RE: "Do you think fans love when their faves are hated?"

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why are all your namjin sigs so kdrama-ish?

I don't even know where this is from

But kdrama vibes are usually the most aesthetically pleasing so i have them as sigs.

no wtf.....im much better of without all the negativity

I like pain but not in this form

Unless you're a masochist, I don't think that anyone loves being hated, or that their faves are hated.

I see it more as a way of coping and dealing with hatred. There are several ways to react when confronted with hatred:

1. you can take it in unfiltered, allow it to seep into your soul and your mind until you get depressed and start to hate living, sometimes even to the point of commiting suicide => as you sometimes see happen with high school kids or even celebs and idols when they can't deal with the pain anymore and just want it to end

2. you can fight it => but this will be a neverending battle, because you'll never be able to convince all - or even most - haters to let go, and there will always be more haters, especially if you're a wellknown person

3. you can accept that there'll always be haters as a fact of life, especially when you're successful and popular, and even more so when you get more popular and successful.

I think the third option is what a lot of K-pop fans are following (aside from the 2nd option): they've accepted that there'll always be haters of their biases, no matter what, and that when their biases become (more) successful and popular, there'll also be more haters. In short, they see it as the price of success, or the inevitable downside and consequence of success and popularity.

It's an odd thing to conclude from this that fans love it when their biases get hated a lot.

To me, that sounds like a bullying mechanism or deflection tactic: not only are stans not allowed to defend their biases against hate campaigns or unceasing bashing, as soon as they observe and comment upon the excessive hatred their biases get, they're accused of boasting about it and reveling in it.

This sounds awfully much like how bullies and their followers corner their victims: aside from the fact that they heap loads of misery and hate upon their victims, as soon as their target starts to complain about it, they try to swipe aside all arguments and try to shut up their victim by telling he/she should stop whining and not be such a crybaby, and that they should stop playing the victim.

Seen this with top group' fandoms the most

Love to hate me?

I think as others have said kpop to some fans has devolved into a competition of one-upping another

and like most competitions no one remembers second place so therefore some people will go to extraordinary lengths to prove their group is the best and I guess one metric is the amount of hate the group gets...

the brighter my lights get, the longer my shadow grows