Can kpop make it without the fan service culture?

Will it lose popularity if groups drop fan service (doing vlive, group yt vids, dropping pictures, messaging fans on bubble and on other fan service sites)?

You know constantly feeding fans on kpop social medias made for the fans

With out a doubt. Even if you take all the extra's away the talent is still there and the music is still great. But on the other side of the coin. As k-pop currently is it's a serious contender for outgrowing western music and rightfully so. K-pop is actually doing something different, actually including the fans in the journey. Something missing or done as a token gesture by western music. Take the "extra's" away and the growth will stop. For better or worse.

The success/uniqueness of Kpop is 90% fan service - idol as a product, music-performance is only 10%.

So the answer is NO.

But then these days, other industries and professions are also getting into constant promotion mode.

So that would be another reason of Kpop losing its distinctiveness.

Yes, but the herd will thin.

I mean BP is there, thriving in success

Yes because Blackpink is an example

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Yes because Blackpink is an example

Ask their marketing team, the amount of efforts they put.

Nor only BP, Aespa too? Hello!