It's on tiktok. The username is Claire and if you search past source music trainee, she comes up. A comment asked why big 4 debuts people from rich families nowadays and she replied that it's because big companies charge a lot and liked a comment saying that training is not free. To be honest, I always wondered who started that "Big 4 companies don't have trainee debt and they train for free" stuff. Always made me wonder why a big company would invest money on trainees that are not even guaranteed to debut. Anyway, I'm not saying everything she says is true but if you look at her videos and her comments, it all seems pretty grounded in truth. I mean I think a past kpop trainee is more credible than a random internet user to me.
here it is: https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSaqHmrgC/
This got removed in kpopthoughts because apparently this type of post is not allowed there so im posting it here
edit: I don't know why I'm getting downvoted. I'm not enforcing this belief, i'm just sharing what a PAST kpop trainee have said. If you wanna believe that big companies train for free then go on😭😭
edit: proof of her trainee days are in the video clearly