(in response to a message op would rather not publish)
Don't worry, I'm not here to bash your opinions, and I actually feel glad that you felt comfortable enough to send something long and thought out to me. Honestly I think it's natural to feel the way you do, like we're humans, we naturally compare ourselves to others and when someone's situation seems better than ours, when it seems like they couldn't give a shit about our situation and yet they're loudly demanding attention for their own, we feel hurt and jealous and bitter.

And yeah, I've been here before, so I know there's absolutely no way Zeroses--like ANY fan--are going to equally support all the members. On one hand, it's just a fact of life. I've been through group disbandments/fizzles into solo content plenty of times and as much as you talk, in the end your attention will be biased and a few years later you'll be like damn what IS that guy doing I haven't kept up with him 🥲 and then on the other hand, stanning members who are less popular after the breakup and looking enviously at the most popular members hurts!!! It sucks!!! I miss when we were selling out stadiums together and not barely scraping together two hundred people for a concert!!!

Even on a smaller scale, everyone was SO PASSIONATE about BP and their trainees when it ended, but where's that support for like, TOZ? Where are the album sales for Onepact? Where are the ticket sales for EVNNE? I've talked to people before who were like omg I was a Park Hanbin one pick and they don't even know he debuted!!! The kpop world is so fucking fast paced and oversaturated, it's insane. It's impossible to keep people's attention.

I don't really have an answer for you, unfortunately, but well, there really are silver linings to having a smaller fandom in the future!! 🥲 Often your fave can be freer to do what they want, they can have a closer and more comfortable relationship with fans and do more interesting activities! And since there's no competition the fandom is usually less toxic, too. So I hope you can find comfort in the fact that the way you're feeling is not unjustified, but at the same time, there's always a silver lining and time can heal a lot of things. While I'm sure there's going to be SO much change for our faves in the future, I hope that we can all find stability and happiness in whatever that does look like!! ♡

lol the funniest thing is they'll change it up whenever they please 😂 like i scrolled through one maettael account to refresh my memory and just that one person used pretty much all of them in their most recent tweets. it makes sense though bc there's a lot of similar sounds in hangul you can switch out in his name! compared to taerae who just has the vowels. sometimes you see 톄례/턔럐 (using the ye/yae vowel) but e/ae is essentially the same sound in Korean so 테레 is easiest.

Also just to expand on the topic, it doesn't apply to Matthew and Taerae because their names have no ending consonants but another interesting way to misspell korean names on purpose is to use a second ending consonant! in most cases the second one isn't pronounced anyways so it works well to censor!! you might see 핝빈 for Hanbin, for example