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the favoritism in this show was CRAZY. a group had to go to dayeon's house to meet her parents. this didn't happen to anyone else.

As Everglow-up said: "Kep1er was rigged...just a different kind of rigged"

It was insane to see the extent of their hatred towards the C girls minus Xiaoting. Yaning, Ruiqi and Caibing will given the obvious villain arc that shifted and changed according to what the public was thinking throughout the show. Beyond this, there were so many small digs that were incredibly unfiar. Poking fun at the twins and using her sickness against her. Pointing out Xingqiao's natural reactions to criticism and trying to paint her out to be apathetic. Even the way they portrayed people like Wang Yale and Wang Zige. The C trainees were doomed from the start. The public were just too blind to see it before it was too late.

7:55 Yes!! The whole reason I watched girls planet was for Xu Ziyin. Her audition wasn't shown at all, plus after she went home she literally said how Mnet low-key sabotaged a lot of Chinese contestants. They didn't give any of those 99 girls a chance to show their talents clearly. They chose the songs they performed for the auditions and gave them a small amount of time to prepare. Ziyin said that she wasn't able to drink any water for 12 hours and then had to immediately go out and perform siren of all songs. To think that literal kids had to go through this too is scary.

Bahiyyih was 100% NOT intended to be in the original lineup. Like they'd always put her in the episode trailers (for views), but then in actual episodes she'd barely get any screen time (which is probably why she was never in the top9 before the final). ALSO all her popularity came from her fancams (which everyone got), and her fans are the ones that spread those around. Even now in Kep1er it's clear that they didn't want her in the group since she's treated like a backup dancer in most of their songs.

another blatant riggory is the fact that just like every other mnet survival show... contestants did NOT choose their introduction songs mnet did. So many contestants were set up to fail by mnet who gave them HORRIBLE songs that were out of their vocal ranges. so sad.

I think Cai Bing's case was the prime example of how mnet "pushed out" trainees they didn't want to debut. She was constantly in the top9 until the very end of the series, dropping off after that episode full of mistranslations and being edited to be the villain. They did the same narrative to a lot of chinese trainees that were gaining traction, and left japanese contestants they didn't like with zero screen time. It was such an obvious riggery, but ppl brushed it off because of the narrative mnet created that some trainees were villains, I would even go as far as to say they explored conflicts between the three countries to manipulate the korean public in the final half of the show (hence why that one line up was basically all koreans)

I think Su Ruiqi was only a mnet favorite in the beginning, but after the China scandals, they tried to make her look bad because Koreans would be upset if she got in.

I also want to bring back the fact that Fu Yaning talked about her "beef" with Yujin and how Mnet sort of forced her to confront Yujin and even the trainees were surprised when they watched the episode and saw how the editing put Yaning in a bad light and also a lot of the trainees didn't choose the songs they were gonna perform in the first evaluation (like the twins and also Zi Yin who performed Sunmi's Siren) and last but not least the mistranslation that happened to Cai Bing and made her lose a lot of votes (please correct me if I'm wrong)

I really doubt Bahiyyih was someone who MNEt actually wanted on the final group. More than anything, she was used for her brother’s clout :/. She might have had a background expo unlike other trainees, but she basically made it because of people going out of their way to find her fancams and such. That’s just my opinion

BILLLIE is the best thing to happen for Suyeon (Sheon now) and i’m so happy she debuted with my girls. She definitely fits more and is killing it. Sometimes defeat isn’t all that bad 💙💜 please support BILLLIE !!

Mnet favoring Yujin is a MUST. Like after using her history with CLC and mnet "indirectly" criticizing her career (through Yaning) and repeating it everytime. They basically shamed her on public. They literally used Yujin's sad background as a pawn for people to watch the show. Giving her screentime is their redemption to Yujin. AS THEY SHOULD.

OMG, I just found out that BVNDIT disbanded from this video. I am so sad, as BVNDIT was very talented, and was a victim of being from a smaller company. I hope that all five members go on to bigger and better things in the future. Their song "Dumb" is still one of my favorite Kpop songs of all-time. BVNDIT will be missed.

Please support Ririka, she debuted as a part of the six-member girl group ILY:1 on April 4th, with Love In Bloom. Alongside three other girls planet 999 contestants, Ara (Lee Yunji), Rona (Chang Ching and Hana. As well as two other members, Taiwanese Elva and Korean Nayu. They made a comeback on July 19th, with Que Sera Sera. They are the perfect ratio group, with two Korean, two Japanese and two Chinee (Taiwanese) members.

I got to say though that I don't agree that Bahiyyih was one of Mnet's favorites. Because except of the mention of her brother, she was never shown in any other episode. The most screentime she got after that was when she gave antibiotics to Yujin. Yes, maybe they thought she didn't need it, but they would still not have taken the chance, right?

im curious abt what would happen with a group coming from a (popular) survival show with 0% manipulation. i wonder if itd be balanced or successful

Just to add to your point, the initial performances show riggery even beyond what's explored here. Chinese trainees revealed they didn't choose their songs or their teams (meaning Yujin performing solo at all is a huge boon) OR SONGS. Chinese trainees also revealed that the c team got assigned a disproportionate amount of songs by idols in attendance as master, even if it didn't work for their vocal ranges etc. Meant to intentionally shame them in comparison to j and k trainees.

Absolutely not. Yujin,Yaning and Bahiyyih were only a gimmick to maintain viewership throughout the first 2 episodes. All the videos about GP999 are very tone deaf about the national politics Mnet was following. We were never the audience. Koreans,Chinese and Japanese were. C-girls were evil. The twins and Wenzhe were comic reliefs. Xiaoting and Ruiqi were the picks. Throughout the entire show we were reminded how pretty Xiaoting was and how much of a goddess Ruiqi was. These picks blew up in the moment Ruiqi's past came to light. Koreans didn't want her so Mnet had to cut her and at that point of the competition there wasn't any other c girl with a good enough image to compete for top9. J-girls are incompetent. It was the narrative in P48 and it was here. Mnet told us Hikaru is talented and Yurina is a pretty,hardworking girl who makes a cute ship with Xiaoting. This blew up when Jfans didn't like Yurina to the point they preferred Yaning over her. Mnet had to scrap that and go on with Mashiro.

Dude....Youngeun got very favourable edits for both the Combination mission and the "U+Me=LOVE mission and Bahi basically disappeared after episode 2.

Up to now I'm still surprised that Yurina did not make the final cut. Her performance of Fancy by Twice was unforgettable.

03:50 Wow, Xiaoting is an absolute dancing and visual machine. I knew this before, but watching her dance here still impresses me.

I find it hilarious that you think Bahiyyih was a favorite when the most screen time she got in the entire show was when the mentioned her brother. After that she was basiclly nonexistent. I was very obvious mnet did not want her to debut.

I'm shocked you didn't touch upon how the Chinese contestants from the get go were treated unfairly due to the tensions between Korean and Chinese people. Yes initially Su Ruiqi was favored, but as the public dug into her past and found posts from her weibo where she had posts in support of China (god forbid a CHINESE girl post in support of her country lmao), MNET very obviously caught on and started to edit her in a bad light. Her being shown not hitting the note in Snake, causing her to change positions, the judges saying her facial expressions are "too much" etc, trying to now pull away international votes because they knew she was a top pick for international fans and they no longer wanted her in the lineup because then Korean netizens would boycott the group since they already decided they didn't like her. The only reason the K-Netz like Xiaoting is because she has no posts or history of supporting China and her visual is too pretty for them to not like her. Even still, she placed LAST.....

Don't get me wrong, all the final lineup are extremely talented, and I actually never voted for her, but I do think Youngeun had the most "organic" final ranking of the group. Sure she got a good edit during the intro performances, but Mnet mainly focused it on her being silly and goofy. I truly think it was her Kick It performance itself that garnered a lot of voters. I remember seeing a lot of people voting for her from the get go because she's extremely talented.

Don’t forget that they also changed the ratio of the votes so that the Korean votes would weight more. I was really pissed at that! Basically saying f you we include you in the votes now but not really. And we know that Koreans will most likely vote for Korean contestant. I anticipated that so I only voted for Chinese contestants (my main pick was from China anyway). Look at Chuang 2021, a survival show whose main concept was also having a lot of different contestants from different nationalities, it was far from perfect but at least I didn’t have to worry or concern myself about the contestant’s nationalities and just voted for who I liked.

This made me recall what Everglow Up said in her previous video about how Mnet really went hard in giving Bora the angel edit in a desperate attempt to legally rigged her in but we just didn't vote for her (the survival show war crimes video)

I really love Ririka! She’s a very good performer and is clearly the standout in her group. I voted for her and Manami, none of them debuted though.

I agree about a decent amount of the members being favorites, but if we are being honest Mnet didn’t want Bahiyyih to debut😅 They used her as a way to attract attention to the show, that’s why her brother basically got more screen time than her in her 1st group session. After the 1st few episodes they didn’t give her groups any real screen time during prep before the performances. For the shoot team we don’t even know how she ended up with more lines.

What really hurt me is that Cai Bing was my number 1 pick, since the start they gave her really good editing (sunmi’s comment, good editing even after her mistake in hylt) she was even in the original top 9 but then they decided to destroy her in the Salute performance and all K-pop Stan’s went against her and believed in the evil editing done to her,and after all the blacklash at the end they changed the subs of what she actually said

This was really apparent to me when I watched gp999 in 2021..if they couldn't rig the votes, but they could rig the perception of how people view certain contestants with screentime and editing. I'm glad on how the Kep1er lineup turned out tho, not like others with the opinion that they don't fit eachother well

The worst thing is what they did with Cai Bing… she was my top 1 pick, she was always in top 9 and then suddenly she went last and eliminated

i agree with the backstory things just to make it not look suspicious. Ririka was in Nizi project but so was Sakurai Miu but Miu's backstory was never mentioned. Miu got Top 9 candidate sticker but it was not shown. The introductory performance of her and her team was shown for like 5 seconds.

12:10 From what Ive heard, Dayeon got one of the largest backstories out of all the 99 girls

I disagree about Bahiyyih being a favorite. Mnet used her to attract viewers for the show, but they did not want her to debut. And to this day they still do not want her in the group, just look at Wadada MV, where she does not get any lines (just background vocals) and is the only member not shown in a close up in the first half of the MV. She doesn”t get lines, doesn’t get center time and is not used as a visual or even a stan attractor. She made it into Kep1er because of all the hate she got and when people were looking into her more closely (via the YT performances and fancams, as Mnet only showed microseconds of her in the show) they realized that she was actually hardworking and talented. That is how she became #1 in 115 countries when the world only contains about 200 countries in total.

I don't understand why you think mnet prefered Youngeun to Bahiyyih, when YG had a lot of screentime while BH was barely on the show

I definitely think it’s different for Bahi, mnet clearly lacked showing Bahis true potential during the show, and I feel like they definitely didn’t want her in the final lineup, however they realized her popularity and what she could bring to the group, using her for popularity, and they suddenly started showing her a bit more in realization that Bahi was one of, if not the most popular contestant, and was going to make it into the final lineup, whereas if we compare it to others who made it into the lineup, they were more recognized for better qualities, which as said in the video, can be seen in the first 2 episodes. You can definitely still see this since She’s still not given enough lines in the group.

I have three things to say: #1: While I think initially Su Ruiqi might have been among mnet's favourites, at a certain point they must have changed their minds, when they pulled probably the second most disgusting evil edit after Cai Bing's on her in the last few episodes, when they made her our to be an entitled brat just because she was tired and yawned a few times. She was a major contender for a spot on the group, maybe even being able to knock Xiaoting out, but she fell a lot after that. Yaning also got scammed for the Snake performance, they gave her an unfairly difficult high note with a choreo leading up to it that made it literally impossible to sing properly, she botched it, and they showed the mentors slamming her. Meanwhile they showed other performances where the vocals were autotuned into oblivion to cover up any mistake. #2: The biggest riggory was the voting system. The 1:1:1 ratio they forced on us for weeks did not only make sure that they'd be left with enough foreigners by the end, but also made Koreans panic for for Korean contestants when the ratio rule was lifted. They also made the Korean votes count more (I think it was 50-50% between International and Korean votes, but just because of how many more international votes there were, 1 Korean vote counted for multiple). This is how they ended up with 7 or 8 (I don't remember exactly) Koreans in the top 9 before they panic released the ranking in the middle of the week. And if it weren't for the Korean votes counting more, we likely would've had a 3:3:3 group with Yurina, Yaning and Ruiqi making it in. #3 This kinda relates to my second point, but it's still mind blowing to me that Xiaoting made the #9 spot. The reason Yurina fell off so bad is because she was most Korean voters' "filler" vote when they were forced to pick a Japanese contestant, while Hikaru and Mashiro had strong fanbases to keep them afloat in the final voting. We assumed Xiaoting would end up the same, despite her getting #1 easily for weeks, because both Ruiqi and Yaning, like Hikaru and Mashiro had a much stronger following. The problem was that most of the following these two had were international voters. Koreans HATED Ruiqi because of political controversies, and Yaning, they were fine with at best. But in the end, when Mnet showed us that there were too many Koreans, and even Knetz started voting for foreigner trainees, Xiaoting was able to climb up and snatch that #9 spot. Sure she had international voters too, but this just goes to show how much more power Korean voters had and how unfair this voting system was to international fans. If they ever reintroduce this voting system I'm not watching another survival show again. I know in the past we weren't even allowed to vote, but I'm sure a lot of us were lured into watching this because of the promise that this time we matter too, only to find out that that's not the case again. Just check out the count of international votes for some of the contestants who made it to the final but not to Kep1ler. I'd rather they not let us vote at all than decieve us like this.

Imo they initially wanted Ruiqi in the group, but changed their mind after her controversy. The was they edited her before and after is very telling.

They used panic voting a lot. During the final they announced that Hikaru and Xiaoting were 10 and 11, so ppl voted them in, without knowing who they voted out because they didn’t say who was in the top 9 at that point. The top 1 girls had a lot of extra exposure with the promo videos and being center for their circles in O.O.O.

Youngeun was my forever frontrunner. Her and Su Ruiqi and we know Ruiqis end. Do kinda like how Youngeun kinda blew in front even against the favoritism.

Gp999 proved very successful for mnet as they don't need to directly rigg the vote, they just need to manipulate the choice, so no one can directly point fingers. It still make me laugh, when the released the ranking just before the finale voting so that Chinese and Japanese members would also be there otherwise there "Global" Group would only have Korean members 😅

i think if mnet wanted to get back into the public’s good graces & create a new survival show with a non-rigged lineup, they should’ve had 20-30 episodes with multiple missions. instead of 3, it should’ve been 9 missions & eliminations are only after a certain amount of missions. this would give the audience enough time to realize their favorites & even help mnet pick which contestants they want in the group. the only issue would be money.

Btw, I am convinced Bahi is the only person mnet couldn't control because of how big her fanbase is. I seriously think she was the one person they didn't want hence why she had almost zero screentime.

I don’t think su ruiqi was mnet’s favourite. I’m sure she was at first, but once knetz started hating on her for supporting China on a national day, she got immense hate that Mnet stopped giving her screen time. She went from 6 minutes in the first episode to 10 seconds in the 5th to 6th episodes.

I also think the environmental challenges of being on one of these shows is subtle way they manipulate the idols to get negative material for evil editing if they want to tank someone they’re not interested in debuting. By which I mean… just consider the physical challenges of filming. For weeks you’re getting a few hours of sleep a night (if you’re lucky) all the while learning intense choreo and/or belting the same high notes again and again. These big performance spaces tend to be overly cold and dry. You’re getting some stage fright which raises your heart rate, and it never goes away because even when you’re rehearsing you’re being filmed. Even if they’re offering you food (and contestants have said different things about how plentiful it is) you’re probably not eating it either because you’re too nervous or too afraid of it’s effect on your appearance or both. Oh and you’re right to worry, because for weeks on end the entire world is comparing you to your fellow contestants and you get to hear in detail about how unappealing people find you. Now if you’re Japanese or Chinese you probably don’t know how to communicate with the performers/staff of the other nationalities. You’re away from all your support systems from home (and they might have taken away your phones iirc so you can’t leak spoilers but I’m basing this on how other reality shows operate) so you pretty much just have your fellow contestants from your country to talk to. And they keep dwindling, especially when the rules move away from the quota system. Finally, even if you attempt to communicate with other nationalities via a translation device staff will take it away (this isn’t speculation, one of the Liang twins talked about this happening.) Basically you’re being pushed to your absolute limit and you can’t even fully vent it it because, again the cameras are always rolling. Under these circumstances it really does not surprise me that some of the trainees had moments of acting out in ways that seemed immature based on the amount of skill/experience they had. Take the moment swith Cai Bing being stubborn and scatter brained. Honestly, meltdowns like this are just to be expected of anyone going through this grueling/honestly pretty inhumane process. Why am I bringing this up as a factor in rigging? Because I can guarantee you probably every single trainee had moments like what happened with Cai Bing where maybe they didn’t have an ideal amount of grace under pressure. The difference is … some people get those breakdowns aired while others do not. Sometimes they’d even show the less than stellar moments of debuted members but it wouldn’t be incorporated into whatever storyline or theme was going on in that episode. Basically tl;dr if they want to sink your chances, the shooting environment itself makes it inevitable that you will give them something to work with.

I watched initially for su riqui and after she didn’t make it I knew it was rigged

I wonder what your thoughts about Yaning are cuz she started as a "villian" to create drama for views, but closer to the end mnet was ok with her being "redeemed" and she got sooo far, so did they like her or not 😭

I would disagree on Hiyyih, Su Ruiqi and Youngeun. Hiyyih was pretty much only used for her family to boost initial views. They gave gave her almost no screen time that they didn't want her in the group. despite getting some of the decent parts in her groups, they didn't show her progress at all. As for Youngeun, she might not have been top pick for the producers but she had enough character development that had to be in the top of the 2nd pick line. I also don't think Suruiqi was ever a pick for them... maybe when she auditioned but she had too much negativity around her when the show started. I dont think mnet would risk that for a "global" group

One contestant that didn’t reached the final that Mnet loved was Chen Hsin Wei, they even gave her an edit of her moments and growth when she got eliminated

i think the rigging was also obvious in the song choices for the first episode evaluation. i think it was the liang twins that revealed the songs were chosen for them by production - its very obvious that mnet's favourites got songs that practically every trainee in the world has sang/danced to (boombayah, black mamba) while their least favourites got way less popular songs (helicopter, hmph)

Youngeun is just too talented and entertaining that even though Mnet basically gave her crumbs for screentime after the couple few episodes (and tried to evil edit her slightly with the Wang Yale & Ruiqi situation) people still voted for her like crazy. She was actually the most voted trainee internationally by the end of the show. She had no emotional backstory, no previous career in the industry, no previous survival show participation or famous last name. Just a an adorable personality and a lot of talent and passion. She's best girl ❤

I started actually watching Girls Planet by the time episode 8 aired but I still voted prior to that, so I wasn't aware at all of all this riggory throughout the show. This video was very interesting!!!

A Summary of GP999 k-trainees: angels c-trainees: devils j-trainees: non-existent

MNET did a very good job at making the Mentors look like the bad guys when they were the ones making the actual decisions and choices. I started watching kpop in 2008 just not into these types of shows you are good enough or not good enough to ve an idol and to me these types of shows start fan wars and hatred towards these girls by chosing favorites then the mentors getting dragged for not picking their favorite. Guess its just what i see

Youngeun came from a small company and made it just with talent. My girl is a ace

I don’t see how Su Ruiqi was the wanted one and Youngeun is the “backup” when they blatantly evil edited Riuqi for her sore throat and part changes, and made Youngeun the “hero” for “calling out” Ruiqi for having a sore throat.

murakami yume and kubo reina were so talented. i wish they'd managed to debut.

12:33 Uh what?? Hikaru and Xiaoting were the CLEAR no 1 out of the Chinese and Japanese contestants based on their combined talent & charisma. Just comparing their O.O.O fancams to the other girls, it was very obvious from the get go. (Not to mention the judges ALL loved Hikaru specifically and placed her first out of all 99 contestants based on her performance & auditions......their initial top 9 was not rigged. So idk what you're talking about that she could've ranked 3rd or below out of the Japanese girls.)

I love drag detective's videos, so this was really fun! Or well, as fun as a topic like this can be. Btw I was shocked to hear that the initial ranking was only based on the dance videos, I somehow assumed that it was based on a more detailed assessment of vocal/rap/dance skills and not just one of these.

I will never forgive Mnet for how they robbed my girl Momoko :( she literally has *YEARS* of experience in idol industry and dances for one of the most popular groups out of japan and from the first episode, when she was in a cell with Yujin, they literally cropped her out of shots, excluded specifically albums she was in when going over them because this was the "already has an album" cell (there are 3, technically 5 if you count her voice being in Babymetal's live albums for that one IDZ part), and her dancing is among the best ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh But maybe it's for the best because they treated the girls like shit anyways

I'd like you to make a part 2, your videos are always amazing!!

Getting more and more excited for Boys Planet so a Girls Planet video is certainly welcome ^^

If you covered every round/performance/episode, then we’d be here until New Years lol This show had sooo much to unpack! And yeah, changing how the audience perceives contestants is nothing new. There are so many vids on KZfaq these days about contestants on shows like Th X Factor (all regions), The Voice (all regions), and American Idol (just the US lol) discussing their experiences and how both the footage and the contestants were manipulated into behaving how the shows wanted. The best example is Zoe Alexander and she has a two part vid about how The X Factor both starved her and kept making her feel like she was just a P!nk wannabe. Then she had a breakdown on stage and they made her look clinically insane for it. These shows will do everything they can to get the content and stories that they want.

The way that this video is how I learned BVNDIT disbanded- I am devastated. Also, love to mention the clear riggery towards the C-Group and also favouritism towards Dayeon later throughout the show.

Totally would love to see a part 2 with the evil editing :D

I agree with everything you said, including the segment about the finale. Well put together video, very good script and just well researched. Good job!

i swear. i was still wishing for a planet pass for 3 more members in kep1er. i still wanted hope for yurina, ruiqi, and even bora or suyeon to be in the group as well

I absoulutely agree with this!!! but actually, I wont say Bahiyyih screentime in the first ep as a 'push up' for her to gain more supporters esp among k-netz. Instead, its more like a 'trap'. why? this is my explanation:- In the first ep we can see Sunmi ask Hiyyih about her first name that sounds very familiar. I mean obviously, because she's Hyuka's sister. and then proceed to show her face timing with her brother afterwards. but then when she performed with her teammates, you can see them struggling with the choreo and reaching notes (its not her but most of it are from her teammates, but I can see Hiyyih performance here are just regular too and nothing to be hype about it) which make them judges judging the girls hard and eventually gave them low grades. this actually makes viewers questioning the team's capability. And ofc, Hiyyih was the one who received the harshest critiques as she was introduce as 'Kai's sister' as people expecting her to be as talented as her brother. so that's why people start saying that Hiyyih is only using his brother for fames and popularity (even though right now clearly she's more popular than him). and that's how the hatred on hiyyih started esp among k-netz and even in other countries. Fast forward to the coming eps, everyone clearly see Hiyyih and her cell didn't get any single screentimes and mnet didn't even show the details of how they practice to perform fiesta in details. also from then people start saying hiyyih already loose her popularity when she didn't get top 4 rank in the first elimination ep. what people didnt understand is how the vote worked at that time. like every viewers got a chance to vote for three contestant. and although hiyyih might be a first choice for many people esp hiyyihlights, she might not be the second or third choice for others. for e.g. people who vote for hiyyih as their 1st choice might also vote xiaoting and yujin as their 2nd and 3rd choice, but those who vote for xting might not vote hiyyih. Until the final ep, Hiyyih never get any single screentime of herself, except during performance part and when she sit with other popular trainee. worse, in ep 11, when them trainees do a throwback of their childhood live. out of the 20 remaining contestant, only Hiyyih didn't get any part of showing her childhood photos/videos. but then, at the final line ups announcement, most people were actually shock when she was announce as the top 1 candidates alongside Chaehyun, and start saying mnet rigging the votes again- when its clearly not. on the final ep. viewers can only vote for only *one* contestant. so when it happened like that, everyone started to only prioritizing their ultimate choices. for e.g. those who vote for xting and hikaru as they're 2nd and 3rd choices are now can't do the same, so that's why we can see why their votes drastically fall, esp xiaoting from rank 1 to rank 13, plus the way mnet prioritizing 50% votes for k-netz and the other 50% from international fans makes it even harder for them to secure high rank as k-netz will obviously favoured korean trainees more than c and j group. and the amount of hiyyih received after that is straight up from hell. imagine winning 1st place on almost 100 countries fairly but then receiving petition to kick her out of the group. also not forget to mention rape jokes, racism, calling her as the reason why yurina and ruiqi didn't debut etc. this is all coming from that one moments of her clip on the 1st ep. so In my point of view, Hiyyih's screen time on the first ep brings nothing to her but hatred. if you guys still confused this is the short way to explain lmao: 1. hiyyih joined gp999 2. sunmi ask hiyyih abt her name 3. hiyyih explained + do facetime with hyuka 4. hiyyih's team performed mr. chu (not ended well) 5. received harsh judgement from mentors 6. mnet successfully makes ppl think hiyyih is untalented and only use hyuka n txt for clout 7. mnet proceed to not give hiyyih any screentime in the next ep, even until final 8. hiyyih rise back and slammed sh*t on mnet's face and finally debut in kep1er in conclusion, stan hiyyih and kep1er for clear skin.

The way I would give my left thumb for kubo reina, kishida ririka, and kawaguchi Yurina to be in a group together 😪😪😪

I'd like a part 2. Also, have you done a vid on the rigging of I-land yet? You could easily make a 4 part series.

I knew the moment i saw the title it was inspired by the drag detective 😭 this video is so true tho, there was an insane amount of favouritism

Seungeun's fate still makes me sad... who knows how far she could've gone if she had been a Mnet favorite

honestly, they really tried to squeeze yurina in since episode 1 but her 1 pick fandom was weak, xiaoriners would pick xiaoting and the casual voters (or those who voted her as a filler) didn't had her back! my first pick were ririka and i'm glad she's doing fine, but mnet truly failed her, she is a center and never got a storyline to show that

13:02 OMG Yoon Jia of mimiirose, we love you!! 14:45 Ririka of ILY:1, OMG We stan

please make a part two :3 i love discussions of kpop idol shows

If you do do a part 2, I think you could include how they ended up disbanding the ‘cells’ they made that consisted of 1 Japanese 1 Chinese and 1 Korean members when they released that it wouldn’t lead to debut of most of their pics.

honestly, would love to see your coverage on the evil-edited girls 👀

Would love a part 2. I enjoyed the vid!

I feel like it's a shame that you didn't talk about the evil editing and mistreatment of the Chinese contestants. Like I remember watching one episode and seeing that the subtitles were completely different from what the Chinese contestants said. On top of evil editing them, they literally changed the subtitles to make them look bad as "nodoby" will understand chinese. After gp999 a lot of girls talked about their mistreatment and it just shows that Mnet did not favor the Chinese contestants.

The Chinese trainees were just too talented for Kepler. Will never forget how they changed the rules last minute so more Korean trainees will make it.

A part 2 would definitely be appreciated! Thank you for making this video even though it has been awhile since gp999, at least we get to know how mnet and the prod team can indirectly effect voting and the final line-up! I still support kep1er tho!

I kind of hated that Mnet made some of the contestants seem like the villains of the show 😭, I just wanted everyone to debut. Yes Plus the screentime that everyone got wasn't equal.

I agree a with a lot you've lined out there. When watching the show with a critical eye I also came to the conclusion Mnet was creating the line-up they wanted by way of screentime distributed between a pool of contestants they greenlit as possible members for the group. I'd say there were "core" people that absolutely had to make the group in the eyes of Mnet and the editing would've bend over backwards to keep them in the show if necessary (Kim Dayeon, Xiaoting, Hikaru, Chaehyun, Yeseo, Yujin), high priority contestants (Sakamoto Mashiro, Su Ruiqi, Suyeon, Yurina) and, as you so aptly described, alternates (Wen Zhe, Myah, Shana). I definitely think Youngeun was an alternate who turned out to be more popular than Mnet anticipated. The rest of the girls were definitely favoured, save for Huening Bahiyyih. I do think she was stunt casting and Mnet hadn't anticipated how popular she'd be. Overall GP999 was one of the most predictable survival shows I've watched. I tried to predict the line-up every week and predicted 6 out of 9 correct after just the first episode. Even the girls that weren't almost a lock from the start were still very popular all the way through. It might be upsetting to realise that survival shows aren't the meritocracy they're presented as, it's frustrating to watch that's for sure, but good on Mnet for using the powers of editing to their full extent instead of resolving to crimes.

the favoritism was ridiculous. they literally made a whole episode focusing on Dayeon because she can't get any votes from other people. they made a pity party just so it will not be embarrassing that the K1 trainee won't make it in the line up. I agree that Dayeon is really really talented but the reason why she's not that popular is not because of visuals but because she doesn't give that "it factor" to be liked by the watchers. she's talented but she's not eye catching enough like the other contestants.

I'm just glad Ririka and the Liang twins seem to be leading pretty decent careers as of right now at least (please support ILY:1 and if there's people out there who can advice where I can learn more about SNH48, I'm all ears!). I'm not gonna deny they weren't very good singers, but they were *not* bad performers. Ririka kept her sweet sunny smile all throughout Fancy even despite her mistakes, and the Liang twins had a certain star quality to them - after all, I don't think it's as easy to get the judges in a good mood just like that... They had great potential, and Ririka delivered in all her future performances and I'm sure the Liang twins would've too if a certaIN SOMEONE ACTUALLY PROPERLY SUPPORTED THE FOREIGN TRAINEES AND HELPED BREACH THE LANGUAGE BARRIER INSTEAD OF FURTHER SOLIDIFYING IT BY TAKING AWAY TRANSLATORS AND DICTIONARIES, YEAH MNET?

Oh I love the shoutout of drag detective!!! Talk about the drag race of kpop! Aka queendom!! ❤️❤️❤️

my girl ayana was did so wrong she had to carry nonstop and she did well, the let's go she yelled will rest in my mind forever

The fact that trainees always were thankful of tiffany young than the other mentors says a lot. She gave a lot of advices but Mnet barely give her screentime just because she dont want drama and dont create drama. Look at how they almost give sunmi most of the screentime. Thats why tiffany explained during her live that eventhough mnet did her dirty during the show, the important thing was she was able to provide guidance to the trainees off camera. Tiffany was one of the reason this show made noise from the start.

Now the question I have to ask is why MNET wants to create a group of THEIR favorites if the fans are those who will fill their pockets at the end? I do understand why they prefer to have at least 50% korean members in the final lineup but apart from that there is literally no reason to rig someone in the group who is not as favored as another idol. The only reason I could think of is that they've already planned everything for this upcoming group and certain idols don't fit the concept or don't go well with the other planned idols.

Finally people are talking about this which is, I think, part of the reason why Kepler isn't as popular as other 4th gen groups since viewers that watched the entire program knew that something was extremely off about the final line-up. When they announced it I was in so much shock cause even though I expected some of the participants that were on the final like Dayeon that was clearly mnet's pick , It was still so disappointing to see how people really fell for the evil editing that mnet did specially about the C-trainees. I think this is pretty clear with Su Ruiqi that was popular since the beginning but they clearly didn't want on the show, Cai Bing that was set up by the production to seem like a bad/incapable leader and Yaning who was obviously evil edited since the beginning with the antagonization with Yujin, and later with the "over" confidence of her talent. My pick since the beginning was Yaning since I could see in her the stage presence and charisma that many of the other girls lacked, but since the "We go up" stupid thing everything went downhill for her and she even became a target of attacks from international fans that were watching the show. Towards the end when they revealed that the We go Up think actually NEVER was a big deal and actually Yaning was a very close friend of Yujin (something that they could've revealed earlier) it felt like a slap on the face because although they tried to give her a redeeming arc since they realized she was becoming incredibly popular in Japan, it was too late for her to catch up on votes, particularly korean votes that were against her. It was so disappointing as a watcher see her getting screwed by the editing team since it was so clearly rigged and Yaning had so much talent to offer and sadly GP999 was her last chance at making it in SK. I will never forgive Mnet for that and I just couldn't bring myself fo support Kepler since I feel like the program was incredibly unfair with both Japanese and Chines trainees.

When you think about it That's so true wow fr i think Youngeun had so much time to shine That's why she ended up in the final line up like she got an important position every episodes and as we saw she wa sthe 3rd most voted contestant at the end of the show

Yes!! Please do a second part regarding evil editing. But do also add in the opposite! Like how some contestants were unnecessarily portrayed as being god-tier

awesome video!!

I knew about bahiyyih from predebut so I knew I was going to vote for her only. I was really dedicated in the third round because of the results that came up the week earlier but I do think it’s unfortunate that more Japanese and especially Chinese trainees didn’t make it in the group. I had my favs Xu Ziyin and cai Bing and even sui ruiqi would have been great. Also yeah I don’t think bahiyyih was wanted in the group they never should her actual skills or kindness except that one time with yujin (helping lead the group in one challenge and just her relationship with other trainees as we saw she was seen sleeping with another trainee…obviously they didn’t get that close overnight mnet just never cared to show it🤨)like compared to dayeon or some Of the other members who were heavily pushed in almost every episode.

thank you for talking about reina, she was my number 1 pick since the start. her treatment on the show makes me so upset, she could have been huge :(((

I really think that Dayeon fits the Kepler's concept so that Mnet wants her to be the center of the group. Survival shows are completely absurb. All of the company are actually evaluating each of their trainee if they can fit on the debut team concept. It includes the image they see on the trainees. Mnet just picked some girls that has no connection with the concept. If they want to create a perfect group for a certain concept. They should appoint trainees that can suit the concept they wanted. Just like I-Land, all of the contestant can fit in Enhypen's concept. I hope that Mnet can learn from this like they actually areone of the producer of I-Land. I guess that Boys Planet 999 will have a filipino trainee, I'm afraid that he will be used for the drama.

i have a love-hate relationship with this channel but your stan list is top tier I had to subscribe

I would love more videos like this, specially about the produce shows. I want more about girls planet 999 too, about the evil editing and all the tactics used to push candidates

I would love a part two, btw!