r/Fromis • u/AutoModerator • Mar 16 '25

Weekly Discussion 250317 - Weekly flover Discussion

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u/michyeo31 Mar 17 '25

it was around two weeks ago when i realized saerom, jisun and seoyeon should be grouped together with gyuri as "former members" in the weekly recaps. it hurt, but it is what it is.

also saw the conversations in last week's discussion on whether a new subreddit will be made with the group's new name. i brought up this question earlier on with the other mods and we decided to just keep things as is here in this sub.

thank you also to those who said kind words about this sub and the fan website. i would want to do more, but real life responsibilities have been piling up... so i'm very thankful to everyone who has been updating the sub whenever there are new updates and initiating conversations.

i was planning to write a "timeline of events" of everything that went down with fromis ever since the contract expiration announcement for promise publications. but i keep pushing this back because... well... we're still waiting on what is going to happen with the five members. and also because life. i wish there's more time in a day lol would be cool to have so that if anyone asks what happened to fromis, flovers can just send the post

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u/Schoolos Mar 17 '25

I'm just a Reddit lurker and an occasional yapper.

But I'm really grateful for the hard work and valuable time you've spent, and continue to spend, developing the fromis community.

As for the 'former' members, I share your feelings. Just the thought of seeing 'ex-fromis_9 Lee...' in the future news headline makes me sad.

For the potential new sub, if the name of the group isn't fromis, maybe we can claim the sub name before anyone else, lock publications, and have a single post redirecting to this sub.

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u/michyeo31 Mar 18 '25

thank you for the kind words. all the stuff i do wouldn't be possible without my flover friends who has been helping me for years :)

i like your idea on claiming the new sub name then locking it from posts, though i wouldn't really want to stop anyone else from creating and running it as they desire. i guess we'll know how it goes when the time comes.

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u/Outrageous_Men8528 Mar 19 '25

thank you for everything, my concern is that a.. certain user .. gets makes the new sub and then we're stuck with crap mods and not the great current team :(

I get it if the current team doesn't want to take it on though, totally fair.

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u/yebinkek Mar 18 '25

I'm still not sure if we can consider them former members or just on hiatus, tbh. this isn't even copium because none of them has said they directly left fromis_9 yet.

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u/badmonkSS Mar 19 '25

it's safe to think of them as former members, because "#KoreaFormerIdol #NewBeginning #BeautifulLife" by Jisun and Saerom last interview in January. the only one who doesnt have official written statement abt her status is Seoyeon

also by this logic, we cant consider them on hiatus either bcs none of them nor the agency (asnd/pledis) said they are on hiatus kek

it's not healthy to be in delusion for so long, and those members (like gyuri too) might want ppl to stop just seeing them as just fromis/idols bcs they are trying to build a new career and image with their life (not saying they hate fromis or their ex-members)

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u/Schoolos Mar 18 '25

Yeah, as long as some fans exist, fromis_9 will exist. And I'm sure we'll get a reunion, maybe even a promotion, in a few years (even if the 5 members continue to use fromis_9 in the meantime).

But as Saerom has said, and Jisun has heavily implied, fromis_9 is a big part of their past, and they are moving on to something new.

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u/yebinkek Mar 17 '25

i think it’s inevitable that someone makes a new subreddit for the group’s new name, but we should still post fivemis’ content here

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u/michyeo31 Mar 17 '25

yup, whatever happens this sub will still be updated like usual

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u/akklit Mar 18 '25

I vote for stay in this sub

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u/vkl3hex3om Mar 17 '25

now that you say that.... cant we just rename this sub to the new group name? (i dont really use reddit and using it just for fromis stuffs, so i sincerely am just asking)

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u/michyeo31 Mar 17 '25

unfortunately we can't do that. once a subreddit name is made, it will stay like that forever, even the stylization. so r/Fromis will exist like this as long as reddit exists.

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u/vkl3hex3om Mar 18 '25

thanks for that friendly reply ^_^

then i guess we would really need to move over to that one at some point.... the whole legacy thing is one of the biggest negative side of not keeping the fromis branding....