Thought I'd drop this little tibit, simply to document something that ironically sucked me back into the Taeun vortex against my will xD
Recently Taemin got swept up in a dating rumour with Noze, one of his and Kai's backup dancers. A Chinese netizen compiled their findings and used Google Translate to spread this on Korean forums, though Shawols have thoroughly debunked almost all of the "evidence", and it's speculated the netizen is doing this as a smear campaign against Taemin. Considering they're (apparently) accusing Taemin of "not treating his fans well" and "he gives more autographs to international fans", which - doesn't correlate to him dating Noze at all imo, I wouldn't be surprised if that was their true intention. It's reminding me of when Naeun suddenly got that old dating rumour with Lee Soohyuk revived right before one of her dramas aired. Taemin hasn't immediately debunked this himself like the other times but whether or not he's dating Noze*, the situation's ridiculous in of itself so I don't think he felt the need to clarify this one lol
*If he is dating her then I hope they treat each other well and are happy ^^ The netizen posted a video of Minho, Key and Noze attending Taemin's concert, and Minho seemingly looked at Noze when Taemin proposed to us Shawols(?) (where's our dating rumour with Taemin, he's been flirting with us since 2018 asdfghjkl). If Minho was looking at Noze then that has to be one of the cutest things I've ever seen
Anyways, one of the pieces of "evidence" was a "Lovestagram" where Noze used a black heart emoji as a caption for one of her Instagram posts, and Taemin used a black heart for one of his posts. Both posts featured the two in all-black clothing as well. The Chinese netizen made it seem like they posted within the same time period, but fans quickly pointed out they cropped out the date the photos were uploaded, which showed these posts were made months apart. So - what Lovestagram? Then a day or two after this dating rumour, Naeun posted on her Instagram, with a majority of the photos featuring her in black clothes, and the caption she chose? A black heart. It's most likely a coincidence but the timing really took me out haha