Does this mean people care more about girl groups?

Especially in regard to survival shows? Everyone hyped up X1 and said how they could’ve been a top boy group of the 4th generation if they didn’t disband. Then if this is the case wouldn’t more people be supporting the careers of post-X1 groups? But they don’t. Mirae, Bae173, WEi, and even soloists like Woodz for example, although amazing, definitely don’t have anywhere near the impact of X1. But now if we look at post Iz*One groups like IVE and LE SSERAFIM and even soloists, they are gaining so much attention. Iz*One was considered a 4th gen leader before their disbandment. And now IVE and LE SSERAFIM are likely fighting for ROTY. Even take other survial shows like Girls Planet and My Teenage Girl that had a lot of talk about and even trainees who didn’t make the lineup have a loyal fanbase. But you look at The Origin A, B, or What?’s final group ATBO has much less attraction in comparison. Even I-land’s final group, Enhypen, is losing momentum. More complaints about the trijectory of their music. Blessed-Cursed got mixed reactions, Pass The Mic even more so. Granted they are the most popular of the survival show groups, they’re more or less of an outlier. Being from Hybe it kinda helps their case a bit cause company stans exist. So is it at all possible that the general public seems to only really care about girl groups?

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the fact that i can only recognise 2 of the boygroups you mentioned but all of the girl groups proves your point i think.

The girl groups have become household names post survial shows but boy groups just haven’t got nearly as much attraction. I’m just wondering why this is the case.

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x1 only promoted for 4 months and released 3 new songs while izone were promoting for 2.5 years u can't compare both of them lol and most of x1 fans are produce x 101 fans they barely gain new fansforum.allkpop.com/suite/attachment/231045/

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X1 is a special case

First off, we cannot compare them to IZ*ONE because IZ*ONE has 2.5 years vs X1 who only had months. Many X1 stans, stan X1 and not individual members. IZ*ONE fans had 2.5 years to bond with the girls and hence it translate to post disbandment success

X1 is also not comparable to other BGs. I dare say that if X1 didn't disband, they will be the top BG in Korea. I might be wrong, but even with just their debut, it chart better than any other 4th Gen BG. Internationally I'm not sure but domestic wise, I'm certain they will be the top BG if they didn't disband.

With regards to people caring more about GGs than BGs, it has always been the case for years

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I think my point was missed, or I didn’t communicate it well. I was specifically comparing the two groups, just boy groups and girl groups post-survial shows. Those were just a few examples that I’m aware of. I didn’t watch the shows that formed IOI or Wanna One. But if we compare some groups/soloists that came from it. Somi and Chungha are more of household names than lets use Ab6ix for example. Everyone hyped Breathe but now their comebacks don’t make much noise.

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IZ*ONE has had the longest activity period for a Produce group which means they had more time to gain fans & be known among KPOP fans. How is it remotely comparable to X1 who lasted like three months.

As for ENHYPEN you literally said it yourself, it's the music that's turning people off & this isn't BG exclusive cause a similar thing is happening with ITZY. But either way they aren't a good example people have always cared more about GGs than BGs overall

I’m gonna reply to the second part as I’ve already addressed the first part in a reply to someone else. It can be argued that ITZY isn’t losing their momentum as they are a big company group, but Enhypen is. So that is what leads me to just to the bg vs gg battle. My main question is, why does this battle even exist in the first?

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well weki meki,gugudan,pristin and dia aren't household names too

Not every group can make it. I was just making a general observation and the ggs outweigh the bgs. And Pristin’s story just angers me especially with how they treated Kyla. And that they disbaneded so soon when they really did have potential

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Which general public are you talking about though? If in Korea than the obvious answer is yes. I'm pretty sure everybody already knows this. 4th Gen GGs are charting while 4th Gen BGs are all barely making a dent in the charts. It seems like everyone is only focusing at a few older established boygroups like BTS, Seventeen, NCT, etc and staying loyal.

I think International is a bit of a different story. Though you're only mostly hearing about GG's right now because there's currently a flood of new GG's coming out from mid to big companies and everyone is focused on seeing how that little war is going to turn out. It'll even out more probably next year when that flood ends.

I was referring in general: both Korea and internationally. And yeah that does make sense as there is a larger amount of ggs debuting than bgs this year… I wonder whats the reason for that though?