cons: tae looked so bad imo compared to now, namjoon had his hair permed to be afro textured and he was tanned (aka they made him look black, which is cultural appropriation and this was the start of his problematic reputation), they had like 30 fansites altogether, they wore very questionable clothes

---

pros: fandom was better, things were just generally less hectic for both us and the boys

---

idk I think the sweet spot for them was rly orul82 and dark&wild (sla got rly hectic bc of new fans, but some left bc danger wasn't a public friendly song)