0915 Birthday Live 🐱💙

What happened

Felix of Stray Kids opens a birthday livestream by saying it isn't actually September 15 and asking viewers to pretend it is. Then he sings to himself and works through a batch of prepared questions.

Why Koreans care

Going live on one's own birthday is a routine way for idols to celebrate with fans. Here, per the auto captions, Felix says he is doing it before a concert in Osaka. He also says it is the first time he has done a birthday live from overseas. He starts by wondering whether he has to enter through "펜즈" (Fenjeu, the FANS app), which the description links to as the group's official FANS app. One answer is worth catching on a second watch. Asked for a little-known habit, he says he has been into F1 lately and plays F1 games. He says his hands now keep moving back and forth as if working the gear-shift paddles, without him noticing. He describes this as shifting up and shifting down. The captions are automatic and rough, so this is a paraphrase.

In the Korean comments

Several comments deal with the timing of the stream. One reads, in translation, "Even with an absurdly long flight and a stage right after it, thank you so much for coming to do a live like this." That matches Felix's own explanation, in the captions, that he is about to perform in Osaka. Another commenter says they spent all of September 15 waiting for the birthday broadcast, but that today the time difference from Korea made them fall asleep. Their wording, in translation: "I spent the whole day of September 15 waiting for your birthday broadcast, but today, because of the time difference with Korea, I fell asleep." So the late, pretend-the-15th format left at least one viewer missing it. One comment is more specific than the usual birthday wishes. In translation it reads, "Your freckles are like stars on your face." It is addressed to 용복 (Yongbok, Felix's Korean given name).