Am I the only one who cringes when kpop fans call an idol "baby?"

This usually happens to the maknaes of the group but it's just so cringe to me when I'm talking to a kpop fan and theyll be like " I'm protective of Jungkook because he's the baby of the group" or "Lisa is literally a baby" (replace lisa and jungkook with any other group's maknae)

I just find it so cringe esp because most of the time they're teenagers calling a grown man/woman a baby and just the way they say it so casually like they dont even realize how cringe it is.

Whenever someone asks "am I the only one" the answer is no, you were not the first one to have that opinion

Not really, some kpop fans are really old, people sometimes forget that lol.

You're not the only one: It's cringe.

You're not the first to say this and you won't be the last. Lots of people hate when idols are called "baby".

It's super duper cringe, and so is the whole infantilising of adult idols. When fans give idols weird over the top praise for doing every day adult actions like cooking or a crude-ass drawing.

"OMG he cooked packet noodles! Our baby is a cooking KING!"

Kpop stans are always being cringe

Not just idols either. I cringe whenever anyone calls another adult "baby".

Makes any conversation sound like someone's reciting dialogue from a romance fanfiction.

Sometimes it’s a habit for people to call someone baby, bub, sweet heart & dude etc. It doesn’t have to be deep

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Sometimes it’s a habit for people to call someone baby, bub, sweet heart & dude etc. It doesn’t have to be deep

I think people here are talking about comparing an idol to a baby rather than the "nickname" type like "hey baby, how ya doing?"