I've met more EXO-Ls who are also STAYs on Allkpop than I expected

Apart from me, active right now I've met here Elliah, butterbutterfly and I think LilacGirl, for example. I've started to think about it, because I feel like the same few people who interact with me on Stray Kids' threads, I interact with/see frequently on EXO threads.

On our Michelins' discord group there's a good amount of ex-active users who either stan or used to stan EXO at some point. Probably there's more I've never interacted with.

It's just curious, because I expected more crossover here with other fandoms, since their music is vastly different, their strengths as groups are different and the dynamics/chemistry between the members is also different.

This is my irrelevant thread of Christmas' Eve

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man i'm still in december 23

It's 12:32 am here already

comeback to this thread when It's christmas eve for you

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I got like 5 more hours until then. (my bedtime is at 9:30)

Merry early Navidad to you though <333

Merry early christmas, love

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You did your best

Thank you for hyping me up, svez

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Merry christmas my love

Merry christmas, bb

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We just have good music taste I don't think there's another explanation

Merry Christmas, Mina

You just summed up

we saw TALENT and EXCELLENCE and stanned

Merry Christmas, Elliiii

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Thank you for making me a part of your Christmas Eve thread

I always find your threads a fun space to discuss our favs! Glad we have you around at AKP :)

Hope you have a wonderful time during Christmas Mina!

It was very sweet, omg. I'm glad you like my threads

It was a pleasant surprise to meet and interacting with you in the last few months and let's continue!

Merry Christmas, Lila

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As for your curiosity, my music interest is very very vast depending on my moods and setting I am in, it can be simple cute instrumental to heavy metal

Irrelevant rambling on Xmas eve!

For Stray kids - Nothing beats their music to hype yourself up esp during workouts. Also their choreography is such a fun thing to practice. But that's something I only discovered later, my interest in them first piqued at their debut - I randomly saw their debut MV on JYP channel and changbin rap was incredibly polarizing for me. I wasn't even sure if i liked it or what but i kept coming back for his part only (and seungmin's Kim woo bin looks - his styling in that era made me think of him in The heirs lol) and then somehow i started following them since then. Out of random curiosity i checked every MV they dropped, saw their variety and learnt about their group cause it was fun (choreos, songs, group dynamics etc) but whenever I went to see responses on AKP site, they were always so hateful or calling them flops, i remember how they even called their first win rigged - it was frustrating to say the least but then Gods Menu happened and rest is history. Not much have changed in that regards - their music is still the same, they still get the same hate if not more but they have shown incredible growth as a group while sticking to their identity. Its fun following their artistic journey and growth :) Thats also why i enjoy your threads about SKZ, its a fun place to discuss their achievements/music

For Exo - I missed their peak i guess, they were a purely accidental find and an incredible one at that. I found them after they were done releasing for Don't mess up my tempo/universe. A random Youtube recommendation and i was awestruck, i kept running into bop after bop - then Wolf concert video sealed the deal for me, their live vocals were something else entirely. Didn't know about members or anything but i had a full playlist made just for exo songs. As for my full EXOL conversion it with this legendary variety clip on my recommendation, i laughed my ass off at this one XD

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I learnt about individual members here and then i accepted my life of Ls with EXOL. Its a bittersweet experience to say the least

So yeah I stan both groups even tho their music directions are world apart

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It was interesting learning how you stanned both groups! From what I understood, Stray Kids for how their artistic growth's impacts on their music positively through the years and how they execute their choreographies, while for EXO it was their vocals and how their talent upgrade the quality of their music. Meanwhile, somehow, the members of both groups were appealing on their own way and individuality for you. I can relate...

EXO is my first love. I probably wouldn't be as invested in K-pop If they didn't exist. When I wasn't into it yet, my friends used to recommend me a lot of girlgroups (only) and I didn't like any of the girlgroups they wanted me to like apart from Blackpink. Curiously, It was searching on my own I came across EXO's music and loved it so much and was so obsessed. The members being so talented and interesting were a fair plus, I had to stan, It was around 2016 and the first song I got addicted to was 'Lotto'. But overall, their discography being so versatile amazed me. Their identity is so strong I can't even think of a group that remotely remembers of them (overall in tems of quality, talent, charisma and aura). I think It will never exist a group like them again.

Since I was a K-pop stan in 2017 so, from a far, I was aware of Stray Kids' reality show, I saw them debuting in 2018 and making multiple comebacks in said year and 2019, but I kinda of didn't care about their existence to give a chance.

But when they dropped God's Menu, in the day of the release, my friend recommended it to me and I decided to give a chance. I mean, why not? I swear to you, the last time I got so impressed about a boygroup was exactly 4 years before, in 2016 (when I met EXO and BTS) . The quality, the freshness, the charisma, the star power, the cultural reset It was... I couldn't explain. I just knew I finally found out another group that was THE group. I obsessed over God's Menu and then listened to Go Live and obsessed over Go Live (still think It's their magnum opus). Again, the members being so talented on top of that was also a plus to stan.