Rookie Group XEED Fans Concerned As RONI Departs Shortly After Debut
XEED has announced the departure of one of its four members.
XEED recently debuted on December 1, 2022, under Nature Space Entertainment, with the mini album Dream Land. The group went viral due to the members all being adults who had finished their mandatory military enlistment.
The group’s leader and vocalist DOHA is 30 years old, vocalist RONI is 28 years old, main rapper and visual BAO is 26 years old, and maknae Jaemin is also 26 years old.
Despite debuting just last month, XEED has gone from four to three members as RONI has now departed. On January 17, 2023, Nature Space Entertainment announced his departure, effective as of January 16, 2023. The company reported that his exclusive contract was ended “due to personal reasons.”
Hello, This is Nature Space Entertainment.
Thank you for always supporting XEED.
RONI, who has been working together as a member of XEED, will leave the group on January 16th and cancel his exclusive contract with our company due to personal reasons.
We would like to sincerely apologize for the inconvenience to all the fans and people involved who have always supported XEED as a four-member group.
Regarding the live performance that we are currently announcing, we plan to continue our activities with the three of us. All three members will do their best to grow even more, so please continue to support us.
Once again, we are very sorry to all the fans for the sudden announcement.
— Nature Space Entertainment via XEED JAPAN
Hello, This is Nature Space Entertainment.
RONI, who has worked together as a member of XEED, will leave the group and cancel his exclusive contract with our company due to personal reasons.
We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience caused to the fans by the disappointing news.
As a result, the rest of XEED’s officially scheduled activities will continue as a 3 member team.
The 3 members will continue to grow and mature, so we ask for everyone’s many support.
Once again, we sincerely apologize to the fans for the sudden announcement.
Thank you.
— Nature Space Entertainment via @xeed__official/Instagram
GREENYs (XEED’s fandom) are shocked and confused. Those who biased him especially are naturally sad.
Roni hyung is so kind, he gave me a big power to make me feel safe
– #XEED maknae pic.twitter.com/0Q2MWC60G8— ♡°¡° jaejin °¡°♡ (@somunforger) January 17, 2023
As soon as they got on pocketdols last year, Roni was the first one who I started talking to and the one who I would talk to the most. ☹️ he was literally so nice and he would always reply as often as he could. Him leaving Xeed literally makes me so upset. pic.twitter.com/6pQUlu99g8
— ᴶᵃⁿᵉˡˡᵉ misses Vanner 🫧 (@jaehwanismm) January 17, 2023
Yet, it’s got even more concerning as the official XEED Instagram account has been removing all photos posted by RONI, as well as his solo shots. With the exception of some group shots including him left, the social media activity has GREENYs feeling as if the company is treating his departure as if he was never a member of the group.
Not me watching Roni’s posts be deleted one by one again in real time. Please just tell us what’s going on I don’t need this kind of drama in my life 😭🥹💔🌱 #xeed pic.twitter.com/RSaeoc66q2
— KC – P1 THIS WEEK (@KCsKpopLyfe) January 17, 2023
They deleted Roni's photos and highlight of him from Instagram for good. Now it's serious, this without any communication to the fans.#xeed #roni pic.twitter.com/ZK1b1cqlDG
— D-394 💛 (@rkvnana) January 17, 2023
GREENYs found this very upsetting, knowing he trained hard and practiced with them all, only to be removed like this.
The way they deleted everything related to Roni like he just didn’t exist in the first place is fucking FOUL. He literally practiced so hard for them just to pretend like he doesn’t exist at all??? Fucking FOUL bro. #xeed
— ᴶᵃⁿᵉˡˡᵉ misses Vanner 🫧 (@jaehwanismm) January 17, 2023
Still, some GREENYs are concerned that this all means that something bad could have happened.
I dunno wether to upload the videos and tiktoks I have saved of roni since his have been deleted or to like wait and see… 🥲#xeed #xeedroni #정호용 #로니 pic.twitter.com/Db6ARCXIX2
— XeedBabe (@XeedBubble) January 17, 2023
what is going on with xeed rn im losing my mind im so scared they literally just debuted i hope this doesn't mean what i think it does
— lou hyped for 8TURNs debut|| multi fan account (@zenithskii) January 17, 2023
not the way xeed acc wiped roni WHOLE MENPA AND EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM pic.twitter.com/s8JUzwTtHF
— cindy 🌱 || XEED ♡ (@baoxeeds) January 17, 2023
Whatever the reason for RONI’s departure, we hope everyone is okay, and XEED will continue to be successful.
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