99% of AKP users don't buy CD's or have CD players but groups are selling 15-20 million albums in their career. Interesting.
the number of akp users is less than 200k people... many of which not even active, many of which with multiple accounts boosting the number. please don't tell me you think this community, smaller than the fandom a nugu group, represents every kpop fan out there 
same... i said some not so nice things about it when i first heard it but the truth is the song is catchy and it's definitely a grower
soon or later this time will come and my question is how will they do it (according to you)?
Here are few possible variants that I could think of:
1. all members enlisting together at the same time - the shortest and most efficient way imo. the group will be gone only for 1.5 years which is an average red velvet/blackpink hiatus
2. first hyung line, then maknae line - first enlisting the oldest ones, leaving the maknae line to promote and vice versa
3. the members getting divided into subunits - dividing the group into 2 or more subunits (aka 3 vocals 1 rapper, or 2 vocals 1 rapper, or 2 vocals 2 rappers and etc...) and each subunit promoting while the other is in the military (if you chose this option, what possible subunits do you have in mind?)
4. enlisting one by one (the stupidest variant imo) - each member enlisting one by one while the group continues promoting as 6
5. enlisting in a random order - random number of members enlisting in a random order (without certain subunit formations in mind) and leaving room for the rest to continue promoting solo projects
i can't chose i'd like to be either with nayeon, yeri, rosé, sakura, yuri or giselle. I think i'd click fine with either one of them
basically we'll walk around, drink coffee somewhere nice. then we'll walk more (you can be sure i'm making them my Seoul tour guide), eat in a nice restaurant. then we'll go shopping, drink more coffee and do some more walking. i have no idea what we'll be talking about but whatever we do it will be quality time spent
just on the top of my mind, if i do a little search in my spotify list i'll need a whole separate thread to post all of them
I might add more later though
I kinda see blinks but in the same time i really don't...
I can see why are they mad:
- blackpink's latest comeback was before aespa's debut aka long time ago
- the girls haven't attended end of the year shows for 3 years already, including 2021 where rosé and lisa skipped too
- aside from the solos which were, summarized, a month and a half of promotion, they didn't get much content in comparison to treasure and yg keeps milking them by releasing recycled stuff for quick profit
all of this can be frustrating as a fan, combined with the constant delays... even their season greetings hasn't been released yet and it's mid january if yg was actually feeding these poor souls with something other than lies and empty promises things would have gone differently
things I don't understand about blinks:
- being mad at treasure - those boys literally don't do anything aside from releasing noise music... so why mad at them?
- they're always clowning themselves, believing random people's "reports" on twitter and when nothing from the written in the "report" happens (because it's an absolute bs), they get mad at the world... it's not so hard to wait for an official confirmation damn...
- their blackjack-ification - they were crying how blackjacks were terrorizing the comment sections in 2016 but they're doing exactly the same in 2022
blinks definitely have A LOT to complain about but none of them is channeling their anger in the right direction, instead they start blaming either the members, each other or other artists who have no control over what's happening with blackpink and i find this very very stupid 
Op I think you might like this! If you haven't watched this already....
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i haven't but I'm going to check it out. thank you!
nice attempt but if you want the trolling to be successful the reaching should be in decent amounts, yk just for *spice*... but you, my friend... you're trying to touch Pluto atp 
I think a co ed group kinda ruins the bf/gf marketing point. That's usually a prominent part of a groups marketing that companies sometimes put down dating restrictions in contracts. It's sickening and hopefully abolished by now but yeah...
This is actually a great point and I guess a good portion of fanwars can happen exactly because of this. X member stans getting jealous of Y member and vice versa... The civil wars will be a daily routine for them lol
Of course, being part of the Big4 isn't a guarantee for a certain success like we've seen many many times. But if big companies start making co-ed groups, will this be a boost for the concept or will it flop because of the different tastes of the fans and the different standards for male and female idols?
I don't see much hype for them... wish them the best tho, jyp better give them good music
haven't listened to the whole song yet but from the snippets i hear here and there i can say i like it so bop
giselle's popularity isn't nearly as bad as you're making out to be lmaoo. every group has a least popular member and that's normal
in her case, few are the reasons:
- two scandals in a very short time
- wasn't in smrookies like ningning
- hasn't gone viral like winter
- isn't visual and face of the group like karina (karina also had a scandal predebut which boosted her popularity a lot) plus she's the main dancer and for some reason main dancers always get tons of attention
- she hasn't shown the power of her vocals yet and her rap isn't exactly the best out there
but despite all those reasons, she's still insanely popular and i see many none fans talking about her on my tl.
Display MoreHe meant she is trying to be sexy like he meant it but it wasnt implied to be offensive in his eyes.
For example a friend of mine might call me a fuckboy but not in an offensive way.
I might take offense anyway though.
So basically he was using the term in a bad way just not in a weaponised way.
He states it's BANTER which is meant to be offensive but not seriously.
But like I said his intentions isn't what matters he is still publiclly embarassing his friend and deserves to be called out for it.
But I predicted this would be smoothed over because if she understood he wasn't trying to deliberately slut shame her she wouldn't be as mad as she Is.
But she would still be mad.
the way he phrased it and acted before and after saying it made it obvious it was meant to be offensive and not just "calling her a baddie or sexy" because why would he say "since i'm not a kpop idol anymore". if he didn't want to offend her, what was stopping him from saying it while being a kpop idol? many idols and especially his old squad (bm, amber, eric nam...) are constantly joking around but they're all ok with it because they know the others mean no harm. what was so special in his case to make him wait until he leaves the industry? just the fact jamie got so offended means she knows what exactly the intentions were. plus, as i said, the way he went "yes i said i said" afterwards was just plain stupid.
these are my thoughts tho, and the way i'm interpreting it. tbh i don't know anything about this man, the only times he shows up on my timeline is when he does something stupid
but regardless of the meaning behind it, it was completely unnecessary and unprovoked, and he deserves his lashings for it
this group definitely has the potential to be a 4th gen leader if hybe and source play their cards well. the line up is insane, i hope their talent won't be wasted
Display MoreI think what he meant is that he meant why is she trying to be a sexy badass so he meant the term but not in an offensive way.
Like for example. Some people take thot as a compliment and call themselves thot.
If he said the term 'hoe' or 'whore' as is then ofc it could only be used as offensive but thot isn't quite the word used as a weapon the same as hoe is.
Even tho it technically means the same thing his point was that he wasn't meaning it as a weapon rather as a friendly diss. Like why are you trying to be a sexy badass..
I know it sounds weird but that's really how I interpret it.
And I personally haven't seen the word thot used offensively mostly only as a joke.
But she clearly isn't comfortable with this joke of his so I definitely think him implying she's a sexy badass is not even okay and he should have asked her first rather than saying it in a steam like that it's just really not cool to call a girl out like that and he deserves the hate for it.
And just listening to his voice I already don't like him.
i think the context here is very important.
after calling her out he hided and started laughing saying "yep i said it, i said it" as if he was trying to justify himself. this alone implies it wasn't meant to be just a joke. yes, some people don't get offended by being called thot but same goes for hoe and bitch🤷♀️ it really depends on the context and who is saying it
People like him make you think how many other kpop idols are like that
depends on the case
in general, being an immigrant means you should be following certain traditions and cultural features (unless they directly contradict with your believes) because after all you're now part of their society, which as every other society in every other country, has it's norms
BUT in Yerin's case in particular - it's stupid to hate on her and knetz simply use it to fuel their irrational xenophobia for chinese idols
