How is it gay? It's a case of mistaken identity. The person dressed like a guy and didn't show her face. They shook hands at the end.
Posts by hammerstan
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Good night my princess. Not feeling the others.
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IOI released 15 songs, debuted in 2016, and disbanded in 2017 (lasted roughly 10 months, 80% of a year). So they released an average of 1.8 songs/yr
You're having trouble with fractions. The calculation is 15/(10/12) or 15*12/10 = 18
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Wait this doesn't seem right. Since it's less than a year, technically its 7 songs a year minimum.
7/.083 or just 7*12 = 84
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Somi: I'm wondering if you can count that low.
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That works for international popularity, not Korean, so you can get large differences between charting and views.
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do you know why she's in LA?
no idea
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is it some contract thing that my little brain can't understand? No official post, and pubg is realising teaser for Ready for love while it's look like yg doesn't even know about the song? i know it was already leaked years back but still? it's an official release isn't it? Or am I missing something?
It's an ad. PubG, not YG, is responsible for advertising. PubG would need to pay for any social media posts.
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but after some thought, would popular people had the same will as the regular rookie trainee?
I mean, because they already popular, they may don't want to take more effort like training as such.
But regular trainee needs to work hard because they didn't had anythingbut they might be popular because they are hard workers.
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but would influencers want to become kpop idol?
also idk if influencers have any good reputation, Dixie, Addison etc released music but didn't go well
That's why it would only work for the big 4. I'm sure plenty, except some of the most famous, would love to be in the next Blackpink. I should note that the only maybe-trainee for Teddy's next group we know so far is Ella Gross, a very famous model. So Teddy is using this approach for some trainees, at least.
4M insta followers:
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Note: This would only work for the famous companies, since these people already have a successful career and you would be asking some of them to move to Korea and learn a new language (eventually). Early on, to work around the trainees' schedules, the company would hire local trainers to train the trainees in remote consultation with the company's trainers, if they are not nearby. After the remote training period, you have the best 10-20 train at the agency, boot camp style, for about 1 month to see how they perform with each other and their chemistry before making the final decision about the group lineup. Then the members sign group contracts and train at the agency until debut as usual.
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General auditions attract far more kpop stans than talent. Many of the best have not even considered joining a kpop group, and would never join a general audition for one (especially for people outside Korea).
Given how visuals are basically a must for new kpop groups, would it save the companies time and money recruiting straight from the best source of visuals: influencers (particularity singers/dancers) and international modeling agencies? This seems better than finding attractive people on the street and asking them to audition (I have heard a lot of stories like that).
The obvious benefit is that many of the most beautiful people in the world are likely already an influencer or model, so if you want the best that's where you should go. They have proven their potential to some extent, have experience in front of cameras, probably already have followers, and are easy to find and contact.
At the end of the process you only want about 4-9 people in the group, so why not aim for the best from the beginning and let the kpop training system do the rest?
Teddy is already doing this. The only known trainee for his next group is a famous model with 4M insta followers, Ella Gross:
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The way I see it, people stream less on yt, it is harder with the new algorithm to get high views or people stream less altogether.
Bigger fandoms like Armys, Blinks, Onces etc might care more for yt and the size of the fandom or the fact that some of these groups have a reach outside of kpop, might affect the number of likes. But for smaller groups that was never a metric most people used as an indication of success. Let alone for a group that is a week old.
The difference is due to a large increase of sales this year for girl groups, not a drop in YT likes. Likes have stayed about the same.
Whatever the change is, it has increased sales but not YT likes. C-bars fit that.
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YT likes isn't a good enough metric. Fans make quite a lot of accounts or buy followers/subscribers and it isn't always an indication that there are real people. It is quite a common phenomenon in kpop.
These strange ratios have just started happening, consistently, this year. Something is clearly different.
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They've been in existence since forever though.
But they are having way more impact lately, at least for girl groups.
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China has been a major buyer of kpop albums since 2nd gen
The disconnect between massive sales and relatively low YT likes seems to be new for girl groups. For example HYLT has 23M likes and their album sold about 3 million counting digitals. Aespa's girls will probably be around 3M likes at the same age but their sales are about 1.7M now (let's say 2M at the same age to be very conservative). That's a proportion of about 7.7 and 1.5 likes/sales. Even using LSG, their less popular single from the album, you get 4.7, 3x Aespa. That's a huge difference.
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The girls are very pretty and the songs are good.
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