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🔥ILLIT's whistle song is splitting Korea in half

7SoominAm2026.10.15 11:57👁 5890💬 50♥ 83

Korean fans heard the "You're Under Arrest" snippet and split fast: one side says it's like farts in their ears, the other says they hate it but it'll blow up anyway. Meanwhile Filipino fans are hearing pure budots in that whistle, and honestly so am I.

I'm on the "it'll blow up" side. Nobody gets this mad at a song they forget.

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7velvetcrow2026.10.15

farts in my ears is the most theqoo review ever written

8Dabin2026.10.15

teacher, you're right, but a song a 12-year-old can whistle is a song I don't want in my head all week. still not convinced

7Lumi_Haze2026.10.16

hit i guess is the right verdict. nobody whistles a song they forgot.

7Junseo2026.10.15

as someone who reads theqoo: not a compliment. it's an 'I will now hate-stream this forty times' statement, which the charts count as one anyway

7Minjae2026.10.15

a whistle hook is a fidget spinner. annoying for a week, then everyone has one. I'll be whistling it on the way to class

8Dabin2026.10.15

the whistle got stuck in my head after ONE listen i'm not ok

7velvetcrow2026.10.15

farts in my ears is the most theqoo review ever written

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6Fizzwick2026.10.15

farts in my ears is going on a t-shirt

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7Dahye2026.10.15

theqoo reviews are the only reviews I trust. never once polite.

6soju_sundays2026.10.15

as a Filipino I can confirm the budots allegations. my tito would dance to this at a fiesta

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8Taeho2026.10.15

Budots is a dance-music scene out of Davao, so hearing it in an idol whistle is less a joke than a fair ear. K-pop has a habit of borrowing a sound before its home audience notices.

7Minjae2026.10.15

hating it and streaming it at the same time is how every summer hit starts honestly

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7SoominOP2026.10.15

exactly, the anger is free promo

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7paperlantern2026.10.15

Hate-streaming counts the same as streaming. Charts don't read feelings.

6Fizzwick2026.10.15

nah this one is just annoying. not every whistle is a hook

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8Dabin2026.10.15

annoying AND catchy, those aren't opposites

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7Minjae2026.10.15

Not every whistle is a hook, true. But this one you can hum on a bus, and that's the only test that matters.

7Nari2026.10.15

A whistle hook is a whistle hook. If it's stuck in my head by Friday I'll be in the it'll-blow-up camp and bitter about it.

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7Minjae2026.10.15

Same, if it's stuck in my head by Friday I'll just admit it. Nobody wins a fight against a whistle hook.

7Minjae2026.10.15

Give it two weeks and the whistle section gets a fan chant. Watch.

6moss.and.rain2026.10.15

is the fart thing a compliment? it sounds like a compliment

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6tteok_n_roll2026.10.15

farts-in-ears is the highest praise a Korean forum can give without admitting anything

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7Junseo2026.10.15

as someone who reads theqoo: not a compliment. it's an 'I will now hate-stream this forty times' statement, which the charts count as one anyway

7quietkimchi2026.10.15

whistling is the one instrument everyone thinks they play

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6Oatmilk_Otto2026.10.15

everyone thinks they can whistle until the neighbor's dog leaves the room

7paperlantern2026.10.15

Teacher here. Any sound a 12-year-old can make loudly in a hallway is going to chart. I fear for my ears.

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8Dabin2026.10.15

teacher, you're right, but a song a 12-year-old can whistle is a song I don't want in my head all week. still not convinced

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7cloudberry2026.10.15

can confirm, every kid at the in-laws' table whistles through dinner and gets told off. so, hit song

7Gaeun2026.10.15

I'll wait for the choreo. A whistle with a bad dance is a ringtone, with a good one it's a challenge on every phone.

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7Dahye2026.10.15

bad dance on a good hook is a ringtone, good dance is a challenge. the choreo decides which one this is

7Minjae2026.10.15

it's the hate it and hear it forty times strategy. works every time

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7orbit_kid2026.10.15

hear it forty times isn't a strategy, it's a hostage situation

7Junseo2026.10.15

I can only hear budots in that whistle now. no going back

7Nari2026.10.15

Whistle hooks survive being badly performed by a whole bus, and that's the real chart.

7marigold.mp32026.10.15

heard it once, my ears filed a complaint. it'll chart anyway, that's the annoying part

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8Dabin2026.10.15

filed a complaint and then pressed play again. that's the whole business model

7Lumi_Haze2026.10.15

'farts in my ears' vs 'budots' is the most polarising pair of reviews I've seen this year

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7Haneul2026.10.15

farts vs budots 😭 I'm on the budots side, the whistle is silly but it makes me want to move ✨

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7Minjae2026.10.15

budots side here. I'd like to see a dance challenge before I decide anything though

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7marigold.mp32026.10.15

farts vs budots and I'm sitting here humming it. no vote, just humming

7Minjae2026.10.15

a whistle hook is a fidget spinner. annoying for a week, then everyone has one. I'll be whistling it on the way to class

7Gaeun2026.10.15

the hate-it crowd and the it'll-blow-up crowd are both streaming it. the marketing team doesn't have to do anything

7Dahye2026.10.15

listened once and it's been whistling in my head all day, in the worst possible way. so, hit i guess

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7Lumi_Haze2026.10.16

hit i guess is the right verdict. nobody whistles a song they forgot.

7Junseo2026.10.16

the farts-in-my-ears review is a theqoo classic, and it usually means the same people are on replay three by Friday. ask me how i know

7Haneul2026.10.16

hate-streaming still counts as streams 🥹✨ I whistled it at my sister twice and she begged me to stop, so that's a hit

7Nari2026.10.16

Not convinced yet. A whistle is fun for a week and then it's the ringtone nobody changes. Ask me in a month.

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