Posts by dopiee

I'm very confused on how this basic concept is lost on people. It's not about Bang PD himself.

When you use being fat as a means of dragging someone, someone who you think “deserves it” for being fat, then it’s like being fat itself becomes the reason for their villainy.

This contributes to normalizing fatphobia against regular people who don’t “deserve it”.

It is baffling how normalized fatshaming like this is.

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"Kim Jiyoung, Born 1984" by Cho Namjoo (I have read that book and think that it is a good recommendation)

Is it available in english or do you know Korean?

One thing I definitely liked in this episode is the focus on sign language.

I'm watching the 5th episode and it's just not good. I have nothing good to say about this show but I'm still watching it. Idk why

Maybe because it's atleast something new.

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I remember he got flack for promoting feminist books by male incels on that one korean forum in particular that also targeted female idols like Irene for promoting the same book to fans.

Anyway as I said, he was not awarded a medal or anything for "activism"

He was simply put on a list as an example of positive influences. And if yall can get so upset over a list than that's on y'all. I simply wanted to share that he wasn't there simply because

It's a list specifically about violence faced by women and mentioning feminist books or promoting/supporting women doesn't cut it.

I find this so random because he has NEVER spoken or even claimed to know about violence faced by women in general.

But of course there are people in the thread doing the most over a list from a random site.

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I understand that they aren't choosing woman because it's about "Male Role Models" and I want to point out that Army's actions aren't a reason to make him illegible of being on that list.

But I don't think he should be on this list due to learning about woman and feminism. That should be the norm to understand a social movement that's happening around the world.

If you are a male Korean celebrity and are on the Male Role Model list I expect at least to be critical of the misogyny that happens on your country. There are some horrible stories coming from the country like the telegram where they were posting AI images from female idols and female family members.

I'm not saying someone to fight for the cause, but at least be critical of the injustices.

But then, it's not RM's fault of being on this list and he shouldn't do what I've said or be the kind of guy I described, it's just that I don't think he deserves to be on the list due to what they've written.

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Exactly, stupid kpop fanwars aside, the stories coming out of Korea some even very recently have been horrendous. Someone who hasn't even spoken up about those issues or EVER talked about violence faced by women should not be mentioned like this.

You need to be really deep in kpop to actually love majority of the music. There can be some good songs here and there but they are sparse.

If all groups performed live with 0 backtracks like lsfm did, fans will finally have some realistic expectations of their faves vocal skills.

Kpop fans are unique in a sense that they accept and love subpar from their own faves but expect their non-faves to go beyond.

The reason a lot of 2nd gen were great performers is because they sang live. Even though they had shit music.

It's not even a competition.

4th gen has very weak performers. Voted for lsfm, but they are close with gidle.

Itzy is the best though.

And the latest

Starting with come back to me

They literally look like scenes from a movie.

Why is there no episode this week?

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Probably a big gap between Bts and SKZ

and SKZ and the rest of the list

I could only find the overall ranking on twt, but no one seemed to have posted numbers.

Very close numbers for GGs. What does this look like for BGs I wonder.

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Yeah and no, Jimin had the same streams as APT at some point, but his monthly listeners is below 20M if I'm not mistaken while Rosé is at 53M so suspicious isn't just to discredit his streams. Jungkook also had kinda the same streams or more and his monthly listeners were also big big. The same with Jennie and to a lesser extend Lisa with Money, but Jimin didn't even touch theirs numbers in ml.

Monthly listeners have got nothing to with organic or non-organic streams. They can't be used to discredit streams from certain acts however much twt folks have convinced themselves and other people of it. MLs depend on Playlist reach and COLLABS both of which are the major reason behind the ML numbers of the acts you mentioned.

Maybe I'll check out triples's album

Dancing is necessary, not as a skill (group doesn't have to be filled with great dancers) but definitely in terms of choreography and performance for the popularity of k-pop acts. Even today, there are barely any songs that are popular without a dance challenge or point choreography attached to it.

There can be a couple of outliers who don't dance and are still popular but for majority of k-pop that is not the case.