a deep dive into CIX's lore

[@Bkgss]

I just couldn’t ignore this. 1hr video to just explain everything in detail. Thank you so much for your great hardwork in making this video

[@juncupid03]

tysm you're so sweet 🤍😭

[@pixelnabi]

the fact that bx has this machine that turns back time somehow makes me believe that paradise/cinema could be both the beginning and the ending, like a cycle. maybe they were already in paradise before they even knew, back when they were friends and they were happy (as seen through their flashbacks in Numb), later they grow up and go through hardships/hell but their journey will eventually take them back to paradise. the following is a total rant but from a christian viewpoint, souls are believed to be originally from heaven/paradise and both life and death are part of the journey to go back to it: adam and eve were granted paradise but they sinned so they were kicked out and condemned to suffer but that suffering is supposed to be their way back into paradise blabla, I'm obviously not going to explain the bible's metaphors here but my point is that this cycle of life concept came to my mind; Dante explains it in his own way when he talks about the worms destined to become butterflies/reach freedom. i hope i made some sense? >.

[@juncupid03]

OMG THAT MAKES SENSE !! it’s so cool to think ab it that way !

[@michy1593]

bruh i have been super immersed into this storyline and it’s honestly fascinating also your dedication 😭✋🏾

[@juncupid03]

same I'm literally obsessed with their storyline 😭 and tysm !! 😫🤍

[@ananyavinn]

it's not even been a week since i started stanning them but their storyline has got me hooked (but i'm kinda dumb sooo it takes time to understand) 😭

[@juncupid03]

ahsgahsaghh I hope I could help u figure out something !

[@ananyavinn]

@@juncupid03 yesss it did q(≧▽≦q) TYSMM 😭✨

[@alenec]

M also dumb which is why m here (especially after the release of Save me, kill me.) I had been avoiding their storyline (by not watching the mvs with heavier lore bombs like numb), but it's too late. I'm in Yk when you soob-in you can't soob-out (very bad reference, very sorry)

[@chaeyoung4634]

@@alenec oh my god, samee here😆

[@ananyavinn]

@@alenec there is no way to soob-out noww 😭

[@hater-des-ploucs]

Actually, there is a theory that the black cat is jinyoung (this cat was also in '' hard to say goodbye '' mv), and we know that the dolphin is hyunsuk (seunghun confirmed it in a '' cix million dollar '', and hyunsuk confirmed it in an episode where yongsuk were explaining 458 to the host, he said that he's a dolphin, but he's more like a savior)

[@juncupid03]

OMG thanks for adding this !!

[@say6126]

I think Jinyoung is the cat. In My New World, he has the same two color eyes that the cat has in the leader film, etc.

[@suhana3922]

So that means CIX songs portraying about poem The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (1265 - 1321).Sound interesting!!

[@fr4ncesc4]

oh my god thank you sm for this i needed this vid after seeing their new comeback cause i was so confused LMFAO but fr ur analysing is too good ur my saviour 🙏🙏🙏

[@juncupid03]

OMG I really appreciate this 😭😭😭 Im so happy I could help !! and YES THEIR CB IS FIREEEE but the MV can be a little confusing ahaha

[@mugglepuff]

Same here. I was listening to a cix playlist and remembered they had a cb today. The save me kill me mv confused me when people said it was part of a storyline. This video cleared it up for me for sure.

[@juncupid03]

I'm so glad 🤍

[@haera1471]

I've been a fan for a while I knew there was lore but not that invested thanks sm for this video. It takes so much effort I appreciate it.

[@juncupid03]

tysm

[@melinda969]

Wow your dedication 😭🙏 thanks for the vid, it's not easy to explain the whole cix lore because it's so long since their debut and it even haven't finished until now

[@juncupid03]

thanks !!

[@mafe5845]

THIS IS THE VIDEO THAT THE WORLD NEED

[@juncupid03]

TYSM LOVE 🤍

[@chifuyuberet]

Omg! This deserves way more views! CIX's lore is so intricate and not a lot of people have covered it, so thank you for much for this video.

[@pixelnabi]

btw thank you for your hard work, it must've taken so long to go through everything, it was very interesting ♡

[@juncupid03]

thank YOU for watching

[@Tigre-]

I'm at 9:39 rn, just subscribed and liked this video, wanting to let you know that I'm thankful for all the hardwork you've put into this, this is great! You're unbelievable! I wonder what CIX are planning to give us after SMKM, I couldn't believe they were continuing the Hello Strange Place like that, it made me so happy! All of this is really interesting

[@juncupid03]

tysm I'm so happy you appreciated my video and my efforts TT

[@Tigre-]

@@juncupid03 omg I'll stay tuned if you ever release the sequel of this, I love CIX lore so much as well!! :D

[@eunwooily]

My reference to the history of CIX (I have a high IQ xd, so maybe it will do something). I will add Save me, Kill me, because it is significant and you did in the update sheet. So yes: the number 1226 that BX has on the matches and the number 1330 that Younghee enters as the code for the phone (Numb), these are the numbers of angels, I recommend reading about symbolism, but in short it is finding, good way, virtue something like that. And as for the story, I would divide it into 3 parts (the names Chapter, Prologue and Episode don't agree a bit, but I think everyone can already see that CIX breaks the timeline) so in the first part I would give Movie Star (the beginning of their stay in hell/the road to hell)->Jungle (they are in hell and each of them has their punishment, advanced time in hell)->Cinema (here I bite a bit sometimes this album with the rest) (In Cinema CIX, they are already in paradise) then I would consider a journey through hell to paradise, referring to the story of each member's life, it has signs from other MVs that my In my opinion they are supposed to show us the relationship between their lives and stories between albums, but not combining individual albums, e.g. mainly Cinema with Wave directly does not suit me very much (which I will explain later) and of course the whole concept has a reference to Dante's Divine Comedy in each of the three parts, for which I work the story of CIX. The second part is: Wave (beginning as Stella, or good life, referred to as paradise, etc., and then a journey to purgment )->458 (Dante's Dream)->Announce Save me, Kill me (as finding the way, they are in purgatory and ready to go to paradise). I would describe it as "additions" to the first part, such a supplement to the threads from Dante's Divine Comedy (although Wave and the name of the album prologue gives me a bit of a problem). That's why I would consider parts 1 and 2 as Dante's Story of the Divine Comedy, only in the role of CIX and well, in a nicer, more fancy edition. And there are the very interesting topics, but it seems to me that they are specifically confusing and have a lot of details for reflection, but those who came up with it probably want us to understand one Important message: The CIX concept is based on Dante's Divine Comedy. End period. And if someone wants to, it's fun to look for different details (I like it). And the third part is: Numb-> Save me, Kill me. That is, the life of CIX as teenagers who struggle with problems, etc. and showing understanding for people and well such an instruction (I love CIX plz, they are wonderful) and the third part has references to Dante's Divine Comedy a bit to combine into one concept. And more generally it's two parts: the first one: Movie Star->Jungle->Cinema and Wave->458->+announcement of Save me, Kill me: as Dante's divine comedy. Second: Numb->Save me, Kill me: as the teenage life of CIX. The first part is their life in the afterlife, which is simply the Text of Dante's Divine Comedy, and CIX are the added characters. Only the album names get tangled and don't connect, but I guess as you can see CIX breaks the timeline. And BX as a cosmonaut also disagrees a bit, but maybe it's this: in cinema a cosmonaut is shown, and in wave it falls, but there is no connection with Cinema? Bardoz it's possible that it's a nice addition, or, for example, they find BX in Wave and in cinema everyone has great fun and BX is also shown so humorously as a cosmonaut. I would understand the story of CIX, because I think it seems to be the most sensible, but it's still twisted. Still the mystery is the Japanese MV, but I think it's not an important element, just an addition to the story. But these people who create it have brains like gold, because they put small details everywhere. We love CIX!

[@PraiseJ-Pope]

A MF HOUR LONG? omg I'm so sorry currently i dont have time to watch this BUT thank you for this work and i'll watch it asap - it's in my "urgent" folder

[@juncupid03]

don’t worry love ♡

[@cherriberri7863]

omg i absolutely loved this video! it was so entertaining to watch! one thing i would like to add is that the number 458 is an angel number meaning divine love and protection. i'm not sure if this was intentionally done by their team or how this fits into the lore but i would love to hear your take on this!

[@juncupid03]

OMG TYSM !! then I guess the theory of the lady being the protector angel could be legit :)

[@femmefatalys]

they're so crazy for this 😭😭😭

[@mariad3641]

thank you very-very much for such a hard and dedicated work/ it is a blessing for me that every detail in CIX's story is explained!!!!🙏🙏🙏 all the quotes of Divina Commedia are gathered together and explained well, special thanks for this!! also i'd like to congratulate on comeback of CIX hehe :^) 🥳🥳it was really surprising for me that they decided to return (?) to the story from Chapter 2 with school tragedies' lore, still confused about it lol.... on the other side, maybe it is a great chance to found out what happened in one of the universes where members were/still are; i'll be waiting for translations of b-sides in that case 🥲

[@juncupid03]

Tysm 🤍🤍🤍 This is so kind, I really appreciate you 🤍 YESS this comeback was amazing 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I'm also glad we came back to Numb (?) lore !

[@chaeleebreezy4688]

I haven't gone through the whole video yet. Its about to be my bedtime. Your interpretation on the levels of hell in jungle were interesting. I guess i read into them a little differently but thats whats beautiful about their music, everyone has their own take on it. From my understanding Hyunsuk's sin was the rage and anger he felt towards his dad, his was consider the 5th circle of wrath, where is he crossing the river of Styx and there's a passage that says, the sullen (the passively wrathful) lie beneath the water, withdrawn, "into a black sulkiness which can find no joy in God or man or the universe". seunghun was his sin for turning against God, the 7th circle Against God, Art, and Nature: The third round of the seventh circle is a great Plain of Burning Sand scorched by great flakes of flame falling slowly down from the sky, an image derived from the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah. yonghee was apart of the 7th circle too, in ring 2: violence against ones self, which is why he is running through the Forrest, (Against Self: The second round of the seventh circle is the Wood of the Suicides, in which the souls of the people who attempted or died by suicide are transformed into gnarled, thorny trees and then fed upon by Harpies, hideous clawed birds with the faces of women) bx was the 8th circle for being a hypocrite? Here they find the hypocrites listlessly walking around a narrow track for eternity, weighted down by leaden robes. The robes are brilliantly gilded on the outside and are shaped like a monk's habit - the hypocrite's "outward appearance shines brightly and passes for holiness, but under that show lies the terrible weight of his deceit" a falsity that weighs them down and makes spiritual progress impossible for them. I thought maybe that's why he was covered in the heavy chains. jinyoung was the 9th level, round 4 traitor to their lords, all of the sinners are fully encapsulated in ice, distorted and twisted in every conceivable position. The sinners present an image of utter immobility: it is impossible to talk with any of them. Thats why jinyoung was in the ice box, he gives that look and reaches out like he wants to say something but he is completely frozen.

[@nooliyh1790]

OMGG thanks for this😭 im a fix but their story line rlly confused me, except numb bc its easier to understand. This especially opened my eyes a lot and interested me because I know absolutely nothing about the divine comedy, besides it being SUPER complex. Once again thank you, the hard work and dedication to this is truly amazing and worth appreciating!

[@juncupid03]

tysm !! I'm so happy I could help 🤍

[@laisviolet]

I've watched several videos about the CIX universe and theories complement each other. Looking forward to the next comebacks. Congratulations on your hard work!

[@juncupid03]

thank uuu !!

[@ii-kk3ke]

u are a saint for this omg

[@hater-des-ploucs]

Oh and thank you for the vid! I could never do this whole thing (I am so bad at explaining things x)) and was shook when I saw that someone did AN HOUR LONG vid of cix' lore x)

[@juncupid03]

no prob ♡♡♡ it took me more than a week, but it was worth it wkshjaha I'd sell my kidneys for cix 😌/j

[@danaak8006]

CIX HAVE A STORYLINE?! hold up i need to stan

[@juncupid03]

yes pls stan them 😫 and yeah they have my favorite storyline in kpop (along with txt, verivery, onf)

[@danaak8006]

@@juncupid03 I WILL I WILL YES

[@suhana3922]

Yes,it inspired by The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri 🎊🎊🎉🎉

[@thisisarandomaccount0783]

@@juncupid03 omg I would love if you did a verivery storyline vid

[@juncupid03]

@@thisisarandomaccount0783 thank u !! I made a poll on my community post and TXT had the most votes so I will do their storyline first; but I will try to make a video for Verivery as well !

[@Tigre-]

Hey! I'm back because I realized something last week and I wanted to know what are your thoughts about this... First, I found it really interesting when you said that you had associated every song from Hello Strange Place with a CIX member, and Hello Strange Time songs likewise. I had definitely thought of BX for Bystander formerly, but I did not go further and I was quite shocked when I watched this two weeks ago. Then, I talked to my sister (we're both FIX) and we realized that every CIX mini album from the Hello series contained exactly 5 songs. I knew there were more songs in their full album OK Prologue, but I'd never reckoned, so I double checked the number and there are 10 songs. And now, both OK Not and I'm OK have 4 songs...(I remember thinking "oh it's less than usual" last year, without going through the tracklist looking for a meaning) At this point, we know that YongHee is in a coma, so do you think it is related or something?

[@juncupid03]

Omg it's so cool that all their mini-albums have 5 songs and their full album has 10 (2 songs for each member). The last 2 mini albums had 4 songs, yes I also remember thinking "oh this is less than usual" lol!! It could definitely be related to the fact Yonghee is in a coma during 458-SMKM eras ?? So this means 458 and Save me Kill me are both AFTER Yonghee's attempt and coma (after Numb era) This makes me rethink ab my timeline of events (59:44) because the albums with 5/10 songs are BEFORE Numb, and the albums with 4 songs are AFTER Numb... rethinking my whole existence rn 😭😭 thanks for sharing btw you and your sisters are amazing

[@Tigre-]

@@juncupid03 omg tysm!! ye I'll literally even more obsessed with their lore every day fr! I can't wait for their upcoming comebacks😵 this is so exciting

[@maaaatryoshka_]

ive been a fix for awhile but i was more a fix because of music and didnt feel like looking into anything else but i was on a mv run and wanted to see a pattern or see any lore. one thing that spawned this curiosity was the italian written in the beginning of jungle. i had been a "fan" of dantes divine comedy beacuse im a catholic and it was an interesting look on the after life, so watching this and seeing that there is a possibility of dantes divine comedy being and inspiration i was really excited. thank you for taking the time and looking and connecting dots for the those are lazy/cant comprehend a crazy amount of contect on their own!

[@pixiepajamas]

OMG this is so well-organized! thank you for your hard-working!

[@juncupid03]

thank you so much 😭🤍 love uuu

[@suhana3922]

Maybe in CIX comeback they will showing more interesting about this poem.I thought they will showing the level of Hell...

[@juncupid03]

they might be go back to Hell, but I hope we find out who is the woman in 458 mv ! I think she's the guardian angel but I'm not 100% sure. I also want to understand the roles of each member better 🤞🏼 Let's see what they bring to the table !

[@suhana3922]

Also,in the last scene of 458 m/v,they showing the horrible places.I am sure it was Gate of Purgatory.After this CIX will entered Purgatory on the next comeback🎉🎊🎉🎉

[@rapkingagustd]

I love CIX so much and their lore is so fascinating. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video!

[@jangmiroze]

just watching the cinema era explanation. looking at their recent story film & comeback, cinema is surely way before numb. since it's the film they were making, when they're still together. tbh really looking forward to the next comeback(idk when), and how will they close this universe(or maybe they'll be another things going on!?) still it's confusing bcs their b sides are talking about beatrice and heaven HMM

[@byeoltteong]

THANK U SO MUCH

[@jangmiroze]

im coming after watching the last ep of their story film. hopefully i could understand the whole storylines of their discographies. thank you for the vid! maybe, you can ake the last explanation about their recent comeback🥺 really waiting for that, and hope you have time for that also🥺🤍

[@juncupid03]

no prob luv ♡ i will definitely make a part 2, when cix will have another 2/3 comebacks so i can have more material to analyze and to talk ab ♡♡

[@jangmiroze]

@@juncupid03 OMG😭🥺 really looking forward for it. thank you so much🤍

[@juncupid03]

🥺💘

[@gyelovs3924]

great video and i like that get away was the background music 😼

[@juncupid03]

tysm

[@soumiasoumia1808]

👌

[@Ali_zhangHAO]

OMG ONG HOUR! I AM SEATED!

[@juncupid03]

TYSM ♡♡

[@maaaatryoshka_]

BROOO!!!! IM BACK WITH PROBABLY OLD NEWS! I'm watching the cix show that mnet did and very episode is a different hell! literally the layers of hell!!

[@juncupid03]

I loved that show so much, it was so funny 😭💗 and yeah I love how the concept of the show was connected to their lore

[@hannahdavis4588]

I think Cinema took place before numb and movie Star. It’s almost child like with the bright colors and them just goofing around and having fun, they also look younger to me so maybe them as kids or younger teenagers then the events of Numb happened

[@juncupid03]

that definitely makes sense !!

[@hwanghyun8]

i am still not over jungle bc the concept is everything😭

[@Shrekteez]

THANK YOU FOR THIS😭❤

[@arifuuulfia94]

Thank you sooooo much for the explanation, but in 35:17 the picture only half showed. What's in the picture? I mean the sentences

[@juncupid03]

sorry i didnt even notice the sentence was cut! here's the original sentence: "They are all busy fixing something (a radio, a vinyl player…) but there are also moments of them simply playing and having fun. It makes me think that this could be 1) before the Numb events, when they were still friends and innocent, or 2) after every MV because they are finally in paradise and they gained their happiness back."

[@yubadde1509]

amazing, i loved it

[@l_lina841]

Can you do an update for new releases 🥺

[@Tigre-]

Hi have you heard the news? it quite saddens me but I'm also happy for him cause he will probably get to shine differently under another company ! They say CIX will release something soon as a 4-member group, I wonder what will happen considering SH is also in BDU, it's sad they couldn't get another music show win since 2019 before BJY left... How are you btw? you don't ever make CIX related videos anymore

[@Tigre-]

it's weird that I re checked this and your Google Doc yesterday and today morning I found out that Baejin ended his exclusive contract with C9

[@juncupid03]

yeah ive heard the news :( honestky i am speechless, i just hope the best for him and for the group. cix is one of my fav groups so i honestly was heartbroken but after a while i told myself "well that's his decision" and all i can say is that i hope everyone is well. i respect his decision, like you said i hope he'll shine ! im good :) i dont make more cix related video cuz lately i started university and i don't make many videos in general TT when cix have a cb i might continue the lore series!

[@Tigre-]

⁠​⁠@@juncupid03omg you started uni! Good luck!! I’m glad to hear from you :) I can’t wait for their cb and other news of Jinyoung :D I love your videos !

[@hater-des-ploucs]

bx has that weird time machine, and he fell out of space (and was in space also in cinema), if we say that the 2 universe theory is true, then it could mean that bx is the one that guides cix to another world (Idk if that makes sense) bc in my head it's like wave comes after cinema (bc of bx obv) or that every albums comes from cinema (since it's chapter o, and the map in the chapter o album illustration is an overview of all the other illustration of the previous albums) and that bx is the one that make them time travel? I am so tired rn and I am here still trying to understand more cix' lore (even tho I already understand it, the more interpretations I see/read, the more I understand their lore if that makes sense)

[@juncupid03]

it makes sense yes !! maybe bx knows everything and he's guiding/teleporting cix into the different mvs (chapters) 🤔

[@peaceminusone8235]

Will you continue their story line???

[@juncupid03]

I'll probably make a part 2 when CIX will have another 2/3 comebacks, so I can have enough material to analyze 🤍

[@kjwvng]

i don't think that hyunsuk is the cat that we saw everytime because this cat as a blue eye and a yellow eye, in the my new world mv we saw jinyoung having those eyes however we can not assume that it is absolutely him and not just an fashion for the mv (idk if i'm clear) but in the first cix promotion video ( the one from may 2019) we saw jinyoung refusing everything we offer him and he prefer playing with a ball of wool (like a cat would do it) sorry for my english tho it it not my first language 😭🙏

[@juncupid03]

ooh I understand ! thanks for explaining, and don’t worry your english is perfect ♡

[@suhana3922]

From the video that portraying cat&eagle I can make assumptions that the scene are from Chapter 19;The Night Before Purgatory.You read it from that link. What I saw in m/v i make assumptions that in next comeback of CIX,they will entered the level of Purgatory not Hell.The angel we saw in m/v was the angel that will help Dante entered the gate of Purgatory.That it.

[@suhana3922]

Can you make another kpop m/v theory explaination??

[@juncupid03]

I was thinking about making other ones because many people appreciated this video ! any suggestion? I was thinking maybe txt, verivery or onf ?

[@weissrose1081]

@@juncupid03 yes, pls do txt and verivery especially!!

[@juncupid03]

I'll think ab it ! thanks 💓🤞🏼

[@Papalapotato]

Wtf I didn’t realize CIX had lore. I just thought all kpop songs were meaningless and for children. I’m shocked that all their content was based around a poem about a journey from hell. But I doubt the CIX members even knew about their lore either. Does their company even discuss their lore/concept

[@juncupid03]

the members know ab their lore :)

[@rapkingagustd]

Also! I just finished the video, what if the woman in 458 is "Beatrice"??? I don't know 😂

[@juncupid03]

that could be a theory since she's the one who guides Dante in his journey ! but realistically I don’t think it's her because they’re still in Purgatory yet

[@rapkingagustd]

@@juncupid03 true. that makes sense

[@juncupid03]

I'm looking forward the day they finally meet her tho! 🤍🤞🏼

[@rapkingagustd]

@@juncupid03 yesss!!