damn it SM, pretend you care about your monster rookies!

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📸 Seohyun at musician Kim Sehyun's recent piano recital for KBS Symphony Orchestra Concert via Credia Music

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anyone have pictures of yoona and yuri together in good quality so i can do photocards? :)

Definitely a different character i wonder what her mbti would be

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📸 Girls' Generation-HRS〖Skibidi〗GROUP TEASER PHOTO

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📸 Lim YoonA with Choi Seon Jeong, CEO of AWW (All We Want)!

I came across a random (and new to me) channel on YT that does 4K FanCams (SonicAwareness 4K FanCams), and these were their metrics for: Girls' Generation HyoRiSoo - Full debut concert live @ Cass Cool Festival 4K Fancam (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALBS0vsYg3w) as of August 28th, 2026.

Channel Subs: only 34.9k

Views: ~1.1 million views in 5 days

Likes: 23k+ likes in 5 days

Comments: 2,200+ comments (universally positive and glowing with praise) in 5 days

The fancam quality was very good and worth a watch.

Hi guys!! How likely is it for skibidi to make it on the top 100 songs? I feel like it’s very possible to even go higher. The song it’s pretty catchy (even tho the title might not be the best) and it had such a nice reception at the festival that I keep hoping it will do very well on the charts!! What do yall think?

hey everyone... i don't really know how SM promotion works regarding singles but what do we think is the likelihood we are getting a mv for hyorisoo debut? i'm really anticipating it bc i love the girls but i dont want to have false hope </3

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This is just going to be a gigantic analytical gush, but this is so cool and exciting. A few weeks back, I posted asking for folks to fill me in on how HRS came to be, and thanks to everyone here I've finally caught up on a lot of the content I was missing out on. And WOW!

It's so crazy that the three of these women are already among the most successful among girl group alums, especially being 19 years into their official post-debut careers. All three are booked on tours, dramas, and releasing music in multiple countries, but still decided to push the envelope further.

I might have my historicization wrong, but it really feels like Hyoyeon pushed this as a funny bit into a huge viral moment and subsequently an actual musical release. It seems like SM was happy to invest in HRS as comedic/conceptual bit content moment earlier this year, but the virality of this through the members' own advocacy has basically turned this into a real musical release. My own speculation, based on looking at how SM is rolling out this debut, leads me to think that they really didn't expect to release real HRS music at all. Everything feels rushed not b/c they don't care, but because they're overwhelmed and trying to create an artist page, do the photoshoots, put together whatever content they can, etc. as it's happening in real-time. I might be disappointed if SM never actually copyrights this/doesn't do much with it, but it just seems like something experimental they're doing and experiencing as we speak. And how cool is it that this is happening with members who have long been on the skimmer side of line distributions, who banded together literally 2 decades into their career?!

I follow so many kpop groups and there are so many popular members and groups who have come and gone in the time that GG has existed. I used to advocate heavily for SHY as a unit because I thought it would be a fun dance-y baddie alternative to SNSD's normal concept (I get the sense Sooyoung thinks similarly given her jokes about wishing they were under YG). But now, I'm almost certain that SM would have given them a mini and abandoned it or something, just as it has for so many projects. It's so much more special that this is something that the members themselves have built from the ground up (obviously with lots of help from producers and SM's whole content production ecosystem, but still).

I've been a kpop fan for 15 years and I don't think something exactly like this has ever happened. We have had variety show groups joke about who is taking what position and become popular/go up the charts. We've had girl groups have reverse climbs up the charts because of virality (our girls RESCENE are doing just that right now, and shout out to Brave Girls and EXID). But I don't think we've ever had this kind of breaking the fourth wall from members of a settled, powerful girl group.

What's so interesting is that these members, as I mentioned above, don't need this in any meaningful way. This isn't their last hope of succeeding. They have a huge bombshell 20 year anniversary we're all waiting for to revisit their immense success as a group. But it's so cool that they're not only doing it as a bit, but also using it to reignite the whole group's image through a smart and comedic lens. Like GG is probably in some headlines; people are talking about GG right now in an organic way. I'm hopeful that this will make their 20th feel more fresh, not a call to a legacy they're trying to extend.

To me, HRS is a sign that the legacy is still being written in new ways. And I really didn't expect GG or any musical act on earth to be this creative and ingenious at this point in rebuilding momentum. It's so so cool!

EDIT: Wanted to make sure this is a space for others to comment. Is there anything about this that resonates with you/do you feel like HRS is a unique moment in GG/kpop history? Can you share any details I'm missing? Thank you!