I've always heard about how delusional onces can be, but it wasn't until I saw that thread on main that I realize that mys aren't the only ones who need to be called out more on.
It's 2022 and I thought we were pass this point but I guess not cause it looks like onces still need to hear that Twice is not on the same level as Blackpink.
Blackink is literally the BTS of girl groups.
And no, I'm not a blink, not that I think it matters if I say so or not because this is annons and people will believe whatever they want.
But anyway, onces really have me gobsmacked.
They will really talk about how Twice is the most streamed Kpop girl group, Twice has the highest album sales among girl groups all while ignoring the fact that Twice has possibly the largest discography among all girl groups of both the 3rd and 4th generation. They only have those achievements because you're counting cumulatively and nobody but you onces take that seriously. Onces are literally the only Kpop group I see group all their album sales and streams from every single year and release together and hype it like it's some huge achievement.
The other thing is about the touring.
Yeah, Twice has some decent touring numbers, but so too do NCT and Seventeen and that still doesn't make them the same level as BTS. But yeah, we're talking about girl groups here, not boy groups. Yeah. Except since the pandemic, the only top girl groups that have gone touring has been like Aespa. And yeah, nobody really expected them to have huge touring numbers, well except maybe mys, when they aren't even a 2 year old group. Groups like Red Velvet has no tour date in sight and Blackpink is just now announcing their tour, so really, there is no updated information to really even form a discussion in that respect.
But if you compare Twice's YouTube views, Twice SNS, Twice album sales that aren't cumulatively added together because who the hell even counts like that?, the gap between them and other girl groups not blackpink is not all that different.
TLDR: The reason why people put Twice on the level of Aepsa, Red Velvet, IVE, G-Idle etc. and not blackpink is because they fit more with those groups than to blackpink.