Contractual Purity: In January 2020, Chen announced his marriage to his girlfriend who is also pregnant. While some Korean fans were livid with the announcement and demanded SM Entertainment kick him out of the group, international fans congratulate him and don't find it a big deal. Regardless, Chen still remains part of the group.
Creator Backlash: The members dislike the choreography of "Lucky One" given that it has too much footwork and spinning and they find it very tiresome. This is why when the song is played during their tours, they prefer to interact with the crowd while they dance, sing, and play around.
While promoting his solo album, Suho looks into the video clips that many fans loved watching. One of the videos is Suho with blonde hair during the "Overdose" era. When he watches it, he's embarrassed by the wink and an air kiss that he gave to the audience, thinking that he must have gone crazy. When asked if he wants to go blonde again, he refuses.
D.O. admits that he hates the black puffy Snow White-type shirt that he wore while performing in a Korean music show back when he was a rookie.
Dye Hard: Member Sehun has all colors under the heaven already, including rainbow◊ Kaleidoscope Hair. The hair dye-trend has recently moved to the other members such as Baekhyun◊ and Xiumin.
The group's fans are called EXO-L (In between EXO-K and EXO-M is EXO-L, EXO-Love). Also called Aeri/Eri for short, which has the meaning of guardian and blessing in Korean).
There are individual fandom names for the members:
Xiumin fans are Elsas.
Suho fans are Bunny Citizens.
Lay's official fanclub name is XBACK (Xing-Baby-Alliance-Crowned-King). International fans prefer 'Xingmi' (Lovers of Yixing).
Baekhyun fans are BH Family/Erikyoongs.
Chen fans are Soondingies (the gentle ones).
Chanyeol fans are Yeolmaes (berries), from the origin of his name alchan yeolmae (fruitful berries).
Xiumin has been a TVXQ fan since he was in high school, and has said on multiple occasions that TVXQ was his inspiration to be an idol and are like gods to him, and said it was his dream to perform with them. Now, he's become good friends with both members and lives in the same apartment as Changmin, who is also his drinking buddy.
Lu Han. In high school, his music folder was full of TVXQ, H.O.T, Super Junior, and Girls' Generation's music, especially a fanboy of TVXQ (mainly Yunho). He would even sneak out of class to watch their music videos.
Baekhyun was a huge Sone (Girls' Generation fanboy). He managed to become Taeyeon's boyfriend.
Lay is a big fan of JJ Lin, who he first met when he participated in a program called Star Academy in 2005. In the special concert for "Go Fighting!", Lay is given a chance to perform on stage with him.
Scully Box: Their shortest member is D.O., thus he's made to use one often.
They were unofficially known as M1 and M2 and "Land of Boys" before their debut. The group also went through several line-up changes.
NCT's Johnny was supposed to debut as part of EXO, but was cut before the group debuted.
While promoting his second solo single, Suho revealed in an Esquire Koreainterview that he was supposed to debut with Shinee at that time given that he trained with them. But he had a leg injury which delayed his debut along with preparing for his college entrance exam. He ended up becoming the leader of EXO instead.
EXO was supposed to have their comeback in the third quarter of 2023 with all eight members. However, the sudden announcement of Kai's military enlistment on May 11, 2023, changed plans, leading only seven members to do the promotions. Fortunately, Kai was able to record his parts for the album and music videos except for "Cream Soda" which was filmed when he's enlisted.
The Power of Friendship: EXO is known for having some of the strongest friendships in the industry.
Chanyeol and Baekhyun have similar personalities, and cause so much trouble when they're together that Suho has said he'll need to separate them sometimes! Chanyeol has also written songs for EXO about Baekhyun. His rap in 'Heaven' was written for him, and 'With You' was written by Chanyeol (who wrote a lot of the album) on the theme of light (Baekhyun's power) and also references him in his rap again.
The two often choose to stand/sit together (for example, EXO's ladder S2) and will always prefer to be on the other's team.
Xiumin and Chen are also very close, although they don't show it as much. According to Xiumin, Chen is like a wife to him, and there are no members closer than them.
Chanyeol and D.O. are in one of those relationships where one of them (Chanyeol) teases and the other (D.O.) hits them for it, but they are clearly very close. D.O. seems to be Chanyeol's first choice for helping him cover songs, with Chanyeol playing the guitar and D.O. on vocals.
Chanyeol and Sehun, who are in EXO-SC together, are very close, forming the subunit themselves, by choice. Chanyeol is very loud and extroverted and Sehun very quiet, so Chanyeol helps bring Sehun out of his shell a little bit.
Kai and D.O. are very, very close. They always seem to silently have each other's back (D.O. instantly running to detach Kai's microphone set while he's dancing on Knowing Bros) and they're both very quiet (usually) and introverted.
In the interview for Super M's friendship test, when Kai was asked why he liked NCT's Mark Lee, he said he reminded him of D.O., and that he had always wanted to be like D.O.
Baekhyun and Chen are very close. While not as explosive as some other friendships, it's clear they can keep talking for hours.
during the "Overdose" era. When he watches it, he's embarrassed by the wink and an air kiss that he gave to the audience, thinking that he must have gone crazy. When asked if he wants to go blonde again, he refuses.
