Heeseung leaving feels so... strange?

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Hi everyone! I just wanted to share yk my thoughts on this whole heeseung matter since I've been feeling pretty frustrated and confused lately. A little bg on me, I am a fairly new engene, or at least die-hard fan. I've known of enhypen since around 2020, I've just only early 2025 became a real fan. I don't have any albums, but the reason why I love the group is because of their music, their personalities, and of course their clear talent. I personally love heeseung. He's funny, cool, and his voice is just amazing. That's why it doesn't make sense to me. He's the ace of enhypen, he gets all the important parts in their big songs like No Doubt and others. Not only that, but this feels so random. They've just now released their new album, got a comeback, really seen a switch in personality. Right now they are at their height of their career after winning an award last year, and just I've seen them get so popular. I mean we all know all the weird stuff surrounding this whole situation, things not adding up, and the clear sadness. Perrsonally it broke my heart to see how he was during the fancall, not only because he looked sad, but you could tell that he felt bad. He didn't even know what his album would be. A person planning their album would at least know what direction they want to go in, especially if its as "clear of a difference in artistic direction from enhypen" as be-lift chooses to say.

I feel sad honestly. Not even sad because heeseung is one of my biases (alongside Ni-ki), but sad FOR him. He's worked so hard, and is no different from the rest of the members. Why did he get kicked out? Now I'm not saying that anyone else should have gotten kicked out, HELL NO actually. The only question I'm left with is. WHY? Imagine working with the same people for years, quite literally growing alongside them, living together, and all of a sudden being forced to split your dreams from theirs. Nobody could have predicted this, and especially not them.

Now, what I worry about, is that this is going to demotivate everyone. Engenes, and most importantly the members. I feel like the members aren't going to feel the same. I mean, they all look up to Heeseung, and all of a sudden their mentor leaves. A person they considered family, and who they strive to become leaves. What do they do then? Even as a new engene, I feel sad. I can't imagine how the extremely dedicated ones feel.

I also want to add one final thing (sorry for the rant haha). I don't understand why we need a deadline. Why is March 31st our last hope? Why are we universally deciding that today is the day of whether or not Heeseung stays in enhypen? I don't have an answer to this question, all I know, and all I feel, is today isn't the last day. We can't loose hope. There's no reason to. There's more people supporting this cause then not. I can't speak for Heeseung or the members, no one can. But at least I can tell, that this doesn't feel right.

One final note. If this is truly something that all the members are ok with, then that's fine with me. Their decision is still their decision. Bu that doesn' change the fact that I think enhypen will be different withou Heeseung. I don't think enhypen will be worse, not at all. Just different from what me and other fans imagined.

Posted Apr 1, 2026, 5:44 AM UTC

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