Rookie mistakes u did as someone new to kpop

Trying to find out what alpha beta omega meant 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

"The one with the abs was Jungkook and the one showing his right shoulder was Jimin and"

I got pushed into the streaming agenda. Tried to stream a whole album but i just couldn't do it, I probably wasn't even streaming right.

Anyway, my rookie mistake in 2008 was thinking kpop was so pure and all the idols were virgins, vastly different from the west..... Only to find out that people have poisoned an idol, fought in person after a concert, drew out knives to win an argument, gave other idols black oceans, spy cams, higher % of incel concentration, afraid of women reading books, prostitution the list goes on really.....

back in 2008-2009 there werent as many subs

seeing groups bawl their eyes out after winning in music shows I thought they disbanded

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Ohh u discovered omegaverse through k-pop fics

I always knew about it because of teen wolf fics

Omg I’ve been reading fanfics since middle school but I still didn’t know omega verse idk how 😭😭😭😭

When I tell you I couldn’t listen to the exo song wolf for WEEKS 😭

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It took me a good 3 weeks to tell all of them apart, I'm bad at recognizing faces 😂

Girl what

At the very least rapline should have been distinctive enough from the jump lol

Ain't no way you thought Joon looked like anyone else in BTS

Thinking that the most popular member was also the most talented member or the most skilled member, I was soooo wrong. Learning all the positions in a group. Trying to match the names with the hairdos of the members.

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Joon and hobi I could tell apart , even yoongi because I have a crush on blue haired yoongi in bwl

But jin jimin jungkook taehyung were very confusing for me

Were BTS vocal line somehow the SNSD triplet equivalents??? I just had problems pronouncing their names correctly in the beginning lol

There was a moment, back in 2019, when I just wandered into this swamp called KPOP, when I started to get into the Bangtan Boys, I looked at Min Yoongi and thought he was about 17 years old (although at that point he seems to be 26).

Getting group member's names/faces wrong.

I thought all idols are so pure, innocent and virgin 🤣. My poor young soul...

And I thought that those shipper pic were all real too. Heck, I was really gullible back then. I mean how those pic with really bad editing skills able to trick me

Before getting into kpop I'd lived 2 and a half years in Japan and been exposed to the ear splitting nightmare of "cutesy" girl groups like akb48 etc. Rainbow pastel hellscapes of identical costumes, somewhat dull choreo and high pitched vocals that make the chipmunks sound baritone.

I thought kpop was basically that in Korean, maybe some slightly more risque costumes.

Then I discovered Blackpink. But for a while still believed MOST kpop was cutesy, kpop esque stuff. I even made a comment on another board that I joined early that "I only like Blackpink really, I'm not into cutesy shit like Itzy and izone...".

Yeah I was dumb