Damn…. As a new exol, I feel like stanning EXO is so hard this comeback… Reasons?
1. SM suddenly stop promoting DUMT (not that they promote them properly tho). It was the fandom who tries really hard and spend money to promote the boys everywhere..
2. SM only give 2 fansigns which mean the promotion period is basically over this month (without even begin)
3. SM put down Xiumin’s MV-OST for Falling For Challenge in SM youtube channel FOR NO REASON and put it back again after Xiumin’s fans protested really hard
4. A lot of Music shows being cancelled for the next 2 week which means no performance from EXO and maybe less win for the boys
5. Last but not least… Music Bank gave wrong title for EXO’s performance (only EXO’s video who had been given wrong title!!) in yt today which make it hard for EXOL to find the video.

The fandom is super sad and furious for the boys… What the hell happened?? 😭😭

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    🙁
    T_T
    I just can’t even… NOVEMBER WAS SUPPOSED TO BE AN AMAZING MONTH
    Instead all we’re getting is: exo being sidelined by SM, Yixing being constantly blamed/doubted about ot9 even tho he’s always mentioning them in his interviews, Kris being accused of chart manipulation in the US, people spreading rumors that Luhan is going to announce his marriage in his upcoming concert even tho Luhan already said he’s not making any announcements. What the hell happened? November was supposed to be our month! T_T
    Stay strong chingu T_T

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    SM tends to push a lot of its own artists into the back burner if they think another one of their artists is going to do better during a certain round of promos— BoA just made a comeback (I believe she’s also a stakeholder of SM, so if they want to impress her by heavily promoting her comeback, I wouldn’t be surprised), SUJU has never flunked a comeback (I know, they have their own label and are technically promoting under said label, but said label is also still technically affiliated with SM), and DB2K is doing well with their Japanese work right now… Keep in mind, all of the artists mentioned above are S.M. second gen. veterans, so I’m not surprised S.M. has chosen to push everyone else to the back burner to concentrate on them at the moment. I do understand what you mean, though, it’s indeed very sad for the other artists, and the fans of said artists, to have the feeling that their own agency—their home outside of home— is kind of not caring for or about them

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      It’s not just that tho. SM is basically cheating with us Eris. I mentioned that “DMUMT album sales, EXO PLANET #4 world tour profits, even DMUMT\’s showcase. They’re rolling in money brought in from EXO (and EXO-Ls) and they’re not even spending 1% of it on EXO.”
      They’re making ridiculous amounts of money by giving us crumbs knowing fully well that we’ll blow our cash if it means supporting EXO (and in a certain sense keeping them alive). It pisses me off so much. EXO don’t deserve this. They really don’t.

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      EXO had no comeback for 14 months and the members are starting to enlist soon. We all think this is will be their biggest comeback.. Coz there might be no OT9 comeback after this one. But what happened? After 2 music shows, the boys literally has no other promotion schedules!! All the promotions (commertials etc) on all platforms turns out were payed by EXO fandoms’ money (exo lab, baidu bar and international exol). SM almost did nothing except bragging for DMUMT’s big sales when they don’t even spent anything to promote it!! EXO doesn’t deserve to be treated like this, when Key said it himself… SM wouldn’t be able to build SM office if not because of Growl..

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      @vipsky4796 @alyad I agree, no artist should be treated like this, but this is SM…. They don’t have a very good history with treating their artists “right”— I don’t think they even see their artists as artists— or even human beings for that matter— SM just sees them as revenue-making ‘things’ 😣😣😣😣😣 Things started getting bad when Lee Soo Man was still the CEO all those years ago when Hangeng filed a lawsuit to terminate his ‘slave’ contract with SM, then things escalated when JYJ did the same thing (but it was way worse because there was internal conflict between the members 😭😭 And some really bad things were said by Yunho, but it also could have been SM who told him to say those things, I don’t know 🤷🏻‍♀️), and then things went straight downhill when the new CEOs came began their management of SM Entertainment and made things to be as bad as they could be—and it seems fishy to me that all the major bad stuff happened to non-Korean members of groups or trainees of SM, if you know what I mean— and then Chinese members of EXO filed lawsuits to terminate their contracts AND sue SM for damages…. So yea, I DO see the unfairness that is going on for EXO, but I’m not surprised

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        After what happened with TVXQ, Suju, Shinee, SNSD and F(x).. I think it was naive of me to think that SM would change and treat their artist better. How wrong I was… I knew EXO’s members are getting older and have to do their enlistment soon.. But I hope SM won’t shove them roughly like that. Regeneration is necessary.. But They can’t force a fandom to turn their back from the group that they loved so much. I secretly wish that after Exo’s contract is over they won’t renew it… But I also don’t want them to have the same fate as JYJ. SM can be so salty..

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