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The story
CANDY TUNE’s new song, given its first-ever TV performance on CDTV, features a segment where all seven members take turns asking “Am I cute?” One viewer summed it up with the post “These girls really need a smack from Sohin (a Japanese comedian known for comedic bits where he scolds and ‘smacks’ annoying things) once,” and it took off on social media. The buzz grew even further when someone quote-tweeted a video set to the Juice=Juice song “BLOODY BULLET,” paired with the lyric “All these questions are exhausting — please be quiet for a bit.” The story made its way to the Hello! Project board on 5channel, where opinion split over the scale of the likes: was this genuine widespread sympathy, or just people piling on for attention?
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These girls really need a smack from Sohin.
Source: x.com / Original post here
What people said
CANDY TUNE's new song, given its first TV performance on CDTV, has all 7 members asking "Am I cute?" (i.e. "Aren't I cute?")
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Since it's so annoying, someone posts about it with "Get smacked by Sohin," and it goes viral
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Gets quote-tweeted with a video set to Juice=Juice's "BLOODY BULLET" and the lyric "All these questions are exhausting, please be quiet for a bit"
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Strikes a chord and goes viral — and on top of that, people say "The girl in this video (Ino Reon) is cuter than CANDY TUNE anyway"
>Gets quote-tweeted with a video set to Juice=Juice's "BLOODY BULLET" and the lyric "All these questions are exhausting, please be quiet for a bit"
3,776 likes (the original post got 22,000 likes)
>Strikes a chord and goes viral — and on top of that, people say "The girl in this video (Ino Reon) is cuter than CANDY TUNE anyway"
28 likes
Here we go again with Juice fans' usual fake-viral hype scam.
Even the original post only got likes because people thought "yeah, these girls really do deserve a smack from Sohin" — it's not some declaration of "I love CANDY TUNE!" Especially since Kawa Lab (nickname for CANDY TUNE) isn't nearly as strong on X as it is on TikTok, and isn't well liked there.
Oh yeah, that happened…
Meanwhile the original post got 12 million impressions.
And even before this really blew up, they'd already danced 'Moremi' on Pokapoka too, right?
It was made by Yabai T-shirt Yasan (a creator with Hello! Project ties). He's on our side.
In yesterday's Ookami (5ch live-commentary) thread, people were saying 'Isn't this just Petitmoni?' lol
Probably the part where they keep chanting the same word over and over?
There's literally a part like that — a section that's blatantly similar.
'I get it!' 'I get it!' 'I get it!' 'I get it!' 'I get it!'
This part is exactly the same as Petitmoni's 'right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right' bit.
Background and Points of Debate
There’s a real gap in scale behind this viral moment: the original post racked up 22,000 likes, while the quote-tweet that reignited it got only 3,776. Commenters in the thread pointed out this looks like “fake viral hype,” a reminder to take claims of something “going viral” on social media with a grain of salt rather than assuming the raw numbers tell the whole story. Likewise, the claim that CANDY TUNE’s song structure resembles Petitmoni’s is just a subjective opinion voiced on 5channel, not a confirmed fact. Hello! Project runs a large number of groups, and overlapping trends in songs and costumes aren’t unusual, which is why some in the thread admitted they can no longer tell which song belongs to which group. It’s also worth keeping in mind that topics involving popularity comparisons between groups tend to spark emotional clashes between fan bases.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5channel (Hello! Project board) thread “[Good News] Juice=Juice Goes Viral on CDTV wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.”
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