the girls. IMO I think they would have let them shine and probably rival BlackPink with a new darker/girlcrush concept?
So sad to think about especially if they never disbanded and got to work under bighit (now that pledis is a sub label or sum like that) we probably couldâve seen so much potential released
With pristins get it being my first kpop song their disbandment hit hard I loved Pristin and pristin v
From what Sally said, Gugudan's probably 'unofficially' disbanded. There were also rumors of Pledis' financial situation around that time.
Gosh, I miss pristin so much. They were my ultimate group and I met so many new friends on Pristin Amino. They gave me so much and I just miss them so muchđđđ
Pristin disbanding was a slap in the face for everyone
About Hinapia's album sales, OSR didn't put a physical album up for sale. They only released a digital single. There is a physical album, but they were not for sale.
I remember that when Pristin debuted Kyla instantly became my bias
So glad Iâm early canât wait to watch the whole thing đ
I remember how exited i was for their debut. Pledis is trash just like MBK, I think Seventeen is lucky because they are allowed to compose and being more involved in their albums and have good songs. Companies pretend the public to buy albums when the songs are average and they blame their idols for the failure. I canceled Pledis after what they did to Pristins' girls and will never support them.
Out of all groups that have 1 or 2 I.O.I members, Gugudan has now gone with big hiatus, I think bigger than Pristin without news of disbandment
Yes!!! U just made my Saturday better
Since they were my ults I already knew most of this content but I'm so thankful that finally someone gave them the appreciation and attention a group deserves after they disband
Seriously why doesn't this channel have more subscriptions? You're doing an amazing and very precise job!
I miss them so much đđ