I finished watching Wanna One Go and shut down the computer to go study but then I read the local newspaper and the headlines shocked me. (Actually not the headlines, but it's still on the first page of the entertainment page so yeah). The title reads, "Jisung from Wanna Onereportedly bullied a trainee during P101". So I decided to head back online to do some fact check.

First of all, I believe that Jisung is a genuinely nice person. Many people in P101 had praised him for his kindness, and even picked him as their fixed pick. Jisung and bullying doesn't belong in one sentence...

So I went on Google and typed "Jisung Wanna One" and checked the news section. Guess who reported the news first???

That's right. ALLKPOP. As expected. 

Digital Music News (better known as BTS's anti) also reported this, so in first place I don't really believe the news anymore. But to complete the fact check, I read the Allkpop article just to make sure. Guess who initially made the complaint???

Jung Joong Ji. The same trainee who was greedy for attention, spread fake rumours about Daehwi, and ually assaulted a girl. 

I was close to just close the tab and go study (finals are near, damn), but I still read what Joong Ji had to say. It goes something like this...

You asked for feedback. I wasn't going to but here it is. There was a time we ate together for the first time during 'Produce 101 season 2'. There, Yoon Ji Sung hyung suddenly called me over and said, 'You have a lot of followers on Facebook. You should make money with that. Why the hell are you here?' So I replied, 'I'm sorry, hyung.' After that, he kept bothering me about 10 times so I told him that he's really making it hard for me and to stop bullying me. He smiled and said 'okay', and then told me three trainees in his agency had left because of him. Then on the day when we had the level test, I only slept for an hour due to ongoing practice and messed up almost entirely during the actual test so I was sitting down with a frown on my face, and he came over and teasingly said, 'You just did your worth.' I was so startled and in disbelief (at his rudeness) so I talked back to him. But after some time, we made up and that's why I uploaded the photo (selca)".

"Some are asking why I talked about Yoon Ji Sung hyung at the church when I wasn't even asked about him but the thing is I just answered what they asked me. I wasn't talking behind his back. I was just answering their questions. I told them what happened because they asked me. I also told them we made up after time".

"But it's unbelievable how there are people telling me to stop lying. Why would I make up such stories? Do you think I'll be making this up because I want to get sued? At the time, I even told the producer and we made up later on. And that happened with me offering bread to him, because he said he was hungry. We were all very hungry at the time, and I offered mine to him, and he said, 'You eat it first. Did you mix something in it?' so I said 'no', took a bite first, and then gave it to him".

"No matter what anyone says, I am not lying. No matter who believes me or not, I just wrote the truth with a hand over my heart. No matter who criticizes me or not, I'm not afraid because I wrote this truthfully. A lot of words will be circulating due to this but people keep telling me to stop lying and that's making me feel suicidal so I'm leaving this long message".

Hmmmm......

After reading the article a few times, I think maybe this is just a misunderstanding.

Jisung is generally a very playful and expressive person, and very straightforward as well. This kind of personality makes it easy to cause misunderstandings, and also cause other people to hate said person. I'm saying this because I think Jisung's personality is very similiar to mine. I'm expressive and playful, and make jokes excessively in a teaseful way, so I'm hated by almost all my primary schoolmates, and now I'm isolated by like 90% of my class. No one wants to talk to me because I would make a big fuss out of everything, I have friends but my behaviour is making the class dynamic bad. I wanted to change but how should I say? The expressiveness and straightforwardness is part of my personality. No matter how hard I try, I just couldn't wipe those traits from my own being. (I hate myself a lot for that.)

Anyways I think Jisungwas just going slightly overboard with the teasing, and it makes Joong Ji feel like Jisung was bullying him. But they made up later, so I believe that Joong Ji wasn't trying to start the bandwagon of hatred towards Jisung, but only clarifying stuff regarding what he said in church and online.

Still... Joong Ji was an for ually assaulting a girl, and he might be fake and an attention , or anything bad you're saying about him, but actually I think he's just too sensitive with words, and perhaps a little bit too good at twisting his words as well. Only he was saying about Jisung being mean or something, but all the other trainees said the exactly opposite??? We should believe the majority??? (Of course in the comments session someone said that the others might just be saying good things about Jisung to cover up his bullying, but the whole comments session is a mess I'm not even going to start)

Nevertheless... they made up, right?

But still Joong Ji was talking bad about Jisung even after they made up, which made him kind of "double faced" in my opinion... but it's none of my business. I just hope that Jisung's name won't be tainted much. He's already very much hated from the beginning for exaggerating his emotions... he doesn't need any hate anymore. Also, with Wanna One's comeback very very soon... I just hope for all the best for him and Wanna One.

If you want a clear opinion from me? I believe that Jisung is innocent.

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(Italic words are copied and pasted from Allkpop)