{"id":128647,"date":"2024-09-29T11:30:57","date_gmt":"2024-09-29T18:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/?p=128647"},"modified":"2024-09-29T07:19:39","modified_gmt":"2024-09-29T14:19:39","slug":"mingyus-potato-choice-seventeens-animated-characters-provoke-reactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/mingyus-potato-choice-seventeens-animated-characters-provoke-reactions\/","title":{"rendered":"Mingyu&#8217;s potato choice: SEVENTEEN&#8217;s animated characters provoke reactions!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SEVENTEEN&#8217;s Mingyu<\/strong> recently took to <strong>Weverse<\/strong> to spill the tea about the group&#8217;s newly unveiled animated characters. And while these characters were supposed to add a funny, quirky vibe to the group&#8217;s upcoming era,<strong> fans had a lot to say\u2014especially about Mingyu&#8217;s very &#8220;unique&#8221; choice. So, what&#8217;s the deal?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mingyu confessed with a mix of humor and embarrassment that he personally designed his character, Minja, who is literally a potato. Yep, you heard that right! Amid fans&#8217; <strong>mixed reactions<\/strong>, he apologized, saying, &#8220;I\u2019m sorry Carats, I chose the potato,&#8221; adding that it was all just for fun, but he\u2019s admittedly feeling a little &#8220;embarrassed&#8221; about it.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flamehanie\/status\/1839871861129392284\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">SEVENTEEN MINITEEN OFFICIAL CHARACTERS \ud83e\udd79\ud83e\ude75\ud83e\ude77 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6H5uWuWrxJ\">pic.twitter.com\/6H5uWuWrxJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; \ud558\ub2c8\ud589\ubd79 (@flamehanie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/flamehanie\/status\/1839871861129392284?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, when the SEVENTEEN member was asked about the design, he revealed that <strong>the members themselves created all the character<\/strong>s, and he picked this potato persona when his hair was super short. However, some fans aren&#8217;t entirely sold on Minja, with some blaming PLEDIS Entertainment (SEVENTEEN&#8217;s agency) for their questionable design choices.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\">\n        <blockquote hcb-fetch-image-from=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/centerdeekay\/status\/1839876470082285700\" class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">from this french fries necklace to the potato character and even naming it after potato is so RIDICULOUS. he has shown frustration when being called potato many times already. <\/p>\n<p>couldn&#39;t u come up with a different character that suits mingyu better? because potato is NOT it. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZygkLtgGv3\">pic.twitter.com\/ZygkLtgGv3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; L. \ud83d\udc30\u0f80\u0f72\u0f80\u0f72 (@centerdeekay) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/centerdeekay\/status\/1839876470082285700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 28, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n        <\/figure>\n        \n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The animated characters, part of SEVENTEEN&#8217;s promo for their upcoming mini album&#8221; <strong>SPILL THE FEELS<\/strong>,&#8221; dropping October 14, 2024, with a fresh teaser titled &#8220;Speak Up.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEVENTEEN&#8217;s Mingyu recently took to Weverse to spill the tea about the group&#8217;s newly unveiled animated characters. And while these characters were supposed to add a funny, quirky vibe to the group&#8217;s upcoming era, fans had a lot to say\u2014especially about Mingyu&#8217;s very &#8220;unique&#8221; choice. So, what&#8217;s the deal? Mingyu confessed with a mix of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3104,"featured_media":128648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2264,16],"tags":[1827,1064],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-128647","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"category-kpop","9":"tag-mingyu","10":"tag-seventeen"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128647"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicmundial.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=128647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}