On November 17th, a clip showing RIIZE's Seunghan and TXT's Soobin playfully dissing each other went viral among local and international online fan communitites, with Soobin particularly raising his middle toe finger. The clip, which was leaked from the idols' private Instagram account livestream, first caught ire after mistranslations were published online. However, fans were quick to clarify the content of the video.
SEUNGHAN IS NOT SHADING EUNCHAE!!!!!!!! He’s dissing someone who also met her…. I put subtitles in the video
— ୨୧ (@oobeul) November 16, 2023
Seunghan riize soobin txt middle finger toe private Instagram live video pic.twitter.com/mqKM7FDzaK
THIS IS THE TRANSLATION
— 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔤𝔦𝔩𝔢 ✵ ᵇʸ ᵗˣᵗ (@frostywnzzn) November 16, 2023
soobin and seunghan have never once dragged eunchae, it was soobin getting those comments
the video is from sugar rush era, after soobin stopped being mc and eunchae took his place.
pannchoa mistranslated koreans comments and the live purposely wrong pic.twitter.com/1wInEom63R
While Seunghan and Soobin mostly received criticisms from South Korean online forums where they were called out for allegedly "ruining their image" and "being troublemakers," international fans found humor in the situation through various reaction tweets and comments.
seunghan: "hyung, give me ur hand"
— ✮⋆Kika⋆✮ (@KikaOnStanTw) November 17, 2023
soobin: pic.twitter.com/RRtPWJ3fkS
“trauma bonding” you mean the scandal or soobin flipping off your idol with his middle toe cause they’re both an once in a lifetime experience
— 𝔉𝔯𝔞𝔤𝔦𝔩𝔢 ✵ ᵇʸ ᵗˣᵗ (@frostywnzzn) November 17, 2023
soobin and seunghan going live to an audience of three pic.twitter.com/UIXuY0Z3ZH
— isa (@zzno3o) November 16, 2023
Meanwhile, others were surprised as this incident revealed the fact that Seunghan, Soobin, and LE SSERAFIM's Eunchae are friends.
all i gathered from this situation is that seunghan and soobin are fawking best friends.. A WIN IS A WIN pic.twitter.com/kvgkVIuDE0
— ۟btxt's attorney (@tyunrated) November 16, 2023
this not being seunghan and soobin first meeting is insane like a bunch of actors in the making they had me fooled pic.twitter.com/ntAnxd0QDb
— gay payola (@yupsoob) November 16, 2023
soobin seunghan eunchae happily ever after challenge when pic.twitter.com/z1B1umV1Ra
— hanibi 🍯🐝 (@eunseokrealwife) November 16, 2023
eunchae’s diary with seunghan and soobin when pic.twitter.com/A5SAEYAAlV
— ruds (@antonbbh) November 16, 2023
Fans can only anticipate the idol friends' next interaction.
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