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[WEIBO – Moments that got you into ATEEZ]

A user posted this to help boost spirits after seeing the results from KD Rnd 1, hopefully these comments can motivate us+spread some positivity!

*my earlier post got 1.8k likes so i only tagged those who replied, pls rt to help spread!

Sorry for the long delay, but real quick thanks so much to everyone who showed interest! I'm super happy to be able to share what c-atiny are thinking, and dw they're also sharing and talking abt voting/streaming for KD! We're all in this together

onto the comments!

Original post:

[posted to ATEEZ Topic] Let's discuss, when and why did you 'board the ship' (stan ATEEZ)?

*入坑: literally means 'enter the pit', translates to 'stanning' basically

1. OP's words:

Everyone's probably feeling down tonight [bc KD] right? Doesn't matter new or old fans, everyone can take comfort from these comments. Once ATEEZ reaches the top, we can look back and see how good our past selves' taste was.

2. OP's stan moment:

It was 2019, Wonderland era. Accidentally saw their Wonderland stage with uniforms, the song was so good and the dance was so powerful so I searched up their info. How did they have so many albums so soon after debut? Fine, I'll listen to them.+

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After listening to one album, oh! Why is it so good, I never wanted to skip a single song! And then the second, third, fourth album, none of them were skips. Because of their quality music, I came onboard (kaja)

3. It was during Fireworks era, I stanned bc of SMN. I saw the 4x4 random play dance, the driving dance and rhythm were so catchy so I looked up the MV, afterwards realized I was a fan and listened to all their songs one by one.

4. In the SMN MV, Seonghwa's expressions were too amazing! San, Yunho, Mingi dancing in a trio at the end was too fiery, Hongjoong's rap was always so cool, Seonghwa's stage presence was so good, Yunho's long limbs made his dance great to watch, Yeosang I could instantly tell+

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was a visual. San was such a cutie offstage, I hope Mingi can recover quickly and return to the team, Wooyoung's killing part was so cool, Jongho our apple main vocal, ATEEZ is the best fighting!

5. In April 2019 I watched a video on the best kpop songs, I was originally there for another group but after hearing Pirate King...that moment I thought it was really to my taste*. I remembered the group name so I could look them up, after listening to SMN my reaction was+

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the same as listening to Pirate King, after looking I realized it was actually from the same group! I stopped searching, even now I'm in awe, how is there a group that so completely suits my tastes

*完全是我的菜 I think translates to 'my taste', slang is hard :((

6. First time I heard of them was 2019 MAMA, at the time I thought their stage presence was so strong that I watched it many times after. Bc I never stanned K-Pop groups I didn't plan on looking them up, but during 2020 MAMA I suddenly wanted to rewatch last year's+

6+. performance. Afterwards I went to look up their name, and after watching their Answer performance on MAMA I officially stanned.

7. Inception suits my taste so much kkkkk

8. I stanned because of their Answer/Inception performance at 2020 MAMA!

9. Today is my 462 day as ATINY, Answer is forever a god-tier song. But I already knew of them in 2019, I just wasn't a full fan yet.

10. Around April or May Wave was my daily recommended song, the music pulled me in so with a curious heart I opened the playlist. I realized every song was good, so I looked up their stage to recognize their faces. In June I watched their Answer stage and officially stanned.

11. One day I couldn't sleep late at night and saw THANXX Relay Dance while scrolling through Weibo. From start to finish Wooyoung caught my eye, I was stunned by his looks against my will. Afterwards I realized every song was equally amazing *crying noises*

12. During Answer era, I watched one of San's Wonderland fancams and became a stan

13. When I was searching for K-Pop MVs, I got roped in by Answer.

14. I was also pulled in by Wonderland, the dance practice version pulled me into the pit and even buried the soil again, I'm not climbing back out

*basically they are never unstanning ateez

15. I was watching a video online explaining the hardest K-Pop choreographies and saw HALA HALA. I got addicted to it and after watching their Wonderland stage immediately became a stan.

16. Actually I always listened to their songs, I counted myself as a casual fan. After listening to the instrumental teaser of THANXX, I lay down at the bottom of the pit and looked up the whole group. Ah, I don't exist anymore, it's only ATEEZ.

17. [looked up] K-Pop boy group top album sales --> the song was good --> stage --> Kim Hongjoong --> all members

*basically their progression of what they looked up and resulted in them stanning

Taking a quick break bc I can't add anymore tweets to the thread atm, stay tuned for more (and all the tags will come after too there's almost 200 ppl cries)

18. Kingdom!!! I really regretted not discovering this hidden gem of a group before!! Their intro and Round 1 stages were so amazing!!

19. I stanned bc of Wave, at the time I felt like it really suited my taste and was great to listen to, it had such a refreshing summer feeling.

20. Last January I saw an ad for ATEEZ and instantly liked their style, when Inception came I really got into them. San immediately caught my eye, and during this year's comeback officially stanned. Everyone let's keep fighting during Kingdom voting, ATEEZ deserves even better!

21. During Kingdom I became a fan bc of leader Hongjoong's expressions!

22. I was waiting for my ult girl group's stage and accidentally heard their SMN comeback stage and instantly zoned in on the maknae, after that I ran to look their other songs up, all of them really suited my tastes. Answer is the song that instantly made me stan.

23. One day I suddenly heard Inception and discovered it was so good! Then Answer! How was it also so good! I looked up their other songs and realized they were all my style! Then I found their MAMA 2019 stage, their dancing is so amazing! They're so powerful! Instantly stanned.

24. I saw some ranking on Bilibili and instantly loved Inception, like crazy I went to go search their MV and listened to more songs. I wanted to look them up more and fell in love with their personalities, at first it was blue-haired Hongjoong and Seonghwa who +

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roped me in, then Wooyoung and San... now my biases are the whole group.

*that last sentence HAHA they're saying they basically 'crawl all over' the team looking for a bias (in an exaggerated way)

25. I scrolled to Inception MV and thought the song was nice, afterward I looked up more MVs and after clicking on Wonderland I was shook, looked up more stages and was instantly drawn in by Hongjoong's expressions. I watched the whole stage in a state of shock and awe,+

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each member's stage presence was so powerful, I haven't seen such an exciting stage in a long time.

26. I heard a lot about ATEEZ, but I was always lazy to learn about them, I always thought it was international fans bragging unfairly about their skills (I was very biased). During Inception comeback I clicked into their MV, the line 'I'm in love' was too catchy, I watched+

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it every day and basically memorized their faces, went onto a music app and listened too all their songs. After throwing aside my bias I realized all their songs were amazing, I really could not find any bad song.

27. I'm an old K-Pop fan~ Accidentally saw Wonderland and thought the concept was pretty cool, I was floored by Mingi's voice and Seonghwa's hair, after I heard Answer I became a fan! I kept searching for more of their stages and variety shows.+

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I really love ATEEZ's passion, I'm a person who really likes rhythm, and their music really is completely my style, I am an Atiny!! I also regret not searching them up after 2019 MAMA, or else I would have found our precious pirates sooner.

I'm going to stop here now, thank you so much for reading! I was absolutely overwhelmed by the response my post got, I'm really thankful to see ppl interested in what other Atiny have to say and I hope this gives y'all a positivity boost

let's all keep working hard! Fighting!