POLL: Will Karina's dating news affect aespa negatively?

Aespa are no longer rookies so there's that out of the way

I think it will affect them slightly but each generation is doing slightly better than the previous so I don't think it will affect them that much

I think it might affect Karina a bit because she does lean a bit towards GF fanservice but Aespa will fine as long as their next song is good.

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I have a theory that part of Itzy's introduction to flop city was ryujin's dating rumours. Korean male stans lost interest and pivoted to other groups. I also theorise that this has something to do with twice's poor charting - that also occurred after jihyo, momo's dating news leaked.

Agreed about Twice.

I do think Twice dating news meant an exodus of a certain type of fan (you know what type I mean) that then drifted to younger GGs. I don't think it's the only reason, but it did contribute to it.

I don't think it will affect AESPA as much, as they're not a 'cute' group, and their fandom is not leaning on the uncle fans as much.

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But what about Jennie, Taeyeon, and Yunjin?

Jennie dated Kai, V, and possibly GD. Didn't hurt her.

BP is girl crush and has mostly female and gay male fans. They don't care or even like it when she dates.

Cutesy style groups usually have more straight male fans that don't like to see the girls date.

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I think it might affect Karina a bit because she does lean a bit towards GF fanservice but Aespa will fine as long as their next song is good.

she does? let's see!!

I think her k-bar and c-bar numbers would drop slightly. Not sure about how Korea is reacting but international kpop fans seem to be chill about it.

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I wanna gauge how this place feels vs the wider kpop community. People have been acting pretty sane so far

My personal take is that this won't affect them negatively at all, UNLESS SM does something dumb to stall their promo or restrict them in some way for this. But if they play it out sensitively, the fans will be mature and move on

Yes, in Korea
No, in the rest of the world

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BP is girl crush and has mostly female and gay male fans. They don't care or even like it when she dates.

Cutesy style groups usually have more straight male fans that don't like to see the girls date.

Okay, but that could also apply to Taeyeon and Yoona, who were at the height of their popularity. The dating still didn't affect SNSD.

And like I said, losing a few fanboys doesn't affect digital charting, and it also has not affected Twice's physical numbers in the long run.

No, in a few months nobody will care.

if I had seen this post as soon as the news got out I would have said that no it wouldn't affect them but now after a while it seems like it might just by how her fans are behaving. I'm not sure if it's only my feed but damn.

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outside of the fansite stalkers i havent seen much weirdo behaviour

man i'm not sure if it's only my feed but I have actually seen a lot of her fan accounts close? like wow. From what I hear a lot of Mys are commenting under his post with not so nice comments. I really do feel bad for both of them, like dude they are only on their talking stage and people are acting so immature about it.

I don't think

No, people will forget after their breakup and move on