hi guys!! I don't really post but there has been a topic that I've been thinking about for years and now with the release of Boys II Planet I feel like it is pretty relevant (especially since i've been seeing people say its rigged through producer influence rather than voting), but I've always been confused about how in Produce X 101 (2019) Kim Minkyu didn't get the X position at least. I watched the show all the way back in 2019 when it aired and Lee Eunsang was my one-pick and so I was really happy when he got the X position. But I was not optimistic at the time for Eunsang's odds because he was against Kim Minkyu for the final 'X' position because Minkyu ranked 1st in the first episode and top 3 for the first half, and 5th going into the finale. However, Minkyu didn't end up debuting and it was revealed later that he wasn't even rigged out? and I have no idea how? As it is pretty well known, it was found that Mnet tampered with the votes and rigged basically every Produce series and Mnet's other survival series' were also investigated, with Produce 48 and Produce X 101 being the most tampered with and most obvious. This caused the groups i*zone and fromis_9 to go on a little hiatus and for X1 to disband. The court ended up releasing the names of the trainees who were unjustly eliminated during the series with the trainees being barred from the debut group being Koo Jung-mo, Lee Jinhyuk, and Keum Donghyun and they were supposed to rank 6th to 8th. The whole 'gimmick' of the Produce X 101 season of the show was that there was an 'X' member in the final group where the trainee with the highest cumulative votes (of the remaining trainees) would become the final member in the group. Obviously, how it ended up in X1 is that Lee Eunsang got the position which made reasonable sense when I watched it at the time because he ranked decently high at the beginning. However, the final position was between him and Kim Minkyu which has always confused me because for most of the series Minkyu ranked higher than Eunsang. Even going into the final Minkyu was ~100k votes ahead. But if he was rigged out of the X position Minkyu's name would have been in the court documents along with Jung-mo, Jinhyuk, and Keum. Going into the final only Kim Yohan, Kim Wooseok, and Song Hyeongjun had more cumulative votes than Minkyu. I would assume that Kim Yohan and Kim Wooseok were basically secured for a 1-2 and I think I remember Song Hyeongjun had a strong one-pick preference so I think he would have got a position in the group. Only Nam Dohyon and Lee Eunsang would have had enough cumulative votes to get the X rank if their votes exceeded Minkyu's by about 100k, and that's assuming that they didn't have a strong enough one-pick to get into the group just from the most recent voting (got the numbers from Wikipedia). So maybe Lee Eunsang's X position was legit? (like he would have got the position if the votes were not rigged). I remember this season did not have international voting and I wasn't really aware of the opinions of the K-netizens while watching so I don't really know who people really liked outside of the 'official' voting. Maybe Minkyu didn't have a strong one-pick? If you have any insight that would be great, or if you read anywhere that he was actually rigged out let me know! Thanks for reading and I'm sorry if I gave you and Pdx101 or X1 flashbacks!! submitted by /u/sky_fairy015 [link] [comments]
