The recent documentary ‘Pop Star Academy: KATSEYE’ gave viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the formation of the group KATSEYE. As part of the documentary series, one scene showed the naming process for the group, in which several different names were under consideration, including DREAMSCAPE, CATSEYE, and NEWCRAZY. It was then revealed that the two most highly considered names ended up being KATSEYE and NEWCRAZY.

At the time of the documentary’s release, this information didn’t draw much attention. But with the recent release of HYBE’s ‘Music Industry Trend Report,’ which revealed HYBE’s stated intention to ‘dispose of NewJeans,’ the name ‘NEWCRAZY’ is now being seen in a different light.

Netizens are now speculating whether the name may have been intended as a way to help KATSEYE replace NewJeans, given the similarity between the two names. Others think the possible name could just be an embarrassing coincidence.

"I guess that's what they meant when they said they were going to throw away NewJeans and replace them with a new one"

"This isn't even funny, it's just creepy...

"This is so disgusting I could die"

"And I thought KATSEYE was a tacky group name... what in the world is NEWCRAZY?"

"I can't even laugh anymore. HYBE steals and copies other people's work, they steal and try to replace their identities... It's really, truly creepy. I really don't want to deal with it"

"Even without copying NewJeans, the name NEWCRAZY is so lame..."

"They were even planning to name an entire group after this plan to replace NewJeans? So HYBE is really like that?"

"It's even more strange because KATSEYE isn't even targeted at Korea"

"It would've been the top 3 groups HYBE really wanted, NEWCRAZY, ILLIT, and LE SSERAFIM"

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