There's been so many videos where someone groups in Katseye with k-pop groups and the only thing people will talk about is how "Katseye isn't k-pop group, they're a global girl group! 🤬🤬🤬" Everyone knows that, sorry that the creators don't feel like specifying that Katseye specifically is not k-pop when talking about 10 groups in a single video. The other day I saw a video of a creator talking about how some twitter stan reported Lara to ICE and how crazy that is, sadly she made the mistake of referring to Katseye as a k-pop group and guess what 90% of the comments were about?... 🤦🏿♂️ You can't make this stuff up. There's a reason why Katseye is often compared/linked to other k-pop groups, whereas groups like 1D, 5SOS, Little Mix and Fifth Harmony were more compared to other western artists. A very large portion of their fanbase are k-pop stans, they're in a company that's know for making big k-pop groups, all of their songs so far have been promoted on Korean music shows, they use weverse, they hid their new hair before a comeback, for a while there they weren't allowed to swear, they have a designated leader, and so much more. Hell, their whole thing was that they're a global group going through the k-pop training system??? While a lot of these things on their own aren't necessarily k-pop related, the combination of them is definitely something you'll find k-pop groups doing way more than western groups. And the worst part is that when you mention one of these things people act dense on purpose. "Oh Western artists perform on korean music shows all the time!" Yeah, that's where hybe got the inspiration from, definitely not the fact that a huge part of their fandom are already in k-pop spaces... Katseye is not k-pop, and based on what I've seen I'm also not denying the fact that their reach into non-kpop related fandoms is really big and only continuing to grow. But for people to get so adamant about correcting it everytime someone doesn't use the exact right semantics is just annoying, especially when it's most definitely not the relevant part of the video. (See Lara ICE situation above.) All I'm saying is that there's a reason why they are grouped in often. Most people making videos about them know they're not k-pop too, which makes the correction even less necessary imo. submitted by /u/Lumpy-Statistician-1 [link] [comments]
