🔥ILLIT's Break Even challenge teaser is already stuck in my head
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'Too many times for how short it is' is basically the song's business model
ILLIT keeps getting the catchy-in-fifteen-seconds thing right. Whether it lasts past week two is my only question
Third watch and I still can't tell if I like the song or just the part where it ends
Useful phrase before you try the challenge: 춤 못 춰요 (chum mot chwoyo), 'I can't dance'
Same, I refresh the page like it'll update faster if I'm polite about it
*screams* the teaser ends before I'm ready and now I have to wait for the full thing. rude
one teaser and we're all refreshing like it's ticket day
Leave them wanting more, said the company, and the company was right. Annoying
The cut-off ending is on purpose, but knowing that doesn't help at all. Still rude
This challenge will be on my feed for a month. I'll try it once and retire
Try it once and retire is optimistic. Challenges have a way of showing up at family dinners
Try it once and retire is how every challenge starts. Month two you're doing it at a wedding
Useful phrase before you try the challenge: 춤 못 춰요 (chum mot chwoyo), 'I can't dance'
no bc I've watched the teaser way too many times for how short it is
'Too many times for how short it is' is basically the song's business model
Too many times for how short is the definition of a good hook. The math checks out
Most people here watch these on the subway with sound off, so the choreography has to carry the teaser. That's why it's mostly dance
watched once to be informed. watched six more times to be sure. the informed part did not survive
Fifteen seconds and the whole fandom is in the group chat. Marketing departments are laughing
A teaser is the transfer rumor of kpop. Everybody's hyped and nobody has seen the player run yet
Marketing departments are laughing until the full song drops and it's just fine. Teasers have lied to me before.
Short teaser, long hangover
Long hangover, and no aspirin until the full release
ILLIT keeps getting the catchy-in-fifteen-seconds thing right. Whether it lasts past week two is my only question
Everyone's asking if it lasts past week two. Rookies get judged on week one and I'm tired
Teasers this short are a sneaky trick. You replay it five times to catch the choreography and the company counts that as five views
Five views for one choreography check. Efficient. I did it six times, for the record
Waiting for the full thing like it's my birthday, except birthdays at least come with cake
Break Even is a bold title for something I keep losing hours to
Break Even sounds like a modest goal. Everything about this teaser says they're aiming for profit.
Challenge before the full song. Backwards, bold, I respect it
Dropping the challenge teaser first is common now. The company wants the 숏폼 (syotpom, short-form) trend to start before the song does
Break Even, and my sleep schedule is the one in the red
Sleep schedule in the red is the only break even I'm not hitting. Napping is a fiscal strategy.
Third watch and I still can't tell if I like the song or just the part where it ends
Liking the part where it ends is how I got through my entire degree.
A teaser cut at the best moment is the 89th minute goal the ref disallows. Cruel
Vocab note: 티저 (tijeo) is just 'teaser', Korean loves taking English words and making them cuter. 15 seconds of tijeo and I'm already in trouble
Devil's advocate: any 15 second teaser looks good. Ask me again when the full choreo isn't the best four seconds on repeat
Every teaser looks good. Not every one survives loop four. This one did.
Teacher here. Two days of teaser and the hallway is full of kids doing 15 seconds of choreo wrong at the exact same spot. Consistent, at least.
Tried it once in my kitchen. My cat left the room and I'm still thinking about it.
Cat gave it one star.
was gonna say it's overhyped and then I watched it again 😤 4 times now. no further comment 🙄
My office has a rule: whoever hums the teaser first buys coffee. I've been paying since Tuesday.
fwiw companies usually drop a whole ladder of teasers, schedule poster, concept photos, clip versions. this 15 sec one is probably step one of a few
So we sign off on the whole thing after step one of a ladder? I'll clap after the second rung.
Can't read the styling in fifteen seconds, which is probably the point. I'll wait for the concept photos and complain then
Watched it on mute at my desk. Still got stuck.
Mute and still stuck, that's rough. I watched it in the school hallway with sound on and got a look from a teacher. Worth it.
Challenge first only works if the choreo is copyable. If it needs a trained hip it's six teenagers and a physio
Fifteen seconds of teaser and everybody already declares the title race over. It's a pre-season friendly, people
congrats!! 15 seconds and I'm already counting days
I'm already in my seat for the anthem. Please don't let the full song be a 0-0 draw.
The good part hits right near the end and then it just stops. Textbook way to make me press replay, and I fell for it.