Display MoreI have listened casually to Kpop songs for a long time.
I decided to learn more about it and I watched a lot of variety shows. I loved so many groups and wanted to stan them all.
BTS quickly became my fave group, but I was buying albums of other groups as well and helped nugus with streaming etc.
I was a happy Kpop fan.
Then I made a mistake. I moved beyond youtube and my albums and started interacting with other fans.
Naively, I thought Kpop fans probably generally supported each other because all Kpop was niche then.
Yeah. You can imagine how my delulu self got a reality check.
I still support other groups than my faves, even if they are at some constant fanwar with my fandoms, but sometimes it feels like a minefield to just talk to someone from another fandom and ask for a nice song or something.
(NOTE: I am not blaming ANY fandoms here in particular, just Kpop or even stan culture in general).
So are there still people who happily walk in the clouds, enjoying Kpop without constantly being reminded of evil shit people say online?
PS. Twitter is the worst. Hope that Mr Musk runs destroys it even further so it disappears.
I thought I was a happy kpop fan til I read this post LOL! I'm pretty casual tbh, I only listen to the music/watch the music videos thats it, I don't watch interviews or anything other than that. Sometimes I go on this forum though.