Stray Kids' 'SUIATSU' Pre-Teaser Divides Fans Over a Suggestive Reading

Stray Kids' fourth Japanese mini-album has a pre-teaser, and it has done more than announce a release: it has split the group's fandom over what the clip seems to be suggesting. The group's Japanese official account posted the pre-teaser for SUIATSU on Nov. 8.

The numbers are not small. That post has 8,063,657 views, 80,979 likes, 23,648 reposts and 691 replies, and the divide opened up in the replies.

Koreaboo reported that commenters read seemingly sexual connotations into the teaser, prompting a wave of divided reactions. Some fans found the clip funny. Others criticized the teaser and the members in it.

The teaser also moved well past the group's own account. About Music shared it with a plain description: Stray Kids had a new teaser for their Japanese mini-album, Suiatsu. That post has 1,059,625 views, 4,821 likes and 699 reposts.

On TikTok, the reaction runs on edits of individual members. One clip captioned about Changbin smirking has 428,336 plays, 84,453 likes, 19,833 shares and 1,042 comments. Another, posted Nov. 8 under #straykidscomeback, has 252,866 plays and 11,255 shares. A third, tagged #skz, has 261,906 plays and 108,610 likes.

Not every clip is carrying an argument. One tagged #suiatsu is captioned "Jeongin was going through it," and it has drawn 335,251 plays, 82,582 likes, 4,562 shares and 525 comments.

For now, the pre-teaser is doing the talking.