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PRODUCE 101 REACTIONS ON PATREON and MORE SURVIVAL SHOWS - https://www.patreon.com/DGReacts If you'd like to make a one-time donation to support the channel, you can do it here - https://www.buymeacoffee.com/dgreacts Hi guys I'm Daniel Goland aka DG, I'm a video editor, photographer, and a metalhead at heart! Enjoy! 00:00 Intro + Backdrop on my journey with Produce 101 06:27 Dream Girls 17:48 Whatta Man 26:03 Very Very Very 35:23 DOWNPOUR SUPPORT THE ORIGINAL - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eq9F-t02GY&list=PLYU0Yw9c_iPGDqWx4mwshn-pLKXElyhSj&index=3&pp=iAQB8AUB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zu_yO4pNEY&list=PLYU0Yw9c_iPGDqWx4mwshn-pLKXElyhSj&index=2&pp=iAQB8AUB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdxvD7r58ng&list=PLYU0Yw9c_iPGDqWx4mwshn-pLKXElyhSj&index=4&pp=iAQB8AUB Bussines inquiries - dgreacts666@gmail.com *Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational, or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use. No copyright infringement intended. ALL RIGHTS BELONG TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS*

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Marcel Wannieck

One last time, the full update on all the IOI members. What have they been doing since disbandment? Where are they now? This is the one where I might have the most to talk about since these are arguably the most significant people to come out of Produce 101. #1 Jeon Somi, or Ennik Somi Douma, was born in March 2001 to a Dutch-Canadian father, Matthew Douma, and a Korean mother, Jeon Sunhee, in Canada but moved to Seoul when she was only six months old. She joined JYP in 2014 and you know the story from there. Sixteen, Produce 101, I.O.I. Right after IOI's disbandment Somi joined the second season of Sister's Slam Dunk and became part of the project group Unnies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv5_uvyqI9s Two months later she featured on You, Who? by Eric Nam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaG575r_Dyo Later in March she also participated in Idol Drama Operation Team for the project group Girls Next Door. I mentionend them once before. Other than Somi they had Mamamoo Moonbyul, Red Velvet Seulgi, Nature Sohee (ranked 15 on PD101), Sonamoo D.ana, Oh My Girl YooA, and Lovelyz Sujeong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxehTrUTo0A Somi left JYP in 2018. She was at one point part of the lineup that would eventually debut as Itzy but she decided to go solo under The Black Label instead. I don't exactly know her full reasons but in any case, she made her solo debut in June 2019 with the song Birthday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDJ4ct59NC4 Further comebacks would follow in 2020, 2021 and 2023. Sadly her releases are pretty sparse. To this day, almost five years since her solo debut, she only has a mere 14 songs in her personal discography. There were almost two years between XOXO and Fast Forward. But she seems to be pretty happy with how things are going for her :) Somi's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/somsomi0309 #2: Kim Sejeong's first foray into Kpop wasn't Produce 101, in fact. She participated in K-pop Star 2 in 2012 when she was 16 years old. Got eliminated pretty early on. Then joined Jellyfish and competed on PD101. And during IOI's time, Jellyfish were also gearing up to debut a new girl group, called gugudan. This is why Sejeong and Mina weren't in Whatta Man because they were debuting in gugudan at the same time. I already talked about it a bit when discussing Kim Nayoung under the finale episode. The song I want to recommend here is Chococo. A really fun quirky song and MV about chocolate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLVSf_yI_r8 I had this on repeat a few years ago. Honestly more addicting than chocolate itself :D And Sejeong also had a really quick solo debut! As part of Jellyfish's „Jelly Box“ project she released her first solo song Flower Way in November 2016: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zumBqDr0FCk And of course you know Sejeong as an actress too. After a cameo appearance in a 2016 drama, she made her proper acting debut in 2017 with a starring role in School 2017. Her most famous roles are probably The Uncanny Counter and Business Proposal from 2022. So even though gugudan disbanded way too quickly, Sejeong is doing pretty well. Balancing both of her careers as a solo singer and an actress. And if I may make one more recommendation: Her album Door, which featured both Voyage and Top or Cliff, is a complete masterpiece from beginning to end! Sejeong's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/clean_0828 #3: Choi Yoojung debuted in Weki Meki in August 2017 together with Doyeon and two other contestants (Elly and Sei). Since I already talked about Weki Meki twice before, let me just cut the bs and give you their best song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHikmx0eVXM This is Cool, from 2020. What a song, honestly. I haven't heard any other group do anything like this. Which makes it all the more tragic that Fantagio doesn't seem to be doing fucking anything with this group these days. Yoojung also made her acting debut in 2017, though not quite on the same caliber as Sejeong, as she has only appeared in a few web series. And there's also her solo debut Sunflower from September 2022. You actually have a reaction video to that on your Youtube channel :) But apart from that, not much has been happening on the music front. Yoojung does a lot of variety and seems pretty popular in that regard. I just wish that Fantagio would remember that they have an entire girl group in their dungeon 🙃 Yoojung's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dbeoddl__ #4: Kim Chungha (birth name Kim Chanmi) very quickly started her solo activities after IOI's disbandment. A first prerelease single came out in April and her debut EP released in June 2017. However, if I am to recommend just one song, it's gotta be her magnum opus (next to I'm Ready). This is Stay Tonight, which came out in 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=By9-Lqn5358 A cultural reset, I tell you! Chungha is also no stranger to collaborations. I already told you about Wow Thing with Jeon Soyeon, Seulgi and SinB but there was another one that came out during her IOI time: Flower, Wind and You which saw eliminated trainee Ki Huihyeon (Cathy) collab with Chungha, Somi and Yoojung. Somehow I'm only seeing this now while researching Chungha: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu2u9mryCl8 Chungha has quite a prolific discography. Four EPs, two studio albums, countless singles and collabs. Including her biggest work: Querencia. A 21 track album! Granted, five tracks are merely interludes but that's still 16 full songs. Not many Kpop albums are as big as that, especially in recent years. But to say that it's all sunshine and roses would also be a lie. Her previous company MNH was not good at promoting their artists. They kept BVNDIT on a two year hiatus, finally gave them a comeback and then promptly disbanded them five months later. And in Chungha's case, they seemed to have lost interest in her after 2022. Well, it actually goes back further than that. That album I mentioned above, Querencia, was supposed to come out in 2020. Stay Tonight was the first prerelease and it came out in April 2020. But the album just got delayed again and again. We got four entire prereleases before the album finally released in February 2021. Her next album, Bare & Rare, was split up into two parts. Part 1 released in July 2022 with Sparkling as its title track. Part 2 was slated to release a few months later. But that never happened. The album itself was ready, all the songs were fully recorded. Chungha even performed a few of them at the festivals I saw her at (and she's even more wonderful irl than you can imagine) but they just never saw any official release. Chungha's contract with MNH ran out in April 2023 and then it got really silent around her. Now we know that she even considered fully quitting at one point. We can thank Gabee that she didn't. She was the one who talked Chungha out of it. I think I mentionend it somewhere else but Chungha and La Chica are really close. La Chica even got their team name from one of Chungha's songs. And yeah, a few months ago Chungha signed with Jay Park's new label More Vision. Jessi is in there too! And you pretty much know the rest. Eenie Meenie, I'm Ready, let's fucking go! I still hope that she can release Bare & Rare Part 2 in her new label at some point 🤞🏼 Chungha's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chungha.art #5: Kim Sohye didn't pursue a career in music after IOI's disbandment and returned to acting full time. Honestly not that much to say here. From what I can tell she has a pretty normal and active acting career. Most recently she portrayed a boxing star in the 2023 drama My Lovely Boxer. Sohye's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/s_sohye #6: Zhou Jieqiong/Kyulkung/Pinky debuted in Pristin in March 2017, a group I have already talked about in great detail. So I'm gonna cut the BS and just give you the best song out of that entire project. This is spotlight, the b-side track from the Pristin V subunit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4gAnhSuduw God, Pinky was so fucking good in this song. Pledis, you idiots! How could you waste a group like this?!? Anyway, Jieqiong made her solo debut in China in September 2018 with the song Why. But there's no MV and it was the only non-OST song she ever released. She started acting, appearing in a few TV shows and a movie from 2020 onward. And generally she has returned to China full time, completely focusing on her life and career in her home country. A return to Kpop is unlikely. Pinky's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/zhou_jieqiong1216 #7: Jung Chaeyeon was already part of the girl group DIA before PD101 started. That's also why she wasn't in Whatta Man because DIA was preparing for a comeback at the same time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KGHiRo2apM (I assume it's Mr.Potter, I might be wrong tho) After IOI disbanded Chaeyeon returned to DIA full time and promoted with them until 2020. Next to her music career, Chaeyeon is also a prolific actress, appearing in many TV shows from 2017 onward, as well as cameo appearances in other artists' MVs and a bunch of commercials. And that's basically what she has continued to do since DIA's hiatus and eventual disbandment. Chaeyeon's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/j_chaeyeoni #8: Kim Doyeon debuted in Weki Meki together with Yoojung and the other people I mentionend above. But there was another little project in 2018 called WJMK. This was a one time collaboration with Seola and Luda from WJSN and Doyeon and Yoojung from Weki Meki: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMukx_M2oN0 Weki Meki themselves released their most recent comeback in November 2021 with Siesta: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYt8gxlthWs And then? No idea. They got a lightstick in 2022 which lead us to believe that a comeback was afoot. But nope. Doyeon has started acting and doing general variety stuffs at least. Her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lafilledhiver_ #9: Kang Mina debuted in gugudan together with Sejeong and Kim Nayoung. As I already mentionend, this was also the reason why she wasn't in Whatta Man. And here I'm gonna promote gugudan one last time by recommending my favourite song from them. This is Not That Type, their final comeback before their two year hiatus and disbandment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QTZCB2Ujr8 This song is just a complete masterpiece! Such a shame that it was the last one from gugudan. One thing I do have to mention though are the gugudan subunits. I already talked about SeMiNa with Nayoung and Sejeong but Mina was also in a duo called gugudan 5959 (pronounced ogu ogu) together with Hyeyeon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wut7K5vDjA0 Aside from all that, Mina built herself a pretty strong career in acting. Her first role was in the 2017 show Children of the 20th Century. You of course mainly know her from Hotel del Luna. And yeah, acting in TV and film is her main occupation right now. She hasn't really done anything in terms of music since gugudan's disbandment. Mina's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_happiness_o #10: Im Nayoung was in Pristin. I'm just repeating myself at this point. But honestly, just look at this debut! Nayoung front and center right at the start: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLfHuClrQdI This is completely irrelevant but I really think that she's the prettiest among all the PD101 contestants. Yes, I have a crush on her, so what? Ahem. Nayoung shifted gears and went into acting after Pristin's disbandment. Her first big role was in a show I have been yelling at you about for probably like two years now: Flower of Evil! I won't say much but she plays a very important character and she's SO GOOD. Acting has been her full time gig since then. But that doesn't mean she was completely done with music. In 2021 she entered another survival show. One we've been telling you about for a little while: Girls Re:Verse. I won't spoil who she is, I'll leave that for you to find out, should you ever watch it ;) Nayoung's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nayoung_lim #11: Yoo Yeonjung was added to WJSN as their 13th member and third main vocalist (yes, WJSN have three main vocalists, kinda ridiculous). She first appeared in the group's first comeback Secret: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m2KBDBueAM This was at the same time as Whatta Man which is why Yeonjung is the fourth member who was absent from that song. And the rest is pretty much history. WJSN continued to release banger after banger with Yeonjung absolutely belting her ass off on all of them. All of which eventually lead to them winning Queendom 2, releasing one more comeback in July 2022 and then forever disappearing into the dungeon of Starship Entertainment. Starship! For god's sake! Please remember already that IVE is not your only girl group! I beg you! Well, while Starship is busy ignoring WJSN, Yeonjung herself has gone into musical theatre and has starred in four different productions since 2022. Yeonjung's Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uyj__0803 And that's it! 101 updates for 101 girls. I need to rest now 🥴 But from this whole thing I got the feeling that pretty much all the groups and artists I mentionend here would have great potential for a Spotlight reaction. Most of all Chungha, WJSN, gugudan, Weki Meki and Pristin. But don't do that right now! Only if you have the time and the right mood for it.

jenn rocas

Downpour live is insane. You must check it out!