On 9th July 2026, ENHYPEN leader, Yang Jungwon, speaks up on the member line-up on a Weverse livestream after their Peru stop of their BLOOD SAGA tour.
Jungwon stated that he started the live solely for the reason to speak up about the recent controversy within the fandom. The translation of what he spoke about in his live is shown below:
There is a lot of uproar on social media regarding his statement. Jungwon said, “..people have been saying we haven’t given them a proper statement, and they’ve continued to bring up the number of the members.” Fans were not given a clear statement about the ex-member’s departure – that is factual. The only thing fans were given was a notice with no prior warnings. Moreover, Jungwon did not mention his name at all, but everyone knew who he was talking about – Lee Heeseung.
Jungwon is not wrong for speaking up, it just sparks confusion and more conflict within the fandom. For example, on the 4th July 2026, ENHYPEN performed in Brazil and the fans were recorded singing the original fan-chant very clearly during their song Go Big Or Go Home. The members were seen smiling throughout, no signs of discomfort. Although nobody can prove how they actually felt. If they did feel uncomfortable with it, why did they choose that song for encore where they did the 7-chant again? One of the other members (Kim Sunoo) even caught Heeseung’s representative plushie happily and placed it on the stage with them, when he could have thrown it back to the fan – view here.
Fans in Peru also did the 7-chant, the concert the 6 performed at before Jungwon went on live. This can be seen in a clip posted on X here.
His statement started to make little sense when he said, “I’m not saying that our concerts in Brazil and Peru were bad. They were amazing.” It is confusing because he just touched on how it makes them uncomfortable and the known highlight of these concerts were the fans representing themselves as “ot7 fans”. It is strange that this is being said now, rather than when there was clear conflict in the crowds at their concerts and the fan-chant being an inaudible mix of the old and new one.
As mentioned above, fans were conflicted by this and with each other. They flooded social media with their thoughts, theories and responses to his statement.
Time will tell whether the fans will adhere to this statement with their other tour stops, but it is very clear that this only separated the fandom even more.
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