Do Intl Kpop fans have the tendency to claim liking a song they previously disliked….

After it does well in Korean charts?

I have seen this with few songs and I wonder if this is a common behaviour? And what’s the reason behind it?

Positive impact changed your mind? Stockholm syndrome? What is it?

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Yes, sucess stanning is a thing.

And how common do you think it is, it might be hard to comment on a whole population so I will limit it to akp alone

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You know on ATRL every time they drag a song it’s start smashing, I remember when Pop was highly praised but it was flopping as soon they stopped the praises it smashed

Lmaoo what kinda tongue do they hold 😂😂😂

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In some cases, songs do grow on people. Like most of the songs that grew on me it wasn't really a thing where I hated it... I just wasn't feeling it, but once day you hear it and it clicks.

I do think kpop stans have more of a tendency to like things that are popular and only when they're popular though.

Oooh do you think this also correlates with them preferentially stanning groups that are from a popular company/ juniors of popular groups? Or are these two separate things?

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yes, majority of kpop stans are success stans

That’s not a lie for some fans. I do think it become more prevalent recently

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what i've seen by my own eyes:

• IVE - their teasers were not that hyped here, Eleven had a lukewarm reaction and even was labeled as flop before it started charting
• Aespa's Next Level - was a terrible song, some people changed their opinion after it started charting good
• Stayc and Weekly were hyped while they were doing good in charts (especially during ASAP). Now people don't talk a lot about them

there are probably more cases. I tend to stay in the guild most of the time so might miss a lot.

Now that you mention, I don’t see the last two groups being mentioned that often nowadays maybe they haven’t had a cb yet?

As for NL, I think it’s both - ppl liking it after it did well on k charts and it being a genuine grower for some

Idk about the initial response for 11 thou so I will take your word for it

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StayC had a comeback in Feb and going to comeback soon, i've seen info about packaging already, but not sure exact date.

I just checked Weeekly and they cameback in March.

If the upcoming back gets good responses in SK, I guess we will see them here again 😅

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Never noticed it in great scale, I don't keep tabs on who likes or dislikes something and how their opinion changes. But it's natural that people might come back to a song they previously discarded with a different perspective after it does well. "if people like it there must be something about it". Their opinion is allowed to change.

There are a lot of success stans out there so I don't doubt that some start stanning groups/songs after they start charting well in Korea because of that specific reason.

Everyone is allowed to do anything they want. This is just a speculation on this common behaviour

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Yeah

Unrelated but Bibi lowkey resembles karina in the 2nd pic in ur sig

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Yeah people roasted the hell out of Next Level before it became super popular in SK. Same stuff happens in reverse though too -- BTS became BTS in Korea after they got big internationally.

Yes BTS were always BTS😂😂