- Ending Fatigue: Their first full album, Crazy In Love, contains nearly 20 minutes of instrumentals at the end, totalling up to roughly two-thirds the duration of the core album (excluding the English version of "Loco").
- Friendly Fandoms:
- Despite a bit of silly Fandom Rivalry, there are plenty of LOONA fans who are also fans of ITZY or at least support them too. The main reasons include the two groups' focus on releasing music meant to empower their young female fans and the friendship between the members (particularly Ryujin with LOONA's Heejin and Hyunjin). There's also the fact that both groups witnessed each other get their first music show win. Aww.
- Mainly due to collaborative performance of Beyoncé's Diva
for a year end music show for MBC, Midzys tend to get along with fans of (G)I-DLE/Neverlands. This is further solidified when Yuqi started video chatting with Yeji and the two group's interaction before the said performance. - With MYs due to the budding friendship between ITZY and aespa. They frequently sing each other's songs during livestreams and actively begun to bond after Ryujin bought the other group watermelon juice.
- Growing the Beard: "Wannabe" is the first of ITZY's singles to have a truly darker, more serious sound, but impressively, succeeds at this without sacrificing the group's brand of self-empowerment for young girls or the hard-hitting choreography. Doubles as Awesome Music for this reason, and even Heartwarming for many.
- Memetic Hair: Yeji often has her hair in double ponytails/pigtails◊. Although she doesn't really wear those all the time, it hasn't stopped fans from associating her with the look and cracking endless jokes about her now-trademark hairstyle.
- Memetic Mutation:
- Ryujin's shoulder dance from Wannabe, not only within the fandom, but for other idols as well.
- "Itzy got us breaking bones"note
- Tearjerker: "Wannabe" can be this for anyone who's suffered from a low self-esteem, especially as the ones singing it are themselves young people with their own insecurities. The emotional music video complements the subject matter very well.
- Tough Act to Follow: "Wannabe" raised the bar so high for ITZY, that almost everything after it (except maybe immediate follow-up "Not Shy") is considerably more contested.
- Values Dissonance: The (alleged) sexualization of the very young members, especially poor Yuna. The group debuted in 2019, she was born in 2003. Though some assert that she's not really being sexualized, others argue that she is. Unfortunately, this is standard practice for many adolescent idols; a similar, recent example TWICE's Tzuyu, another Statuesque Stunner maknae (youngest member), who was made to star in a gratuitously sexualized smartphone advertisement when she was a minor.
- WTH, Costuming Department?: Ryujin being made to wear men's underwear as a shirt raised more than a few fans' eyebrows, to say the least.
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