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Bunnyzens are really out there inventing scenarios just to justify Suho's choice of staying in SM lol. If he really loves the group and is as good as a leader as they claim him to be, then he should've done things the Shinhwa Eric way:
refused SM's renewal offers because the contracts were different for every member left SM with the entire group studied the law in preparation for an inevitable legal battle against SM for Shinhwa's name (and won!!!) encouraged the members to focus on solo activities while he shopped around for a new agency for the whole group negotiated for the group's full creative control in the new company which resulted to the group winning their first daesang after leaving SM, etc.
(He did a lot more for the group like using his own money for post-SM expenses or calling out journalists who included criticisms of the members' personal lives in album reviews, but I'm too lazy to enumerate them now.)
But then again, Eric was Shinhwa's most popular member and received a lot of lovecalls from different agencies and many brands (most of which, he accepted on the condition that the members join him in the project); Suho, on the other hand... well, you know already lol. He reminds everyone that he's the leader every chance he gets, but he has never really done anything to protect the group and the members. He's pretty good at whining and throwing shade tho.
while there's hypocrisy in the fact that always throwing around the leader position and he benefits from it (well now he mostly uses it to pathetically whine and cry about how unfair it is to him everything that happens), I reiterate my opinion which is that it's on the whole group.
idk if ppl realise just how absurd it is the way they proceeded? I'm going off sm's biased words here but this was never refuted by either cbx or any of the other members: they entered the discussions as a team of 7, with a team of lawyers. 18 months of discussion, where they pressed for their renewal conditions as 7, thus using their conditions as a group as an advantage. in the end did the group get any better conditions? let's not talk about the delayed winter/christmas album - cream soda was a lackluster, half assed album where the only promo (I don't count music shows) was killing voice... that begs an interesting question: what did they use their pressure as a group on sm for? knowing they reached an agreement satisfying enough that they signed as early as December 2022? (which still baffles me btw... I get they're not media savvy but couldn't their lawyers tell them about the March 2023 general meeting and how it might have ousted lee sooman? ⚰️)
idk... I'd say it's becoming increasingly clear to me that the only thing they cared about was getting good deals for themselves as individuals 🤷♀️ which there's nothing wrong with, dgmw! but they would have done it while pressing on sm as a group. and then 3 of them had no qualms about playing around with the group's brand and activities again for their own. interesting, isn't it?