Source Music reportedly trademarks GFriend after members leave label

Redebut them as Ex-GFriend 💀

Financially it makes sense, but I know this will understandably frustrate fans. Regardless of the moral stance on this decision, Source put stock and investment into the group, so it makes sense that they'd want to maintain a certain control of the assets that come from such an investment. As others have said, this doesn't mean the group can't go on to do work together as we've seen other groups do that left their respective companies together. I'll be interested to see how this pans out, as it doesn't seem viable for some of the members to do much in the way of solo work. Who knows, maybe some of them really just need a break after such a long and constant grind in the industry.