On March 12, Seventeen issued an official announcement to fans, as follows below!
"Hello. This is PLEDIS ENTERTAINMENT.
SEVENTEEN’s global fan community ‘SEVENTEEN Weverse’ will open on March 17 (Tuesday) at 2 PM.
‘SEVENTEEN Weverse’ is a fan community where SEVENTEEN and CARATs can come together to communicate, and enjoy various content. Further details on usage will be provided through Weverse at a later point.
Once again, we would like to thank CARATs for your generous love for SEVENTEEN. We look forward to your continued interest and support. Thank you."
As many of you know, Big Hit Entertainment recently acquired Pledis Entertainment as a subsidiary company, also announcing their plans to incorporate Seventeen into the 'Weverse' community alongside artists such as BTS, TOMORROW x TOGETHER, and GFriend. Will you be joining Seventeen's 'Weverse'?
‘As many of you know, Big Hit Entertainment recently acquired Pledis Entertainment as a subsidiary company”
No they have not. That was just a rumor, Big Hit already addressed that it wasn’t true. Pledis is still it’s own company and not affiliated with Big Hit. The only PledisxBig Hit relationship is that Seventeen is going to be added to their Webverse, which announced during Big Hit’s corporate briefing in January about the plans for the year. Big Hit had already planned to add non Big Hit artists to webverse so Pledis doesn’t have to be a Big Hit subsidiary for that to happen, Seventeen is just the first truly non big Hit artists to be added. So stop spreading false information.