Wbk..
people already speculate it for a while. But the dude just keep piling it up and making it obvious
Wbk..
people already speculate it for a while. But the dude just keep piling it up and making it obvious
I don’t think the wave is dying. The kpop niche is still a niche but the size is huge and won’t be closing anytime soon.
What might be affected is the rate of growth for the niche. Bts isn’t just popular. They generate a lot of buzz and hype that help grow the Kpop pond itself. Bts = Kpop, so even when the people bts attracted due to hype don’t become an Army, they can be added to Kpop pond and like other Kpop groups instead. I have seen many kpop fans entering the niche that way.
This ability from BTS is hard to replicate at the moment. 4th Gen is still in the process of growing themselves within the current Kpop audience. But they are putting up a good fight defending the size of the pond.
Bts maybe on hiatus but they are having individual activities. This is also good in preventing the pond from contracting and their fans from leaving. If we have an element of luck, and a member did an English single that become a smash hit, it will help generate buzz for Kpop as well. Bts as a group will always be the strongest. But as individual I think the members can bring in a new segment of fans depending on how successful their projects will be.
I think roughly $100m USD each is a good estimate. $350m each seem kinda high
Yes. Hundreds of millions try hard to cut their Connections with russia as long they invading Ukraine. Western countries make new deals to get Gas and stuff from somewhere else. risk massive shortcomings for their populations in the coming winter and are willing to take much higher costs for all kind of stuff. But of course not everyone value life over money.
I understand hybe. Its not illegal and make money is their Job. But that doesnt mean i have to like or support it.
like yeah
because all of gasoline in the world comes from Russia...
yeah not all
Just 45% of gas to Europe 10% of the world
To show you the logic don’t make sense?
If we going to make such huge jump of logic then EVERYONE has a hand in aiding the invasion of Ukraine.
Hundred of Millions of individuals together make way more impact that hybe and their little language school. And frankly why did we choose to pick on a language school out of everything? War is going on, are we trying to cut off every last bit of humanity connection with Russian people?
My wallet was ready for Hobi solo. I was going to buy a whole set of whatever he release and make his solo debut a great one and Hybe pull this bs.
I was ready but not crazy enough to spend $60 for the privilege to download their stupid app??? This piss me off more than anything they ever pulled. Don’t freaking ruin the member’s first ever solo album. This is not the time to be experimental. Give us what we want. I’m beyond mad. I feel like being taken emotional hostage by HYBE because of what this release means to me. Fk this company. I hate them.
not really, sometime it make me cringe but most of the time im pretending im not hearing any english
Bragging rightsssss
Isn't that obvious?
PS. Even Olivia Rodrigo playing some 2-3k venues. Some stans are beyond delusional, forgetting the facts that most oversea concerts are minus for groups ~ why do you want them to overbooked and incurring loss, which hurt their confidence in coming back?
Realistically Yes
So after I digested this news and get over my sadness, I think realistically they will comeback just because they did this announcement.
Like you said it's common for bg to be on a hiatus while members rotating enlistment, with the possibility hanging in the air that they will regroup someday yet most never give any reassurance. So BTS took it a step further to announce this officially, as a reassurance to fans that they will be going through what other bg have to go through, but they WILL come back. So realistically, I am very confident that they will, and soon.
5 hours have passed and I’m still sad. My left brain is telling me how good this is for the boys, how it’s right, how it’s time. But I’m still so fking sad. How are people dealing with this? Like i see the upside but my stomach still sunk. How are y’all coping with this?? How?
I’m surprised it not 50%
Some of the translation was wrong
But I say half of them are good enough. The translator seem to take some liberties to translate it into something easier or commonly heard than to translate it words for words. Especially the one calling the life goes on mv boring. “Mild” was a more appropriate translation given the context because boring have a stronger negative context in English while mild could mean the same thing