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The algorithm knows how to keep me hooked.

I may have completed the #skzSignificantJewellery mission, but that just means I have more time to get obsessed by whatever's going on with #skzBlue team and #skzRed team

I just noticed that the blue team leads the whole elevator-based sequence of the "Stray Kids" song, calling back to how the elevator was their thing in #Levanter.

https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxdt7my2gdQB1SqZzk7HllwgObZDWzMRlb

(Hey uh also it's two different elevators: an old-fashioned #MinSung elevator and a more modern #SeungChan elevator. Hmm.)

#skzLore #skzElevators

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lookitmychicken Feb 25, 2025

No #skzRed team connected sequence in that same video as far as I can tell.

They come out of the elevator at the end in order, #skzBlue team followed by red team.

Apart from that, red team's parts in the song itself are not connected into a whole. Which is also consistent with #Levanter, where blue team seemed like a cohesive unit and red team was more scattered.

A part of me is tempted to go back to #Hellevator and watch all the videos in sequence again from the beginning. I know they've dropped lots of hints at the #skzLore from the beginning, without ever properly spelling it all out. Wondering how much more of it I could piece together now.

#skzElevators

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lookitmychicken Feb 25, 2025

A bit of background...

#skzBlue team is #BangChan, #LeeKnow, #Han, #Seungmin

#skzRed team is #Changbin #Hyunjin #Felix #I_N

Parts of the #skzLore may have been hinted at before #Levanter, but the 2 teams of 4 wouldn't have been part of the hinted lore before that, because there was a 9th member.

(I guess it's technically possible that there were hints before Levanter, but if that was the case, then #skzExMember would have been in one of the teams (unbalancing the numbers) or he would have been *excluded* from the teams (which seems like something the rest of skz would never do).)

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lookitmychicken Feb 25, 2025

#skzRed team and #skzBlue team were explicitly defined last year in #skzCode 59, part 1 of #FallFieldDay.

https://youtu.be/g5FGuZZJy3A

The HOP album also came in red and blue versions, with the members' solos mostly (but not entirely) color-coded to match their teams.

The exception was Railway (coded red). If there's a secret reason why it was the exception, I haven't figured it out yet. Graphic designer missed the memo??

The MVs for the blue team's solos all included a #skzBlueMoon or, in #LeeKnow's case, a #BlueCake. (I'm counting that cake because it's round like a moon and also 'mooning' and 'cake' can both be associated with butts, so there.)

The MVs for the red team's solos did *not* have a common item appearing in all of them, as far as I can see. But the recent fan meeting featured a #skzRedMoon in the stage backgrounds for at least 3 of the songs. For this to be a deliberate red team reference, there would have to be a 4th occurrence that I missed, and I'm sure it's there somewhere.

#skzLore #RailwayByBangChan #skzHop

가을 운동회 (Fall Field Day) #1｜[SKZ CODE] Ep.59

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lookitmychicken Feb 25, 2025

#BangChan has hinted pretty heavily that the #skzBlue team and #skzRed team lore drops are intentional.

He does not like to explain any of the messages behind any of the music or the MVs that he creates, and prefers it when fans build and share their own theories.

I don't genuinely believe that my other special skz obsessions (#skzSignificantJewellery, #skzHankyCode #skzNiceWeather, #skzDriving, etc) are deliberate attempts to communicate hidden messages to fans or anyone else.

But it does seem fairly clear that the blue and red teams have some kind of meaning intentionally placed there by skz members. Perhaps with a coherent underlying concept that makes sense, to Bang Chan at least, even if it makes no sense to anyone else.

It's a fun puzzle to turn over in my mind.

#skzLore

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lookitmychicken Feb 25, 2025

There's some other intentionally placed #skzLore that I've seen other fans get into, such as the multiple universes, evil Felix, the keys (from Clé series), probably others. But I haven't really approached those rabbit holes yet.

I'm a little freaked out by the levels, to be honest. I've been obsessed with #skz for over a year now and it feels like I've barely scratched the surface.

Still only halfway through 2019 in my watch-through of all the available livestream recordings.

Nowhere near organised or skilled-up enough yet to start making compilation videos (although I have plans and they keep growing).

Still have a bunch of fic ideas that are nothing more than sketches and rough outlines.

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lookitmychicken Mar 12, 2025

Ah I found another earlier post of mine, speculating that Railway was coded red instead of blue because #BangChan associates the color red with sexytimes (e.g. Red Lights, plus various times he's mentioned red over the years)

#RailwayByBangChan #skzRedLights

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lookitmychicken Feb 25, 2025

Hey in the movie The Dark Crystal, there's a cataclysmic event in which the crystal cracked, and a lot of things in that world cracked or split in two at the same time.

Their planet originally had one moon, and it split into two moons at the time of the cataclysm.

Then, when the shard of the cracked crystal was restored, the split parts were healed and recombined.

Like how the red & blue lights danced over the water and then recombined into a single light again as part of the HOP logo splash.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_5ls7hRCY4

#skzLore #skzRed #skzBlue #skzHOP #skz

Stray Kids SKZHOP HIPTAPE "合 (HOP)" Logo Splash

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lookitmychicken Feb 25, 2025

I have some vague memories of the dual moon imagery in skz videos *before* #Levanter, but I don't know if that's really a thing or I'm muddling my memories.

I want to go back and watch again *right now* but I have other things to do this evening, alas.

#skzLore #skzRedMoon #skzBlueMoon