The weird trend where kpop stans assign sexualities to idols

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There are so many hit tweets with thousands of likes on the Karina situation, and they would be funny if they didnt reflect this weird belief that some people have about idols.

A long time ago when I first got into kpop I thought that dating scandals were ridiculous. I mean how can people be THIS mentally unhinged right? These idols will never sleep with you. And these days those types of scandals arent life ruining... in place of them is this weird culture of claiming idols as a specific sexuality and feeling betrayed when they break that delusion.

Karina never said she was gay. Skinship and saying she likes other women is literally standard hetero behavior, yet people are appalled she's dating a man specifically. Its very odd, and its spreading fast. I saw a tweet from a minji stan who was getting dogpiled by other tokkis for saying that if Minji dated a man she'd kill her. Like... guys these are human beings not characters you can headcanon as gay or bi or anything.

I wonder if this will happen again (I know it will) but anyways, have you noticed this issue as well?

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its the sad byproduct of the parasocial thing that kpop perfected + kpop's popularity in a lot of repressed countries. you get absolute fanaticism, like it's normal to have a post of an idol and then some deranged social/political take next to it

it paints a picture of the person/upbringing behind the screen and it's never pretty

At first I thought they were just jokes but turns out fans we’re real serious when they were writing about Karina and other aespa members being gay

No fr bc why do ppl keep thinking any idol would openly come out dating the same gender when that would ruin their entire career

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They use that as an argument that they're secretly gay and will never come out and disagreeing makes you homophobic lmao

It’s giving larries

also, i can't imagine how paranoid you'd get as an actually gay, closeted kpop idol. constantly seeing people shipping you with people of any gender, and wondering "AM I OUTING MYSELF???" in a very conservative industry

bottom line: let people speak to their own sexuality with their own voice in their own time!!! basic stuff

the silent majority is often drowned out by the vocal minority

I'm an aespa fan

I couldn't give two hoots who karina dates or her sexuality - in fact I don't comment on it at all since it doesn't concern me lol

I choose to enjoy my fav's music, their content etc in the peace and quiet...I don't need to make a grand showing or claim that my favs are certain things...and I'm pretty sure most fans are like me...

it's only the minority that need to be loud on social media or whatever spewing their nonsense but it's always those voices are that heard since they are controversial and

It would be nice if K pop Stan's can just enjoy their Idols respectively. Sadly some K pop stans are a little too much. Ex: Inappropriate Fancalls with the Idols. Those need to stop. And why does it always have to target the nice kind hearted Idols like Felix or Vernon. Why aren't their companies doing anything about this.

All those fans are crazy and super weird.

Oh God, I wanted to make this thread. I've been meaning to for weeks, but this Karina thing has really brought it forward.

This whole behavior is so psychotic.

When I first started seeing it, mainly done as "XXXXXX is for the girls," I thought it was all just lighthearted joking. But they are so serious about it.

For a while, when I saw it, I would reply with "she's also for the boys," but some people would be so abusive in their replies.

It's also hilarious that they seem to think assigning gay to an idol or saying they are for the girls is somehow protecting them from men... somehow... I don't even get how that works.

And I've seen literally every female idol declared gay or FoR tHe GiRlS at some point or another. Somehow, every female idol is a lesbian.

This Karina stuff is such delicious, deep-fried karma for them.

BTS has that issue with a loud vocal fanatics. Poor Jungkook gets shipped with almost all of them.

that's why y'all should stay away from social media cuz social media Kpop Stans be taking stuff like this to a whole new level and it's ridiculous

It is insane. People literally act like they aren't real people. You can't decide what their sexuality is and then get angry at them when you are proved wrong.

Every single time.. Karina, Momo, Jisoo, Kai, Chaeyoung,Tae etc. It is always "but they are clearly gay". No, they aren't. You decided they are.

The way people actually get angry as if they were misled or betrayed.. messed up.

It’s not a trend that’s what people have done since forever. Everyone is just ok with assuming everyone is straight lol.

Since the dawn of time a question people ask idols and celebrities and anyone at all : who is your ideal wife/GF etc and no one has a problem with any of it.

It’s just some random tweets online in this case imagine if your favs actually came out as gay lol. Entire fandoms and countries would lose their shit because hetero normalcy is inbuilt in the way we think.

So no some hyper active tweets and posts is the least of anyone’s worries. And if you believe something as trivial as that is worth calling out reevaluate what you consider important because you aren’t helping anyone.