Guess aneurysm boy is still alive. Cuz in reality most dudes would have killed themselves by now with all the stress he puts himself through for really nothing.
Obviously not. I think a good majority of readers think the amount of time spent on this is too much to back out now. Oh well, that's not me, thankfully.
Even the company's shortened name (Starship) had a actual Korean counterpart name that fed idols into the Produce series.
That said, this is more like the JYP shows (Sixteen, The Nizi Project) than the Produce shows. (Although later we find out the Produce shows were rigged to have an outcome...