The doomposting about aespa’s future is getting odd

So, after smngg impending debut, there’s been a wave of discourse about how aespa are doomed and practically done for. A lot of people telling MYs to “open their eyes”, get ready for aespa “being shelved and dungeoned” and “getting the Red Velvet treatment”, saying SM shelved Red Velvet when aespa debuted.

First of all, are we forgetting what was going on with Red Velvet around aespa’s debut? Wendy was still recovering from her accident, therefore on hiatus, and it had only been a few weeks after Irene’s gapjil scandal, that took a toll on her reputation and had her lay low. Even if aespa hadn’t debuted, Red Velvet’s future was still jeopardized by these events. And even then, in 2022, they came back with group promotions.

And even then, what’s the point of constantly trying to “humble” MYs? We don’t know what’s going to happen in the future. Winter said recently that 2025 will be “filled with aespa”, and fans have a right to be excited without having to constantly “get ready” for a hypothetical downfall.

Like, what do people want MYs to do about something that hasn’t even happened yet? The new group doesn’t even have a name. This entire discourse is giving me the same vibes as people calling aespa flops and saying they fell off in 2022 after Girls era, especially here on Reddit. What’s the need to rush a situation that hasn’t even happened yet?

I feel like some people secretly want this to happen, otherwise I can’t explain why the hardcore worrying from people that aren’t even aespa fans.