I’m gonna need some more #aespa #GISELLE #BYEB4HELLO #SYNK_COMPLaeXITY #aespa_SYNK_COMPLaeXITY

What happened

The aespa channel posted a clip tagged #GISELLE and #BYEB4HELLO. The auto-captions pick up only the phrases "Love the boy" and "Be mine."

In the Korean comments

Several commenters call Giselle by her Korean stage name 애리 (Aeri) and use very familiar forms of address. One writes "애리짱" (Aeri-jjang), another "애리야" (Aeri-ya, the casual vocative), and another "애리누나" (Aeri-nuna). One comment reads, in translation, "Aeri noona's solo song is so good, and Aeri noona is really so pretty." That commenter is the only one who names a song, and calls it her solo. Another comment reads, in translation, "Aeri, don't do this to me." It is a playful complaint, not an actual objection.

What the words mean

The forms of address here are affectionate, not formal. 누나 (nuna) literally means "older sister." It is what a male speaker calls an older woman, and it is often used as a warm term for someone the speaker admires. Here it is attached to her name in "애리누나" (Aeri-nuna). 짱 (jjang) is slang meaning "the best." Added to a name, as in "애리짱" (Aeri-jjang), it works like a pet suffix, roughly "dear Aeri." Both are casual, fond fan speech.