If u could banish one thing from kpop culture what would it be?

Sasaeng culture/invasion of privacy being tolerated

Or ultimately what I really want is for idols to date, make friends and be social without any real career backlash

Kpop fans

certain fandom and akgaes

Lee Soo Man in his 20s.

1 answer, OBSESSION.

Either predatory and perversion,

"Winner takes all",

Or simply obsession over someone's life

Minor sexualization and body shaming culture

Debuting idols under 16

To not repeat what was already answered, for me its cringy comments and annoying people in live streams.

Despite being told and fully knowing how awkward it makes other people feel, or hearing people say, 'can you say this', or say a word (often swears from my experience) in their language it really puts me off.

It's 50% of the reason when I view live streams I just don't comment. After a handful of soloists and even idol group members responded or answer my question (Like Woojin or this idol named St.Van of VAV) I kinda put my comments on the back burner.

OR

Something I really wish to banish is people thinking they need to follow their idols on every platform, comment on every single video, live stream or article to become a fan. Yes, believe it or not I was pretty bad at it myself when I first got into kpop in 2017 (You will never know though cause I deleted the BTS fan base account and my exo one, gosh it was really bad lol).

And when people beat themselves up for not doing this or not being able to afford every album that comes out. Even more so, us Canadian fans when everything is like $10+ the normal album would cost. (Which sucks cause I would love a A.C.E Changer or Woodz Only Lovers Left album NGL).

But it seems like people beat themselves up about it for nothing, I only own 4 albums to and people say I'm a bad fan. (1 DPR, 1 BAP, 1 Pentagon, 1 BE'O album) and if anything they are signed and have a separate personal reason to me.

I wish people would be kinder to themselves.

Kpop fans

Americanization. I like kpop because the music and idols are so different than western music and celebrities. It's already starting to lose some of its personality and uniqueness.

Physical albums

Shipping. It's childish and delusional.

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Perfect image

I find it funny how people like to preach about how "idols should let loose and show their personality" when they do something slightly off tangent they are being "cancelled" by those very same people who wanted them to relax in the first place

FACT'S!!!! hate those hypocrites

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Idol shaming

The extreme competition that fans engage in

The misconstruing of words as a result of seeing things only through the lens of a spiteful stan

Generalization of fandoms, which somehow gets a pass despite the fact that stereotypes everywhere else do not

The invasion of idols' privacy, including their friends and families', in the name of fanwars

The list goes on, but you get the point.

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aren't they things you expect from any type of parasocial community? idk i feel like they are more critiques for online community in general about celebrities/ public figure. generally agree that the binary vision of how people should behave really put unnecessary pressure to celebrities.

specific for idols life... the audacity to think the idols owe anything to fans. the entire thing is transactional, nobody pressure people to support idol's artistry continuously, they can stop anytime and tbh it's not like the end of the world to do so. this is the roots of problems mentioned before like sasaengs, info leaks, perfect imagery, fans-into-anti the moment idols in committed relationship, etc, fans think they deserve to have power over them.