Because fans now fight each other over things being "organic" or not. Fans mass streaming, bulk buying, social media spam etc has always been fans pushing their faves since Kpop inception decades ago in 1G. Now if a group has a higher number of something it's blamed on fans exaggeration and therefore not as "real" as a say a group has less numbers but more love from public/casuals.
I don't know
I'm proud to be niche
being aquarius
to be different
most of my favorites are unpopular with the masses
but maybe common fan/person
they don't like /scared to being different
they like KPOP or bias to be mainstream?
Over history, alot of niche forms and styles of art were carried and survived bc of their dedicated fans.
Alot of particular art styles wouldn't have survived let alone become renowned later on if their fans didn't became the patrons of those artists.
It seems like only kpop fans are ashamed of this fact and have a chip on their shoulders about it.
Because the most successful acts in history, before Kpop blew up, especially western acts, did not hit it big due to bulk buying and mass streaming of their albums to break records. Their achiements were organic compared to Kpop idols'.
It kinda feels like Kidols cheat their way to the top.
Because being labeled as fandom-based implies you have a lot less popularity than what the numbers indicate.
Selling 1M albums with 1M people each buying one album (GP based) vs 100k people each buying 10 albums (fandom based). Being GP based implies you have 10x the reach of being fandom based in this example.
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