i've been thinking about this for a while now, this is gonna be long and quite messy and all over the place so bear with me lol
don't you think that kpop fans in general take everything way too srsly ? like these idols we almost know nothing about have so much power over us they make us spent hours on forums and twitter just to talk about them, hype them, defend them, we even spend hours watching their contents we lose sleep to stream their videos and songs to break records to celebrate like we did something amazing that will benefit us, and brag to other fandoms about the power our faves have, like it's our personal success, they also can make us mean towards other people and bash other idols acts and groups and hate on them
i just wanna know why ? why do we feel like we need to make them successful ? we do feel like their success is ours ? why do we celebrate it like it's ours ? hell why do even brag about our faves being rich ?! it's not even our money !! and we even tend to spend our money on something that we don't need just to help them chart ! i'm not here to tell anyone how they should spend their money, but maybe because i struggled a lot with finances i can appreciate money more, like some people's life gaols here are to make their rich faves even richer ? i mean idols are all so beautiful successful attractive young rich etc and we feel like we don't have much going on our lives and we aren't as successful or rich as them so we tend to project ourselves onto them ? to feel like we actually are part of something bigger? like we have a role in their success ? i know that we as people always try to blend in with groups of people who share the same interests as us, to feel like we belong and it's totally fine, but some people really take it way to far, i literally cringe every time i see someone saying their faves had changed them, like how on earth some celebrities that release music that 90% of times they don't even write can change anyone ! i can understand people being inspired by their hard work and work ethics or being comforted by some of their songs since music can have this power over people but being changed ! i really fail to understand, maybe kpop is a good way to distract us from the harsh world around us i can understand that very well since it used to be like that for me until it started to feel like i was giving it way too much time and effort, i just wanna know how are you benefiting from kpop ? i know that not everything we do should be beneficial and meaningful ,and people have rights to spend their time the way they want but the thing is i feel some people spend too much effort on something that isn't that rewarding so i just wanted to rant lol
anyways, this is not targeting anyone or any fandom at all this is just me speaking my mind and freeing it from all these thoughts, and i would like to hear your opinion on it
