A dating rumor about TXT's Beomgyu and LE SSERAFIM's Chaewon has become a hot topic on Korean online communities.

The rumor began with a tweet shared on July 29 KST, where a netizen shared a photo of Beomgyu in the TXT dorm. While the photo looked quite ordinary, the eagle-eyed fan zoomed in on the group's refrigerator, finding an object on the top that appeared to be a small standee of Chaewon from her days promoting with IZ*ONE. "Why is there Chaewon merch in the TXT dorm...?," the netizen asked.

The same tweet was shared through a number of Korean online communities, including Nate Pann, where one poster wrote, "Are LE SSERAFIM's Chaewon and TXT's Beomgyu dating?" Other 'evidence' the poster provided was a video of Chaewon reacting to TXT's performance of "Good Boy Gone Bad" at last year's MelOn Music Awards, where she appeared to be concerned during a portion where Beomgyu raised up a lighter and the stage burst into open flame pyrotechnics.

A netizen in the comments of the post also mentioned that Chaewon sang a line from TXT's "Blue Hour" during an IZ*ONE VLIVE two years prior, while another chimed in with a screenshot of a previous dating rumor they were involved with, saying, "It's famous among fans."

Generally, netizens were mixed as to whether these were coincidences or proof that there could be something more. Other comments left on the post include, "First there were rumors saying she was dating Yeonjun, now Beomgyu?," "Our Beomgyu is so popular. These kinds of things are only made up when they're popular idols," "How did they even find that? I couldn't even see it even if I tried," and "They live in that dorm with their managers," implying that the standee could belong to someone else.