r/kpophelp 21d ago

Unsolved Monthly 'Who's this?' & Merch Auth. Post - July 2026

6 Upvotes

Welcome to the Monthly Artist Identification and Merch Authentication post!

Instructions

  • Search first! Please try other methods of identifying your image if possible. Google Lens/Reverse Image Search or Dupli Checker are available options. We know results can be unhelpful, but please make an attempt with these kinds of tools first!

  • You might also be able to find more specialized help in specific artist subreddits or those with a specific purpose. Make sure you check the rules of any subreddit before you post or comment asking for help!

  • Make comments with included images of artists you need identified or merchandise/signatures you would like authenticated in this post.

  • In the same comment, state your purpose or question clearly for the help you are seeking.

  • Please acknowledge or thank at least one helper who provides an answer in reply to you OR edit your original comment to state you have been helped to signal to others you do not need further assistance.

Rules

  • DO NOT troll or intentionally deceive fellow users
  • DO NOT derail or wander far off-topic. This is not a general discussion post. Stay focused on requesting or providing help! Mods may lock or remove threads that extend beyond the point of helpfulness.
  • If your question is not answered in a previous Monthly post, feel free to comment again in future posts until you are able to get help.

You may also provide feedback for ways we can test/improve handling this type of content in the subreddit here or through modmail. Thank you for your patience while we figure out what system will work best for us!


r/kpophelp Apr 02 '24

Meta Shadow Bans on Reddit: Everything you need to know! (Info, Links, & Tips)

31 Upvotes

We created the original post in response to seeing so many members of our community becoming Shadow Banned for no reason. We noticed these bans became especially extreme around 2020/2021, probably as Reddit ramped up the use of sitewide filters to manage the influx of bots, spammers, and purveyors of disinformation. Some improvements to the accuracy of the filters appear to have been made since then, but our info post has proved useful to our community as well as moderators and users across the site, so we'll try to keep versions of it refreshed and accessible. Version 2.0 is here!

Mods around Reddit are welcome to link your users here if you feel it will be helpful to them. r/ModGuide also has an excellent post from 2021 with suggestions specific to moderators.

- r/kpophelp Mod Team!


READ THIS FIRST!

For those who want the simplest info/advice, read the following:

  1. We did not Shadow Ban you and we cannot remove your Shadow Ban. Subreddit Moderators do not have the power to do anything about Shadow Bans.

  2. Your Shadow Ban is likely the result of Reddit's sitewide automated bot/spam filters.

  3. Only Reddit Admins can remove your Shadow Ban. We are not Reddit Admins.

  4. Go to https://www.reddit.com/appeals to check the status of your account. If there is a problem with your account, there is a way to directly message Admins at the same link to try to get your Shadow Ban or Suspension removed.

  5. It can take roughly 1 to 2 months for Admins to assess your Appeal. Do not expect any notifications or feedback from Admins until then.

  6. If you are looking for more detailed information about Shadow Bans to the best of our knowledge as moderators, continue reading below!


What is a Shadow Ban?

A Shadow Ban is a type of sitewide account ban across Reddit. When a user's account is Shadow Banned they are not notified. They can continue to browse Reddit, make posts and comments, and use Reddit like normal. However, their posts and comments are automatically removed as soon as they are made, making them invisible to anyone else. A Shadow Banned user's profile is also invisible to any other users or moderators. This means a Shadow Banned user often has no idea they have received this kind of ban.

Note that users who are Suspended are notified by Reddit and given more information about whether their suspension is temporary or permanent. Again, this is only something Admins have control of. Moderators do not.

Why are users Shadow Banned?

It can be helpful to know the difference between Moderators and Admins to understand what is happening.

  • Moderators (subreddit volunteers) can only ban you from the individual subreddits under their care based on the rules they have set for their own communities. If you have been banned from a subreddit, you can no longer post or comment in that subreddit only. This is not a Shadow Ban.

  • Admins (Reddit employees) can Shadow Ban or Suspend users across the whole site. They have set many automated filters to help catch spammers and bots, which will apply Shadow Bans or Suspensions to those suspected accounts to assist human Admins from needing to do this all manually.

As far as we can tell, the purpose of Shadow Bans is to quietly make spammers and bots disappear into a void without their awareness. Reddit is constantly inundated with malicious bot rings trying to spread bad links and other nefarious spammers. The site's filters are always running in the background to automatically catch and remove any posts or comments made by them. Shadow Bans are applied quickly and broadly to keep normal users as safe as possible from their garbage.

But this automation means Shadow Bans can also affect normal users with false positives. If you have received a Shadow Ban, but you know you aren't a bot or spammer, it can be very confusing. You are not alone. This happens to many normal users. No one is out to get you, you have just accidentally triggered Reddit's automated filters.

How do I know if I’m Shadow Banned?

This is something you can check on your own with any of the following methods:

A. While signed in to your account on Reddit, go to https://www.reddit.com/appeals.

B. In an incognito browser window, open a link to your profile (https://www.reddit.com/user/yourusername). If it says anything like, "user not found", "page does not exist", or "Sorry, nobody on Reddit goes by that name", then you are Shadow Banned or Suspended.

C. r/ShadowBan or r/ShadowBanned are subreddits specifically for checking your account.

D. Self-awareness. You can pay attention to certain signs that you might be Shadow Banned:

  • Your posts do not show in the subreddit 'new queue' within a few minutes of posting.
  • Your comments almost never show up in posts and might say [Removed].
  • When you look at your own profile/history, many of your recent comments/posts have only 1 karma.

ONLY if you have tried the methods above and still have confusion, you may message us directly. Remember, we are just the moderators of this subreddit. We did not cause your Shadow Ban. We cannot remove your Shadow Ban. We do not know why you received a Shadow Ban. Beyond the information in this post, we can only make an educated guess about your specific case if you provide information about the age of your account and activity. Otherwise, we are as clueless as you.

BUT, we can give you absolute confirmation that you are, or are not, Shadow Banned. We get a note in our Modmail interface in clear red letters telling us that a user is Shadow Banned when they contact us, which is the most direct indicator available other than the official Appeals link. Keep in mind we are the mods of r/kpop's ecosystem. If you're here from communities unrelated to K-Pop, let us know when you message if you’re comfortable with that! Message the Mods to get a yes/no confirmation of a Shadow Ban on your account.

I am Shadow Banned. What should I do?

https://www.reddit.com/appeals

This link above is the only way to remove your Shadow Ban. If your account is normal it will tell you so. If you have a Shadow Ban or Suspension, it will give you the option to message the Admins to make an appeal. We have seen many users successfully restore their accounts this way, sometimes within a day or two. It's basically your way of signaling to Admins that you are a real person, not a bot/spammer, and you have good intentions as a user on their site. We have also seen appeals take much longer to be granted. Most seem to take at least one month to hear back from Admins.

Some users don’t mind having a Shadow Ban because they only use their account to lurk, which is fine. You don’t have to do anything. Some users abandon their account and make a new one. Be careful doing that because Ban Evasion filters are also active and might trigger a Shadow Ban on any new accounts if you are using the same device or IP address.

We recommend that Shadow Banned users do not continue to post/comment once you know there is a problem with your account. This applies all across Reddit. You are likely wasting your efforts by doing so. Many subreddit moderators will not bother to check their spam queue and will not approve your posts/comments, so they will never be seen. In some subreddits like here in r/kpophelp, the mods are paying more attention. We will sometimes manually approve posts/comments of users who are seeking or offering genuine help and unknowingly have a Shadow Ban. We also try to let you know if you are Shadow Banned, but this creates a lot of extra work for us, which we can't always afford to do.

Please help us by being proactive, checking your own accounts if you suspect an issue, and not continuing to post/comment until you know you are no longer Shadow Banned.

If your appeal to the Admins is successful, your profile, comments, and posts will become visible again to other users and moderators. You can check your account status with the same methods listed in the section above. Sometimes if a user has been very active on Reddit for a long time before their Shadow Ban it will take longer for all their previous posts/comments to be approved again. This is also an automated process, but it can be slow, so you can expect it to take a week or two to get everything back to normal again.

Tips to avoid being Shadow Banned

Remember the automated Shadow Ban process is looking for bots/spammers and is triggered by that kind of suspicious behavior. Here are some things you can do so your account does not look like a bot.

  • When creating a Reddit account, don’t use the automatic username generator if possible. Those names usually look something like word-word-5678. These are common indicators of bots. Set your own name instead. If you’ve already made an account with an auto-generated name, take extra care to check if you are Shadow Banned!

  • Customize your profile: Snoovatar/banner, description, email verification (if you're comfortable with that).

  • Have patience! When you make a brand new account on Reddit, wait at least 24 hours to post/comment anywhere. Upvote comments/posts you like and maybe 'Join' some subreddits that interest you, but try not to do much else. The most common false positives we see are completely new users that make posts/comments quickly in subreddits that have new user filters to keep out trolls or bots. By waiting, you can prevent triggering these filters.

  • Before you start posting or commenting in a subreddit, READ THE RULES. Every subreddit has its own rules. If you break them by doing something wrong or having bad conduct, your posts/comments may be reported by other users and removed by the moderators. Doing this multiple times on a new account can trigger a Shadow Ban. Be considerate of where you are and what you are doing there!

  • Especially here in r/kpophelp, be careful of what links you include in your comments/posts. Try not to use shortened urls because they can disguise links to bad sites or affiliate links. Try to use the long form of links as often as possible and avoid using anything like these: youtu.be, pin.it, t.co, bit.ly, goo.gl, tinyurl.com.

  • A note for r/kpop: a huge Shadow Ban generator over there is when we have AMAs. They attract a ton of brand new users who then immediately comment dozens of times in the same AMA post. This triggers the filters like a bot would. If you want to participate in an AMA with a new account, make it early at the time of the AMA announcement post and follow the points listed above. Then try to limit the amount of comments you make in the actual AMA to only a few at most. We’ve even had big AMA guest accounts get Shadow Banned in the middle of an AMA, which is a nightmare. That goes to show it can happen to anyone and is equally frustrating for us moderators!

  • If you use a VPN, you might get Shadow Banned or Suspended by default. Check your account status!

How does this relate to r/kpophelp?

The nature of this subreddit is fairly simple. It was designed to take the burden off of r/kpop since lots of K-Pop fans had questions about the industry or were looking for music/artist recommendations and that subreddit was becoming overwhelmed with such posts. So this subreddit was built with a very focused mission as a space to get help and provide help with our fellow fans. That means we’re pretty small as a community and not a good target for bots/spammers.

And yet, us moderators noticed lots of users showing up as Shadow Banned here. They weren’t causing problems. They were providing help and recommendations in comments or were posting sincere and thoughtful questions. Some of their usernames were recognizable as regulars previously active in the larger K-Pop ecosystem on Reddit. Obviously, something was wrong. This is what sparked our initial interest to figure out how the Shadow Ban system worked and what to do about it.

After confirming with Admins that we could provide guidance to users, we tried to pay extra attention to what was happening, what kinds of accounts seemed to pick up these bans, what activities might be triggering filters, and what Shadow Banned users shared with us about their experience. Everything we’ve learned is now gathered here in hopes it will help others.

There are a couple primary reasons we think r/kpophelp users are affected in a higher proportion and are being seen by Reddit’s filters as bots or spammers. One is that it's common for users to make a brand new account just because they are trying to identify a K-Pop song they heard recently, post to ask for help immediately, and then comment rapidly when replying to other users as they search for the song. Another is that users here will frequently put tons of links in their comments or posts as they offer recommendations or educational references. And furthermore, some of those links might be shortened urls (from YouTube, Pinterest, etc) or domains which Reddit really doesn't like.

Thus, the most common uses of our subreddit, which are totally normal and expected from our perspective as moderators, can trigger Reddit's automated Shadow Bans designed to catch bots. But knowledge is power and we hope what we’ve learned will help you keep your accounts in good working order!


Thank you for taking the time to read through and inform yourself!

Happy Redditing!


Further Resources


r/kpophelp 6h ago

Recommend best choreos for beginners to learn?

14 Upvotes

hello! i'm looking for kpop songs with choreography that would be good for a beginner to start with! i've never been the best at dancing but i really want to learn. i don't have anything specific in mind and am open to learning anything that you guys suggest! thanks for the help!


r/kpophelp 2h ago

Solved Trying to find music video!

7 Upvotes

After being headstrong with finding this music video all by myself I’ve finally given up and decided to ask for help!

For years this music video randomly pops back in my head once in a while and I spend maybe and hour or two trying to find it before giving up and forgetting about it, just to repeat the process over and over again.

I honestly have the vaguest memory of the video and no clue how the song even went so you’ll have to work hard with me on this one hopefully, so here it goes,

From what I’m remembering it’s a music video set at a school, there’s three prominent figures..(?, maybe there was a whole group trying to help the guy?) but the main guy was learning how to dance to impress a girl and I think he might have been competing with another guy.

That’s all. All I’ve had for years is just that small bit. My sister and I were pretty big fans of bts during 2017 so it was during the 2017/18 (maybe, maybe 2019 but I don’t think so) era that I watched it. We liked watching music videos and started to branch out from bts a little bit so I have songs I remember watching from the exact day if that possibly helps in some way..?

Those songs are Astro (breathless), Stray kids (awkward silence, get cool), pentagon (humph!, naughty boy, shine)

This really seems like a long shot to me but any help would be really appreciated, thanks in advance for any help :)


r/kpophelp 4h ago

Unsolved photocards with aquatic creatures/aquarium themed?

6 Upvotes

i have a few photocard holders that are aquarium themed and would love to have some photocards that fit the vibe. does anyone know any photocards that would fit this theme? i’m a multi stan so it doesn’t matter which groups/soloist they are!


r/kpophelp 13h ago

Recommend Kpop x Jpop collaboration songs

23 Upvotes

Any songs in where kpop artists and Japanese artists both collabed in one song together? It could be anything like kpop soloist x Jpop soloist or kpop group x jpop group.

Here are the ones I know so far:

Stray Kids and Lisa with Social Path

Felix and Lisa for Reawaker

Ateez and Befirst for Hush Hush

Any other collabs?


r/kpophelp 8h ago

Unsolved Need help funding an obscure KPOP Company + it's groups

10 Upvotes

If y'all remember my last post, I talked about a group called Flow Sister. I originally heard about them from a youtuber named Ploopy678 with a video talking about low-viewed KPOP MVs. During the release of that video, around 2019, it had 4150 views.

When I checked and searched Flow Sister on YT, I saw it's MV with around 25k views under the channel "MEI Records". The problem? It was only uploaded 4 years ago, not 6 like when the original video talking about it was made. There was even a comment talking about it being a reupload.

This is where my question started. I searched up Flow Sister on Google and saw a KPOP Fandom page about them. I clicked it, and it mentioned a company named "WEF Entertainment". I tried to research more about the said WEF Entertainment, but nothing else showed.

Does anyone else know where I could find this obscure KPOP company, or atleast some more traces of it? That's all, bye!


r/kpophelp 2h ago

Unsolved searching for specific music videos

3 Upvotes

I’m doing an edit and I’m tryna search for music videos that match the chorus of this song:

NCT WISH - Yo-I-don

• I want the music videos to be fast-paced
• Colourful & fun
• Mostly searching for boy group videos

Idk if it’s just me but it’s hard to find groups with that type of concept now, especially boy groups with like refreshing COLOURFUL visual concepts.

I already have those mvs for the edit:

Yo-I-don (edit)

(If you’re wondering why Savage, it’s bcs of the animation part that matches the one in Yo-I-don’s music video.)


r/kpophelp 14m ago

Recommend Trying to Get Into K-Pop, But Haven't Found Much, What Should I Listen to as a New Listener?

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Ive been trying to expand my music taste and be more open minded into listening to K-Pop but from what I've listened to so far, I haven't found much based off K-Pop playlists I've been trying to listen to? Is there any good albums/groups that I should try that I may be interested in for a new listener? I haven't really explored that much and am willing to try.

I like basically anything whether it is ballads or pop, I don't really like very aggressive rap styles and I usually like when there are some genre bending from artists, such as Latin-Pop or other stuff like that. I also like songs/artists that have mostly relatable and meaningful lyrics. But I'll be open to listening to a lot just as long as it's not too bland or very overbearing.


r/kpophelp 16m ago

Explain Bunjang Global Shipping ?

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Hi! So today I ordered my first item off of Bunjang Global using Paysable. It shows the order as in process and my payment went through, but I don’t think I was prompted to put in my actual address anywhere for them to ship it to me? Does anyone who has used Paysable know if I put it in once the item arrives to the warehouse? Or if I am supposed to find and put it in somewhere in the website itself?


r/kpophelp 17m ago

Advice Seeking Send Off Advice

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Hello! I have my first send off experience coming up soon and I had a question.

I will be going with my friend and given that send off is random, I was wondering if it would be better to sit in the same row or different rows. Our plan was to possibly swap spots to divide the experience. I wasn't sure if this would work or if the staff allows you to move around in the barrier so we could find one another once we get in.

Any helpful advice is appreciated. Thank you all so much.


r/kpophelp 4h ago

Academia Fan Calls Survey (15-20 Minutes)

2 Upvotes

Thank you so much for those of you who have already taken my survey - With your help, I am 2/3 of the way to my participation goal! If you have not yet completed the survey, please do so with the link below! If you have taken the survey, please feel free to share the survey with your friends. Thank you again for your help!!!

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Hey y'all! My name is Danielle Johnson, and I am a lifelong K-pop fan and doctoral candidate in the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida! My dissertation is focused on fan calls, looking at how K-pop fans navigate the fan call process and how they connect with idols. If you are at least 18 years old and have done at least one fan call with a K-pop idol, I have a short survey (15-20 minutes) I would love for you to take: https://usf.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_ezb7PaTy1vSHQdU

If you have any friends who have done fan calls, please share this survey with them and encourage your friends to share it with their networks.

My IRB exemption number for this research project is #009784 and I am being advised by Dr. Steven R. Wilson. If you have any questions, please feel free to comment below or send me a chat :)


r/kpophelp 47m ago

Solved Looking for a nugu gg song

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It's a song from a 4-6 member gg, semi recent, maybe released during the past 5 years. The video, prob a performance, was filmed in a dark hall/garage type of place. Very minimal. Girl crush type of a song, the chorus had lyrics "I'm melting, melting like ice cream", but googling that brings up so many other kpop songs called ice cream xD. This one's not called ice cream or melting. It reminds me a bit of H1-Key's Rose Blossom melody. It's not UDTT's Viper or WiTCHX Run Baby Run though the videos are similar. At first I thought it was something Primrose released about a year ago but it's not by them either. I don't think the group had many songs out yet and they're not well known :/


r/kpophelp 12h ago

Recommend I need more songs similar to EXO - Tempo

7 Upvotes

I haven't listened to boys K-pop groups in forever but the other day I felt like watching some EXO mvs. "Tempo" literally made me cry I need more songs that sound like that


r/kpophelp 1h ago

Unsolved Enhypen Concert Question

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Hi yall, this will be my first time attending an Enhypen concert with VIP2 tickets. I will be seeing them at the Tacoma Dome concert this Sunday. I just got my VIP2 instructions and I’m a bit confused.

  • Venue: Tacoma Dome
  • Event Date: Sunday, July 26, 2026
  • Check-In Location: Exhibition Hall Entrance
  • Check-In Opens: 11:00am
  • VIP 2 Doors Open: 4:00pm
  • Soundcheck Begins: 5:00pm
  • Check-In Closes: 5:15pm
  • General Public Doors Open: 6:00pm
  • Show Start: 7:30pm

After check-in, will I be able to leave the venue and come back before soundcheck? I hope so because to be sitting around for hours until soundcheck sounds pretty crazy. Please let me know if you’ve been given similar instructions and went through something like this, thank you! (Just to clarify I’d like to be close to the barricade as possible)


r/kpophelp 11h ago

Unsolved Help finding a kpop song

8 Upvotes

Idk, I’m like 95% sure it’s either a TXT or NCT DREAM(idk feel like jisung or huening kai is singing it) song. It’s in a low note, with something like “tik tik tik tik” and then some Korean lyrics after that. I don’t even remember exactly how it goes 😭 I know that it's a song i really know, but my mind is completely blank right now and I can’t pinpoint which song it is 😭😭

(Currently I'm going through every song in their discography 🙏🏻)


r/kpophelp 12h ago

Recommend Groups I might like based on my favs?

8 Upvotes

My ult right now is POW and I love their r&bish ballad vibes. I'm also in love with their physical albums and how creative they are. I also really liked Daily:direction even though I wasn't a fan of the album design and inclusions.Vayonn was a fun surprise too but I liked their songs slightly less. I-dle's gimme dat love was pretty good out of the recent comebacks as well as Epex echo and TripleS latest album. I would like to get some girl group and boy group recommendations based on those ♡


r/kpophelp 6h ago

Merch I need help with smoothing out a picket

2 Upvotes

Hi guys! I got a picket from the ENHYPEN concert in Dallas but I noticed the night after the concert finished that there was a crease in it.. the next days it just kept getting worse and I’m not sure why! (Since I just layed it down under my binder since I can’t hang it bc I’m moving out soon). Is there a way I can fix the crease? Like- smoothing it out or something? Or is it just destined to be like that forever 😭?

I would appreciate any recommendations, thanks! I left a link with the pictures of how my picket looks rn since I cannot attach anything directly to my post.

https://postimg.cc/gallery/GtznmbV


r/kpophelp 10h ago

Unsolved Help me find an old Girls' Generation (or similar) music video

3 Upvotes

I'm looking for an old K-pop music video (around 2007–2011, low quality). I always thought it was Girls' Generation (SNSD), but I might be wrong. It had only about 3–5 girls, no choreography, a slow emotional song, white dresses (almost like wedding dresses), a red apple, a tree, and a fairy-tale/Snow White atmosphere. I vaguely remember a prince as well. Does anyone know what MV this could be?


r/kpophelp 4h ago

Unsolved Is the French kpop shop legit??

1 Upvotes

Ok, so I've been looking to pre-order an album (ILLIT I got your back) recently, but some shops are charging up to €60 for the ILLIT x Fruits version without shipping, which is just not in the range of money I want to spend on albums😭 However the French kpop shop: AsiaWorldMusic / Musica La Boutique, is selling the ILLIT x Fruits version for only €30,, shipping is low and they have physical stores I'm just worried.. can someone share their experience? I really don't care how long it takes if I'm being honest, I just know it'll take longer if I order it after it comes out. Do I risk it?


r/kpophelp 15h ago

Recommend looking for future bass/electro pop adjacent recommendations!!!

8 Upvotes

hiiiii ive been working on making a playlist around some songs that i really like and i would appreciate some suggestions!! i'm looking for things similar to i just, body talk, look, and so good by red velvet, as well as rewind by wonder girls and 4 walls by f(x)

i literally start foaming at the mouth for these songs i need more of them immediately

i have looked into future bass and found a few songs that i like, but i thought i'd ask for recommendations based on these songs specifically as well ^_^

i tend to prefer girl groups for this genre, but im also open to boy groups

thank you!


r/kpophelp 13h ago

Explain What style/genre of kpop is this?

4 Upvotes

I’m talking about songs like Love To Hate Me by Blackpink, Not Friends by Loona, Shh by Kiss of Life, does anyone know what style/genre is it categorized in?


r/kpophelp 6h ago

Merch I need help with WeVerse Refund

0 Upvotes

I booked a pick-up in London for a BTS lightstick and paid for it on Saturday 4th July. Me and my friend went down to London on Sunday 5th, went to the hotel and went to the Totterham Merch shop where I got a Lightstick.

I cancelled by pick-up on the WeVerse app that day and I still haven't got a refund. I contacted my bank who didn't help me at all and I've sent two emails to WeVerse support who just tell me that I should get a refund within 10 business days and it has been that.

Has this happened to anyone else? I don;t understand why I still haven't got a refund.


r/kpophelp 6h ago

Unsolved I need help carats; SVT Kkokkomu Eng Sub

1 Upvotes

I have really watched every seventeen content except their appearance on the show kkokkomu (Story of the day when you bite your tail ) please help me find out where I can watch it with english subtitles. Dk, Dino and Joshua have already appeared on the show and I guess Vernon will soon be making an appearance. I have tried so hard to find the full episode with english subtitles. If there is a carat who is aware about which platform it is available or can upload eng subtitles for the episode it would be really helpful.


r/kpophelp 15h ago

Unsolved What is Xg's concept!?

5 Upvotes

I'm new to the fandom and I'm wondering what their concept is like it is Futuristic, sci fi or something else?