Chapter 144

Chapter 144

We have a possible future collaboration with JayQueen? How could there be a collaboration between us and someone else without our knowledge? It didnt make sense unless Yoo Won-Dong learned dance straight from JayQueen himself. It was unbelievable that an arbitrary collaboration without any of our input whatsoever was established.

Fortunately, it doesnt seem like its been confirmed yet It seemed like it was just a speculative article where Next Wave leaked information to publish. This was a tactic often used to assess the publics sentiment, and the article could be summed up like this:

JayQueen posted our stage video on social media and gave us a shoutout. To put it roughly, she rooted for us on the internet. On top of that, she shared it on our agencys official SNS and made a positive post. At first glance, it all seemed normal and logical, but

Is this even worth an articleWon-Dong? It was definitely not an event worth writing a whole article about, and it was clear that the article was made under a higher-ups orders. I couldnt accurately gauge how much Yoo Won-Dong was involved in this matter. It was a mystery whether JayQueens shoutout was even fabricated or sincere, or if Next Wave intervened later on.

However, it was not the scope of manipulation that was important. The important matter was

Why would we collaborate with this person? Why? To be frank, JayQueen was a dancer who fell out of trend. She had been an active dancer about 10 years ago but completely left the chereograpgy scene since then. She now came out on variety shows more as an entertainer.

But above all, I thought, Shes a Waacking dancer. Her dance style didnt match our dance style. I wasnt disrespecting Waacking, but the color and image Siren had shown so far did not match with the Waacking dance genre.

In short, hes just trying to link us with a famous person. This was a move that didnt consider who we were as a group and what kind of style or color we had.

Tae-YoonDid something happen?

Why is your expression so serious?

What happened?

Tae?

The members asked me what was wrong, and I took my eyes off the phone. This issue was not something I should just keep to myself, so I showed my phone to the members.

Well, would you like to check this out?

What?

What is it?

Soon after, an awkward silence fell over the table.

***

Yoo Won-Dong smiled at the articles that began to fill the entertainment section. The conclusion at the end of todays meeting was to promote Siren by announcing their collaboration with a famous celebrity. Although Siren was somewhat famous among idol fans, they didnt have much recognition by the general public, so the purpose of this agenda was to tackle this issue.

Many promising figures were mentioned, but there were no suitable ones. Then one of the celebrities who showed a favorable response to Siren was brought up in the meeting.

JayQueen sounds good. She looks young, and shes famous. Since shes good at dancing, people who like idols will probably also like her.

The one who was mentioned was the famous dancer, JayQueen. Since JayQueen made a post cheering for Siren on her SNS, it felt like an icing on the cake. Yoo Won-Dong immediately ordered the marketing team to draft a plausible plan for this idea and first published a speculative article to assess the publics sentiment.

Since comments on entertainment articles were now blocked, the real reactions came from places like SNS. Since the data from such sources were difficult for him to search one by one, he waited for his staff to bring him reports of the organized data.

Director, may I come in?

Ah, yes. Come on in.

This is the Bluebirds response monitoring report on the collaboration between JayQueen and Siren.

The public response for the first project he promoted came up in a report.

Yoo Won-Dong read through the content. Oh, its good?

Since idols and dancers collaborate often, there doesnt seem to be much public resistance. The report consisted mainly of positive responses. However, Yoo Won-Dong didnt know that the true reactions of Bluebird came from private accounts that couldnt be searched, and that negative responses from the official account went through a preliminary filtering process by the moderation team.

***

The moment Jay Queen and Sirens collaboration article came up, there were fierce reactions from private Bluebird users who were Sirens fans.

???hahahaha fuck is this a hidden camera prank?

Ah this fucking Won-Dong has zero sense wtf

Is Next Wave out of their damn mind?

I can bet my entire fortune that these bastards have never heard even one of Sirens song

People began to insult Next Wave and Yoo Won-Dong. Since comments like these were posted on private accounts, negative reactions were beginning to come out on the official account as well.

It was no other than the opening of Kang Do-Seungs birthday cafs. The first week of May was when the reality shows end date and Kang Do-Seungs birthday overlapped.

People worked hard on promoting the birthday cafs with the mindset that they should take advantage of the reality shows popularity and prepare for Kang Do-Seungs goods and special events early on. The fans also pondered about what sort of special menus the cafs would have, which would remind them of Kang Do-Seung, and one menu came into their minds first: Do-Seungs cola fruit punch.

crazy, there is a Do-Seungs birthday caf that is selling cola fruit punch lollll

hahaha what if Do-Seung comes to the caf himself *fingers crossed

as expected of a handsome guy, even the menus are bomb

Although it was too early of a season to make a fruit punch, there were still watermelons available in the supermarkets. In various birthday cafs, there was a menu where zero cola was poured into a venti-sized cup, and watermelon and cocktail fruits were added in. Of course, the cost of it rose that much more.

I worked hard to buy watermelon in a bulk *whew. The caf owner said she was having a hard time getting watermelons at this time, so I bought them myselfIt doesnt make sense if a cola fruit punch is missing from Do-Seungs birthday caf.

Fans were organized to celebrate Kang Do-Seungs birthday caf as a form of culture and entertainment. However, it wasnt only Sirens fans that were celebrating Kang Do-Seungs birthday

Today is Sirens treasure and songwriting genius, Black Cat Kang Do-Seungs birthday!

#happy_birthday_genius_blackcat

#kang_doseung_happy_birthday

#spring_days_blessing_Doseung_happy_birthday

(Picture of Do-Seung wearing a birthday hat.jpg)

The official account of Next Wave also posted a congratulatory message for Kang Do-Seungs birthday with a series of hashtags. People shared the post and wished him a happy birthday on social media. However, it wasnt just the congratulatory messages posted on the official Next Wave account that were released at midnight sharp. One post was also posted through Sirens official account by Kang Do-Seung.

Hello, everyone. Its Do-Seung. First of all, thank you so much for your overflowing love. Today is my birthday, but I prepared a small gift for our loving fans. I hope you all like it.

People scrambled to check out the gift that Kang Do-Seung prepared. There was a video link at the bottom of his post.

???

Do-Seung *sobbb

Wow Im crying

what is it? There are so many ppl in there that I cant get in

is it a fan song?

aww I love you Do-Seung *sobbb

It was the fan song Voyage that Siren made together while filming the reality show. In addition, there was a self-produced music video that looked as if it was filmed and edited by Siren themselves, so there could be no better gift.

Guys Im in tears

no one is better than our guys

ah fuck I'm betting my entire fortune on them

People were beyond delighted that they received gifts on a day Do-Seung should be receiving gifts instead.

***

My members and I confirmed that Voyage was uploaded properly. As expected, the reaction was explosiveof course, I meant this only within our fandom.

But the song is good, so itll go viral soon.

I didnt think this wave would end here, and we needed to move to the next step quickly. Now that we had established a grand plan to get chummy with Yoo Won-Dong, we had to carry out the plan without a single error. And the last part of my plan was to secure speakers to spread the news faster and further.

I said, Lets ask Ms. Seung-Yeon and Ms. Hyuna to get the reporters contact information. While I was thinking its going to be hard to tame Yoo Won-Dong

Ziing.

Huh? Tae-Yoon? You just got a call.

Yeah. My phone vibrated and the call was from no one other than

What the, why him again?

It was Kang Hyun-Sung.