BREAKING NEWS “Produce” PDs Reportedly Cited Pressure From Wanna One’s Success As Motive For Ranking Manipulation+Leaked original ranking list!

[GuardianofTheCosmicRealm]

On December 7, various media outlets reported details from the prosecution’s written indictment of Mnet producing director (PD) Ahn Joon Young and chief producer (CP) Kim Yong Bum.

According to the indictment, Ahn and Kim said that Wanna One and I.O.I’s success made them feel pressured about the subsequent success of IZ*ONE and X1. Unlike the first two seasons of the “Produce” series, which the producers have only admitted to partially manipulating, it is alleged that the final rankings of “Produce 48” and “Produce X 101” were entirely manipulated by the producers.

The investigation into Ahn’s case also revealed that he was recognized as a valuable employee by CJ ENM due to the financial success of the first two “Produce” seasons and that he received special incentives as a result.

Also according to the indictment, Ahn conspired to choose the final lineup in “Produce 48” regardless of votes when he saw that trainees whom he felt didn’t fit the concept made it in to the top ranks. In the case of “Produce X 101,” Ahn mentioned specifically X1’s long contract (five years) and their status as a boy group (inviting comparisons to Wanna One) as reasons for the manipulation of their rankings.

However, the media outlets who reported on the written indictment noted that Ahn’s testimony may not align with suspicions that he received special treatment from agencies. According to the prosecution, Ahn received this treatment 47 times from five entertainment agency representatives between January 2018 to July 2019. “Produce 48” aired from June to August 2018 and “Produce X 101” aired from May to July 2019. It has not been confirmed whether this special treatment influenced the ranking manipulation.

On December 3, eight people related to the case were indicted for suspicions such as obstruction of business, fraud, breach of trust through bribery, and violations of the Improper Solicitation and Graft Act. Ahn and Kim were indicted with detention; the others were indicted without detention.
Ahn and Kim’s first official preparatory hearing will take place on December 20

“Produce” PDs Reportedly Cited Pressure From Wanna One’s Success As Motive For Ranking Manipulation

On December 7, various media outlets reported details from the prosecution's written indictment of Mnet producing director (PD) Ahn Joon Young and chief producer (CP) Kim Yong Bum. According to the indictment, Ahn and Kim said that Wanna One and I.O.I's success made them feel pressured about...

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Various Korean Media outlets have reported this ranking. Like this one
This infographic has just been translated from the Korean one.

 

[Misa]

That's the ranking for ep 11

 

[Dragon of the West]

That ''leaked'' ranking has nothing to it. Just lazy journalism. It's literally just the ranking from the 3rd elimination round.

 

[Riri]

regardless all the speculation on the final ranking, Kaeun would've made it in and i can't imagine how angry she must be that she just keeps getting walked all over
all the trainees that went to Produce don't deserve this

 

[abra]

That ''leaked'' ranking has nothing to it. Just lazy journalism. It's literally just the ranking from the 3rd elimination round.

It's not lazy journalism, just poor understanding of Korean from international fans/Koreaboo using clickbait. The articles say that the lineup in the 3rd ranking announcement worried the Mnet PDs so much that they decided on their own top 12.

 

[amazingoopah]

It's not lazy journalism, just poor understanding of Korean from international fans/Koreaboo using clickbait. The articles say that the lineup in the 3rd ranking announcement worried the Mnet PDs so much that they decided on their own top 12.

seeing people on Twitter crowing about this being the 'true' lineup without realizing it's the ep 11 ranking shows how much they really followed Produce48 and the trainees (probably not at all)

 

[Some]

So you rigged one person from wanna one and you use them as an excuse to rigging a whole line up ? Nah dude . Plus episode 11 lineup was fantastic if these girl were on the final ranking they wouldve been great in izone ahn joon shit who dosent know anything about them dosent get to decide that and isnt the concept supposed to be suggested by the fans lol XD . I'm guessing he used foreign voting in season 1 to get the lineup he needed in season 1 and since that worked out for him and he only just had to change 2 girls he continued on season 2 but he didnt like the lineup and got caught so thats why he pretened to care so much about the voting being from " nation " and banned foreign voting all together what a bastard .

 

[fullofjoy]

Sakura as center
Chaeyeon
Eunbi
Miyu

 

[peach]

They can't reveal the "real" line up, because the show was rigged from the start

 

[yooamygirls]

As if Produce hasn't been rigged since season 1.

 

[anh]

yeah... if the show had been rigged from the start i doubt that's the actual original line up