The General Public Kpop Lie

Only in kpop is a fanbase a bad thing. When it's what feeds artists instead of the pathetic change they get from streaming services lile melon for instance. Look up the rates. It ain't pretty.

It has become so in vogue to slander a group for having a dedicated fanbase that is willing to spend money and energy on their faves. When the casual uninterested elusive streamer (aka gp) who listens passively to top 10 playlists is hailed as a superior music consumer.

The narrative is also being weaponized against artists with big fandoms . The reason is obviously jealousy cuz in the real world, brand loyalty is any artist's dream (including ur faves).

The stigma associated with fandom for some portion of kpop stans make them go through hoops to justify some so called gp darlings ( ggs and iu) consistent streams.

News flash, when ur faves get 200k unique listeners plus in each comeback EVERY SINGLE TIME , those listens are in huge part fandom driven.

Something could start as a viral gp song but if that becomes a pattern for all latter songs of said artists . it stops becoming gp.

So yeah contrary to the kpop bubble of delusions, fandom>>>>gp for ur faves .

A healthy dose of both is always ideal cuz of the potential of turning more people to fans.

Anyway, that was my little sunday rant.

Quote from Sameera96

I agree. I’ve never seen it’s dissed so much until I stanned BTS.

Well dyna shattered that narrative. BTS has a healthy dose of both as evidenced of their ability to chart any song high but positions and peaks are different depending on the song.

They can cry about it as much as they want though. People cannot be more transparent

Quote from paradis

Spilling hard cold truth always

Some Kpop stans thinking that their groups are driven mainly by gp support are delulu. I mean even trot singers have ahjumma fandom now so you are telling me popular soloists and girl groups will not have a fandom?

Anyway, on the charts the only pure gp driven act now is Brave Girls which as you rightly mentioned in their next successful comeback would have some part of fandom push coming into play.

I mean i dont even understand why gp support is celebrated . The money is in touring meaning in fandoms . Unless the goal here is to transition to acting or reality tv in which case and they want for their faves a career unrelated to music

And yeah for brave girls, ff they get a hit song at the same level in the future it's no longer gp lmao

Quote from 9397Duo

Especially when some of their soloist and GG faves are now selling hundreds of thousands to half a million albums. You really telling me they’re being driven purely by the GP?

They know it too. they can't admit reality cuz that has being the dig they have been using at big bgs for sometime now.

Quote from slumberdollyoshi

Best thing BTS has both fandom and gp.

No wonder hoes mad hoes pressed hoes jealous

BTS is not even competing with their faves for a while now. like they need to chile . All this energy arguing about their gp appeal will do nothing for your faves.

Quote from pchromo4

I feel like we see this same thread/topic every week how much more do we need to hash it

Still significantly less times than we see gg stans use that weird ass gp logic over and over again . Get used to it ig