First of all, the bruise on his arm during the concert was from an IV or a blood test, so jot that down. Cupping is for large muscles; not the extremely delicate and thin skin of the crook of the elbow.

Second of all, I personally have wound up with hickeys exactly like that so saying it’s impossible on the basis of roundness is factually incorrect.

Third of all, cupping results in stark mauve coloration all around the cup sight, not an oblong-shaped purple-pink target surrounded by a less colorful bruise.

Finally, it is not that serious. The fact of the matter is we don’t know and will never know what it really is, but this is a shipping fandom, which means things will be attributed to the ship regardless of how possible it is that they have anything to do with the ship. In my experience, this looks like it could be a hickey—ergo, puts shipper hat on Minsung. We don’t swoon over cupping therapy here on rps twitter dot com, so why would we look at a photo that could — within reasonable bounds — be a hickey and go ‘ah shit, the jig is up guys; streets are saying this could also possibly not be a hickey. Minsung no es real for this one’?