Would you be able to stan a kpop group before they debut?

i stanned NCT U before debut.

i stanned after the teaser photos/video dropped (i forget which came first)

Unless there's pre-debut songs or they're from a show or smth, I don't see the point in stanning pre-debut

I did once and when they debuted I hated the music.

I learned a lesson from that, that and preordering albums I'll never do again.

Well... I'm kind of "stanning" 3 pre-debut kpop groups at the moment.

Maybe if I was also a teen I would have. But I can’t stan or follow the activities of children

I’ll follow their activities but I won’t consider myself a Stan until after I hear their music.

Stan Trainee A, kings of kpop trainees

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Well... I'm kind of "stanning" 3 pre-debut kpop groups at the moment.

May I ask who???

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May I ask who???

ILY:1, Evermore The Young and Evermore Muse.

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ILY:1, Evermore The Young and Evermore Muse.

Interesting, I'll look them up in the future

I think you can show interest but stanning...no

no

I wont even stan them for a year or two after

I gotta see consistently good output before becoming much of a fan

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I can't even stan grandpas pre-debut

I think I can for example I love shadow and bone from the day the crows cast was announced without ever seeing the show

Does that count

No. That could be setting myself up for disappointment after they debut if the song isn't to your liking.

And it's not like you get brownie points for stanning pre-debut or at debut.

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I never liked hybe groups 😔

But this one is special

Stan no. Follow them and hope their debut is good yes. I can’t stan a group if I don’t know how their music is gonna sound. There have been times where I have been really excited for a group to debut only to be really disappointed in their debut songs and also comebacks

ive only stannd two groups out of my stanlist predebut. which are txt and kep1er. i had a lot of faith in bighit at the time and fell in love with them when their individual teasers dropped (specifically gyu). thankfully the boys came out with bangers upon bangers.

for kep1er, i watched gp999. and after seeing the lineup i knew i was gonna stan the group, no matter what. i loved all the girls personalities and 4/9 of my top 9 made it in the group including my one pick (bahiyyih. my other top 9 in the group was yujin, mashiro, and dayeon). i was already familiar with all the girls too and they have amazing music

a lot of people didnt like wa da da and i thought it was okay at first but the song really grew on me. a lot. as in it hasnt left my top 12 spotify songs (over past 4 weeks) since 1/14/22 and has stayed in my top 3 spotify tracks (over past 4 weeks) since the beginning of march. wa da da is my top song over the last 6 months and ranked 17 on my all time tracks. o.o.o, mvsk and shine are ranked pretty high too. i dont listen to see the light nor another dream often but i love the tracks.

other than that i have stanned groups from debut era/when they didnt have much music (weeekly, stanned them when they had 5 songs. aespa, stanned them when they had 8 songs excluding forever. cherry bullet, stanned them when they had 13 songs.)

Kind of? If you mean stan predebut like anticipating and thinking they will be one of ur fav groups then yeah. I did it with aespa (ive been anticipating them since 2017 cause I love SM groups) and with Ive because I liked Wonyoung and Yujin and other Starship groups, and even more after the teasers dropped I was really interested in them. Wasnt disappointed in either case. I wouldnt say I'm stanning them predebut but I'm also anticipating trainee a and ador.

Unless they do a whole album pre debut a la stray kids, then NOPE

Probably forever the only group I stan predebut

I did that with TXT.

It was okay ig

would I do it again? maybe

I was gonna say I don’t see myself standing without hearing the music first, but I suppose if I had been watching a TV show and someone with a magnificent voice was on it, I definitely would check out that group. But probably not stan.

Is there a specific definition of stan?

Probably not for me, though depending on their predebut stuff I'd keep tabs on them.

There are specific companies where I'd check out their newest groups as well due to their track record of delivering great music and entertainment/content.

stan no...

fan of maybe....

for a survival show group maybe for non-survival show groups probably not

No. I could like an idol without liking the music they put out, but I can't stan an idol or group without music I like.

Only if they're from a show and I know the music will be good.

The hype can be built before debut, but only after releasing the song that I can confirm if I'm gonna stan or not.

That's what I did to BP

I put all my faith in them bcuz of all the big hype that time and thank goodness they delivered

if they release pre-debut songs and remixes (not direct covers) i think i can be casual fan pre-debut, that was the case with craxy for me

Uh, would be extremely unlikely, unless they’d come to attention for releasing /showing off music pre-debut. But, full -stanning is a very rare thing for me anyway. It would require a fairly long time of being blown away.

I think the most I would be get pre-debut would be to have my interest piqued enough to want to check out their debut release and hope for them it turns out to be good/they have a successful debut. I can see that if you followed one of the group survival shows, you might end up sort of stanning, but there’s no guarantee that just because you like them, they end up releasing good music.