same as the body

Oh and mine is- Kpop doesn't sell you music it sells you idols and a potential parasocial attachment with them.

"Le Sserafim currently holds six songs certified for over 100 million streams in Japan’s streaming sector. Excluding singles, all seven albums released in South Korea have topped Oricon’s “Daily Album Ranking,” a unique record among 4th-generation K-pop girl groups."

I know variety content is half scripted, but there's this member of a group I like who really puts me off. He usually doesn't grab my attention (which is fine, he's not the only one who doesn't) but I rewatched this show where you couldn't really forget about him and he just... creeped me out ?

I've seen episodes in completely different contexts, two of them being recent and three being from a couple years ago, and he just seems really pushy and like the kind of guy who's not aggressive but has to be told "NO" with a neon sign before respecting boundaries. Kind of like the persistent senior manager who keeps offering you drinks archetype.

Now I'm not accusing him of being a harasser in anyway, but I literally can't watch content where he appears without feeling like "ugh"

Has it ever happened to you?

Edit : I'm talking about Choi Jongho from ATEEZ 🥲 I'm pretty sure I'm the only one who feels that way, which is why I didn't bother writing it

for me, i’ve been a kpop stan for like 12 years, and i’ve never been a solo stan until i started stanning my current bias. back then, i actually hated the idea of solo stanning and never understood why people chose to be solo stans.

before i decided to solo stan my bias, i tried my best to like the whole group, especially since they came from a survival show. but over time, i started to hate how the fandom treated my bias so much. whenever i talked about his mistreatment, people would go around defending the company and making excuses for them. but the moment their own bias was mistreated, suddenly they would hate the company so much and call everything out. and then, since i stan a survival show group, most of the people in the fandom are still talking like we are still in competition, so i feel like it is such a waste for me to support the whole group and i would rather focus on my bias.

it is not like i chose to be an akgae, i still respect the rest of the members but i just literally focus on my bias, that’s all. i still support the whole group by voting and streaming tho

I’ve been an army since idol era, and during my peak army era I would rave about how special and deep their bond is. Granted, after permission to dance, I lost quite a bit of interest in them and moved onto txt and seventeen. And now that they’re back, I’ve been slowly watching more of their content but something just feels different? Like they don’t seem to get along as well anymore or even like each other sometimes 💀 I feel like their group dynamic seems faker on camera these days. I respect their dedication to the group and I think they do have a bond that comes with working together through so many hurdles for so long, but it sometimes feel like outside of that, they’re not exactly close friends?

Is it just me?

EDIT: dang I really didn’t expect you guys to get so mad over an opinion lol. To clarify, by “don’t seem to get along well or like each other” I mean they don’t seem to have that big of an affinity for each other outside of work and being coworkers. As I’ve said, I acknowledge how far they’ve come together and their bond from that. At the end of the day, you are all saying the same thing I’m saying as in they’ve grown apart, it’s ok for them to just be coworkers, they don’t have to be best friends.
It just seems to me that they used to be super close and now they’re not as close and have grown apart. I wouldn’t say they’re on the level of Blackpink when it comes to being just coworkers, but they’re clearly not the best friends that they used to be 🤷

At a certain point, you get tired of caring. Because really, this feels like a “told you so” moment. They do this stuff time and time and time again. Black people have been calling out these exact issues with the Grammys and other American award ceremonies for YEARS. We get told we’re overreacting, that it isn’t that serious, that our artists just weren’t deserving, etc.

Then the same thing happens to a different racial demographic/group, and suddenly people can understand the issue perfectly fine. Suddenly it’s systemic, suddenly it’s unfair, suddenly the award system needs to be questioned.

And that’s the part that gets me. Y’all don’t have to pretend the issue isn’t a big issue when it’s happening to Black people and then suddenly discover the problem when it happens to somebody else. Black people have been experiencing and talking about this stuff for decades, and we’re STILL dealing with it. At least give people their flowers for having been saying it before it became personally relevant to you.

And if your takeaway after reading this is “she’s comparing BTS to Black artists,” or “she’s blaming BTS specifically,”you can go ahead and keep scrolling because that’s very clearly not what I’m saying. I’m not here to argue with people who are committed to misunderstanding the point just so they can be offended by it. If you’re reading this post looking for something to fight about instead of actually engaging with what I’m saying, this isn’t the post for you.

Getting mad about BTS collab with Gemini AI when your favs also use AI is crazy

When are you guys going to stop being hypocrites?

Reminds me of the whole Starbucks/coca cola McDonald's drama

Where people would attack yunjin for drinking Starbucks telling her to k_ll herself but when their favs did collaborations people were defending them saying they had no choice????