YMMV / TWICE

• And You Thought It Would Fail:
  • Twice itself. SIXTEEN didn't get very good ratings by K-pop elimination show standards, and the general consensus in 2015 was that, with the demise of miss A and Wonder Girls plus the collapse of 6Mix (the group Nayeon, Jihyo, and Jeongyeon were supposed to debut in), JYP Entertainment was destined to fall out of the "Big 3" Korean Agencies and SIXTEEN was simply a last-ditch attempt to stave off the inevitable. Before their official debut stages, members promoted their debut song and EP by performing at campus auditoriums (not unlike they had done during SIXTEEN). In their very first livestream they expressed only modest hope at the start that fans would tune in. As it turned out, "Like OOH-AHH" did far better than expected. Then their followup EP Page Two with its title track "Cheer Up" catapulted them into superstardom.
    • Momo was only included in the final lineup thanks to open Executive Meddling on JYP's part. She had been eliminated halfway through SIXTEEN due to a combination of weak performances by her two group-mates and perhaps a bit of racism (the other two girls up for elimination that round were Korean). JYP's decision to bring Momo back upset many Koreans who felt JYP had changed the rules on the fly – he also used Loophole Abuse to add Tzuyu after her elimination in the final episode. Momo turned out to be one of the most popular members internationally. Her top-tier dancing and personality bring in a lot of new fans.
  • Twice's Japanese debut was met with extreme skepticism. Many pointed out the Japanese music scene had changed a lot since the so-called "Golden Age of K-Pop" – at that time in Japan, the Idol scene overall was booming, allowing Korean Idols a foot in the door. By 2017, however, the traditional Idol scene was waning. Nonetheless, Twice proved skeptics wrong (just like they had in Korea two years earlier) as their debut Japanese album was certified platinum.^note  In Japan, that means it sold over 250,000 units in its first month. As of this edit, Twice is the top selling Korean girl-group in Japan and the the third best-selling Korean act period – the top spot is of course held by BTS, while BLACKPINK is a respectable 4th just behind Twice. Twice are also frequently cited as being one of the girl groups that seemingly changed the landscape of female J-pop idols overnight, with many would-be trainees preferring to go overseas than remain in domestic groups, and many domestic groups changing their concepts overnight to be much more K-pop like than the otherwise very sugary style it's known for. It's even changed the expectations for J-pop idols as well, with many changing their approach from the 'scrappy under-trained underdog' ideal to a more polished, well-crafted style. This has of course led to the drastic decline in popularity of other J-pop groups that have yet to adapt, even giants like the seemingly untouchable AKB48. Between them, Iz*one, popular newcomers Le Sserafim (which coincidentally features former AKB48 & HKT48 member Miyawaki Sakura), new K-pop-esque Japanese groups like XG & more, the girl group landscape is now either more K-pop like than ever, or going far weirder and far more underground than before to avoid that.
• Archive Binge:
  • Even at the beginning of their career, they have had a large number of variety show appearances. Same goes for the individual members' livestreams. Their popular VLive channel, prior to the service's end on New Year's Eve 2022, had well over sixteen hundred videos archived.^note  While the majority of those videos were personal streams, official videos and promotions are also included in that total. That's not even getting into their reality shows, tour vlogs, interviews, behind-the-scenes videos, or other content.
  • Their discography is nothing to sneeze at either. By 2023 they'd managed to release 12 EP's and 3 LP's in Korea alone (that's over 100 songs), plus 20 Japanese adaptations of their Korean title tracks AND 4 Japan-only LP's. That's not counting remixes, their Melody Projects, or the members' solo/subunit releases. Listening to every TWICE song back-to-back in chronological order will take up at least half your day. There's a reason their live concerts tend to run about three hours.
• Broken Base: Twice and its members get this up one side, down the other, and through the middle.
  • Their cover of the Jackson Five's "I Want You Back". Some say that it's amazing and love it, but others argue that the girls appear to be singing too high (leading them to sound strained), their English sounds slurred and muddy, the song itself seems like it was rushed out and that they used the first take of certain members' voices (see here for a prime example – Mina sounds flat and off-key). Members of the first group tend to remind the second group that it is an extremely difficult song to sing anyways, and that Michael Jackson himself had trouble singing it in his later years (he first sang it as a child, allowing him to have a much higher range). On the flip-side, everyone agrees it's simultaneously awesome and adorable to watch Jihyo and Jeongyeon use each other's microphones during the bridge.
  • The vocal mixing in "What is Love?". Compared to other TWICE songs, all the vocals sound noticeably pitched up (Jeongyeon and Tzuyu in particular sound really different in the studio version). Some fans don't mind the higher pitched vocals, thinking that it fits the upbeat and fast nature of the song. Others think that taking out the distinct vocals of each member takes away one of TWICE's strongest aspects of their music, being how different everyone's voice is.
  • Their shift from "cute" concepts to a more mature sound, starting with the Fancy You EP, is Growing the Beard to some but gets They Changed It, Now It Sucks! reactions from others. Even critics are split on the change. It's telling that, although they're still making hits, their last number one on the Korean Digital Chart was their last bubblegum single ("Yes or Yes"), suggesting they really have lost popularity in Korea to an extent, despite simultaneously gaining popularity internationally since the shift.
  • The squeaky and nasal voice that Momo uses in most songs, which is not her real voice, but people tend to forget that – some tolerate it at least in small doses, others think it ruins the songs more often than not. It helps that she is mainly a dancer and usually has the fewest lines anyway. It doesn't help that, in addition to her not using her real voice much, she’s also supposed to be a rapper (which was her strongest area in SIXTEEN besides dancing) but she only raps on a handful of songs throughout their discography, playing third fiddle after Dahyun and Chaeyoung. This is more of an issue with Twice than with MISAMO, where Momo is the main rapper and only uses the "Momo voice" prominently on two songs.
  • Whether or not certain B-sides should have been title tracks instead is another point of contention, especially as "Set Me Free" appeared to have knocked Twice out of the mainstream. It's telling that they haven't had a top ten hit in Korea since 2021's "Alcohol-Free", yet their album sales have been getting stronger since then.
  • Nayeon having the bulk of the opening lines in their title tracks and (along with Jihyo) being generally one of the dominant voices in TWICE's songs. Some defend this, citing Nayeon as one of the best vocalists in the group (if not claiming her to be one of the only vocalists to carry their songs). Others are more annoyed that some of the more underrated and underused vocalists (such as Jeongyeon, Dahyun, and Tzuyu) are more often than not pushed to the sidelines as a result.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Tzuyu is one of the most popular members besides Nayeon and Jihyo despite having few lines on most songs and minimal screen time in some videos. She is constantly praised for her beauty, has shown her fair share of Hidden Depths (most notably her archery skills), and is considered one of the funniest members and one of the most underrated vocalists in the group. This trope is the main reason she was added to the group in the first place, as she was a fan-favorite contestant on SIXTEEN, which Twice has long since eclipsed.
• Fandom-Enraging Misconception: A lot of ONCE believe that "Likey" is about the unhealthy superficiality of social media. There's quite a lot of evidence to support it, with some of the girls looking forlorn in the music video, plus obviously a large chunk of the lyrics, but it's unconfirmed. Although there's nothing wrong with it being the insanely catchy piece of shiny bubblegum pop it is, it's usually not the best idea to tell fans that "Likey" is stupid and frivolous.
• Fandom Rivalry:
  • A rather nasty one (though applied with the extreme fans) with Aqours' fans due to the said group won first place at Shibuya Note Awards 2018, with TWICE held second place.
  • Due to being the most popular girl groups from their generation that are still active, fanwars between ONCE, Blinks (fans of Blackpink), and Red Velvet fans are pretty frequent and can get incredibly nasty, especially regarding the former two. This is ironic as Nayeon and Chaeyoung are known to be good friends with RV's Yeri (she's almost exactly the same age as Chae) and Sana openly adores RV's Wendy. Twice are also known to be friends with members of Blackpink. In fact, it's a Running Gag that Nayeon knows everyone in K-Pop.
• Fan Nickname:
  • Teudoongie or TDOONG is also an affectionate nickname given to the group as a whole from fans, the latter regularly used in official subtitles.
  • MoSaMiTzu is how Koreans refer to the foreign girls of the group^*  (Momo, Sana, Mina, Tzuyu) ordered by their age, a common technique used in Korea.
  • Misamo or Mimosa is how international fans refer to the Japanese members^*  (Mina, Sana, Momo). The former became an Ascended Fan Nickname in 2023.
  • Tzunami is how international fans refer to the girls who are considered the most attractive of the group^*  (Tzuyu, Nayeon, Mina)
  • Chewy is an affectionate nickname some international fans use to refer to Tzuyu, after the reveal to most fans who didn't watch SIXTEEN that Tzuyu's name was pronounced "jjeu-wi"^*  (in Korean; the Mandarin pronunciation is different, as noted on the main page), which is very close in pronunciation to "Chewy". That Tzuyu is a bit of a Star Wars fan doesn't hurt.
  • Each girl has unofficial fan nicknames as well, some of which are Ascended:
    • Mina: Minari^*  (while that is a valid Japanese girl's name, for her it's a nickname; her real name is just Mina), Black Swan^*  (due to her 11 years of ballet training before moving to Korea), Penguin^*  (for her unusual walk), Minguin, Mitang
    • Nayeon: Nabong(s), Nasoong, Bunny Unnie^*  ("unnie" [언니] is the Korean word for "big sister", plus her front teeth are large and stick out a bit – she embraces the rabbit comparisons), Squirtle^*  (she compared herself to the character early on), Fake Maknae^*  (acts like the youngest even though she is the oldest)
    • Jeongyeon: Yoo Beep-Beep, No Jam Hyung, Yoojung Sunbae, Thanos's Girlfriend^note  She ended up gaining this nickname after the girls binged a lot of the MCU films and she thought Thanos was the most handsome of all the male characters.
    • Dahyun: Dubu, Baby Eagle^*  (from a very bizarre arm-flapping dance she did on an episode of SIXTEEN, which itself had gone memetic years earlier after a video of her doing the same dance during church), Heung-bu^*  (hyper)
    • Tzuyu: Chewie, Yoda^*  (due to her small face and her ears sticking out a bit if her hair isn't down; while she originally didn't like it, it came to be her favorite nickname), Chocolate, Ja-yoo, Baby Tzu
    • Chaeyoung: Chaeng, No Jam Dongsaeng, Baby Beast, Tiger Cub, Chaengcasso, Strawberry Princess^*  (her favorite fruit is strawberry)
    • Momo: Momorin(g), Moguri, Raccoon, Dancing Mo-chine
    • Sana: Shana, Sha-Sha, Satang, Kim Sana^*  (because she can speak Korean as well as or better than many natives, "Kim" of course being by far the most common family name in Korea), Sandarella, Hamjji Sana
    • Jihyo: God Jihyo, Thomas^*  (her round face has been compared to Thomas the Tank Engine), Kimchi-hyo, Mic
  • Let's not forget the pairing/ship names, some of which are official:
    • 2Yeon: Jeongyeon + Nayeon
    • Cider Couple/SaiDa: Sana + Dahyun
    • Shark Couple: Sana + Tzuyu
    • Peach Sisters: Nayeon + Momo
    • JeongMo: Jeongyeon + Momo (also referred to as "Twice's Representative/Roommate Couple")
    • MiMo: Momo + Mina
    • 230s: Jeongyeon + Sana ^note They share the same foot size (using Korean measurement convention).
    • 2Na: Sana + Mina
    • JeongMi: Mina + Jeongyeon
    • JiMo: Jihyo + Momo
    • TzuYeon: Tzuyu + Jeongyeon
    • SaTzu: Sana + Tzuyu
    • SaChaeng: Sana + Chaeyoung
    • MiChaeng: Mina + Chaeyoung – used officially, much to fans' delight
    • JiJeong: Jihyo + Jeongyeon (also referred to as Jeonghyo or UJB)^note (the latter comes from "Time To Twice TDOONG Entertainment Season 2", when Jihyo tried to come up with a stage name for Jeongyeon. Stands for "U (Yoo) Jeongyeon, Jihyo, best friends")
    • MoChaeng: Momo + Chaeyoung
    • DahMo: Dahyun + Momo
    • DubChaeng: Dahyun + Chaeyoung – used for their cover of JYP & Rain's song "Switch To Me"
  • Or official couple names:
    • Homo: Heechul and Momo
  • And their mini-group nicknames as well:
    • School Lunch Club or Maknae Line: Dahyun/Chaeyoung/Tzuyu^note  (the youngest of the group, they were the only ones still in high school when TWICE debuted)
    • 3MIX: Nayeon/Jeongyeon/Jihyo ^note  (reference to their time as part of the old group they were supposed to debut in: 6MIX)
    • J-Line: Momo/Sana/Mina ^note  (the three members from Japan)
    • No-Fun Sisters: Jeongyeon/Chaeyoung^note  (also known as the 'No Jam Bros' as per their individual 'No Jam...' nicknames ('hyung' means big brother, and 'dongsaeng' means younger sibling), they are noted for being the most no-nonsense members)
    • Twins: Momo/Sana ^note  (both members did a joke reveal during a VLive stream)
    • Coward Sisters: Nayeon/Jihyo^note  (both have admitted to hating the dark, which was Played for Laughs during a Time To Twice episode)
    • Rollin' Trio: Sana/Mina/Dahyun ^note  (all three went viral for how they danced to the song "Rollin'" during a concert tour stop in Oakland)
    • Ambitious Sisters: Jihyo/Nayeon/Dahyun ^note  (during the TTT content where there is an element of competition, these three tend to invest the most effort to winning, irrespective of what the reward may be)
    • Chickens: Nayeon/Momo/Mina ^note (all three have admitted to being the most scared of the group, especially if it comes to events involving heights.)
• Fountain of Memes: The group as a whole, but Sana (for being adorable, mainly), Dahyun (for being Fun Personified) and even Tzuyu (for her one-liners) are the biggest examples in TWICE. They even managed to spawn a "Memes" subpage!
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • Although ONCEs have a lot of rivals (at best) and enemies (at worst) with the fans of fellow 3rd gen artists, the fans of BTS and Seventeen seem to be the ones with whom they have a good relationship, with their fans rarely, if ever, arguing on social media. Both because all three groups have similar dynamics with the members and diverse (and large) discographies. Plus, ARMYs because they sympathize with the girls for having a similar path and hardships to success as BTS did before them and respect them for it, and CARATs love the girls' close friendships with the SEVENTEEN members and occasional collabs in the groups' earlier years. Fans even joked about them being "The Big 3" in MAMA performances.
  • To a degree with the fans of Stray Kids, reasons for both JYP groups being created via a survival show, both groups even had 2 members (both a visual and a main dancer) eliminated before ultimately being brought back because they just complete the group, all of the boys (especially Felix) being fans of them, and Chan being friends with the girls (more prominently Sana) since their trainee period. Upped even more in The New '20s when they had more interactions, much to the joy of both ONCEs and STAYs. (Tzuyu personally choosing Chan to feature in her first song cover, Nayeon doing the same for Felix for a B-side in her 1st solo album, and both groups doing a few TikTok videos together during Talk That Talk and CASE 143 promotions)
  • With NewJeans, for both groups having fun sounding songs (with the members participating in writing) with the members appealing to all genders. Helps that Sana is huge a fan of NewJeans (to the point of practically vibrating in excitement when the younger group was just outside TWICE's waiting room), and that the younger group has admitted to being fans of TWICE (Hyein even said What Is Love? is the song that got her into K-pop and Minji chose Signal for her audition in HYBE).
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: There tends to be a big difference between which members are popular in Korea versus elsewhere, and while popularity may shift over time, domestic and international rarely intersect.
  • A 2020 poll showed Jihyo and Nayeon are the most popular members in Korea, but internationally the popularity of the non-Korean members blows the others out the water. Traditionally, Tzuyu is by far the most popular member. Her individual teasers and fancams receive the most views and likes, and the distance from her videos to the second most popular is huge, often two or three times as much. She is even more popular than the Japanese members in Japan.^note  If one looks at the above mentioned poll, the overall popularity of the members is as follows: Tzuyu (12,679 votes) → Sana (9,830 votes) → Mina (9,767 votes) → Nayeon (8,600 votes) → Jihyo[ (8,388 votes) → Momo (8,190 votes) → Dahyun (6,897 votes) → Jeongyeon (5,987 votes) → Chaeyoung (5,852 votes).
  • Mina and perennially-unpopular Jeongyeon gained clout in the West in 2022 due to fans sympathizing with their struggles. Newer fans learning Mina is American by birth (though she had renounced her citizenship years earlier) didn't hurt either, especially in Texas. The applause and cheers whenever Jeongyeon took center stage during songs was deafening. In Oakland, where Jeongyeon suffered a panic attack onstage as Mina comforted her, Onces at one point switched their candybongs (light-sticks) to green in support of Jeongyeon.
  • Although TWICE is very popular in the Philippines (as shown at the excitement and sales when they endorsed clothing brand BENCH and food brand Oishi), Chaeyoung is arguably the most popular member, as shown from concert goers dressing in outfits she's worn to screaming her name during her parts and when she appears in the concert VCRs. All of these actions are more notable considering that in their second concert in the Philippines, Chaeyoung was forced to sit it out due to health issues.
  • Though it did score them a couple of music show wins, "Set Me Free" generally did not do very well in Korea commercially, where it is by far their lowest-charting title track on the Digital Chart^note  not counting the stand-alone single "Cry For Me", which didn't even get a proper music video, but chart data indicates that some other parts of Asia, as well as New Zealand, were warmer to it, albeit not to the extent some other songs. It peaked at 94 in Korea, but 19 in Hong Kong and Malaysia, 13 in New Zealand, 12 in the Philippines, 8 in Singapore, and 2 in Taiwan.
    • Worth noting that even as the group's streaming numbers (which are considered paramount amongst K-pop's young fanbase) dropped in The New '20s, their physical album sales (which earn far more in profit) have grown since Taste Of Love — Between 1&2, Ready To Be, and With You-th all sold over a million physical copies.^note  Due to how JYPE distribution deals work, international physical sales (except Japan) are usually lumped in with the domestic Korean numbers. Thus, we have no idea just how many of those albums sold in Korea and how many were exported to the USA/Europe/etc and sold there. Still, a million is a million.
  • Despite having been dubbed the "nation's girl group" in Korea during their bubblegum era, Twice has generally been more popular in Japan than in Korea since around the start of The New '20s. While their original Japanese releases obviously don't qualify for this trope, almost all of their post-"Fancy" Korean title tracks have been bigger hits in Japan than in Korea. Their English singles have also been bigger hits in Japan than in either Korea or the English-speaking countries.
  • Out of the English-speaking countries, Twice has had the most entries on the main charts in New Zealand and (to a lesser extent) Canada. The majority of their title tracks from "Fancy" onwards have made the top 20 in New Zealand, with "Feel Special" and "Talk That Talk" making the top ten and the first two English singles making the top five despite Twice having yet to perform a single show there.
• Harsher in Hindsight: At a fan signing, Nayeon revealed that she was in a car accident when she was younger and as a result, her left leg is much weaker than her right. While Nayeon characteristically played it off with a smile and said she was glad she could still walk, the discovery of this has not only made the fandom collectively wince and worry, but made some moments in the past quite painful to look at.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight:
  • Everything about Feel Special. The MV was filmed just before Mina's hiatus (she was notably absent from release promotional shoots etc.) which lends weight to the love between close friends being the theme of the song's lyrics and the MV itself. Even more so is Jeongyeon's experiences a couple years later. Alone among the girls in the MV, she was not paired with another. Instead, a 'melancholy' Jeongyeon (of the past) was paired with a 'joyful' Jeongyeon (of the future) surrounded by her friends (the rest of TWICE). This takes a heartwarming turn when you watch a mini-series filmed at the end of her second hiatus, when she went over some of the troubles she felt about needing to take time off, including the need to recover her sense of self-confidence and self-love, and to express her gratitude towards the group's supportiveness and ONCE's patience.
  • The release of Celebrate. Coincidentally 3 days prior to the release of the MV, TWICE renewed their contracts with JYP. Despite the fact that album was originally meant to celebrate the 5th anniversary since their debut in Japan, the song brought many fans to Tears of Joy, especially with lines "After all this time, we're still together!". If this is not sweet enough, Celebrate is the first title track which credits TWICE as lyricists.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • Nayeon noticing Red Velvet's Yeri crying and immediately going over to comfort her.
  • In general, personal vlogs and Time to Twice are essentially saturated with heartwarming (with equal parts funny) interactions among the girls, but there are a few moments which stand out (including their occasional on-camera exchanges with the support and filming staff).
  • Perhaps THE crowning moment in official TWICE content is the group vlog which marked the end of the Secret Friend mini-series in which the girls participated in a somewhat off-season Secret Santa. This coincided with Jeongyeon's return to group activities after her first hiatus (she was missing from the TTT shoots which were filmed alongside a few of the personal vlogs, most noticeably Jihyo's). During the exchange of gifts, Nayeon (Jeongyeon's Secret Friend) tells her not to read the letter which she included with her present, presumably predicting what might happen. However, while everyone is reacting to Momo's theatrics, she sneaks a peek at the letter and becomes completely focused on it to the point of not noticing the others settling down again, at which point Nayeon catches her. When Nayeon rushes over to stop Jeongyeon from reading further, Jeongyeon bursts into tears, causing Nayeon to also tear up and they share a loving hug, which continues after the event ends and the girls show off their gifts. While no-one knows what was written in the letter, Jeongyeon states it 'really touched (her) heart'. Barely a dry-eyed ONCE in the comments!
  • The "I Got You" video has an animated sequence of the members being saved from drowning by the Red String of Fate, symbolizing the very close bond that the members have and how they can make it through hard times when they have each other.
• I Knew It!:
  • An uncommonly Heartwarming example for "Feel Special". Although the snippets of the song could be interpreted as lyrics to another romantic-themed track, and the full song itself has lyrics that hypothetically could be applied to romantic love as well as any other kind, many fans correctly predicted that the music video would center on friendship or platonic love. This is due to Mina having been diagnosed with anxiety disorder, which arrived during an overall difficult time for herself, the group, and fans alike where she had to take breaks from TWICE. As recovery from mental health issues is a long, long road, it would make sense that her comeback music video features messages of Mina, and anyone else grappling with mental health issues, not being alone in their pain.
  • On a funnier note, Chaeyoung mentioned in 2022 that she'd stop bleaching her hair for a year. No one, not Sana or even ONCEs, believed her. Sure enough, when she appeared for Milan fashion week in September, her hair was dyed blonde… again.
    Chaeyoung: I'm planning not to (dye my hair) this year.
    Sana: I don't believe you.
• It's Popular, Now It Sucks!: They're not just one of the most popular K-pop girl groups; they were actually dubbed the Nation's Girl Group! This makes them an open target for scrutiny from netizens and rival fandoms over just about anything, which has only intensified as a result of Twice becoming one of the few girl groups to have a shot at becoming the most popular one internationally.
• Les Yay: Started turning up all over the place as early as the "What Is Love?" MV. Various ship teases (admittedly slightly more uncommon ones) amongst the members are shown throughout.
• LGBT Fanbase: Even putting aside needless speculation on the members' actual sexualities, it's easy to see why Twice have a sizable LGBT following from the "What Is Love?" MV alone. For example: the visuals of two attractive Asian girls playing the Official Couple in La La Land, for which the most notorious criticism is that the film is racist/too white, can be and has been heavily appreciated without any regard to Momo's or Tzuyu's real-life romantic preferences. Also, Chaeyoung has been about as openly supportive of LGBT as one can be in Korea and not get in trouble, while other members have either made statements or gestures in overt support of LGBT rights.
• Moe: All of the girls. This was an Intended Audience Reaction during their first three years when they ran on "cute" concepts with a Girl Next Door image, bubblegum pop songs, and some cute videos (most notably "Signal", "Knock Knock", "Likey", and "What Is Love?"). Their music has since become more mature, but their endearing personalities still shine through in their reality shows, VLives/Vlogs, some group interviews, and most other Twice content (including their concerts, to an extent). The nine of them are a bunch of dorks who like to have fun and have one of the strongest bonds in the industry. It also helps that they all◊ have cute smiles. Naturally, their Moe-ness extends to the individual members, to varying degrees:
  • Sana is a Cute Clumsy Girl with a bubbly personality. Her aegyo has gone viral even outside the kpop community. She is the biggest Cuddle Bug in the group and has also been favorably compared to a Shiba-Inu.
  • Despite her more reserved demeanor and being the tallest member, Tzuyu is still the maknae and it shows. She visibly gets shy and embarrassed easily (which makes her attempts at aegyo cuter), is a very passionate dog lover, makes everyone laugh without even trying, and has one of the softest voices in the group. Even her unnies are very doting and protective of her.
  • Nayeon is considered the "fake maknae" because of her youthful appearance and playful personality. She embraces her aegyo, unlike some other members, yet still trades off with Jeongyeon and Jihyo as the Team Mom.
  • Mina is one of the most introverted members and also has a soft voice. Her penguin walk has won her cute points from even Nayeon!
  • Chaeyoung wants to be a "cool girl" so bad, but she is still really cute to some because she is very tiny and one of the most youthful-looking members (she had a full-on baby-face until at least 2020), on top of being just as much of a dork as the others despite herself. As the second maknae (only seven weeks older than Tzuyu), she tends to be babied by her unnies as well.
  • Kim "Tofu" Dahyun is one of the shortest members and also one of the funniest and most energetic members. She is known mainly as a rapper but also has a soft and sweet singing voice. She and Sana are even cuter together!
  • Caring leader Jihyo looks like Thomas the Tank Engine and completes the tiny trinity with Dahyun and Chaeyoung. She acknowledged the group's Moe-ness when she pinched everyone’s cheeks, including her own.
  • Momo is one of the hotter and sexier members with the the most powerful dancing on stage but also one of the most introverted with her often standing quietly and awkwardly in a way not different from a Sim when not doing any actions, and funniest with her… unique thoughts off stage.
  • Token "girl crush" member Jeongyeon hates aegyo and tries to be the stern Team Mom, but she still manages to be the most playful one.
• Narm Charm:
  • Especially earlier on, their music and accompanying MVs required a good sense of humor and high tolerance for potential Narm. A bunch of schoolgirls serenading an alien boy whose rendering is reasonably poor-quality (Signal)? Totally unarmed young girls coasting through a literal zombie apocalypse with the power of music (Like OOH-AHH)? The girls' charm and talent and the sheer fun factor of their discography have made it impossible for many not to succumb to the hype. They've progressively matured in sound and look, however, although the kitsch and fun are still present.
  • "Cactus" is about the death of Jihyo's houseplant, yet it still manages to be one of the saddest and most emotional songs they've ever done.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Nayeon's, Momo's, and Mina's "zombie" teasers.
  • In the video for "Knock Knock" it is implied that all the members froze to death, which seems discordant with the rest of the video which has a more cheerful tone.
• Older Than They Think: Their first original English song was not "The Feels" but the lesser known b-side "What You Waiting For" from the Japanese album &Twice, released two years earlier. It's a straight-up EDM song that's less flashy and more repetitive; the English lyrics are not as pronounced as on "The Feels", and the vocals are more heavily processed in some parts. This, combined with their Japanese releases not being counted in their main discography, makes the song easier to overlook.
• Refrain from Assuming: It's easy to tell what the title is from the choruses in the majority of TWICE singles, but a Japanese release has them singing, "Oh, gimme more, gimme more!" in the chorus. The title is not "Gimme More", but "One More Time", which occurs at the end of the chorus.
• Retroactive Recognition: Future Stray Kids member Bang Chan appears as one of the zombies in the "Like Ooh-Ahh" MV, three years before Stray Kids debuted.
• Sacred Cow: "Cry For Me", which was only meant to be a stage-exclusive performance song, but took the fandom by storm. The members like it too. Just try criticizing it.
• Shipping: The members get a lot of this from fans due to the group having a True Companions bond and a lot of non-music content and on-stage interactions that show it. It may also count as Actor Shipping due to the group doing reality shows when not recording or touring.
• Shipper on Deck: Played for laughs, but Tzuyu is known among Onces for being Michaeng's biggest shipper.
• Signature Song: They have a lot of hits, but these are the most popular ones:
  • Pre-Fancy You era: "Cheer Up", "TT", "Likey", and "What Is Love?".
  • Post-Fancy You era: "Fancy", "Feel Special", "I Can't Stop Me", and "The Feels".
  • Japanese releases: "Candy Pop"
  • These are the biggest contenders for overall: "Cheer Up" was the group's Breakthrough Hit, the Ho Yay-heavy "What Is Love?" is their most-viewed video, "Fancy" is their most-streamed song on Spotify and is well-known for transitioning the group into a more mature sound that "Feel Special" solidified, and first original English single "The Feels" cemented Twice as one of the most popular K-pop girl groups in the West.
• So Bad, It's Good:
  • "The TWICE Song" is a juvenile-sounding tune from their earliest years, in which the members make a song using their names. At least it's just a special novelty song that runs about two minutes. It sounds like a nursery rhyme, with such poetic lyrics as Dahyun simply chanting "dubu" (tofu) for her lines. All that said, many fans have still found themselves repeatedly listening to it, because it's just so weirdly addictive. It also helps new fans memorize the members' names.
  • Some might argue this applies to "I'm Gonna Be A Star" from the Page Two EP. Other than the rap part which can be seen as genuinely good, most of the song is extremely juvenile, repetitive, and possibly the worst thing JYP has ever put out (yes, he is responsible for this one), and yet many fans admit it's kind of catchy. Most of the girls mock it if it's ever brought up …except Dahyun who apparently likes it – the rap part mentioned above is hers, and of course Nayeon who is known to loathe it to memetic levels.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel: "Candy Pop", which is exactly as sugary-sweet as you'd expect. Or saccharine, depending on your perspective.
  • "Alcohol-Free", the title track on their June 2021 comeback EP Taste of Love, has a very lovely, soft, pleasant tune and features ethereal vocals.
• Testosterone Brigade: They are one of the most popular A-list girl groups among male K-pop fans (if not the most popular, at least on Reddit), with almost half the fans being male. It helps that, in addition to the girls being really cute and showing endearing personalities in most content when not being Ms. Fanservice on stage and Tzuyu having been crowned the World's Most Beautiful Woman in 2019, their music has matured past the bubblegum pop sound of their early years in a way that shows their Hidden Depths without normally feeling aimed almost strictly at girls^*  (as opposed to "girl crush" groups like BLACKPINK and ITZY, who have brigades of their own but tend to wear their girl power on their sleeves despite their edgier looks and music). This makes Twice one of the most accessible groups to males and females alike.
• Tough Act to Follow:
  • 2019's one-two punch of "Fancy" and "Feel Special" are two of the group's most revered title tracks, and the latter is one of their most personal. These songs have the side-effect of the following Korean comeback, 2020's "More & More" - despite cementing Twice as the girl group with the most music show wins and being the first title track to have an English version - being dismissed as one of their weakest title tracks.
  • Nayeon's solo debut briefly rescued Twice from falling out of the mainstream, with "Pop!" charting at number two in Korea, higher than any post-2018 group song. Jihyo's solo "Killin' Me Good", from her Darker and Edgier Zone EP, did not do anywhere near as well commercially and only gave her one music show win. Nayeon's EP has had enough staying power for a performance of "No Problem" to be uploaded to the group's YouTube a week after the lyric video for the English version of "Killin' Me Good" and get far more views, suggesting that Nayeon's solo raised the bar pretty high for latter-day Twice material.
  • First original English single "The Feels" was met with a lot of fanfare on release and helped solidify their international fanbase. It's also so far their most successful English single by far. While follow-up English singles "Moonlight Sunrise" and "I Got You" have been well received by the fandom (especially the latter), neither (especially not the latter) have had anywhere near as much of a global impact. "The Feels" has also had the side effect of causing immediate follow-up "Scientist" to be largely dismissed despite its album being one of their best-received releases.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: "TT" is a visually stunning video, but the scene where Jihyo eats ice cream can be unnerving for some. The editing style makes her look ghostly pale, and her lips blood-red. She eats the ice cream with an utterly blank look in her eyes. The effect is more Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette than Raven Hair, Ivory Skin.
• Values Dissonance: Many international fans questioned JYP's decision to let underage Tzuyu do a provocative dance in the LG U/Huawei commercial.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: "Like OOH-AHH" has lyrics so questionably sexual-sounding that it veers into Values Dissonance territory as Dahyun, Chaeyoung, and Tzuyu were minors when the song came out (or most of the group except Nayeon if you consider that in Korea the age where you're considered an adult is 20).

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