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Posts by Kataphract
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"Playing with your heart and you won't even know"
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As a general rule of thumb, the higher up you go in an organization, the more favoritism happens.
Another general rule of thumb is that eastern societies tend to value interpersonal connections and some even try to flex that over others; A right breeding ground for favoritism.
I'm not saying that all companies or all entities follow this rule, but srs, the trends are saying smth.
I'd say that chinese companies have it worst off because there's a whole bunch of political jockeying too; Whoever's got their political favors in line the best wins the court case.
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I think AleXa is kinda new to the scene. But she debuted Oct 2019 so she is already sunbae to some others already
Purple kiss is another one.
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in normal use I'd say that stanning someone means that one is willing to advocate for that star on social media ( to a point ), feel interested in the idol as a person and not just their "stage character" or music.
when we are splitting hairs, I believe that etymology of the word stan is as follows: it is a portmanteau of Stalker and Fan, originally used to call out crazy fans that are way overstepping the line, but eventually was watered down to just meaning "avid fan."
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Wang yibo 发生什么了？
should I expand this into a thread on k-lounge? idk. might fit in current events or smth.
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Wang yibo 发生什么了？
OOF. ok so apparently what happened was that one of Xiao Zhan's fans had reported a BL story on Ao3 to the internet safety Bureau ( whatever that department is of the gov't) and lots of writers were mad that they couldn't really access their stories... but it quickly devolved into a smear war led by Yibo fans tryna take down Xiao Zhan's career. Since Xiao Zhan was originally a graphic designer that had went to college and rose to fame domestically in china, he (arguably) has a better understanding of chinese history and culture, as well as having a good work ethic. Due to an apparently "好孩子“ being taken down for a dubious reason, lots of people flocked to XZ's support. There were also other stars that jumped in on the 黑话 and some that supported him as well.
I still don't really understand this much so this is as far as my take is.
Xiao Zhan has recently been placed in a sort of weird dichotomy where he is followed everywhere by bad rumors, trash talking, and straight up hate speech, but his fanbase - or at least people that currently support him - has some MASSIVE manpower; able to backlog budweiser orders ( a brand that XZ endorsed in china) to basically a year, sell out anything he endorses, etc.
Seriously though I don't know much but one can tell the toll that he has taken; going from a happy and cheerful graphic designer to being stuck in a parasite contract, deadlock of smearing but also has a strong support.
My mother thinks its also politically charged, because Yibo kinda has deep associations with the media bloc formed by Alibaba and Xiao Zhan is technically an outsider to that, working with tencent on occasion. Might be a battle between the two political blocs of the north (beijing) and south government entities ( they had differing origin sympathies) as wel as Ali taking potshots at the current gov't. (alibaba is associated with the southern political bloc btw)
WIth china being a society that is heavily knit with social ties of who knows who, its honestly hard to trace which entities are at play and which are simply associated and with the power-size(?) of the two percieved blocs its also kinda hard to know the truth of things because jack ma owns a lot of mouthpiece media (tabloid-ish biased reporting) and even some local media.
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I wonder if anyone collates a ranking based on yt views.
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😜 <<< THIS FREAKING FACE RIGHT HERE
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of legends?
I used to play that a long time ago lol
yea
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I love the Dance practices, esp when they don't spoil the song, and sometimes even visual concept teasers. Highlight melodies are ok but I really like to finish a song that started. To be honest, I love behind the scenes videos, they reveal a lot of info around the song and MV but never the stuff that they're actually dropping. its like I know what it is but in reality I really don't.
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in the fandom probably 30
hence I'm an uncle, grandpa and on my death bed even...
to be honest, Internet activity is age agnostic unless in places where it really matters. I remember being soundly beaten by a 68 yo in league.
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man someone called me a boomer.... turns out that person was older than me by a decade. oof.
