yes omfg i actually watched most of this go down in real time it was absolutely insane, this is just from my memory and it was a while ago~ (this took place over the course of a few days)

when hao confirmed the wechat baby photo a lot of his fans absolutely lost their minds, zerocolas were celebrating him basically admitting their relationship while c-rosins were mass crashing out. “fans” stopped supporting him, were writing huge rants over hao rubbing his relationship in their faces, criticizing him, sending him hate, etc… if you were online when that lap sitting video was posted and saw the intl rosin crash out that happened, this was like that but 100x worse.

after that c-rosins posted dating rumors about hanbin (and yujin actually but that didn’t gain traction since it wasn’t anything new), the hanbin one was posted on the haobin supertopic and everything lol. basically hanbin went on a trip with three of his friends (two girls and one guy) like a year before BP and they tried to make it seem like it was a couples trip, there was nothing incriminating like not even a little hand holding. this did gain a lot of attention though (i saw people say they bought search trends but i have no idea if that’s true or not) and was quickly debunked since some of the images they used of the two of them were actually group pictures they cropped to make it look “incriminating”. the post made its way to pann but got no attention apart from a few comments calling OP a friendless loser like fjfhdhd 😭

and now after that there was a war happening in hao’s mnet plus comments, i’m not sure who started it (both sides say it was the other) since i didn’t witness it myself but what i did see was this: every pluschat comment who had either a haobin/hanbin username or pfp was getting reported and taken down. now i mean ANYTHING, i was online for a bit and all the comments being reported were just normal “hao i love you so much/did you eat well today/i miss you” comments. akgaes would reply to these people insulting them, saying hao hated them and hanbin, and counting down the days until disbandment. they also successfully reported the comment to which hao had confirmed the wechat pfp to (which was just someone asking if hao had mango juice). it was a warzone.

hao then posted that video of him watching mcountdown and giggling. akgaes in his mnet plus took this to say that hao was making fun of hanbin for his mcing skills and suddenly the entire chat turned into people publicly insulting hanbin (before they were doing it just under haobinists comments) saying the worst things about him possible.

then hao went on mnet plus and replied to two comments: the first was a comment from a haobin pfp (it was a basic comment like asking if he had a snack), as someone who watched this go down that message was not up for more than 60 seconds. with the rate things were getting deleted hao would’ve had to been refreshing the chat for a while to find a haobinist comment that was up that he could reply to… it’s seems silly but if you were online watching this go down you understand how difficult this would’ve been for him to do. the second comment was “love what you love, and i will love you” and hao responded with “i love you” 🥹 which i think is really beautiful and meaningful… after this akgaes kind of left with their tail tucked between their legs. fanwars are nothing new and i think hao’s “fans” who were involved felt like they could do anything they want but his essentially joining the war on the side of haobinists and hanbin made them realize hao will actually defend himself/hanbin/haobinists how he can in a situation like this. now they live in fear of hanbin pfps because who knows when hao will confirm another rumor TT and have been on a mass crash out since.