The girls' relationship was a distorted mix of toxic high school cliques, dysfunctional family and seasoned coworkers. DB would even take jobs offered to one girl and give it to another without saying anything.ĭating takes a HUGE emotional and traumatic toll when the couple is exposed Every aspect of their individual success and fame was compared.

Parents were bribing managers for better gigs, executives were picking favorites, DB was less willing to give some members opportunities over others. The way the company was structured, competitiveness was key and inevitable. The parents were heavily involved in the girls' careers and obviously wanted the best for their daughters Some of the characters were honestly more likeable than Rachel, despite being extremely flawed, like Mina. And then add in the fact that they had to keep up appearances and didn't get any help from their management company to resolve issues, it was a disaster waiting to happen.Īll the characters had good and bad moments with Rachel and Jessica does give valid reasons for their behavior.

It's more a story of bad communication and unbalanced privilege in an extremely competitive environment. It wasn't 'the others hate me because I'm so perfect' like sones claim. Jessica obviously wrote this from her own POV but she really did try to be fair and defend a lot of what was going on from the other side. They have taken to calling her the 'SNSD-anti' and regurgitate the same points over and over again: 'Jessica makes herself a perfect cucumber hating Mary Sue and is bullied by the 8 others because she's so perfect' and adding things that aren't true because they've never read the books and only skimmed some pages online. I just want to clarify some things because 99% of the hate I'm seeing directed at both sides are coming from people who never actually read either of the books, and only use a few pages out of context to fit their narratives.Īnyone that pops into r/SNSD will see all the toxicity by the same prominent 5 members that have been dragging Jessica before her first book was even out.

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