On social media platforms, aespa and NewJeans have been trending for exchanging interactions with their dance challenges. As far as interactions may go, some K-pop acts tend to give other artists one of their albums as a gift.
Netizens established a thread earlier on June 8, which was titled, "Winter Shows Her NewJeans' Album On Bubble."
The post's author uploaded a screenshot, which was taken from Winter's Bubble conversation. According to the photo, Winter happily shared that NewJeans had given her a "How Sweet" album.
Winter:"We gave them ours too, and I took this while leaning it on the wall."
In the comments section, netizens voiced out how joyful they were seeing Winter flaunt her "How Sweet" album proudly despite company tensions.
For further context, fans have been calling out HYBE founder Bang Si Hyuk for his comment regarding aespa, which was revealed during ADOR CEO Min Hee Jin's press conference on April 25.
Min Hee Jin revealed one of her conversations with Bang Si Hyuk, with the latter asking the ADOR CEO if she would be able to "crush aespa." Fans were angered by the reveal, and Bang Si Hyuk has been the target of criticism and hate from K-pop fans.
Some fans mentioned that Winter was not the type to care about such conflicts.
"Imagine doing a challenge with NewJeans in HYBE's building at this time. You can tell that SM and aespa are NewJeans and Min Heejin's side."
"Winter too, even in the past, when HYBE and SM were on bad terms because of Lee Soo Man, she mentioned in a Circle Chart interview that she would listen to Hype Boy from NewJeans."
"I feel like she's the type who doesn't care about that stuff and stands on her ground
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"(The song I listen to the most!)"
"I'm a NewJeans fan and I'm so grateful for them. But I'm worried that LE SSERAFIM's fans would attack Winter."
"I love both groups."
"Ah. I love this too much. It's nice to see both are successful."
International fans agreed with the sentiments, as they were glad to see the groups in good terms. Meanwhile, fans also called out other internet users who wanted to start a drama between aespa and other HYBE groups.
"I love that aespa is showing solidarity with new jeans god knows how tough these past few weeks must've been for them."
"K-pop fans could really learn from these girls' idgaf attitudes. The interaction between aespa and NewJeans and Karina was with Eunchae just before that."
"You guys here are so funny and love to make up dramas. Aespa has good relationships with LE SSERAFIM too."
"aespa honestly dgaf about corporate dramas and fanwars."
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