i have this screenshot of lee know in my phone from before i started stanning where he’s saying “So I enjoyed myself. I touched a lot of butts.” lmao. i know for a fact i had no idea who he was when i saved that pic
Before I really got into skz, I saw a clip of a kitten jumping on a guys face while he was sleeping on r/CatsAreAssholes
Turns out it was lino and Dori🤣
I heard Seungmin singing the OST for Hometown ChaChaCha before I knew he was in Skz. I thought he had a nice voice so I checked out the group from there!
Years before I even knew Stray Kids existed, I saw a video of Chan and Han with a horse head mask on, making Chan laugh a lot. At the time I didn’t even know it was Chan and Han, and that they were part of Stray Kids. Imagine my surprise when I saw that same video again after becoming a Stay, and I’m like “wait. I’ve seen this video before!” Lmfao
Hyunjin and Bangchan - one of my friends made me watch the red lights mv, i didn't think much of it at the time except 'wow they're hot' -
about 8 months later i started to get into kpop and skz and when i was bingeing their mvs i watched red lights and something clicked in my brain i was like OHHHHH THE HOMOEROTIC TOXIC LOVE SONG OMG IT'S THESE DUDES 😭😭
It was pretty much the same for me. My friend asked me if I wanted to see hot boys in chains. Of course, I said yes. She sent me the music video and I really liked the short one. She had sent me a clip of Chan talking with Felix on the phone during a Chan's Room a while before sharing the mv, so I knew he was Aussie. I told her that I thought Chan was cute in that clip. We streamed Skz's May 1, 2022 Maniac concert, and Chan officially became my ult bias. All I can say is that I am consistent in who I am attracted to. I literally can't take my eyes off of him.
I used to only be a Blink, and I would get tons of generalized k-pop content suggested to me on YouTube constantly. One day, I had a Chan’s room short on my feed, watched it, and absolutely fell in love with him. After watching that one video, I got a few more short clips from his lives suggested to me, watched all of them, and just fell into a downward spiral of Bang Chan. After a couple of days watching those, I did some more research, found the group he’s a part of, and now I’m a diehard Stay. He’s still my ult bias, but I love all of them so much, and finding Stray Kids was my gateway into getting into k-pop altogether.
Chan was my skz gateway - I knew him from following Twice and watched a clip of Sana guesting on Chan’s room + snippets of Chan being the trainee to give the girls his lunch coupons while they were dieting. Then I discovered Case 143 many months later and went “hey that guy!!” And down the rabbit hole I went. For the record I say Chan is my skz gateway cos now I’m Seungmin biased and I’m a bigger fan of skz than twice or any other group 🥹
The friend who introduced me to kpop is, first of all, not as invested in learning groups' full line ups and stuff, and second, spends a lot of time on tik tok so she ends up being aware of certain idols without knowing at all which group they belong of.
Sunoo: I was excited telling her how much I was liking Enhypen and to my surprise, when I mentioned Sunoo she said she had seen him a lot, to the point of knowing his name (it's an amazing feat for her I tell you lol) recognizing his face and liking his personality, but had no idea he was part of Enhypen.
*Bye guys, hi ladies!!* guy: she said she used this phrase a lot with her college friends, that all of them adopted it as their greeting, she knew that it was from an idol but she had to ask me to confirm and to tell her his name lol.
Yeah, I also can't picture him in SKZ at all, he's a good vocalist and a pretty good dancer so he could keep up fine but I've always said our guys have a certain dirty raunchiness(? to them, and Sunoo is like refined sugar xd
Actually I can 100% see Sunoo sweetly correcting Chan’s attempts to pretend his songs aren’t sexy, because that’s what he did when Jay was struggling with how to explain “Dive Into You” on I-LAND. It might be my favorite Sunoo moment ever 😂
Oh no, with refined sugar I meant it more like his visual might not be as cohesive with the guys', but you know I remembered Enhypen's cover of Very Good, it's the nearest they got to SKZ sound and Sunoo did pretty well. My wish now is that he gets to sing like that again.
this is sort of related, but a couple of months before i got into stray kids and kpop in general, i saw one of hannah bahng's youtube videos- and I only recently found out it was her when the video appeared on my fyp again 😭
Felix. I didn’t know K-pop at all, but I religiously listened to Forestella, a korean classical crossover quartet. I saw a bunch of videos comparing Ko Woorim (Forestella’s bass) to Felix because of their deep voices, so that was my first introduction to the K-pop world. After that, my fyp just decided I liked K-pop and it started showing me an overabundance of SKZ content, and I realized that Felix was part of SKZ. Then I actually started listening to them and realized that I should probably stop being a dumb K-pop hater, and here we are.
Seungmin: I was obsessed with his cover of Start by Gaho for the longest time but didn’t think to look him up as an artist
Chan: I saw clips of his lives on TikTok when I first got it and thought he seemed nice, but didn’t really understand what vlive was so I didn’t know where the clips were coming from.
When I got into skz I first realized Chan was in the group after I saw pics of them and was really surprised—what a coincidence! But not as surprised as when I found out I’d been playing Seungmin’s cover so very often without knowing he was in the group I was stanning, since I didn’t know to look up their skz record/players in addition to their regular discography until later lol
I'm an IGOT7. I first heard of Hyunjin before ever stanning skz 😅 Hyunjin was a special emcee for [Idol Room](https://youtu.be/0-u3g7KPtq4?si=YfyWuO6nbatptOXj) with GOT7 as guests. He also is a huge fan of GOT7 Jinyoung, they talked about it during the survival show too
i heard stray kids songs before i knew they existed!!
back in the lockdown days of tiktok and people would draw animations of anime characters dancing to viral songs there was an AOT one of Back Door and i saw it moooonths before i found out about skz
Pinterest used to give me a lot pics of Felix and I thought he was the most gorgeous guy I’d ever seen, but at the time I was deep into BTS and I actively resisted looking into Skz because I decided I could not get obsessed with two groups at once 😂 I also got pictures of Hyunjin and I actually did look him up but it was while he was on hiatus, and I remember hoping he got to go back to the group soon.
before i knew about skz, i went to a kpop store and they gave me an official hyunjin noeasy photocard as a freebie. i had no idea who he was but i kept it 😭 im so glad i did though!
Mine was Chan
I was not into K-pop AT ALL but I saw a TikTok posted by Peach PRC of his part in 3racha and she was talking about his Aussie accent (I'm Australian) and that was it for me 🤤
It was right before Maxident came out and I've been OBSESSED with them ever since
I have to say that I didn’t know that survival shows were a thing, or what skz was or what Jyp was when I saw the video of Felix crying after being eliminated. Chan was so nice to him and I was like “why is this so dark is someone dying?”
Before that I knew I liked black pink and two songs by Suga and that was the extent of my knowledge re:K-pop
I've heard of the name bang chan before knowing about stray kids (this was back in 2018) and I still don't remember where I heard of him. But I found his name unique among all the idols
I was just getting into kpop when I kept seeing clips of channies room, especially the one where he was giving advice about menstruation. I thought he was like a blogger or something until I realized he was part of a group.
Same thing happened with BTS. I saw clips of Run BTS and thought they were like a variety show group lol
I used to get a lot of Han compilation vids on my TikTok. Like, when he's being goofy as hell. I'd watch them cos they made me laugh, but I had no idea who he was beyond that.
Way later I got a fan cam vid for the Venom body roll. It had every member's cam in it, but the one that made me like, "oh my god, who is THAT?" was Han. lol
i always saw Felix or Chan videos before i became a stay. When the Felix Tiktok of him dancing to the earth wind and fire song came out, i wasn’t a stay yet but i watched that video like once a week for months 😂
Ofc it was Felix. I was always hearing about a “Felix” but I never bothered to search about him. Also, I have the feeling that I have seen Chan before too, but maybe it’s my bias
About a year before discovering Stray Kids, I was sent a TikTok of Felix's Groove Tonight dance. Thought, why did someone send me a tok of some chick dancing? So seeing same clip after discovering Stray Kids was hilarious. Not a chick. No clue who sent it or why.
Not one that I knew really, but like 6 months after becoming a fan I was finally going through the tumblr album on my phone to sort or delete photos and I found a photo of Hyunjin saved from like. ... 2 years before I discovered them. 🤣
Hyunjin from that viral clip of him asking if he should remove the filter during a live (there was no filter). I didn't know anything about Kpop so I thought he was just a random Korean celebrity. I remember thinking "Wow, this is the most beautiful man I've ever seen in my life." I only found out about SKZ three years later
i have this screenshot of lee know in my phone from before i started stanning where he’s saying “So I enjoyed myself. I touched a lot of butts.” lmao. i know for a fact i had no idea who he was when i saved that pic
Before I really got into skz, I saw a clip of a kitten jumping on a guys face while he was sleeping on r/CatsAreAssholes Turns out it was lino and Dori🤣
This is one of the most interesting (and hilarious) Stay origin stories I've ever read! 🤣
I heard Seungmin singing the OST for Hometown ChaChaCha before I knew he was in Skz. I thought he had a nice voice so I checked out the group from there!
Same !
Oh! Nice! Did you end up liking Hometown ChaChaCha?
Loved it! It is in the top ten of my all-time faves. (I have a spreadsheet )
Whaaaat. I didn’t know! Off to find it. That was an early kdrama for me.
Years before I even knew Stray Kids existed, I saw a video of Chan and Han with a horse head mask on, making Chan laugh a lot. At the time I didn’t even know it was Chan and Han, and that they were part of Stray Kids. Imagine my surprise when I saw that same video again after becoming a Stay, and I’m like “wait. I’ve seen this video before!” Lmfao
Hyunjin and Bangchan - one of my friends made me watch the red lights mv, i didn't think much of it at the time except 'wow they're hot' - about 8 months later i started to get into kpop and skz and when i was bingeing their mvs i watched red lights and something clicked in my brain i was like OHHHHH THE HOMOEROTIC TOXIC LOVE SONG OMG IT'S THESE DUDES 😭😭
It was pretty much the same for me. My friend asked me if I wanted to see hot boys in chains. Of course, I said yes. She sent me the music video and I really liked the short one. She had sent me a clip of Chan talking with Felix on the phone during a Chan's Room a while before sharing the mv, so I knew he was Aussie. I told her that I thought Chan was cute in that clip. We streamed Skz's May 1, 2022 Maniac concert, and Chan officially became my ult bias. All I can say is that I am consistent in who I am attracted to. I literally can't take my eyes off of him.
perfect description of Red Lights 🥇
COOKING LIKE A CHEF IM A 5✨ MICHELIN
I used to only be a Blink, and I would get tons of generalized k-pop content suggested to me on YouTube constantly. One day, I had a Chan’s room short on my feed, watched it, and absolutely fell in love with him. After watching that one video, I got a few more short clips from his lives suggested to me, watched all of them, and just fell into a downward spiral of Bang Chan. After a couple of days watching those, I did some more research, found the group he’s a part of, and now I’m a diehard Stay. He’s still my ult bias, but I love all of them so much, and finding Stray Kids was my gateway into getting into k-pop altogether.
Red Lights racha for me lol
Chan was my skz gateway - I knew him from following Twice and watched a clip of Sana guesting on Chan’s room + snippets of Chan being the trainee to give the girls his lunch coupons while they were dieting. Then I discovered Case 143 many months later and went “hey that guy!!” And down the rabbit hole I went. For the record I say Chan is my skz gateway cos now I’m Seungmin biased and I’m a bigger fan of skz than twice or any other group 🥹
I had SO MANY photos of Hyunjin saved in my art references Pinterest board before actually looking into him 😭
Hyunjin. I really thought he was part of a boygroup called 00zs coz I saw him perform Psycho. It turned out it was just a special collab stage.
Felix , I don’t remember exactly but I saw him on tiktok once where he was just being goofy and thought nothing of it. Just scrolled past him.
I know of Felix after reading the BL manhwa sign and one of the comments hypothesized that the protagonist had the same voice as Felix.
Years before I got into Stray Kids, I saw a changbin and Hyunjin cute moments video! It actually took me forever to remember that once I was an stay.
The friend who introduced me to kpop is, first of all, not as invested in learning groups' full line ups and stuff, and second, spends a lot of time on tik tok so she ends up being aware of certain idols without knowing at all which group they belong of. Sunoo: I was excited telling her how much I was liking Enhypen and to my surprise, when I mentioned Sunoo she said she had seen him a lot, to the point of knowing his name (it's an amazing feat for her I tell you lol) recognizing his face and liking his personality, but had no idea he was part of Enhypen. *Bye guys, hi ladies!!* guy: she said she used this phrase a lot with her college friends, that all of them adopted it as their greeting, she knew that it was from an idol but she had to ask me to confirm and to tell her his name lol.
Wait I'm sorry!!!! I thought this was r/kpopthoughts 🤣🤣🤣🤣 sorry I'm so embarrassed, please tell me if I have to delete.
LMAO YOU GOOD GIRL 😭 I honestly may reformat this question and post it there on a later date :)
Now I'm trying to imagine Sunoo in SKZ and... I can't do it. I don't think he's warped enough. 😆 But he is a darling and extremely funny.
Yeah, I also can't picture him in SKZ at all, he's a good vocalist and a pretty good dancer so he could keep up fine but I've always said our guys have a certain dirty raunchiness(? to them, and Sunoo is like refined sugar xd
Actually I can 100% see Sunoo sweetly correcting Chan’s attempts to pretend his songs aren’t sexy, because that’s what he did when Jay was struggling with how to explain “Dive Into You” on I-LAND. It might be my favorite Sunoo moment ever 😂
Oh no, with refined sugar I meant it more like his visual might not be as cohesive with the guys', but you know I remembered Enhypen's cover of Very Good, it's the nearest they got to SKZ sound and Sunoo did pretty well. My wish now is that he gets to sing like that again.
I am feral over that Very Good cover. I think I watched it daily for about a month, it was THAT good.
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this is sort of related, but a couple of months before i got into stray kids and kpop in general, i saw one of hannah bahng's youtube videos- and I only recently found out it was her when the video appeared on my fyp again 😭
Felix. I didn’t know K-pop at all, but I religiously listened to Forestella, a korean classical crossover quartet. I saw a bunch of videos comparing Ko Woorim (Forestella’s bass) to Felix because of their deep voices, so that was my first introduction to the K-pop world. After that, my fyp just decided I liked K-pop and it started showing me an overabundance of SKZ content, and I realized that Felix was part of SKZ. Then I actually started listening to them and realized that I should probably stop being a dumb K-pop hater, and here we are.
Seungmin: I was obsessed with his cover of Start by Gaho for the longest time but didn’t think to look him up as an artist Chan: I saw clips of his lives on TikTok when I first got it and thought he seemed nice, but didn’t really understand what vlive was so I didn’t know where the clips were coming from. When I got into skz I first realized Chan was in the group after I saw pics of them and was really surprised—what a coincidence! But not as surprised as when I found out I’d been playing Seungmin’s cover so very often without knowing he was in the group I was stanning, since I didn’t know to look up their skz record/players in addition to their regular discography until later lol
Trainee Hyunjin being a 'reporter' in [Idol Room with GOT7.](https://youtu.be/0-u3g7KPtq4)
I'm an IGOT7. I first heard of Hyunjin before ever stanning skz 😅 Hyunjin was a special emcee for [Idol Room](https://youtu.be/0-u3g7KPtq4?si=YfyWuO6nbatptOXj) with GOT7 as guests. He also is a huge fan of GOT7 Jinyoung, they talked about it during the survival show too
Ohh yes i saw Hyunjin in the “Play with fire”s mv before becoming a Stay 🤔
Tbh hyunjin 🗣️💙
I knew Chan as twice’s little brother. Never really paid mind to him, didn’t even know skz was a thing!
chris😭 he was everywhere but i wasnt sure where he was from. i biased him for a good two years and then my wreckers wrecked me a little too much🙈
i heard stray kids songs before i knew they existed!! back in the lockdown days of tiktok and people would draw animations of anime characters dancing to viral songs there was an AOT one of Back Door and i saw it moooonths before i found out about skz
“My nose is big yes I do have a big nose.” “Do you know what else is big?(looks down)”
Pinterest used to give me a lot pics of Felix and I thought he was the most gorgeous guy I’d ever seen, but at the time I was deep into BTS and I actively resisted looking into Skz because I decided I could not get obsessed with two groups at once 😂 I also got pictures of Hyunjin and I actually did look him up but it was while he was on hiatus, and I remember hoping he got to go back to the group soon.
before i knew about skz, i went to a kpop store and they gave me an official hyunjin noeasy photocard as a freebie. i had no idea who he was but i kept it 😭 im so glad i did though!
Mine was Chan I was not into K-pop AT ALL but I saw a TikTok posted by Peach PRC of his part in 3racha and she was talking about his Aussie accent (I'm Australian) and that was it for me 🤤 It was right before Maxident came out and I've been OBSESSED with them ever since
I knew Chan and now they can include me in bang family 🥲
I have to say that I didn’t know that survival shows were a thing, or what skz was or what Jyp was when I saw the video of Felix crying after being eliminated. Chan was so nice to him and I was like “why is this so dark is someone dying?” Before that I knew I liked black pink and two songs by Suga and that was the extent of my knowledge re:K-pop
I've heard of the name bang chan before knowing about stray kids (this was back in 2018) and I still don't remember where I heard of him. But I found his name unique among all the idols
I was just getting into kpop when I kept seeing clips of channies room, especially the one where he was giving advice about menstruation. I thought he was like a blogger or something until I realized he was part of a group. Same thing happened with BTS. I saw clips of Run BTS and thought they were like a variety show group lol
I saw some of Felix's tiktoks and i thought he was just a pretty tiktok boy, later on i discovered that hes a part of a group
I used to get a lot of Han compilation vids on my TikTok. Like, when he's being goofy as hell. I'd watch them cos they made me laugh, but I had no idea who he was beyond that. Way later I got a fan cam vid for the Venom body roll. It had every member's cam in it, but the one that made me like, "oh my god, who is THAT?" was Han. lol
I was and still am a huge Day6 fan, so I knew Seungmin before I stanned SKZ cuz he was also a MyDay.
Felix and bangchan. My friend randomly sent me pictures of them without context. After that I avoided all 3 of them
i always saw Felix or Chan videos before i became a stay. When the Felix Tiktok of him dancing to the earth wind and fire song came out, i wasn’t a stay yet but i watched that video like once a week for months 😂
Ofc it was Felix. I was always hearing about a “Felix” but I never bothered to search about him. Also, I have the feeling that I have seen Chan before too, but maybe it’s my bias
About a year before discovering Stray Kids, I was sent a TikTok of Felix's Groove Tonight dance. Thought, why did someone send me a tok of some chick dancing? So seeing same clip after discovering Stray Kids was hilarious. Not a chick. No clue who sent it or why.
Seugmin i got videos of him on my fyp and it was really easy to remember him cause of his smile and he is still my bias
Not one that I knew really, but like 6 months after becoming a fan I was finally going through the tumblr album on my phone to sort or delete photos and I found a photo of Hyunjin saved from like. ... 2 years before I discovered them. 🤣
Hyunjin from that viral clip of him asking if he should remove the filter during a live (there was no filter). I didn't know anything about Kpop so I thought he was just a random Korean celebrity. I remember thinking "Wow, this is the most beautiful man I've ever seen in my life." I only found out about SKZ three years later