Do you think there's pressure to on fans to spend money or do certain acts to "support your faves"?

Yeah but in my experience it happens mostly when you are active in the fandom part, like if you don't interact with fans that much I don't think you really have the urge... unless you're like those people who have to buy any single thing kpop groups release and in that case I think the issue is within

I don't think there is real pressure. No one is forced to do something and everyone decide on his own how much he wanna get involved.

But see that there is a strong promotion in various forms to participate in such acts.

I can't tell how it is in big fandoms. But there were never much fearless around telling you what to do. Also most of them where at first as clueless as me about all the kpop acts. So i did go out on my own to look how I can support my faves.

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Sometimes when groups start losing on votings and stuff, u will see big fanbases on twitter start emotional blackmailing lol

i think thats the only time when fans feel pressurized to vote hehe

I roll my eyes at them but I also get them

I never feel pressured. I have disposable income and even then I rarely spent money on kpop stuff…. except recently getting some tickets since I haven’t been in a concert for years, kpop or not.

Also I don’t have time to waste on voting on polls and stuff…

I spend my money on what I want to spend my money on. I spend my time the way I want to spend my time.

No one makes those decisions but me.

Voting accounts will guilt trip you harder than those Sarah McLachlan commercials about animal cruelty

Definitely yes. I think the biggest pressure comes from fandoms themselves. So much emotional blackmailing and gatekeeping unless you spend 25/8 of your time and 150% of your salary/savings

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I wasn't a kpop fan for that long before covid hit. I really want to start going to shows when things open up. They seem so fun, especially with the lightsticks being so pretty

Honestly going to a kpop concert would be worth it since kpop artists rarely do international tours. And if they do it’s very limited cities.

Edit: concert merch can get expensive though lol.

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Yeah, definitely. Like, there was some translated pann post last year where k-armys were sharing how much pressure it is to work so hard for BTS and yet how they have to do it cause otherwise, if they relax and there is even slight loss, people start talking shjt, like, 'bts are loosing their popularity' or smth like this. On i-side it's literally the same, people are obsessed with numbers, for i-side it's also the mentality that 'BTS has nobody on their side but us' and kinda like 'we are on the war with whole industry which is against of BTS and is xenophobic, homophobic, cruel and (put whatever else bad description you have)'. At least it's not as hysterical about votings as it used to be. But also it's just a personal choice of any fan to follow such mood or not as well as how much time and money that fan wants to spend on their faves.

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I can't speak for anyone else but I have never felt pressure to do any of that stuff, although I see people talking about it all the time. I guess it depends on how you see being a fan.

I agree with you...

but then again I might not be a very good fan lol

DEFINITELY!

Many many times I've seen fans (including from the fandoms I'm in) telling "you shouldn't celebrate your faves' accomplishments if you didn't vote and streamed for them". The cultist blablabla.

I do what I can do as a fan to support (buying album, listening to their music in official platforms, spread their music to people who feel interested, etc.) and respect people who can't or don't feel like doing.

Yes, there is. Otherwise, it wouldn't be this competitive.