Why do stans fight over whose Chinese bars buy the most albums?

Celebrate and fight over overall sales, including those bought by Chinese fans.

But why so much talk of which idols have the biggest Chinese bars? Chinese bars are essentially groups of rich people spending thousands on KPOP albums, many of which are pretty much shipped straight to the dumpsters or the streets after the photo cards have been removed. There are so many better causes these people could spend their money on and the environmental cost of over-purchasing physicals to inflate sales for bragging rights just to dump them on the street is gross. At least dispose of them properly. People can spend their money on whatever they want but KPOP stans are truly a different breed if they think this is something to be celebrated

Idk it don't make them more popular but they just love competition

when blackpink chinese bars started to bulk buy kpop fans used to downplay blackpink but now it has become an achievement lol how things have changed lol

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when blackpink chinese bars started to bulk buy kpop fans used to downplay blackpink but now it has become an achievement lol how things have changed lol

It's the same as with the paid ad views.

If just a few companies/groups start doing it, people (that aren't stans of the groups involved) shade the groups concerned with it.

But if practically everyone starts doing it, it doesn't matter anymore, the exception becomes the rule.

Quote from Seared Creamy Duck (435)

when blackpink chinese bars started to bulk buy kpop fans used to downplay blackpink but now it has become an achievement lol how things have changed lol

blackpink weren't the first either which makes it funnier lol, the practice is bad and shouldn't be celebrated period