They suspect that a certain member wrote the caption.
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ZEROBASEON participated The 2025 Gold Record Awards (also known as The 39th Gold Record Award), an awards ceremony to be held January 4-5, 2025 at the Mizuho PayPay Dome in Fukuoka, Japan. They were among the winners of “Best Album” for You had me at Hello.
_𝗭𝗘𝗥𝗢𝗙𝗢𝗖𝗨𝗦
🏆 AWARDS GOLD RECORD BEST ALBUM
Every time ZB1 goes to an awards ceremony like this
When I come back with a prize in my hand I feel sad (positive)#ZEROBASEONE #ZB1 #Zero Base One#Gold Record Awards #2025GDA #GoldDiscoPrize #GoldDisco pic.twitter.com/375uKq1gzl— ZEROBASEONE (@ZB1_official) January 7, 2025
Every time ZB1 goes to an awards ceremony and comes back with a trophy, it’s a hard test for my heart. (positive)
— @ZB1_official
ZEROBASEONE shared a post via X (formerly Twitter) after the ceremony. Many ZEROSE (fans) reacted with congratulations.
Still others couldn’t help but poke fun at the group, noting that the group had included a tone indicator in their post.
every time I see you with a trophy in your hand I fall to the ground and cry (positive)
—☘︎ (@tyunchaez) January 7, 2025
Congratulations, Jebewon! (positive)
— natasha 🌹🐬 (@fanalidei) January 7, 2025
Gyuvin… did you write the caption? 👀🩵
— andiee ⋆｡˚ ☁︎ ˚⋅₊˚. ☽ Jiwoong Kim 🦋 (@chibii_is_me) January 7, 2025
A tone indicator (also known as a tone tag) is not uncommon on the Internet, but it is not the norm for it to be used by celebrities’ official social media accounts. Its purpose is to explicitly communicate the intent or mood of a phrase that could be misinterpreted. In the case of ZEROBASEONE, they used the phrase “it’s hard on my heart”, which might sound negative, so “positive” was added at the end.
While some netizens were surprised to see the group’s official account using a tone marker, others were aware that tone markers had become a meme or slang in Korea.
It’s a Korean meme/text thing. You will see many fans writing things like 미친놈 (positive), crazy (positive), to say that their prejudices worked very well
— Mono⁰-¹❣️〰️❣️🌸 (@Monoghost_H) January 7, 2025
I learned about this meme from a short film I saw on YT. The creator taught me this, after commenting thinking that they had written it to assure interfans of its positive tone. (There was a time when some fans took the translations at face value without understanding the tone used.)
— Dniee💜⁷ (@Dniee_AA) January 7, 2025
is a Korean slang. sserafim also used “michin (positive)” for their crazy comeback
— ✨️ (@jjanguhani) January 7, 2025
Member of ZEROBASEONE Gyuvin he often uses tone indicators when messaging fans, which is why some ZEROSEs suspect he wrote this caption.
it’s actually pretty common 😭😭 gyuvin does it plus he chats a lot thanks to the meme
— ada ༯ just today ily (@qbingsu) January 7, 2025
