Can you be completely honest in your fandom?

or do you feel like you would be judged and even accused of being a fake fan?

Could you admit to being a multi? What if you're a multi who biases another group first? Would you be accepted still?

Could you express a negative opinion about your faves? What if you disliked their latest cb? What if you didn't think a performance was up to par? Could you say that or would you get bullied or shouted down?

Does it make a difference if it's in a public place vs a fandom only space?

Quote from Yoonminnie

i honestly don’t know with armys now

Do you feel like you have a different experience with your fandom here than elsewhere like twitter or reddit? I think Twitter fan spaces can be super toxic.

Quote from senku

yes to most. I don't really see the upside in lying about something as silly as kpop lol

That's a healthy attitude but that's a difference between being strong enough to do it anyway and feeling like it's accepted. Do you feel like it's accepted?

Quote from penepol

I am completely honest. If other people have an issue with me, that’s on them.

Have you run into issues with others when you are?

Quote from senku

honest opinions within a fandom? hell no lol

I feel like I did have to learn to be a bit more careful about expressing my opinions when i got into kpop. At first, i was totally open about things i loved and didn't love about my faves but that seemed to upset people. It generally doesn't bother me when people criticize my faves unless I think they are doing it with bad intentions, like to be insulting or create fan wars. But it seemed to hit sore spots so I try to be gentle with my opinions for the most part.

Quote from Yoonminnie

hm..all the good armys left this site honestly and i dont interact with the ones left here much. i find armys more enjoyable on twt than here tbh.

i dont touch reddit cause that place is a hell hole regardless. but i do have a small group of armys i talk to on discord, they're pretty great. we can talk about anything without jumping each other.

I lot of people have left unfortunately. I wish it had only been the bad ones, but we lost many great ones too from a lot of different fandoms.

It's really good when you have a private place to talk with fellow fans that are friendly. It does allow you to be closer and more honest.

Hmm, i don't frequent reddit a lot but I don't think I've noticed that much toxicity there.

Quote from lialve

I'm always honest but sometimes I regret that cause I feel like other army's are judging me even tho maybe it's just a feeling and not reality

Oh it's definitely reality. Lol I'm just kidding. I do feel like we (i mean humans) can feel like people are judging or laughing at us when nothing is actually happening. I get self conscious a lot myself. If people actually had a lot of issue with you, I think they would be vocal about it so you would know

Quote from MY-Kwangya

Yes, I can be completely honest as that is what I am. If I don't like a group's comeback or song, I will say so. I'm not going to hold back just to appease the rest of the fandom. If they don't like it, it's their problem. I only interact with people here as I don't have social media. I'm not going to sugar coat the issue just to stay good with other fans, that is just silly imo.

And when you do, do you feel like you get flack or no?

Quote from penepol

Um, I’m not active on stan Twitter so no, not really! On Stan Twitter, I could probably tweet something as innocuous as ‘BTS seem to enjoy instant ramyeon’ and someone somewhere would be quote tweeting me, calling me an ancient hag fake fan who should be exiled (and possibly executed at dawn).

On here, if I’ve voiced my opinion, people have often bluntly disagreed but I’m not rude about things, so no, no real issues. But then, I don’t expect that everyone should agree with my opinion either, which helps!

Ramyeon? Seriously? Kidding. Yeah, stan tweet is a hellhole lol

I have seen you around a lot and think you do express thoughtful opinions in a polite way. It's nice :)

Quote from Minkah

MOAs are pretty chill so I don't hesitate to be honest.

Army... Nope. But I always am anyway, which is likely why nobody on here views me as an army anymore, eventhough BTS were the sole reason I joined akp.

Insomnias are also super chill. Never had an issue.

It doesn't matter how anyone views you. If you feel you are a stan if a group and in a fandom, no one can say otherwise. Man, that's one of my triggers tbh. I hate fans that think the can gatekeep the fandom. They'll say you aren't in the fandom or call you a fake fan. It's such bs tbh. There are no rules for being a fan. If you love the group, that's enough....

...I might have strong feelings about this. Sorry

Quote from lialve

omg same I feel like the most problematic army's on twitter are solo stans. I tweeted to a jimin fan that j hope is also the main dancer of the group and multiple users got so mad at me for it and assumed that I'm a jimin anti

I said once that JK was the strongest vocal so it made sense to me that he gets a lot of lines and I was accused of being a JK akgae I was like? Akgae? I'm not even in your fandom... Then i backed away slowly.

Quote from Derpcatcher

Yes because we anit a fandom who eat their own alive for having an opinion

I have to admit, i don't think I've ever run into a toxic insomnia. It made me so happy for y'all when DC had their first win.

Quote from Aeicy

not really no

That's really sad, honestly

Quote from ArmyBlinkOnce0

People calling me a fake stan cus I'm a multi?

Did you used to be just ArmyBlink? When did you add Once?

And yeah, multis have it rough sometimes. I can't even count how many times I've read "don't trust a multi" as if we're spies or something

Quote from Yoonminnie

the solo stans on twt are so toxic like you can appreciate both of them as dancers

Sometimes you get the flipside though. You feel forced to appreciate both equally. If you happen to like one more and maybe support their activities more, you're called a fake solo stan even if you love the others too. To some, everything has to be forced to be even or apparently you might as well be an anti

Quote from MassiveKpopFan

Fandoms are a collective. I don't know and never will know a majority of the people in the fandom; their opinions aren't important enough for me to truncate my own thoughts.

So I'm personally honest whether people like me or not.

Do you feel like you've ever been judged for that? Or are people pretty accepting no matter what you say?

Quote from Derpcatcher

I had a skip in my step for weeks after. I hope we can get another to show we aren't a one hit wonder

I hope so too. Dreamcatcher had released a lot of great music over the years. People should recognize! I still have Piri in my playlist from way back.

Quote from bcx12

Yeah

this doesn’t have to do with fandoms it more just on me, like I feel bad if I give negative opinions sometimes even with groups I don’t know. I just don’t want it to be misinterpreted or like sounding rude.

If it fandom only or in private it’s easier cause your with people u r comfortable with so it’s different but like if u don’t know people I kinda worry

Unless it's a bside battle and then all tact gets cast aside and i question all y'alls taste and fandom credentials cuz really how can you guys have paid Wait dust like that?

Quote from MassiveKpopFan

I've gotten dogplied by both moas and armys on twitter for speaking the literal truth that people didn't want to hear about stats and other info. Now there are some opinions I won't tweet out because I would like to keep my twitter account lol, but I'm pretty unfiltered. Not that I'm super negative or rude, just super blunt. If people have a problem with me online, oh well. I'm likely never gonna meet you and if numerical facts upset you, then you have a personal problem with me pointing them out.

Numbers are numbers. I can't believe people would jump you for that. They'd always some crazies in every group i guess though