Posts by lalala123456
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To be honest, I don’t really care about all the other content that companies and idols put out there. The most important thing to me is their music and as long as they continue to release music I like, I’ll continue on supporting them. It doesn’t matter how long their breaks are etc. I don’t pay enough attention to company decisions to care about them.
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I can't believe I reached that point where I compared K-pop fans with Otaku people
I mean…there’s definitely some users on here that suit that comparison but I’m not gonna be messy and name them
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If they create such limits, then they wouldn't have fans bulk-buying over 100 albums just to get into a fansign to talk to their idols for like 1 minute.
What is sadder is that you'd think that only teenagers can be this easily influenced and manipulated by the industry but there are plenty of people over 20 years old (or even older) who fall into dangerous obsessive territories. It might have something to do with our society which is full of people with low self-esteem and depression, that it affects adults so badly as well.
My personal opinion is that most people who get dependent and obsessed over something (alcohol, drugs, K-pop in this case etc.) are people who have some unresolved problems with themselves. The "boyfriend" fantasy that K-pop idols are creating is basically catering to women and girls with low-self esteem, who don't feel loved and want to feel special for someone, and that's what this industry is basically providing. Same for the female idols and their male fans.
You can compare this with the so-called "otaku culture", with men (and sometimes women) being obsessed over anime characters to the point of buying pillows and other things (btw, there are also idol pillows in K-pop). Society is making fun of them usually, pointing out that they're unattractive, nerds that don't fit in socially with other people etc., but the premise is the same, they're people with low-self esteem who want to feel loved and special, but they don't have someone to provide them this and choose this entertainment industry to fill their need for love and appreciation.
Yep, 100% agree with what you said. Kpop companies know exactly what they’re doing when they push the bf/gf fantasy. The fans with self awareness know it’s all bs but the fans with serious low self esteem issues or other issues in their life are easily misled and will buy into the fantasy. This fantasy fuels their obsession.
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On the old forum, there was someone that literally said that "It's ok to talk about how an idol shouldn't be friends with another idol because it's like a girlfriend telling her boyfriend that she doesn't like his friends" (I won't go in detail over who were the idols involved in the conversation or who was the user).
But yeah, just to give you an example of complete lack of self-awareness.
One of the reasons why kpop thrives is because of the delusion, this idea of an intimate relationship between fan and idol that companies push which does nothing but further encourage this weird obsessive behaviour. Creepy fans will always exist no matter what but I think there are ways to create limits which I don’t see happening in kpop.
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I've seen this type of people too God have mercy on me and spare my eyes to see them again
Oli London comes to mind, I don’t care how old that person says they are, they’re at least 60
But when everyone and their mother tells them how obsessed and crazy they are, isn't this like an "alarm signal" that should trigger a response in their brain and make them realize something? I dunno, some of them seem like smart people, from what I've seen, but they're still not getting the idea.
Maybe they have some masochistic tendencies
Some people live in their own little bubble where they’re right and everyone else is wrong. What makes it even worse is that kpop companies encourage parasocial relationships so it doesn’t matter whether everyone else tells them they’re crazy, that individual feels as if they have a personal relationship with their fav and this unhealthy obsession blinds them and may even further encourage their behaviour because they genuinely believe they’re in love with their fav and they think that their fav romantically loves them back. I’m not blaming kpop companies or idols here but I can see how someone who’s not mentally mature enough can fall into a pit of obsession. Some of these people genuinely need help from professionals.
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No, that’s how they became obsessive in the first place, they’re unaware of the limits. I’d like to think with age, people mature and have some self awareness but then again, I’ve seen both men and women over the age of 40 being weirdly obsessed with teenagers
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1) Baepsae/Silver Spoon
2) Dionysus
3) Spine Breaker
4) Boyz With Fun
5) Black Swan
7) Not Today
8 ) Attack on Bangtan
9) Mic Drop
10) Louder Than Bombs
11) Cypher Pt 3
12) The Truth Untold
13) Tear
14) Fake Love
15) Intro - Boy Meets Evil
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I trust nobody until it’s released, I’m tired of being a
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Sorry, I’m not a fan of anpanman
but I’d listen to that song a million times over than on ft sia
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Namjoon please stay away from Twitter, I’m afraid of some of the things you’ll see on there
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Nope. If a song is good it’s good, doesn’t matter who wrote it to me. There’s so much work that an idol has to do and I appreciate it when some do have song credits, but just because others don’t, it doesn’t make them any less talented or hard working than the ones that do.
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There are some messy users that are apart of my own fandom that always make shady threads/comments, and even if they are posting an innocent thread praising my faves, I still want to
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I refuse to trust anyone who would pick Ma City over Baepsae
And yes Yoongi, it is because of hobi’s hip thrusts
Joking…but not really
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But on a serious note, no. It’ll probably get worse. You only need to look at IG and Twitter where people have their faces on show and they’re still toxic.