Three Twice Members Have Left JYP Since August. Each Exit Tripled Reads of the Twice Article in a Day

Since August, three members of Twice have left JYP Entertainment, the agency that formed the group, while saying they will stay in Twice: Jeongyeon on 10 August, Chaeyoung on 13 August and Jihyo on 21 October.

Each announcement did the same thing to English Wikipedia’s Twice article.

The Twice article on each exit day

Each exit roughly tripled reading of the group article for a day. Since 1 July, only one other day has topped 4,000.

The member’s own page

Jeongyeon’s exit day was her busiest day on English Wikipedia since at least January 2025. Jihyo’s 5,220 reads is almost exactly what she drew on 18 August 2023, the day of her solo debut (5,231). Chaeyoung’s peak came the day after her announcement, on 14 August.

The others were looked up too

On each exit day the members who had not left also rose. When Jeongyeon left, Jihyo’s page had 1,213 reads, nearly double her usual. When Jihyo left, Jeongyeon’s and Chaeyoung’s pages each had about 1,000, one and a half to two times their usual. Readers were checking the whole group, not only the member in the news.

What this does and does not say

English Wikipedia reads measure how many people looked a name up, not how they felt about the news. The jumps last about a day: by the day after, each member’s page had fallen back to between a third and a half of its peak. What the numbers show is that agency news about Twice draws about as much English-language attention as a solo debut, and that it spreads across the group.

English Wikipedia pageviews, user traffic, daily. Departure dates from Korea Times, Soompi and Khaleej Times reports.