Why has the 'teen' concept exploded in popularity?

Probably because every group here have literal teens

The majority of kpop fans for most groups have always been females. There's exceptions, usually mature/sexy groups like Girl's Day, AOA, Stellar, Dalshabet. And even for Twice, their male fans were about evenly split in their early years.

itzy is more girl crush I wouldn't consider new jeasn teen concept unless if we related to their age

new jeans concept is different than the rest you mentioned

I also think most of these teen concepts derived from girl crush it's just a light version of it

edit: I thought you meant teen crush more specifically

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itzy is more girl crush I wouldn't consider new jeasn teen concept unless if we related to their age

new jeans concept is different than the rest you mentioned

I also think most of these teen concepts derived from girl crush it's just a light version of it

Light version of girl crush so…not girl crush what 😭

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3rd gen fans. I wasn't around back then so I'm just going off what yall tell me.

Those 3rd gen fans probably had some agenda or were new to kpop as well. Groups with a lot of female fans caused black ocean, while male fans were never able to do something like that.

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I would still consider Newjeans concept to be a teen concept. Ditto, Attention, and Hype Boy are all about the teenage experience.

is it more y2k? their music style gives more retro vibes that's why I was asking though if it's related to them being teens or are we talking about high teen, teen crush? since this concept has been in for a while now

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Black oceans are terrible but I would prefer that to male fans taking videos and gifs up underage girl group members' skirts and calling them misogynistic slurs and threatening to boycott over feminist imagery.

So in that sense it's good kpop doesn't have THAT many male fans relatively speaking.

cause they are all teens?

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Light version of girl crush so…not girl crush what 😭

Op first example, weki meki call their concept teen crush around 2017-18, in 2019 when itzy debut jyp call itzy teen crush concept

By 2020 there was 2 sides of this concept the itzy/aespa(more edgy) one and the stayc one that was high teen when y2k started to get more popular in korea

In 2021 the concept didn't define a hit as much as the group, ex: aespa with next level and stayc with asap until I've debut

Then 2022 come and all went as we know, with Ive doing luxurious teem royal concept that knetz love (love dive) and nj just overall being about them living their youth freely and bringing people a sense of melancholy

That how girl crush become teen crush, then high teen and now it's a mix of that with y2k style (that basically come back of fashion being a cycle and trends always coming back bc of a yearning of what they had in the past)

Btw it's also come from korea obsession with youth, not just the members age getting younger and younger but a group age

That's why knetz said itzy is old and wash out even tho aespa and stayc are just 1-2 younger than them

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Op first example, weki meki call their concept teen crush around 2017-18, in 2019 when itsy debut jup call itzy teen crush concept

By 2020 there was 2 sides of this concept the itzy/aespa(more edgy) one and the stayc one that was high teen when y2k started to get more popular in korea

In 2021 the concept didn't define aa much as the group, ex: aespa with next level and stayc with aespa until I've debut

Then 2022 come and all went as we know

That how girl crush become teen crush, then high teen and now it's a mix of that with y2k style

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I couldn't have said it better myself . Pretty much as soon I saw weki wki and itzy, I thought of teen crush hence why I said it's like a light version but I guess Op is talking more as teen concept as teenage experience so includes all styles

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Op first example, weki meki call their concept teen crush around 2017-18, in 2019 when itzy debut jyp call itzy teen crush concept

By 2020 there was 2 sides of this concept the itzy/aespa(more edgy) one and the stayc one that was high teen when y2k started to get more popular in korea

In 2021 the concept didn't define a hit as much as the group, ex: aespa with next level and stayc with asap until I've debut

Then 2022 come and all went as we know, with Ive doing luxurious teem royal concept that knetz love (love dive) and nj just overall being about them living their youth freely and bringing people a sense of melancholy

That how girl crush become teen crush, then high teen and now it's a mix of that with y2k style (that basically come back of fashion being a cycle and trends always coming back bc of a yearning of what they had in the past)

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Doesn’t change the fact that girl crush is not some all encompassing term. People use whatever words they want without any meaning.

We’ll depends what type of teen concept. Teen crush?, teen nostalgia?, etc. But as a whole I think it’s due to Kpop fans being able to relate to the songs these groups put out, since we’ll most Kpop fans are teens, or pre-teens. Teen concepts also take from different aesthetics, and ongoing trends, which is probably the root cause of why they are so popular. When I visited Korea this summer, I noticed many people calling groups like itzy and Aespa old, and I think it’s due to more fresh and interesting concepts making an appearance in the Kpop industry nowadays.

Other than k-pop idols' age, songs with school uniform outfits or MVs that take place inside a school setting tend to be happy or cute. I saw your profile picture and maybe there is some influence from Twice (because they made happy and cute songs and were famous)

And also, as implied by what I just said, what defines a teenager concept, just having a school themed MV or school outfits? The song lyrics being from a youthful perspective and possibly the song having a bunch of immature talk-singing (possibly that's what makes Icy seem like a youth song but not Wannabe)? And the idols being young enough to sell the "youth" aspect?

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nj just overall being about them living their youth freely and bringing people a sense of melancholy

You and I don’t always agree but this is super on point