Honestly, I'm really not sure! Which isn't a very interesting answer 😭 I don't really analyse content because for me, there's so many "unknowns" that my brain can't compute so I just absorb content at face value like a sponge 🤭😂 I may know facts but I'm also totally lost at all times!

That being said, at the time I can't say I really noticed anything unusual I suppose because things always appear different in retrospect and we know a lot more about what was going on behind the scenes now than we could have imagined then. I didn't notice anyone thinking anything was off or unusual, particularly. It was a very strange era in general and honestly it was also chaos. Everyone was very caught up in being absolutely FURIOUS that superm was encroaching upon exo's activities and everything else just fell by the wayside. I cannot overstate how upset and angry people were it engulfed everything so nothing else really even occurred to me.

I am aware that chanbaek had that spat though and I get the feeling that Baekhyun did feel bad about it and I've always wondered why Cy chose to bring it up on Knowing Bros specifically. To me I kind of assumed that he brought it up because he knew it was blown out of proportion and he thought it would be funny but, again I do take things at face value. And in my mind it was always just an isolated incident. And Baekhyun- for all his emotional awareness and intelligence- cannot read a room to save his actual life and someone has to tell him! It just seemed like a little tiff that went wrong. As for the other members' reactions, I noticed them but idk I assumed it's because it was just a bit awkward really qhshshjk

I couldnt really connect it to anything else with any level of detail because I just dont know enough. Like I didnt see Exploration at the time other than daily fansite pictures of everyone in silly hats so I don't have the knowledge I don't think 🤭. I suppose it's different seeing a concert online and getting daily updates online. It's hard to piece anything together in real time.

And I've not really thought about it much more than that, honestly. I've seen all of the clips and I am aware of things like Jd and Cy getting closer at that time (I've been curious about why and how but it's one of those pesky unknowns that I could get tangled up in forever so I just didn't think about it lol) and Cy's emotional state at the time but I suppose I've never linked them all because there was so much else going on at the time. SO MUCH. 2019/2020 was very stressful on exoplanet 🥲 then again...when isn't it stressful? HECK I'm stressed right now!

That era sticks out to me the very most because Baekhyun was just not There at all. He wasn't himself, I saw him live around that time and he barely spoke which was unnerving and there's the Workman video where he's asleep on the floor in the background cause he was so exhausted like he didn't seem with it at all. And any weird vibes between him and anyone at that time, I've always attributed to that. Cy was having a hard time, so was Baekhyun, they've always been good at seeing through each other's layers upon layers masks and facades but maybe they just didn't know how to navigate a situation where they were both struggling. Baekhyun especially isn't good at being the person who's struggling, I don't think. I dunno!

This is probably not the most interesting response for which I can only apologise but I'm not good at this stuff ahshshjk

Chanbaek is a very odd pairing in general because it's not rooted in any kind of reality. No one is out there analysing their relationship as it actually exists and I don't personally possess the skills to do so ahshshkj. This is the first time ive ever seen any kind of in depth discussion about them at that time. The chanbaek side of fandom is like wading through a thick bog nothing out here is based in any kind of reality. I wish someone would create a dossier for me about every interaction theyve ever had I'd devour it! But alas!

Anyway I've said so much and also nothing 😂 sorry about that.