How did you discover EXO?

I was into the kpop fandom when EXO's debut was announced.

I loved Tao's teaser. I thought it was a really cool way to showcase an atypical talent. (Atypical within kpop... companies don't train their idols in martial arts, lol.)

My sis introduced me to growl, wolf and call me baby

I wasn't really interested at first but then decided check them out and voila

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Sis got taste

Sadly she doesn't follow them as much she used to

My friend recommended a few songs ~2012-2013. I loved EXO-M's History.

I didn't explore other songs on my own (for any group) until 2014.

I discovered them in 2018 when they came out with Tempo, they were one of the first few groups to introduce me to kpop.

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Yeah. If I had time machine, I would want to see the state of fandom during those tough times. I am glad EXO survived it all

I got into exo and a few days after that tao left it was heart breaking

I was so attached to exo, even though I wasn't there with them since 2014

I first heard about them during BigBang's 2015 MAMA performance, when Seungri sat on Sehun's lap lol. But I only started listening to them in 2016, when they dropped Monster.

saw a poster in a teenage magazine back in 2013 and decided to look them up on yt

it was either growl or wolf that i saw first but either way that was my introduction to exo and kpop

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A lot of fans joined from 2014 onwards

Yeah....though 2014 was a crazy year to join Kpop in my experience lol.

The teasers back in 2012! What is Love? Is actually what got me into them! AND REGARDLESS OF WHAT PEOPLE SAY MAMA IS ICONIC.

CARELESS.

The year: 2017.

I was listening to BTS on Spotify because I got into them in winter of that year, and I was curious about other K-pop groups during summer. One of the foremost recommendations was EXO, so I thought "Let me check out 'The War'", since it was their most recent comeback at the time.

I still love Going Crazy, What U Do, Forever, The Eve, Chill, Touch It, Walk on Memories, and Ko Ko Bop because that's what EXO was for me at the time. Still one of my favorite albums in K-pop.

When SM first announced they were going to debut a boy group in both China and SK.

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The War is one of the best pop albums out there...

Exactly, TPOM just made it even better.

In early 2015, I had moved to Korea in 2014 but it was after Overdose, so I didn't know about them really. But then in February 2015, everyone I knew was so excited about the upcoming Call Me Baby comeback and was nagging me to listen to it. So when it came out, I grudgingly decided to watch it and was shocked at how good it was and started following them but not at stan-level or whatever, I knew who they all were and whose voice was whose and the concept of EXO-K and EXO-M, but I didn't bother to listen to their older songs or anything.

I was only a little surprised when Tao left but not sad or anything I was just like "huh, does this happen often in Korean groups?" But when Love Me Right came out a few months later it was so amazing and blew me away. I just was like f it and became an EXO-L, and all that entails.

I was into Kpop since 2011 when I heard that SM was debuting a new group so I just listened to Mama when it was released.

Sometime in 2012 found the mv of History and was hooked.

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I still love Going Crazy, What U Do, Forever, The Eve, Chill, Touch It, Walk on Memories, and Ko Ko Bop because that's what EXO was for me at the time. Still one of my favorite albums in K-pop.

It's like you listed the whole album there without mentioning Diamond, AKA the supreme most underrated song from The War

Anyways, back to the thread.

I got into K-pop in 2019 through BlackPink and I was checking an "idols reacting to BlackPink" video and EXO was there dancing to Boombayah. Then I heard about Kai being Jennie's ex-boyfriend so it made me want to check EXO out to see what is Kai all about.

Youtubers react in 2014 lol FF7254CF-955C-44D2-A952-009B2DC885E8.gif

They were reacting to overdose and I kinda fell in love with the song and listened to the mini album and it was really good and yeah I’ve liked them since then CA0605A5-1D7F-4831-A1BB-A9987B49F4B9.png

And they were my first kpop group so very sentimental for me

It must have been 2017. I saw a reaction video to Blackpink and BTS first and then saw some reactions to EXO. I can’t remember what exactly I saw - Call me Baby probably.

I actually had more EXO songs downloaded on my phone when I first started getting into KPop than I had BTS, for quite some time.

Anyway, I gave recently been reeeeeally enjoying working through more of their back catalogue, and don’t really know why it took me so long.

I clicked on their MAMA performance on MAMA 2012 by mistake. I was amazed by their talent and became a fan.

ITunes Japan, 2016, when I was in University. Although I did hear about EXO earlier when I was on my way out of the music game.